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- "I︠A︡ s mertvymi ne razvozhusʹ!.." : vospominanii︠a︡, dnevniki, pisʹma
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 16 extraordinary African Americans
- 16 extraordinary Asian Americans
- 16 extraordinary young Americans
- 42 is not just a number
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- Aaron Burr : portrait of an ambitious man
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abraham Joshua Heschel : mind, heart, soul
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero, #4
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- All 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
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- At the stranger's gate : arrivals in New York
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be strong and of good courage : how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- Becoming
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- 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
- Becoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes
- Before she was Harriet .[ compact disc and book set ]/
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Besy 2.0 : a t︠s︡ari-to nenastoi︠a︡shchie! : nevydumannyĭ pamflet
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Boy oh boy
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo : places of their own
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix. [compact disc and book set]
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Confucius: : great teacher of China
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting the stars
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Eakins revealed : the secret life of an American artist
- Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones
- Edgar Allan Poe : a mystery
- Edison
- Edna Lewis : at the table with an American original
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elon Musk : a mission to save the world
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enemy 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]/
- FDR's splendid deception
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Family history of fear : a memoir
- Fascinating : the life of Leonard Nimoy
- First in peace : how George Washington set the course for America
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Francis of Assisi : he who spoke with animals
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, #5
- Free lunch
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From a small seed : the story of Eliza Hamilton
- Full bloom : the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gandhi before India
- George Washington : the first president
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorʹkiĭ : strasti po Maksimu
- Grace : the Jeff Buckley story
- Grandad Mandela
- Grant
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harry Houdini
- Hendrix : the illustrated story
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Heroism 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
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Holy terror : Andy Warhol close up
- Hooray for women!
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- Humboldt and the cosmos
- Hurricanes : a memoir
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I can't make this up : life lessons
- I know where I'm going : Katharine Hepburn, a personal biography
- I loved her in the movies : memories of Hollywood's legendary actresses
- In the Shadow of Liberty : the Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
- In the country of women : a memoir
- Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Irving Berlin : New York genius
- Istorii︠a︡ mirovoĭ kulʹtury : Zapisi i vypiski ; Perevody : Zhiznʹ dvenadt︠s︡ati t︠s︡ezareĭ ; Rasskazy Gerodota o Greko-Persidskikh voĭnakh i eshche o mnogom drugom
- It's ok to laugh : (crying is cool, too)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer : a life
- Jack 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
- Janis : her life and music
- Jasper Johns : pictures within pictures 1980-2015
- Jean Cocteau : a life
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber
- Johannes Vermeer
- John Lewis : courage in action
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Kafka
- Katherine Johnson
- Keith Haring : the boy who just kept drawing
- Kids who are changing the world
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Lady Byron & her daughters
- LeBron James
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Leningradskai︠a︡ telefonnai︠a︡ knizhka : dnevniki, 1955-1956
- Leonardo da Vinci : a nonfiction companion to Monday with a mad genius
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little House Books
- Lin-Manuel Miranda : composer, actor, and creator of Hamilton
- Lionel Messi
- Listen : how Pete Seeger got America singing
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little sister : a memoir
- Long way home
- Lost tycoon : the many lives of Donald J. Trump
- Lou Reed : a life
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Loving Robert Lowell
- Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Mae Jemison
- Magellan : over the edge of the world : the true story of the terrifying first circumnavigation of the globe
- Maharanis : the extraordinary tale of four Indian queens and their journey from purdah to Parliament
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Manchu princess, Japanese spy : the story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the cross-dressing spy who commanded her own army
- Manderley forever
- Manjhi moves a mountain
- Marconi : the man who networked the world
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie
- Marilyn, the classic
- Martin Buber : a life of faith and dissent
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
- Me
- Mensch-marks : life lessons of a human rabbi - wisdom for untethered times
- Miedo : Trump en la Casa Blanca
- Mighty Moe : the true story of a thirteen-year-old women's running revolutionary
- Mikhail Gorbachev : zhiznʹ do Kremli︠a︡
- Mission : Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe
- Misty Copeland
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- Muslim girls rise : inspirational champions of our time
- My First Life : Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet
- My family and other animals
- My journey to the stars
- Nazi saboteurs : Hitler's secret attack on America
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Never caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Neymar : a soccer dream come true
- Nostradamus : the illustrated prophecies : the new and authoritative translation to commemorate Nostradamus' 500th anniversary
- O'Keeffe : the life of an American legend
- Obama : the call of history
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- One fun day with Lewis Carroll : a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
- Orchestra of exiles : the story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the one thousand Jews he saved from Nazi horrors
- Ordinary girls : a memoir
- Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark
- Ot Ivana Groznogo do Pavla I : russkie t︠s︡ari glazami psikhiatra
- Our story : a memoir of love and life in China
- Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls
- Paul : a biography
- Peace and me
- Peter the Great : a biography
- Piety & power : Mike Pence and the taking of the White House
- Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
- Places and names : on war, revolution, and returning
- Planck : driven by vision, broken by war
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Pope Francis : the people's pope
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Posledni︠a︡i︠a︡ tetradʹ ; : Izmenchivye teni
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President Carter : the White House years
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince Harry : the inside story
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Raising the dead
- Reagan : an American journey
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Righteous gentile : the story of Raoul Wallenberg, missing hero of the Holocaust
- Rising above : how 11 athletes overcame challenges in their youth to become stars
- Roaring back : the fall and rise of Tiger Woods
- Robert E. Lee : the man, the soldier, the myth
- Robin
- Royal renegades : the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
- Rumi's secret : the life of the Sufi poet of love
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- Shakespeare retold
- She Persisted : 13 American Women Who Changed the World
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world /. [compact diisc and book cd]
- Shkola zhizni : chestnai︠a︡ kniga : li︠u︡bovʹ - druzʹi︠a︡ - uchiteli︠a︡ - zhestʹ
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Sisters and champions : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Soldier for equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War
- St. George : hero, martyr, and myth
- Stalin's Englishman : Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge spy ring
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Stephen Curry
- Survivors of the holocaust : true stories of six extraordinary children
- Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America
- Texas Ranger : the epic life of Frank Hamer, the man who killed Bonnie and Clyde
- The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
- The Clarks of Cooperstown : their Singer sewing machine fortune, their great and influential art collections, their forty-year feud
- The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
- The Duchess of Windsor : the secret life
- The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act
- The Good Fight : the Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How they Shaped the Nation)
- The Jack Benny show
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Pope of physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age
- The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The Wright brothers
- The beneficiary : fortune, misfortune, and the story of my father
- The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
- The children of Willesden Lane : a true story of hope and survival during World War II
- The color of love : a story of a mixed-race Jewish girl
- The commander : Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab independence, 1914-1948
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The diamond and the boy : the creation of diamonds & the life of H. Tracy Hall
- The enigma of Clarence Thomas
- The entrepreneurial artist : lessons from highly successful creatives
- The fabulous Bouvier sisters : the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee
- The fall of Richard Nixon : a reporter remembers Watergate
- The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The girl with a mind for math : the story of Raye Montague. #3
- The golden thread : a song for Pete Seeger
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The great Nadar : the man behind the camera
- The great builders
- The hermit king : the dangerous game of Kim Jong Un
- The hidden lives of Tudor women : a social history
- The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance
- The house that Jane built : a story about Jane Addams
- The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown
- The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution
- The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
- The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
- The last temptation of Rick Pitino : a story of corruption, scandal, and the big business of college basketball
- The life of Selena : La vida de Selena
- The loyal son : the war in Ben Franklin's house
- The magician and the spirits : Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
- The many lives of Michael Bloomberg
- The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west
- The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York
- The president's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our first families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The prince who would be king : the life and death of Henry Stuart
- The real Wallis Simpson : a new history of the American divorcée who became the Duchess of Windsor
- The richer, the poorer : stories, sketches, and reminiscences
- The richest man who ever lived : the life and times of Jacob Fugger
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The spy who played baseball
- The three lives of James Madison : genius, partisan, president
- The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
- The white darkness
- The witch of Lime Street : séance, seduction, and Houdini in the spirit world
- The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
- The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
- The world is not a rectangle : a portrait of architect Zaha Hadid
- Thirty seconds over Tokyo
- Thomas Edison and his bright idea
- Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power
- Thrilling thieves : liars, cheats, and cons who changed history
- Tiger Woods
- Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Traveling soul : the life of Curtis Mayfield
- Trials of the earth : the true story of a pioneer woman
- Uncle Sam
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team
- Unpresidented : a biography of Donald Trump
- Victoria & Albert : a royal love affair
- Victoria : portrait of a queen
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers
- Vincent can't sleep : Van Gogh paints the night sky
- Vivian Maier : a photographer's life and afterlife
- Vremi︠a︡ sekond khėnd
- Vsi︠a︡ Odessa ochenʹ velika
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- Wallis in love : untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole
- We shall not fail : the inspiring leadership of Winston Churchill
- West with the night
- What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing
- What Miss Mitchell saw
- When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends
- When Sue found Sue : Sue Hendrickson discovers her T. rex
- When angels sing : the story of rock legend Carlos Santana
- Who is Dolly Parton?
- Who is George Lucas?
- Who is Pele?
- Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
- Who is Stevie Wonder?
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who was Alexander Hamilton?
- Who was Andrew Jackson?
- Who was Bruce Lee?
- Who was Clara Barton?
- Who was Frederick Douglass?
- Who was Gandhi?
- Who was Henry Ford?
- Who was Jacqueline Kennedy?
- Who was Jane Austen?
- Who was Jesse Owens?
- Who was Leif Erikson?
- Who was Louis Armstrong?
- Who was Lucille Ball?
- Who was Marie Curie?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was Mother Teresa?
- Who was Nikola Tesla?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Queen Victoria?
- Who was Roald Dahl?
- Who was Robert E. Lee?
- Who was Steve Irwin?
- Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
- William Howard Taft
- Women athletes who rule!
- Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
- Women who launched the computer age
- Writers : their lives and works
- Yayoi Kusama : from here to infinity
- Yogi : the life, loves, and language of baseball legend Yogi Berra
- You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn
- Young, gifted and black : meet 52 black heroes from past and present
- ¡Fushhh! : el chorro de inventos súper húmedos de Lonnie Johnson
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