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- "I͡A s mertvymi ne razvozhusʹ!.." : vospominanii͡a, dnevniki, pisʹma
- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 16 extraordinary African Americans
- 16 extraordinary Asian Americans
- 16 extraordinary young Americans
- true16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- true24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 42 is not just a number
- true42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- true42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- trueA delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- trueA dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- trueA girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- trueA knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- trueA mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- trueA picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- trueA plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- trueA poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- trueA queer history of the United States for young people
- trueA question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- trueA song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- trueA sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- trueA thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- trueA traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A treasury of the great children's book illustrators
- trueA very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- trueA voice named Aretha
- trueA woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- trueA year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- Aaron Burr : portrait of an ambitious man
- trueAbandon me : memoirs
- Abigail Adams
- trueAbove the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- trueAbraham Joshua Heschel : mind, heart, soul
- trueAcid for the children : a memoir
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- African revolutionary ; : the life and times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano
- trueAfropessimism
- trueAfter the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- trueAftershocks : a memoir
- trueAgent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero, #4
- trueAlexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- trueAlexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- trueAlexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- trueAlice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- trueAll blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- trueAll the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- trueAlthea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- trueAmazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- trueAmerican Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- trueAmerican Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- trueAmerican animals : a true crime memoir
- trueAmerican baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American girl : scenes from a small-town childhood
- trueAmerican predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- trueAmerican rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- trueAn impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- trueAndrew Jackson : the making of America
- trueAndy Warhol and the can that sold the world
- trueAnna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- trueApp kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Areli es una dreamer : una historia real
- trueAreli is a dreamer : a true story
- Art 21 : art in the 21st century
- Assata : an autobiography
- trueAssume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- At the stranger's gate : arrivals in New York
- trueAtticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- trueAusten years : a memoir in five novels
- trueAuthor in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- trueAwesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- trueBalderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- trueBamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- trueBanvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck
- trueBartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Bartolomeu Dias : first European sailor to reach the Indian Ocean
- trueBaseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- trueBe free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- trueBe strong and of good courage : how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny
- trueBeatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- trueBeatrix Potter, scientist
- trueBeautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- trueBecoming
- trueBecoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- trueBecoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- trueBecoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- trueBecoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- trueBecoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes
- trueBee fearless : dream like a kid
- trueBeeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- trueBefore she was Harriet .[ compact disc and book set ]
- trueBefore they were authors : famous authors as kids
- trueBehind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Besy 2.0 : a t͡sari-to nenastoi͡ashchie! : nevydumannyĭ pamflet
- trueBetsey. : a memoir
- trueBetween Inca walls : a Peace Corps memoir
- trueBetween the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts
- trueBillie Eilish
- trueBlack Elk : the life of an American visionary
- trueBlack Water : family, legacy and blood memory
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- trueBlood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- trueBlood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- trueBlow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- trueBoots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- trueBorges and me : an encounter
- trueBorn curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- trueBorn to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- trueBorn to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Boston and some noted émigrés; : a collection of facts and incidents, with appropriate illustrations, relating to some well-known citizens of France who found homes in Boston and New England, with which are included accounts of several visits made by one of the authors to La Rochelle and to the homes of the ancestors of Paul Revere.
- trueBox : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- trueBoy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Boy oh boy
- trueBrat : an '80s story
- trueBrave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- trueBravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- trueBreaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- trueBreaking the ice
- trueBright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- trueBright precious thing : a memoir
- trueBroken (in the best possible way)
- trueBroken horses : a memoir
- trueBrother & sister
- trueBugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Builders of New England
- Busy, busy world
- trueBy and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- trueBy women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- trueCall me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Canta conmigo : la historia de Selena Quintanilla
- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo : places of their own
- trueCarrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- trueCarry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- trueCatching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- trueChance : escape from the Holocaust
- trueCharlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- trueChasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- trueChasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- trueChasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- trueChecking in : how getting real about depression saved my life-and can save yours
- trueChef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- trueChef Roy Choi and the street food remix. [compact disc and book set]
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- trueChildren of the land
- trueClassified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- trueClaudette Colvin
- trueCode name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- trueCondé Nast : the man and his empire
- Confessions of a video vixen
- trueConfucius : great teacher of China
- Connecticut portraits by Ralph Earl, 1751-1801 : August 1 to October 15, [1935] Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University
- trueConversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Coretta Scott King
- trueCounting the stars
- Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail
- trueCrying in H Mart : a memoir
- Cunningham
- trueDance with demons : the life of Jerome Robbins
- trueDancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- trueDancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother's letter to her son
- trueDancing with the octopus : a memoir of a crime
- trueDare not linger : the presidential years
- trueDark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
- trueDark was the night
- Daughters of America; or, Women of the century.
