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- "Damage them all you can" : Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
- "One life to lose for my country" : the arrest and execution of Nathan Hale
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- ''Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!'' : adventures of a curious character
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 100 folk heroes who shaped world history
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women who changed history
- 14 cows for America
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 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
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 33 percent rockstar : music, heartbreak, and the pursuit of rock stardom
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 5 elephants
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 51 Birch Street
- 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 Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- A New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- A Venetian affair
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A book of Americans
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- 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 broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- 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 cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A common good : the friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cops and robbers story.
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A criminal & an Irishman : the inside story of the Boston mob-IRA connection
- A cup of coffee with my interrogator : the Prague chronicles of Ludvík Vaculík
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A difficult par : Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the making of modern golf
- A disease in the public mind : a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dog of Flanders
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fighting chance
- A fighting chance/
- A fine romance
- A fire in her bones : the story of Mary Lyon
- A first rate tragedy : Robert Falcon Scott and the race to the South Pole
- A friend called Anne : one girl's story of war, peace, and a unique friendship with Anne Frank
- A girl named Faithful Plum : the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream
- 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 Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- 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 great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- 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 higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A history of women photographers
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A horse named Seabiscuit
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction, a memoir
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A journey : my political life
- A journey to the western islands of Scotland
- A kangaroo loose in Scotland : one memorable summer
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A labyrinth of kingdoms : 10,000 miles through Islamic Africa
- A life in the twentieth century : innocent beginnings, 1917-1950
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck, v. 1, Steel-true 1907-1940
- A life of my own
- A life on the road
- A life well played : my stories
- A life without limits : a world champion's journey
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A long way from home : [growing up in the American heartland]
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America
- A man named Thoreau
- A man without a country
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mind in prison : the memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich
- A mind of her own : the life of Karen Horney
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A newer world : Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the claiming of the American West
- A northern Christmas
- A nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- A pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of Jesus
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A rage for glory : the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sailor's war
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A slant of sun : one child's courage
- 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 son of the forest and other writings
- A song in the night : a memoir of resilience
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A stew or a story : an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stranger to myself : the inhumanity of war : Russia, 1941-1944
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A street cat named Bob.
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A studio of her own : women artists in Boston, 1870-1940
- A tale of love and darkness
- A thousand deer : four generations of hunting and the hill country
- A thousand trails home : living with caribou
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A time to speak
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A truck full of money
- A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- A voice from old New York : a memoir of my youth
- A walk across America
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A weed is a flower : the life of George Washington Carver
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wing and a prayer : the "Bloody 100th" Bomber Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in action over Europe in World War II
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A wolf at the table : a memoir of my father
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman of valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the woods : excerpts from Walden
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- Aaron and Alexander : [the most famous duel in American history]
- Abe & Fido : Lincoln's love of animals and the touching story of his favorite canine companion
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abe Lincoln and the muddy pig
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- Abigail Adams : a writing life
- Abigail Adams : girl of colonial days
- About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a presidential life
- Abraham Lincoln : president of a divided country
- Abraham Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth
- Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ace defensemen
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action presidents, V. 1, George Washington!
- Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Africa on six wheels : a semester on safari
- African American women : a biographical dictionary
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Elizabeth : the rise of James of Scotland and the struggle for the throne of England
- After Ike : on the trail of the century-old journey that changed America
- After long silence
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : my life of hardship, fast breaks, and second chances
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- Agorafabulous! : dispatches from my bedroom
- Airborne : the triumph and struggle of Michael Jordan
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Shepard : the first American in space
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : forging the path of modern physics
- Albert Einstein : physicist & genius
- Albert Einstein : scientist - theory of relativity
- Albert Einstein, young thinker
- Albert Schweitzer, an adventurer for humanity
- Alec Guinness : a celebration
- Alexander Calder
- Alexander Graham Bell : scientist and inventor
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a life
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Alexander Hamilton, American
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : journey to the end of the earth
- Alexandra : the last tsarina
- Alfred Nobel : inventive thinker
- Alfred Nobel and the story of the Nobel Prize
- Alfred and Emily
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice Ramsey's grand adventure
- Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution
- Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All heart : my dedication and determination to become one of soccer's best
- All my mothers and fathers : a memoir
- All shook up! : the life and death of Elvis Presley
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- 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 gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- All the light here comes from above : the life and legacy of Edward Hitchcock
- All the way to Berlin : a paratrooper at war in Europe
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All there is : love stories from Storycorps
- All things bright and beautiful
- All too human : a political education
- All we know : three lives
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-star! : Honus Wagner and the most famous baseball card ever
- Ally : my journey across the American-Israeli divide
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Alone against the Atlantic
- Alone around the world
- Along the way : the journey of a father and son
- Alvin Schwartz
- Always by my side : life lessons from Millie and all the dogs I've loved
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amanda Gorman : poet & activist
- Amazing Cherokee writer Sequoyah
- Amazing Grace : [William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery]
- Amazing arctic explorer Matthew Henson
- Amazing champion of the earth Rachel Carson
- Amazing civil war nurse Clara Barton
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : this broad ocean
- Amelia Earhart's daughters : the wild and glorious story of American women aviators from World War II to the dawn of the space age
- America's champion swimmer : Gertrude Ederle
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's vice presidency : from irrelevance to power
- American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Oz.
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- American Radical : Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American boy : the adventures of Mark Twain
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American first ladies
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis - and how to end it
- American heroes : profiles of men and women who shaped early America
- American historical fiction and biography for children and young people. -
- American jazz musicians
- American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- American modern : documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White
- American phoenix : John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the exile that saved American independence
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American road : the story of an epic transcontinental journey at the dawn of the motor age
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American saint : the life of Elizabeth Seton
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- American widow
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- American wine : a coming-of-age story
- American women inventors
- American writers : a collection of literary biographies, vol. 3, 1974
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America
- Amerigo Vespucci : a primary source biography
- Amore : an American father's Roman holiday
- Amos Fortune : free man
- Amy
- Amy Tan
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American phoenix : the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny
- An Indian winter
- An altar in the world : a geography of faith
- An encounter with Simone Weil
- An exact replica of a figment of my imagination : a memoir
- An imperfect god : George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of America
- An index of pioneers from Massachusetts to the West especially the State of Michigan : this list includes many sons and daughters of old Bay State families who removed to New York and states of the Middle West
- An invisible thread
- An island no more : [a memoir : the Gloucester I knew]
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- An unquenchable thirst : following Mother Teresa in search of love, service, and an authentic life/
- An unquiet mind
- Anastasia's album
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece : by Nicola Morgan ; illustrated by Christa Hook
- And a voice to sing with : a memoir
- And furthermore
- And furthermore
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And no birds sang
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- And the good news is-- : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- And then what happened, Paul Revere?
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson : seventeenth president of the United States
- André : the famous harbor seal
- Angela's ashes
- Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a daughter of the American Revolution
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anne Bonny and Mary Read : fearsome female pirates of the eighteenth century
- Anne Bradstreet : Pilgrim and poet