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- (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
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 12 children who changed the world
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 27 : the legend & mythology of the 27 club
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 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!
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 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 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 brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A crime in the family
- A cure within : scientists unleashing the immune system to kill cancer
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A family history of illness : memory as medicine
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- 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 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 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 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 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 lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man of honor : the autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- A perfect union of contrary things
- 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 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 prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A royal ride : Catherine the Great's great invention
- A rumor of war
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- 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 sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- 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 stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A walk through Paris
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A wild and precious life : a memoir
- 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 ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- A wrestling life 2 : more inspiring stories of Dan Gable
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Abe Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- 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
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- 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 Kathy Acker : a literary biography
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- 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
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alaska's wolf man : the 1915-55 wilderness adventures of Frank Glaser
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a graphic history of the father of modern physics
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- 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
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Ali's knockout punch : how a photograph stunned the boxing world
- 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 hail the queen : twenty women who ruled
- 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 that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- 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 wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- 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
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Along came Coco : a story about Coco Chanel
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing artists and designers
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing women
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- America is immigrants
- America's Sherlock Holmes : the legacy of William Burns
- 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 Indian stories
- 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 Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- 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 priest : the ambitious life and conflicted legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An extraordinary teacher : a Bible story about Priscilla
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson
- 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
- 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
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : Holocaust diarist
- Anne Frank : the biography
- 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
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Architecture : cool women who design structures
- Aretha : the queen of soul : a life in photographs
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- 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
- Asian harvest : an autobiography
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- 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
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey and Givenchy : a fashion love affair
- Augustine : conversions and confessions
- Aunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Author biographies
- 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
- Bad blood : the end of honour
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ball four : the final pitch
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barnum : an American life
- Baseball faith : 52 MLB stars reflect on their faith
- Bawden, Ravilious and the artists of Great Bardfield
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be brave : a wife's journey through caregiving
- 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
- Be strong and of good courage : how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter : a life in nature
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Queen Victoria : the unexpected rise of Britain's greatest monarch
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Becoming a hairstylist
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Beethoven for a later age : living with the string quartets
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Begin the begin : R.E.M.'s early years
- Behind Nazi lines : my father's heroic quest to save 149 World War II POWs
- 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 Berlusconi : the rise and fall from cosa nostra to bunga bunga
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Hal Ashby : life of a Hollywood rebel
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32 : To the future, Ben Franklin!
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bethany Hamilton
- Bette & Joan : the divine feud
- Bettie Page, the lost years : the most intimate look yet at the queen of pinups, through her private letters & never-published photos
- Betty Boop
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyoncé : singer, songwriter, and actress
- Beyond the high blue air
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Belichick vs. the NFL : the case for the NFL's greatest coach
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bill Marriott : success is never final : his life and the decisions that built a hotel empire
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Biz Mackey, a giant behind the plate : the story of the Negro league star and Hall of Fame catcher
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blake Shelton : famous entertainer
- Blind awakening
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America
- Bon : the last highway : the untold story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in black
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born criminal : Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical suffragist
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be king : Prince Charles on planet Windsor
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Born to run
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bowie : an illustrated life
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Breathe deep : life with cystic fibrosis and surviving a double lung transplant
- Brigitte Bardot : my life in fashion
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Brutal : the untold story of my life inside Whitey Bulger's Irish mob
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Buffalo Bill
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buzz Aldrin
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron : child of passion, fool of fame
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Caligula : the mad Emperor of Rome
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Canada year by year
- Capote : a biography
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- 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
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- 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
- Caroline's comets : a true story