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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 101 changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 400 Miles to Freedom
- 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 Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- 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 brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- 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 crime in the family
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A day of pleasure : stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw
- 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 dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- 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 Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- 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 hard kick in the nuts : what I've learned from a lifetime of terrible decisions
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A horn for Louis
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A killer by design
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A letter of love
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A long way from home
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A man without a country
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- 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 portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- 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 the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- 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 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 traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A voice named Aretha
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A whole world : letters from James Merrill
- 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 World War II
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger
- A year in the woods : excerpts from Walden
- AOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abe Lincoln goes to Washington, 1837-1865
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Acne : a memoir
- Ada Lovelace
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Auschwitz : a story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- 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 the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- 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
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Turing
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein : a curious mind
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All about Roberto Clemente
- 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 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 frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- 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 way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All things must pass away : Harrison, Clapton, and other assorted love songs
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Amanda Gorman : poet & activist
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart is on the moon?
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Indian stories
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- 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 queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sherlock : Murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI.
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An illuminated life : Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- 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
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- 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
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Boleyn : 500 years of lies
- Anne Frank
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of Americas public and private spaces
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- As it turns out : thinking about Edie and Andy
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autoportrait
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Ballots for Belva : the true story of a woman's race for the presidency
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barkley : a biography
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry -- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- 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 like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- 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 Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Forrest : one man's epic run across America
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Miss Navajo
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Becoming a mountain : Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before I grew up
- 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 the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Ram Dass
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benedict XVI : a life, Volume I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benjamin Franklin
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Best seat in the house : 18 golden lessons from a father to his son
- Bethany Hamilton
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Bibi : my story
- Bible characters : visual encyclopedia
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big Apple gangsters : the rise and decline of the mob in New York
- Bill W. : a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson
- 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
- Biology for kids : science experiments and activities inspired by awesome biologists, past and present
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Bix : 'ain't none of them play like him yet'
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Elk, Lakota visionary : the Oglala holy man and Sioux tradition
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black artists shaping the world
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- 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 into space like Mae Jemison
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blessed are the bank robbers : the true adventures of an evangelical outlaw
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- 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
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Bob : no ordinary cat
- 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
- Bomb shelter
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Bookish broads : women who wrote themselves into history
- Border hacker : a tale of treachery, trafficking, and two friends on the run
- Borges and me : an encounter
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born again this way : coming out, coming to faith, and what comes next
- 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 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 run
- Born to shine : do good, find your joy, and build a life you love
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boy oh boy
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave hearted : the women of the American west 1836-1880
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Brilliant ideas from wonderful women
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Bugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building an orchestra of hope : how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
- Bunny Mellon style
- Bunnyman : post-war kid to post-punk guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen
- Buried alive : the biography of Janis Joplin
- Burning man : the trials of D.H. Lawrence
- Bush
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Butthole Surfers : what does regret mean?
- 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
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Calamity : the many lives of Calamity Jane
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Canta conmigo : la historia de Selena Quintanilla
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carbon queen : the remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry on : a story of resilience, redemption, and an unlikely family
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Caught by the sea : my life on boats
- Celia Cruz
- Celia Cruz
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Champions of women's soccer
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Darwin's around-the-world adventure
- Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing portraits : a great-granddaughter's quest for her lost art legacy
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Chester Alan Arthur
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choices : to the Hills and back again
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Christmas from heaven : the true story of the Berlin candy bomber
- Chuck Berry : an American life
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill's shadow : the life and afterlife of Winston Churchill
- Cimino : The deer hunter, Heaven's gate, and the price of a vision
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clairvoyant of the small : the life of Robert Walser
- Clara Lemlich
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude Monet : he saw the world in a brilliant light
- Claudette Colvin
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right : American life in columns
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Code over country : the tragedy and corruption of Seal Team Six
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Coming home : from the life of Langston Hughes
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Confessions of a bookseller
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confucius: : great teacher of China
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Control freak : my epic adventures making video games
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Coretta Scott King
- Cost of living : essays
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Courage : my story of persecution
- Courageous women of the Civil War : soldiers, spies, medics, and more
- Crane : sex, celebrity, and my father's unsolved murder
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey