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- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- (Extra)ordinary (women) : ten inspirational stories
- 100 extraordinary stories for courageous girls : unforgettable tales of women of faith
- 100 genios del balón
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 12 children who changed the world
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number
- 50 queers who changed the world : a celebration of LGBTQ+ icons
- 50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of life & death
- 97,196 words : essays
- A beautiful child : a true story of hope, horror, and an enduring human spirit
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A change of heart : a memoir
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A cure within : scientists unleashing the immune system to kill cancer
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A disarming spirit : the life of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen
- A doctor's sword : how an Irish doctor survived war, captivity and the atomic bomb
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- A girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D.R. Clinton
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good day to die
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A hero on Mount St. Helens : the life and legacy of David A. Johnston
- A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A journey with Christopher Columbus
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A journey with Henry Hudson
- A little me
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away.... : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A man of honor : the autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A month in Siena
- A personal odyssey
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A rumor of war
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A step away from paradise : the true story of a Tibetan Lama's journey to a land of immortality
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A voice named Aretha
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A walk through Paris
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A wrestling life 2 : more inspiring stories of Dan Gable
- AOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Abraham Joshua Heschel : mind, heart, soul
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adele : singing sensation
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agnetha Fältskog : the girl with the golden hair
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Ahead of the curve : Washington women lead the way 1910-2020
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Albert Einstein : a graphic history of the father of modern physics
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell : the man behind the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : the fighting founding father!
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the things we never knew
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Amazing artists and designers
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing women
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- America is immigrants
- America's founding fathers
- America, border culture dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- American Indian stories
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American spy : wry reflections on my life in the CIA
- An extraordinary teacher : a Bible story about Priscilla
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Carnegie : rags to riches, power to peace
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angels with dirty faces : three stories of crime, prison, and redemption
- Anger is my middle name : a memoir
- Angry queer Somali boy : a complicated memoir
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Boleyn : 500 years of lies
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : you'll have the sky
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Architecture : cool women who design structures
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the world on 50 bucks : how I left with little and returned a rich man
- Artist biographies
- As many reps as possible : succeeding in competition, business, and life by making the most of every single minute
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine : conversions and confessions
- Aunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Autumn
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Azul y verde
- Bad as I wanna be
- Bad blood : the end of honour
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ball four : the final pitch
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Baseball faith : 52 MLB stars reflect on their faith
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beatrix Potter : a life in nature
- Becoming
- Becoming C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Becoming Queen Victoria : the unexpected rise of Britain's greatest monarch
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Warren Buffett
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Beethoven for a later age : living with the string quartets
- Begin the begin : R.E.M.'s early years
- Behind the bench : inside the minds of hockey's greatest coaches
- Behind the smile : a story of Carol Moseley Braun's historic senate campaign
- Being Hal Ashby : life of a Hollywood rebel
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Ben Franklin's Philadelphia : a guide
- Benjamin Franklin
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bette & Joan : the divine feud
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- Betty & Coretta
- Betty Boop
- Between two worlds : escape from tyranny : growing up in the shadow of Saddam
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big Mama Thornton : the life and music
- Bill Belichick vs. the NFL : the case for the NFL's greatest coach
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates : a biography
- Bill Marriott : success is never final : his life and the decisions that built a hotel empire
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black frontiers : a history of African American heroes in the Old West
- Blake Shelton : famous entertainer
- Blind awakening
- Blood, sweat, & tears : Jake Gaither, Florida A & M, and the history of Black college football
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Boots in the ashes : busting bombers, arsonists and outlaws as a trailblazing female ATF agent
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born for this : my story in music
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Bosom friends : the intimate world of James Buchanan and William Rufus King
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bound for glory
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking the ocean : a memoir of race, rebellion, and reconciliation
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Brother & sister
- Bruce Lee
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Bucking Hollywood
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography
- Cameraperson
- Camping, canines & other tales : life lessons from out and about
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from the terrifying cult Nxivm
- Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley
- Carl Llewellyn Weschcke : pioneer and publisher of body, mind & spirit : the magickal life of the man behind Llewellyn Publications
