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- "21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- "Catch 'em alive Jack" : the life and adventures of an American pioneer
- "I am a man" : Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "I remember Laura" : Laura Ingalls Wilder
- "Literchoor Is My Beat" : a Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
- "Scribbling women" : true tales from astonishing lives
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "This is my life" : 100th anniversary reunion celebration, Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas
- "What do YOU care what other people think?" : further adventures of a curious character
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- --and a hard rain fell : a GI's true story of the war in Vietnam
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 100 African Americans who changed American history
- 100 crushes
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100 years from Mississippi
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 101 changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- 101 things that piss me off
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- 13 American artists children should know
- 13 artists children should know
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women artists children should know
- 14 cows for America
- 15 journeys : Warsaw to London
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the war they failed to see
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1942 : Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour
- 1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 20 feet from stardom
- 20,000 days on earth
- 20th-century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 21 years : Richard Linklater
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 28 days : moments in black history that changed the world
- 300 pounds of attitude : the wildest stories and craziest characters the NFL has ever seen
- 300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story ... with recipes
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 400 Miles to Freedom
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 47 below
- 5 elephants
- 5,000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 fashion designers you should know
- 50 shades of the USA
- 50 unbelievable women and their fascinating (and true!) stories
- 66 square feet : a delicious life : one woman, one terrace, 92 recipes
- 740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- 747 : creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- 97,196 words : essays
- 99 : stories of the game
- 999 Kansas characters : Ad Astra 161 adventurers, astronauts, discoverers, explorers, pilots, pioneers, scientists
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Braid of lives : Native American childhood
- A Caldecott celebration : seven artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A Red boyhood : growing up under Stalin
- A Son of Africa.
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Wrestling Life : the inspiring stories of Dan Gable
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A backward glance
- A ballerina's tale
- A band called Death
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful work in progress : a memoir
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, build a bungalow, diaper a baby monkey, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A better place
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A body, undone : living on after great pain
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A book of secrets : illegitimate daughters, absent fathers
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A brief record of my father's time at sea
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A bright shining lie
- A brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- 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 captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A cat abroad : the further adventures of Norton, the cat who went to Paris, and his human
- A cave in the clouds : A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A century of wisdom : [lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Somer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor]
- A certain loneliness : a memoir
- A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A chance to die : the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael
- A change of affection : a gay man's incredible story of redemption
- A chant to soothe wild elephants : a memoir
- A chef's life : season five
- A chef's life : season four
- A chef's life : season two
- A chef's life : the final harvest
- A child in Palestine : the cartoons of Naji al-Ali
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- A clean break : my story
- 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 comedy & a tragedy : a memoir of learning how to read and write
- A common pornography : a memoir
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A companion to First Ladies
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy
- A cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- A country practice : scenes from the veterinary life
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious madness : an American combat psychiatrist, a Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from World War II
- A curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A dancer in wartime : the touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the bright lights
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A day at the beach : recollections
- A decadent desolation : David Bowie 1976-1979
- A deeper blue : the life and music of Townes Van Zandt
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A door in the ocean : a memoir
- A double life : discovering motherhood
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A fast ride out of here : confessions of rock's most dangerous man
- A father first : how my life became bigger than basketball
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A few honest words : the Kentucky roots of popular music
- A few seconds of radiant filmstrip : a memoir of seventh grade
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fighter pilot's story
- A fighter's heart : one man's journey through the world of fighting
- A fighting chance
- A fighting chance
- A final arc of sky : a memoir of critical care
- A fine romance
- A fine romance
- A first book of Jewish Bible stories
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A freewheelin' time : a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- A ghost in the throat
- A gift from childhood : memories of an African boyhood
- 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 called Tim : escaping from an eating disorder hell
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A girl's story
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good country : my life in twelve towns and the ongoing battle for a white America
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good place to stop : 60 seasons with Max and the Jayhawks
- 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 feast : essays
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A handful of earth, a handful of sky : the world of Octavia E. Butler
- A heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters
- A heartbeat and a guitar : Johnny Cash and the making of Bitter tears
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- A hidden life : a memoir of August 1969
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A history of scars : a memoir
- A history of silence : a memoir
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A horn for Louis
- A horse named Funny Cide
- A horse named Seabiscuit
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house with four rooms
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A killer by design
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A kingdom of tender colors : a memoir of comedy, survival, and love
- A kitchen in France : a year of cooking in my farmhouse
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A letter of love
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life in focus : the photography of Graham Nash
- A life in letters
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life in parts
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of John Calvin : a study in the shaping of Western culture
- A life of her own : the transformation of a countrywoman in twentieth-century France
- A life of my own
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A life well played : my stories
- A life without limits : a world champion's journey
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A lion called Christian
- A literary tour de France : the world of books on the eve of the French Revolution
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A little salty to cut the sweet
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A living remedy : a memoir
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A long way from Paris
- A long way from home
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man apart : Bill Coperthwaite's radical experiment in living
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America
- 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 man without words
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A million fragile bones : a memoir
- A million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A month in Siena
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A name from the sky
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A north country maid
- A numerate life : a mathematician explores the vagaries of life, his own and probably yours
- A nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- A paper life
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A passion for purpose : building cities for our children
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- A people's history of the U.S. military : ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of Dwight David Eisenhower
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Sam Houston
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth
- A piece of cake : a memoir
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the country : on Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser, and others
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- 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 poem is a naked person
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A queer and pleasant danger : a memoir
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
- A redemptive path forward : from incarceration to a life of activism
- A remarkable mother
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A royal duty
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A runner's high : my life in motion
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times
- A scientist in wonderland : a memoir of searching for truth and finding trouble
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A season on the brink : a year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A severe mercy
- A shape in the dark : living and dying with brown bears
- A short autobiography
- A simple path
- A simple revolution : the making of an activist poet
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A single tear : a family's persecution, love, and endurance in Communist China
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A small place
- A small town love story : Colonial Beach, Virginia
- A sniper in the Tower : the Charles Whitman murders
- A sojourner's truth : choosing freedom and courage in a divided world
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song for Cambodia
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for the river
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A splendid madness : a man, a boat, a love story
- A spoonful of sugar : a nanny's story
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby's great betrayal
- A spy called James
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A standard history of Kansas and Kansans
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A state of mind
- A stew or a story : an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
- A story is to share : how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale
- A story that happens : on playwriting, childhood, & other traumas
- A stranger among saints : Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth
- A stranger at home : a true story
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A strong west wind : a memoir
- A summer life
- A summer of birds : John James Audubon at Oakley House
- A surgeon in the village : an American doctor teaches brain surgery in Africa
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A tale of love and darkness
- A tale of two Omars : a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab Spring