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- If, the untold story of Kipling's American years, Christopher Benfey
- Who was Andrew Jackson?, by Douglas Yacka ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Jackie, Janet & Lee, the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill, J. Randy Taraborrelli
- Close up on war, the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam, Mary Cronk Farrell
- Hidden figures, the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
- Celia planted a garden, the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden, Phyllis Root and Gary D. Schmidt ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
- The food explorer, the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats, Daniel Stone
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code, a Navajo code talker's story, Joseph Bruchac, pictures by Liz Amini-Holmes
- The splendid and the vile, Erik Larson
- Cross of snow, a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nicholas A. Basbanes
- A man of iron, the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland, Troy Senik
- Janis, her life and music, Holly George-Warren
- Garbo, Robert Gottlieb
- The strange case of Dr. Couney, how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies, Dawn Raffel
- The trial of Lizzie Borden, a true story, Cara Robertson
- The ugly cry, a memoir, Danielle Henderson
- The last campaign, Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America, H. W. Brands
- The traveling camera, Lewis Hine and the fight to end child labor, by Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs ; illustrated by Michael Garland
- The boys in the boat, nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
- American Eden, David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic, Victoria Johnson
- Devotion, an epic story of heroism and friendship, Adam Makos
- The rise, Kobe Bryant and the pursuit of immortality, Mike Sielski
- My Name Is James Madison Hemings, Jonah Winter and Terry Widener
- The allies, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the unlikely alliance that won World War II, Winston Groom
- Last call at the Hotel Imperial, reporters who took on a world at war, Deborah Cohen
- The heart of everything that is, the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin; adapted by Kate Waters
- Who is Tom Brady?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- The apprentice, my life in the kitchen, Jacques Pépin
- I was told to come alone, my journey behind the lines of jihad, Souad Mekhennet
- Hannibal, Rome's greatest enemy, Philip Freeman
- The woman who stole Vermeer, the true story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House art heist, Anthony M. Amore
- Jill Biden, educator & first lady of the United States, by Elizabeth Andrews
- Who is Sonia Sotomayor?, by Megan Stine ; illustrated by Dede Putra
- My journey to the stars, astronaut Scott Kelly with Emily Easton ; illustrated by Andre Ceolin
- In the garden of the righteous, the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, Richard Hurowitz
- We must not forget, Holocaust stories of survival and resistance, Deborah Hopkinson
- Tom Brady, by K.C. Kelley
- Like a Rolling Stone, a memoir, Jann S. Wenner
- Rising out of hatred, the awakening of a former white nationalist, Eli Saslow
- The palace papers, inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil, Tina Brown
- Napoleon, the decline and fall of an empire : 1811-1821, Michael Broers
- Saxophone Colossus, the life and music of Sonny Rollins, Aidan Levy
- Bibi, my story, Benjamin Netanyahu
- The commanders, the leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel, Lloyd Clark
- The Brontë cabinet, three lives in nine objects, Deborah Lutz
- The mosquito bowl, a game of life and death in World War II, Buzz Bissinger
- Do let's have another drink!, the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Gareth Russell
- The good neighbor, the life and work of Fred Rogers, Maxwell King
- One step further, my story of math, the moon, and a life-long mission, by NASA Computer Katherine Johnson ; with her daughters Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore ; illustrations by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
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