- Carl Sagan : a life
- Carlos Mijares Bracho, arquitecto
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Underwood : famous entertainer
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Cash : the autobiography
- Catching the moon : the story of a young girl's baseball dream
- Catherine de Medici : Renaissance queen of France
- Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Celebration : Yves Saint Laurent, the final show
- Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights
- Chains couldn't hold me
- Champions of flight, Clayton Knight and William Heaslip : artists who chronicled aviation from the Great War to victory in WWII
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Mulli : we are family
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chief Seattle and the town that took his name : the change of worlds for the native people and settlers on Puget Sound
- Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
- Children of the land
- Chingiz Aĭtmatov
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Citizen reporters : S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Clarence Brown : Hollywood's forgotten master
- Claretta : Mussolini's last lover
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Climbing the mountain : my search for meaning
- Coco Chanel
- Coco Chanel : an illustrated biography
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Companion to Irish history, 1603-1921 : from the submission of Tyrone to partition
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Confucius : words of wisdom
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Cooking with the saints
- Cora Frear : a true story
- Cornbread, fish'n collard greens : inside the music
- Corruption officer : from jail guard to perpetrator inside Rikers Island
- Count no 'count : flashbacks to Faulkner
- Counting the stars
- Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the Western Trails, Volume 4, 1852, the California Trail
- Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails, Volume 3, 1851
- Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails, Volume 9, 1864-1868
- Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails, Volume 10, 1875-1883
- Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails, Volume 11, 1879-1903
- Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails, Volume 5, 1852, the Oregon Trail
- Cowboy is a verb : notes from a modern-day rancher
- Crazy Horse : the Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Crystal Eastman : a revolutionary life
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes : 100 historias de mujeres extraordinarias
- Cuentos para niños que se atreven a ser diferentes : historias verdaderas de chicos asombrosos que cambiaron el mindo sin matar dragones
- Culture vultures : conversations with Damon Dash
- Custer : the making of a young general
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Dad's maybe book
- Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America
- Dalai Lama
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dance me to the end : ten months and ten days with ALS
- Daniel Morgan : an inexplicable hero
- Daniil Kharms : zhiznʹ cheloveka na vetru
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dare to see : discovering God in the everyday
- Daring Amelia
- Daring play : how a courageous Jackie Robinson transformed baseball
- Dark safari : the life behind the legend of Henry Morton Stanley
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darling, I'm going to Charlie : a memoir
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- De Kooning : an American master
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Defending the public's enemy : the life and legacy of Ramsey Clark
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Denali : a man, a dog, and the friendship of a lifetime
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devoted : great men and their godly moms
- Diamond Doris : the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- Diana : closely guarded secret
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Diego Rivera : famous Mexican painter
- Different : the story of an outside-the-box kid and the mom who loved him
- Disassembly required : a memoir of midlife resurrection
- Django : the life and music of a Gypsy legend
- Dnevnik sekretar?i|a Lʹva Tolstogo : L.N. Tolstoĭ v posledniĭ god ego zhizni
- Do you mind if I cancel? : (things that still annoy me)
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolce vita confidential : Fellini, Loren, Pucci, paparazzi, and the swinging high life of 1950s Rome
- Dolores Huerta stands strong : the woman who demanded justice
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Down the great unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey of discovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon
- Downcanyon : a naturalist explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
- Dreams to remember : Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the transformation of Southern soul
- Dressage for no country
- Dressed for a dance in the snow : women's voices from the Gulag
- Duke Ellington
- Dust to dust : a memoir
- Duty : a father, his son, and the man who won the war
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Earl Warren : a life of truth and justice
- Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones
- Edison
- Edison vs. Tesla, the battle over their last invention
- Educated for freedom : the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Edwin Hubble : discoverer of galaxies
- Eiffel by Eiffel
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Eisenhower : a soldier's life
- Eisenhower : becoming the leader of the free world
- El niño que alcanzó las estrellas : The boy who touched the stars
- El primer hombre : la vida de Neil A. Armstrong
- El sueño de Emmanuel : la verdadera historia de Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Elegance : the beauty of French fashion
- Elena Kagan : a biography
- Elisabeth's lists : a life between lines
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Fitzgerald : a biography of the first lady of jazz
- Elon Musk : entrepreneur and innovator
- Elton John : rocket m*n
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Emma's poem : the voice of the Statue of Liberty
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Endless frontier : Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century
- Enlightened vagabond : the life and teachings of Patrul Rinpoche
- Enzo Ferrari : power, politics, and the making of an automobile empire
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everest : the remarkable story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- Every act of life
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Everything to live for
- Exactly as you are : the life and faith of Mister Rogers
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Ezra Pound : poet : a portrait of the man and his work, Volume III, The tragic years, 1939-1972
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Fables and distances : new and selected essays
- Face it
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Father Júnipero Serra : founder of the California missions
- Fearless : diary of a badass reporter
- Feed your mind : a story of August Wilson
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Gobi : the true story of one little dog's big journey