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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- #NotYourPrincess : Voices of Native American women
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : Boxing and manhood in Appalachia
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 tiny deaths : The untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 42 is not just a number : The odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 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 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 disappearance in Damascus : Friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- 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 Misty : The true story of Misty Copeland
- 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 of the Reich : The story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A hope more powerful than the sea : One refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life made by hand : The story of Ruth Asawa
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A marvelous life : The amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind for murder : The education of the Unabomber and the origins of modern terrorism
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A royal ride : Catherine the Great's great invention
- A season in the sun : The rise of Mickey Mantle
- A self-made man : The political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A spy called James : The true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A truck full of money
- A voice named Aretha
- 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 World War II
- 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
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adam Smith : Father of economics
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Agatha Christie : A mysterious life
- Agent Jack : The true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : A plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : His life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Ali : an American champion
- Alia Muhammad Baker : saving a library from war
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : From the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
- Alice Waters and the trip to delicious
- All The Kremlin's Men : Inside The Court of Vladimir Putin
- 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 powers of Earth : The political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Althea Gibson : The story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Amateur : A true story about what makes a man
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : A graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Sherlock : Murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- 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 radicals : How nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American spirit : Profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American trailblazers : 50 remarkable people who shaped U.S. history
- An invisible thread
- 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
- Andy & Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Anna & Samia : The true story of saving a black rhino
- Anne Frank
- Ansty Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Aretha Franklin : The queen of soul
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Arthur Ashe : A life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Astrid Lindgren
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audrey Hepburn
- Author in chief : The untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
- Avoiding bitterness in suffering : How our heroes in faith found peace amid sorrow
- Away with words : The daring story of Isabella Bird
- Bad boys of fashion : Style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be the change : a grandfather Gandhi story
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- 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 Lincoln
- Becoming Madeleine : A biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind Nazi lines : my father's heroic quest to save 149 World War II POWs
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : A restless life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Beneath the tamarind tree : A story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : A life in photography
- 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
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Bill Clinton
- 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
- Black Detroit : A people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : The story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black radical : The life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- 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 moon : An American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Blue grass boy : The story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : Ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bonnie and Clyde : The making of a legend
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to fish : How an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Bowie's bookshelf : The hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Brave Jane Austen : Reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : The story of Janet Collins
- Braxton Bragg : the most hated man of the Confederacy
- 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
- Bridge to the wild : Behind the scenes at the zoo
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Brother dog : Southern tales & Hollywood adventures
- Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt!
- Bush
- Buzz Aldrin : Pioneer moon explorer
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- CLANG! : Ernst Chladni's sound experiments
- Calder : The conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Call the midwife : A true story of the East End in the 1950s
- Capital days : Michael Shiner's journal and the growth of our nation's capital
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Capturing joy : The story of Maud Lewis
- Carl Sagan : Celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carlos Santana : Sound of the heart, song of the world
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Caught! : Nabbing history's most wanted
- Champions of women's soccer
- Charles Darwin
- Charlie takes his shot : How Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Chasing King's killer : The hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing King's killer : The hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the Bear : How Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : A Navajo code talker's story
- Choosing courage : inspiring stories of what it means to be a hero
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Claiming my place : Coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : Essays on wilderness and risk
- Claude Monet
- Claude Monet
- Close calls : How eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death
- Closer you are : The story of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel : Pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Confucius : Great teacher of China
- Consider this : Moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Count the wings : the life and art of Charley Harper
- Counting on Katherine
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : Medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- Crazy Horse : The Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cuba libre! : Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- D-Day girls : The spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dagger 22 : U.S. Marine Corps special operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
- Dancing through fields of color : The story of Helen Frankenthaler
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- David Bowie
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Degas : Painter of ballerinas
