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- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- 'Tis : a memoir
- (Extra)ordinary (women) : ten inspirational stories
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 extraordinary stories for courageous girls : unforgettable tales of women of faith
- 100 genios del balón
- 100 years from Mississippi
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 amazing stories of hope & faith : inspiring stories from real life
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- 12 children who changed the world
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 25 mujeres que fueron las primeras en pensar en algo
- 25 mujeres que gobernaron
- 25 mujeres que se atrevieron
- 27 : the legend & mythology of the 27 club
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 50 icons, luminaries, and legends who revolutionized the world
- 50 politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs who revolutionized the world
- 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!
- 50 scientists, artists, and mathematicians who revolutionized the world
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of life & death
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A beautiful child : a true story of hope, horror, and an enduring human spirit
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A bridge in Babylon : stories of a military chaplain in Iraq
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A burning in my bones : the authorized biography of Eugene Peterson
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A change of heart : a memoir
- A choice of weapons
- A coat of yellow paint : moving through the noise to love the life you live
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A crime in the family
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A cure within : scientists unleashing the immune system to kill cancer
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A father's dream : my family's journey in music
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A fullness of uncertain significance : stories of surgery, clarity, & grace
- A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- A ghost in the throat
- 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 girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- 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 higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A journey with Christopher Columbus
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A journey with Henry Hudson
- A journey with Hernán Cortés
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A killing in Capone's playground : the true story of the hunt for the most dangerous man alive
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A light so lovely : the spiritual legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, author of A wrinkle in time / Sarah Arthur ; foreword by Charlotte Jones Voiklis
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- 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 prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A promised land
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A rose named peace: : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- A royal ride : Catherine the Great's great invention
- A rumor of war
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A saint a day : 365 true stories of faith and heroism
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- 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 storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A train near Magdeburg : a teacher's journey into the Holocaust
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very easy death
- A victor, not a butcher : Ulysses S. Grant's overlooked military genius
- A voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- A voice named Aretha
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A walk through Paris
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A wild and precious life : a memoir
- A wild idea
- 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 woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman unto herself : a different kind of love story
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- A wrestling life 2 : more inspiring stories of Dan Gable
- A'chang yu "shan hai jing"
- AOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- Abandoned prayers
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Abe Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele : singing sensation
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- 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
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- 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
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Turing
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alaska's wolf man : the 1915-55 wilderness adventures of Frank Glaser
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a graphic history of the father of modern physics
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell : the man behind the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : the fighting founding father!
- Alexander Hamilton : the illustrated biography
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- 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
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : the life, times, and rise of "AOC"
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : vida, época y ascenso de AOC
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Ali's knockout punch : how a photograph stunned the boxing world
- Alias Anna : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- Alibaba : istoriiï¸ a︡ mirovogo voskhozhdeniiï¸ a︡ ot pervogo litï¸ s︡a
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All American : the rise and fall of Jim Thorpe
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All hail the queen : twenty women who ruled
- All in : an autobiography
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over but the shoutin'
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew
- All the way to the tigers : a memoir
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Along came Coco : a story about Coco Chanel
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Amanda Gorman
- Amanda Gorman
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing artists and designers
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing women
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : a biography
- America is immigrants
- America's Sherlock Holmes : the legacy of William Burns
- America's femme fatale : the story of serial killer Belle Gunness
- America's most hated woman : the life and gruesome death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- America, border culture dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Hiro : the adventures of Benihana's Rocky Aoki and how he built a legacy
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daughter : a memoir
- 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 predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American scoundrel : the life of the notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American urbanist : how William H. Whyte's unconventional wisdom reshaped public life
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American covenant : a story of women, mysticism, and the making of modern America
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An extraordinary teacher : a Bible story about Priscilla
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An unladylike profession : American women war correspondents in World War I
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : young patriot
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angel of Bataan : the life of a World War II army nurse in the war zone and at home
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Angels with dirty faces : three stories of crime, prison, and redemption
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Boleyn : 500 years of lies
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : Holocaust diarist
- Anne Frank : the biography
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anne Frank : witness to history!
- Another gospel? : a lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Architecture : cool women who design structures
- Arctic daughter : a wilderness journey
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aretha : the queen of soul : a life in photographs
- Aretha Franklin
- Aretha Franklin
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Artist biographies
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese death camp
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Attacked at sea : a true World War II story of a family's fight for survival
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey and Givenchy : a fashion love affair
- Audubon : the making of an American
- Augustine : conversions and confessions
- Aunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Author biographies
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Auto racing in the shadow of The Great War : streamlined specials and a new generation of drivers on American speedways, 1915-1922
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava : a life in movies
- Avedon : something personal
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Ayrton Senna
- BTS : the ultimate fan book
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands