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- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A cops and robbers story.
- 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 farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- 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 good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A rose named peace: : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- 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 series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A truck full of money
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Ike : on the trail of the century-old journey that changed America
- 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
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- All creatures great and small
- 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 light here comes from above : the life and legacy of Edward Hitchcock
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- An invisible thread
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank : Holocaust diarist
- Astrid Lindgren
- Autumn
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- BTS : the ultimate fan book
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Battle of brothers : William & Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Between the mountain and the sky : a mother's story of love, loss, healing, and hope
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billy Graham.
- Black like me
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Flay
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Bound for the promised land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Celia planted a garden : the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil War spies
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Close up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- 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
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark hearts : the world's most famous horror writers
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- David Bowie : a life
- Dear William : a father's memoir of addiction, recovery, love, and loss
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism and friendship
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Drake : famous music star
- Dude Perfect 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ellen Ochoa : dynamic space director
- Elvis Presley : fighting for the right to rock
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair : inside the 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the ghost children of his revenge
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Father of lions : one man's remarkable quest to save the Mosul Zoo
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding me
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
- First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- France : an adventure history
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francis of Assisi : he who spoke with animals
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Garbo
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goebbels : a biography
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golem girl : a memoir
- Golf's G.O.A.T. : Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and more
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 inspiring young changemakers
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Grant
- Grant
- Greta Thunberg
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Growing up Getty : the story of America's most unconventional dynasty
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Handel in London : the making of a genius
- Hannibal : Rome's greatest enemy
- Harriet Tubman
- Have a little faith : the John Hiatt story
- Hawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- Helen Keller : educator, activist & author
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Helltown : the untold story of a serial killer on Cape Cod
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Hernán Cortés and La Malinche
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hillary Clinton : groundbreaking politician
- His Holiness : the fourteenth Dalai Lama
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- Holding the line : inside the nation's preeminent US Attorney's Office and its battle with the Trump Justice Department
- Hollywood ending : Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence / Ken Auletta
- Home of the brave : an American history book for kids : 15 immigrants who shaped U.S. history
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hot pink : the life & fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How I saved the world
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- Hummingbird heart
- I am Marie Curie
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Rosa Parks
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I am Walt Disney
- I am not a label
- I am strong : a little book about Rosa Parks
- I begin with spring : the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House
- I'm glad my mom died
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- If you're a kid like Gavin
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In memory of memory : a romance
- In my family : En mi familia
- In search of Al Howie
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In the darkroom
- In the garden of beasts : [love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin]
- In the shadow of the empress : the defiant lives of Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, and her daughters
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- Indestructible : One man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Inventing the it girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It's her story : Marie Curie
- It's okay to laugh : (crying is cool too) : a memoir
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- James Patterson by James Patterson : the stories of my life
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall
- Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jill : a biography of the First Lady
- Jill Biden : educator & first lady of the United States
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- John Hughes : a life in film
- John Lewis : congressman & civil rights activist
- John Quincy Adams
- Jonn Cena : hustle. loyalty. respect.
- Judy Blume
- Just being Dalà : the story of artist Salvador DalÃ
- Just like Jesse Owens
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Katie Ledecky
- Kevin Durant
- Killing the legends : the lethal danger of celebrity
- Kim Kardashian West
- Kin : a memoir
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King
- Kiyo Sato : from a WWII Japanese internment camp to a life of service
- Kyrie Irving
- Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight
- Lafayette
- Lafayette and the American Revolution
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last call at the Hotel Imperial : reporters who took on a world at war
- Last train to Memphis : the rise of Elvis Presley
- Latinitas : celebrating big dreamers in history!
- LeBron James
- LeBron James
- LeBron James : G.O.A.T. : making the case for greatest of all time
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Left on tenth : a second chance at life
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Letter to a young female physician : notes from a medical life
- Lewis Latimer : engineering wizard
- Library girl : how Nancy Pearl became America's most celebrated librarian
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
- Life is short (no pun intended) : love, laughter, and learning to enjoy every moment
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Like a Rolling Stone : a memoir
- Lin-Manuel Miranda : composer, actor, and creator of Hamilton
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Lion in the White House : a life of Theodore Roosevelt
- Lionel Messi
- Lisa of Willesden Lane : a true story of music and survival during World War II
- Little dancer aged fourteen
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little weirds
- Little weirds
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Lou Reed : a life
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Lush : a memoir
- MBS : the rise to power of Mohammed Bin Salman
- Mad at the world : a life of John Steinbeck
- Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Magnificent rebels : the first Romantics and the invention of the self
- Making a scene
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mamie on the mound : a woman in baseball's Negro leagues
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Mark Rothko : toward the light in the chapel
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mary, Queen of Scots : the true life of Mary Stuart
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Me
- Megan Rapinoe
- Meghan Markle
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Mercies in disguise : a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them
- Michael Jordan
- Michael Phelps
- Miss Dior : a story of courage and couture
- Mixed plate : chronicles of an All-American combo
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mountains beyond mountains
- Mozart : the reign of love
- Muhammad Ali
- Mutinous women : how French convicts became founding mothers of the Gulf Coast
- My Name Is James Madison Hemings
- My boy will die of sorrow : a memoir of immigration from the front lines
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My journey to the stars
- My place at the table : a recipe for a delicious life in Paris
- My travels with Mrs. Kennedy
- Napoleon : the decline and fall of an empire : 1811-1821
- Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Never caught : the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Normal family : on truth, love, and how I met my 35 siblings
- Notes on grief
- Nothing personal : my secret life in the dating app inferno
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Obama : the call of history
- One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
- One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- One step further : my story of math, the moon, and a life-long mission
- Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true story of the grandmother of Juneteenth
- Ordinary, extraordinary Jane Austen : the story of six novels, three notebooks, a writing box, and one clever girl
- Orville and Wilbur Wright : pioneers of the age of flight
- Orwell's roses
- Osnat and her dove : the true story of the world's first female rabbi
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Our flag was still there : the true story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner
- Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Our man in Tokyo : an American ambassador and the countdown to Pearl Harbor
- Overcoming OCD : a journey to recovery
- Overdue : reckoning with the public library
- Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
- Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
- Patriot number one : American dreams in Chinatown
- Patriot or traitor : the life and death of Sir Walter Ralegh
- Paul McCartney : the life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peace and me
- Pedro's theory : reimagining the promised land
- Pelosi
- Phenomenal AOC : the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Phil : the rip-roaring (and unauthorized!) biography of golf's most colorful superstar
- Phil : the rip-roaring (and unauthorized!) biography of golf's most colorful superstar
- Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
- Places and names : on war, revolution, and returning
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- President Carter : the White House years
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Pro wrestling's G.O.A.T. : Hulk Hogan, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and more
- Profiles in courage
- Putin
- Putting the rabbit in the hat : a memoir
- Queen
- Queen Elizabeth
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen of our times : the life of Queen Elizabeth II
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens, Book one
- Quiet fire : Emily Dickinson's life and poetry
- RFK : his words for our times
- Race to the bottom of the Earth : surviving Antarctica
- Rachel Carson and ecology for kids : her life and ideas, with 21 activities and experiments
- Reagan : the life
- Rebel girls lead : 25 tales of powerful women
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Relentless pursuit : my fight for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein
- Renoir's dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon
- Revolutionary : George Washington at war
- Riding the lightning : a year in the life of a New York City paramedic
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- River of fire : my spiritual journey
- Riverman : an American odyssey
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Robin
- Rough draft : a memoir
- Runnin' with the devil : a backstage pass to the wild times, loud rock, and the down and dirty truth behind the making of Van Halen
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruthless : scientology, my son David Miscavige, and me
- Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Sally Ride : trailblazing astronaut
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- Scholastic book of presidents 2020
- Scientist : E.O. Wilson : a life in nature