- Desk 88 : Eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana : 7 days
- Diego Rivera : His world and ours
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Disgraceland : Musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly
- Disney
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dolly Parton
- Dorothea Lange : The photographer who found the faces of the Depression
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Jo : How Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dragonfly : A daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dreams to remember : Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the transformation of Southern soul
- Drug warrior : Inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis
- Dust Bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dylan goes electric! : Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the sixties
- Earnhardt nation : The full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edison
- Edison
- Educated for freedom : The incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Einstein's greatest mistake
- Eleanor Roosevelt : Fighter for justice : her impact on the civil rights movement, the White House, and the world
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza : The story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : The extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Warren : Her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : Nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth and Michael : the Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop : a love story
- Ellen Ochoa : Dynamic space director
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis : The story of the rock and roll King
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Enemies in love : A German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Epic athletes : Stephen Curry
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore the cosmos like Neil DeGrasse Tyson : a space science journey
- Explore with Hernando de Soto
- Explorers : Amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Extreme ownership : How U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eyes of the world : Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism
- Facing Frederick : The life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fallingwater
- Fast enough : Bessie Stringfield's first ride
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
- Fearless flyer : Ruth Law and her flying machine
- Fighter in velvet gloves : Alaska civil rights hero Elizabeth Peratrovich
- Filthy rich
- 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 Fibonacci : the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world
- Finding Narnia : The story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
- Fins : Harley Earl, the rise of General Motors, and the glory days of Detroit
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First Ladies : Lady Bird Johnson
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly high, John Glenn : The story of an American hero
- For Audrey with love : Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
- For cause and comrades : Why men fought in the Civil War
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : Rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For spacious skies : Katharine Lee Bates and the inspiration for "America the beautiful"
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall
- Founding martyr : The life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Fourth & goal every day : inside the Alabama football dynasty
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Frankie liked to sing
- Franklin & Washington : The founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Fred's big feelings : The life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass : Prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : The lion who wrote history
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Frenemies in the family : Famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Freud : in his time and ours
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : An American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From a small seed : the story of Eliza Hamilton
- Fryderyk Chopin : A life and times
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Furnishing eternity : A father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Game changers : The story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi : The years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- Gathering of sisters : A year with my old order Mennonite family
- Gehrig & the Babe : The friendship and the feud
- George Lucas : Filmmaker & creator of Star Wars
- George Washington Carver : a life
- George Washington's secret spy war : the making of America's first spymaster
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Ghetto brother : warrior to peacemaker
- Gloria takes a stand : How Gloria Steinem listened, wrote, and changed the world
- God bless America : The story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of the upper air : How a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goethe : Life as a work of art
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Goldeneye : where Bond was born : Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Google it : A history of Google
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Grace Hopper : Queen of computer code
- Grandad Mandela
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grandpa stops a war : A Paul Robeson story
- Grant
- Grant
- Granuaile
- Great American artists for kids : Hands-on art experiences in the styles of the great American masters
- Green River, running red : The real story of the Green River killer--America's deadliest serial murderer
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Grown-up anger : the connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet massacre of 1913
- Guilty as sin : uncovering new evidence of corruption and how Hillary Clinton and the Democrats derailed the FBI investigation
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hammering for freedom : The William Lewis story
- Hank & Jim : The fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- Harlem Hellfighters
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry Houdini
- Harry S. Truman : the 33rd president
- Harvey Milk : His lives and death
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- He is risen : Rocks tell the story of Easter
- Hector : A boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Hedy and her amazing invention
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
- Hell's princess : The mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Hemingway in love : his own story
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her fearless run : Kathrine Switzer's historic Boston Marathon
- Her own two feet : A Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- HerStory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hero of the empire : the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill
- Heroic women of the art world : Risking it all for art
- Heroism begins with her : Inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. military
- Hi, I'm Norman : The story of American illustrator Norman Rockwell
- Hidden Gold : a true story of the Holocaust
- Hidden Valley Road : Inside the mind of an American family
- Hidden figures : The true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden human computers : The black women of NASA
- Hillary Clinton
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler : A biography
- Hitler : Ascent 1889-1939
- Hitler's pawn : The boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Hollywood godfather : My life in the movies and the mob
- Homespun : Amish and Mennonite women in their own words
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hosea plays on
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery