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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
- 100 years from Mississippi
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows
- 12 artists with disabilities
- 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
- 42 is not just a number : The odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A Ben of all trades : The most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A book, too, can be a star : The story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : The story of E.B. White
- A bright and blinding sun : A World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A brotherhood betrayed : The man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A carnival of snackery : Diaries (2003-2020)
- 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 cops and robbers story
- A cure for darkness : The story of depression and how we treat it
- A death on W Street : The murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A different kind of normal : My real-life completely true story about being unique
- A dinosaur named Ruth : How Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : A son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- 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 girl named Rosita : The story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- 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 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 hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- 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 electric : The story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in light : Meditations on impermanence
- A life made by hand : The story of Ruth Asawa
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A man of the world : My life at National Geographic
- 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 most clever girl : How Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A perfect fit : How Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A queen to the rescue : The story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- 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 rebel in Auschwitz : The true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
- 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 sacred oath : Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A season in the sun : The rise of Mickey Mantle
- A seat at the table : The Nancy Pelosi story
- A self-made man : The political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A shot in the moonlight : How a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- 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 storm of horses : The story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- 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 very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America
- A voice named Aretha
- A waiter in Paris : Adventures in the dark heart of the city
- 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 world to win : The life and works of Karl Marx
- Aalto
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Ablaze with color : A story of painter Alma Thomas
- Above the rim : How Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : Our 16th president
- Adam Smith : Father of economics
- African icons : Ten people who shaped history
- Against all odds : A true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie : A mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : An elusive woman
- Agatha Christie : First lady of crime
- Agent Jack : The true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent most wanted : The never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alaric the Goth : An outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : Still a revolutionary
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
- 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
- Alexander von Humboldt : Explorer, naturalist & environmental pioneer
- Ali : an American champion
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- 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
- 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 blood runs red : The legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in : An autobiography
- All star : How Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that heaven allows : A biography of Rock Hudson
- All that moves us : A pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience
- 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 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
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : Builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- Althea Gibson : The story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : A graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Ambushed! : The assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart is on the moon?
- America's femme fatale : The story of serial killer Belle Gunness
- America, a redemption story : Choosing hope, creating unity
- 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 animals : A true crime memoir
- American baby : A mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- 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 murderer : The parasite that haunted the South
- 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 rebels : How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sirens : The incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American sniper : The autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American spirit : Profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American trailblazers : 50 remarkable people who shaped U.S. history
- Amy Coney Barrett : Supreme Court justice
- An invisible thread
- Ancestor trouble : A reckoning and a reconciliation
- 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 there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson : Our 7th president
- Andrew Johnson : Our 17th president
- 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
- Anna : The biography
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : The adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Ansty Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Any given Tuesday : A political love story
- 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
- Apparently there were complaints
- Archimedes and the door of science
- Aretha Franklin : The queen of soul
- 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
- Astrid Lindgren
- 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
- Atomic women : The untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- 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
- Avoiding bitterness in suffering : How our heroes in faith found peace amid sorrow
- Away with words : The daring story of Isabella Bird
- Bad Mexicans : Race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- Bad boys of fashion : Style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad fat Black girl : Notes from a trap feminist
- Bad motherfucker : The life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- Bandoola : The great elephant rescue
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : First African American president
- Barack Obama : Our 44th president
- Barkley
- Bartali's bicycle : The true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Baseball biographies for kids : The greatest players from the 1960s to today
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- 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
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful country
- Beautiful country
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Because Claudette
- Because of you, John Lewis : The true story of a remarkable friendship
- Because our fathers lied : A memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Beatrix : The life of Beatrix Potter and the world of Peter Rabbit
- Becoming Emily : The life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming FDR : The personal crisis that made a president
- 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 and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before they were artists : Famous illustrators as kids
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : A restless life
- 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 Banneker : Astronomer and mathematician
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Harrison : Our 23rd president
- Berenice Abbott : A life in photography
- Bessie Smith : poet's biography of a blues legend
- 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
- Beyond : The astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Bibi : My story
- Bill Clinton
- 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
- Billy Graham : Evangelist to 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
- Bitchin' : The sound and fury of Rick James
- Black Detroit : A people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black artists shaping the world
- Black ballerinas : My journey to our legacy
- Black fortunes : The story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black ops : The life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black radical : The life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black women will save the world : An anthem
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blood and fire : The unbelievable real-life story of wrestling's Original Sheik
- Blood and oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- 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 orange night : My journey to the edge of madness
- Blow your house down : A story of family, feminism, and treason
- Blue grass boy : The story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby : A story of Robert F. Kennedy
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : The radical power of personal narrative
- Bold & brave : Ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Boldly go : Reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Bonnie and Clyde : The making of a legend
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes, "the French Chef"
- Born to be hanged : The epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune
- Born to fish : How an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bourdain : The definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : The hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys enter the house : The victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brat : An '80s story
- Brave Jane Austen : Reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : The story of Janet Collins
- Brave hearted : The women of the American West 1836-1880
- Braxton Bragg : the most hated man of the Confederacy
- Breaking and entering : The extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking the ice
- Breaking through the clouds : The sometimes turbulent life of meteorologist Joanne Simpson
- Bridge to the sun : The secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Bridge to the wild : Behind the scenes at the zoo
- Bright dreams : The brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brother dog : Southern tales & Hollywood adventures
- Brothers and wives : Inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers and wives : Inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers in arms : A true World War II story of Wojtek the bear and the soldiers who loved him
- Bubba Wallace : Auto racing star
- Bubba Wallace : Stock car racing star
- Building an orchestra of hope : how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
- Buses are a comin'
- Butch Cassidy : The true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin : Pioneer moon explorer
- Buzzing with questions : The inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- CLANG! : Ernst Chladni's sound experiments
- Call me Miss Hamilton : One woman's case for equality and respect
- Call the midwife : A true story of the East End in the 1950s
- Calvin Coolidge : Our 30th president
- Capote's women : A true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Capturing joy : The story of Maud Lewis
- Carbon queen : The remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
- 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
- Cary Grant : A brilliant disguise
- Cassius X : The transformation of Muhammad Ali
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Caught! : Nabbing history's most wanted
- Celia Cruz
- Celia planted a garden : The story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- Champions of women's soccer
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- 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 A. Arthur : Our 21st president
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : A Navajo code talker's story
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choosing brave : How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Choosing courage : inspiring stories of what it means to be a hero
- Chosen : A memoir of stolen boyhood
- Chuck Berry : An American life
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill's shadow : The life and afterlife of Winston Churchill
- Citizen Cash : the political life and times of Johnny Cash
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claiming my place : Coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : Essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : The secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude Monet
- Claude Monet : He saw the world in a brilliant light
- Claudette Colvin
- Clever Hans : The true story of the counting, adding, and time-telling horse
- Close calls : How eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death
- Close-up on war : The story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Coach K : The rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel : Pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- Code name Badass : The true story of Virginia Hall
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Come fly the world : The jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Confidence man : The making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : The making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women : Swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Confucius : Great teacher of China
- Consider this : Moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constructing a nervous system
- Corrections in ink
- Count the wings : the life and art of Charley Harper
- Counting on Katherine
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : Medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- Covered in color : Christo & Jeanne-Claude's fabrics of freedom
- Crazy Horse : The Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family
- Crazy Horse and Custer : Born enemies
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Cuba libre! : Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history
- D-Day girls : The spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Damn Lucky : One man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Dancing through fields of color : The story of Helen Frankenthaler
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dark was the night
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- David Bowie
- David Copperfield's history of magic
- Dazzlin' Dolly: : The songwriting, hit-singing, guitar-picking Dolly Parton
- De Gaulle
- Dear Damage : Essays
- Dear William : A father's memoir of addiction, recovery, love, and loss
- Defiant : Growing up in the Jim Crow South
- Degas : Painter of ballerinas
- Desk 88 : Eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion (Adapted for young adults) : An epic story of heroism and friendship
- Diamonds and deadlines : A tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Diana : 7 days
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diary of a misfit : A memoir and a mystery
- Didn't we almost have it all : In defense of Whitney Houston
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Disability visibility : First-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Disgraceland : Musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly
- Disney
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dolley Madison, the White House, and the big tornado
- Dolly Parton
- Dolly Parton
- Don Rickles : The merchant of venom
- Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't panic : Douglas Adams & the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Donald Trump : Our 45th president
- Dorothea Lange : The photographer who found the faces of the Depression
- Down along with that devil's bones : A reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Fauci : How a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Jo : How Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children