- David Crosby : remember my name
- trueDavid Hockney : the biography, 1937-1975 : a rake's progress
- trueDear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- Deberías hablar con alguien : una psicóloga, su terapeuta y un viaje revelador por el alma humana
- trueDemagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- trueDinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- trueDizzy
- trueDodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- trueDon't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- trueDorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- trueDown along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- trueDrawing on walls : a story of Keith Haring
- trueDream big, little one
- trueDreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- trueDutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- trueEakins revealed : the secret life of an American artist
- trueEartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Edgar Allan Poe : a mystery
- Edison
- Edna Lewis : at the table with an American original
- Edouard Manet : rebel in a frock coat
- trueEducated for freedom : the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
- trueEleanor makes her mark : how Eleanor Roosevelt reached out, spoke up, and changed the world
- Eleven exiles : accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- trueEliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth I, CEO : strategic lessons from the leader who built an empire
- trueElizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- trueElizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- trueElon Musk : a mission to save the world
- trueEmily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- trueEmpress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- trueEmpty : a memoir
- trueEnemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Epic athletes : Alex Morgan
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist . [compact disc and book set]
- trueEvery day is a gift : a memoir
- trueExquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- FDR's splendid deception
- trueFab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- trueFamily history of fear : a memoir
- trueFamily of origin, family of choice : stories of queer Christians
- Fascinating : the life of Leonard Nimoy
- trueFaster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- trueFierce poise : Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- trueFinding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- trueFinding home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- trueFirst in peace : how George Washington set the course for America
- trueFive days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- trueFlorence Griffith Joyner
- trueFly high, John Glenn : the story of an American hero
- trueFor brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts : a love letter to women of color
- trueFor the people : a story of justice and power
- trueFormation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line
- trueFounding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- trueFour umbrellas : a couple's journey into young-onset Alzheimer's
- trueFox and I : an uncommon friendship
- trueFrancis Bacon : revelations
- trueFrancis of Assisi : he who spoke with animals
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- trueFranklin D. Roosevelt, #5
- trueFred Korematsu speaks up
- trueFred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- trueFree lunch
- trueFrida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- trueFrom a small seed : the story of Eliza Hamilton
- trueFull bloom : the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe
- G.O.A.T. : Serena Williams : making the case for the greatest of all time
- Gandhi before India
- trueGatecrasher : how I helped the rich become famous and ruin the world
- trueGenius makers : the mavericks who brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the world
- George Washington : the first president
- trueGideon's Promise : a public defender movement to transform criminal justice
- trueGirls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- trueGirls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- trueGods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- trueGoethe : life as a work of art
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- trueGold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- trueGolem girl : a memoir
- trueGood grief : embracing life at a time of death
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- trueGood night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorʹkiĭ : strasti po Maksimu
- trueGoya : a portrait of the artist
- trueGrace : the Jeff Buckley story
- trueGrace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- trueGrandad Mandela
- Grant
- Great lives : a graphic history of the "Renaissance Man", Leonardo da Vinci
- Great lives : a graphic history of the father of modern physics, Albert Einstein
- Great lives, Marie Curie
- Greater fortune : essential lessons from the entrepreneur who bought the company that fired her
- Greenlights
- trueGreenlights
- Greta's story : the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet
- trueGrinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- trueGrowing up Bank Street : a Greenwich Village memoir
- trueHRH : so many thoughts on royal style
- trueHard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- trueHarriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harry Houdini
- trueHave I ever told you Black lives matter
- trueHawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- trueHear my voice : the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States
- trueHeart of fire : an immigrant daughter's story
- trueHelen Oxenbury : a life in illustration
- trueHemingway and me : letters, anecdotes, and memories of a life-changing friendship
- Hendrix : the illustrated story
- trueHer own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Here, right matters : an American story
- trueHeroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. military
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- trueHiding places : a father and his sons retrace their family's escape from the Holocaust
- trueHigh school
- trueHillary Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- trueHis bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- trueHis truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- trueHitler : downfall, 1939-1945
- trueHollywood Park : a memoir
- trueHoly terror : Andy Warhol close up
- trueHooray for women!
- trueHouse of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- trueHouse of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- trueHow Emily saved the bridge : the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- trueHow to be human : an autistic man's guide to life
- trueHow to become an accidental genius
- Humboldt and the cosmos
- trueHurricanes : a memoir
- trueHyperbole and a half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened
- trueI am a promise
- trueI am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- trueI am the night sky
- trueI can't make this up : life lessons
- trueI had a miscarriage : a memoir, a movement
- trueI have always been me : a memoir
- trueI have something to say : mastering the art of public speaking in an age of disconnection
- trueI have something to tell you : a memoir
- trueI know where I'm going : Katharine Hepburn, a personal biography
- I loved her in the movies : memories of Hollywood's legendary actresses
- trueI want you to know we're still here
- trueIda B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- In the Shadow of Liberty : the Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the country of women : a memoir
- trueIn the country of women : a memoir
- trueIn the land of men : a memoir
- trueIn the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- trueIndian sun : the life and music of Ravi Shankar
- trueInferno : a memoir of motherhood and madness
- trueInfinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- trueIrving Berlin : New York genius
- Is this anything?
- Istorii͡a mirovoĭ kulʹtury : Zapisi i vypiski ; Perevody : Zhiznʹ dvenadt͡sati t͡sezareĭ ; Rasskazy Gerodota o Greko-Persidskikh voĭnakh i eshche o mnogom drugom
- trueIt's ok to laugh : (crying is cool, too)
- trueIt's up to you, Ben Franklin
- trueItzhak : a boy who loved the violin
- trueJ. Robert Oppenheimer : a life
- trueJacinda Ardern : leading with empathy
- trueJack London and the Klondike gold rush
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackson Pollock : energy made visible
- James Madison : the founding father
- trueJane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- trueJanis : her life and music
- Jasper Johns : pictures within pictures 1980-2015
- trueJimmy Page : the definitive biography
- trueJoan procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- trueJoe Biden : 46th US President
- trueJoe Biden : our 46th president
- Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber
- trueJoey : the story of Joe Biden
- Johannes Vermeer
- John Lewis : courage in action
- trueJonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- trueJudy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Just as I am
- trueJust like Rube Goldberg : the incredible true story of the man behind the machines
- Just pretend
- trueKafka
- trueKamala Harris : rooted in justice
- Kant's little Prussian head & other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- trueKant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- Katherine Johnson
- trueKeith Haring : the boy who just kept drawing
- Kennedy
- Kevin Durant