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- "I͡A s mertvymi ne razvozhusʹ!.." : vospominanii͡a, dnevniki, pisʹma
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- true108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 16 extraordinary African Americans
- 16 extraordinary Asian Americans
- 16 extraordinary young Americans
- true16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- true24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 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 crime in the family
- trueA cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- trueA delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- trueA disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- 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 hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- trueA kids' guide to America's first ladies
- trueA knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A letter to Jo
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- trueA likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- trueA man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- trueA mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- 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
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- trueA puppy for Helen Keller
- 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 thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- 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
- trueAbused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- trueAcid for the children : a memoir
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- African American healers
- African revolutionary ; : the life and times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano
- trueAfropessimism
- trueAfter Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- 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
- Ali
- trueAli : a life
- trueAlice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- 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 blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- trueAll in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- trueAll that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- 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
- trueAll the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- trueAll tomorrow's parties : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- trueAlpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- trueAlthea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- trueAlways home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- trueAly Raisman : athlete and activist
- 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 Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- 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
- trueAndrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- trueAndy Warhol and the can that sold the world
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- trueAngels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- trueAnna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- trueAnonymous is a woman : a global chronicle of gender inequality
- 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
- trueAttucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- 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
- Aziatskai͡a evropeizat͡sii͡a : T͡Sarʹ Petr Alekseevich
- trueBad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- trueBalderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- trueBallad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- trueBamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- trueBannon : always the rebel
- 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
- trueBeastie Boys book
- trueBeatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- trueBeatrix Potter, scientist
- trueBeautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- trueBecoming
- trueBecoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- trueBecoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- 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
- Before they were stars
- trueBehind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- trueBeing Elvis : a lonely life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- trueBen Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- trueBessie Coleman : daring to fly
- 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
- trueBibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- trueBig apple gangsters : the rise and decline of the mob in New York
- trueBill Clinton : the American presidents
- Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts
- trueBillie Eilish
- trueBillie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- trueBillion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- 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 oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
- 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
- trueBloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- trueBlow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- trueBold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- trueBonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Bono : the amazing story of a rescue cat who inspired a community
- trueBookish broads : women who wrote themselves into history
- 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 ready : the true story of a boy named Penelope
- 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
- Born to run
- 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.
- trueBourdain : the definitive oral biography
- trueBox : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- trueBoy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Boy oh boy
- trueBoys in the trees : a memoir
- trueBrat : an '80s story
- trueBrave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- 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"
- Breaking 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
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Lee
- trueBugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Builders of New England
- trueBush
- 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
- trueCSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- trueCall me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Canta conmigo : la historia de Selena Quintanilla
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from the terrifying cult NXIVM
- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo : places of their own
- trueCarrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- trueCarry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- trueCary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- trueCatching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- trueCaught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- trueChampions of women's soccer
- trueChance : escape from the Holocaust
- trueChanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- trueChanging the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- trueCharles Darwin's around-the-world adventure
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt, pioneer of the color line
- trueCharlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- trueCharlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- trueChasing Chopin : a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions
- 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
- trueChumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90's dynasty
- trueClaiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- trueClassified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- trueClaudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Close calls : how eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death
- trueCode name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- trueCode name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- trueCondé Nast : the man and his empire
- Confessions of a video vixen
- trueConfucius : great teacher of China
- Congressional directory
- 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 on Katherine
- trueCounting the stars
- trueCrave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail
- trueCrying in H Mart : a memoir
- Cunningham
- trueDadland
- trueDance with demons : the life of Jerome Robbins
- trueDancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- trueDancing hands : how Teresa Carre©ło played the piano for President Lincoln
- trueDancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother's letter to her son
- Dancing through fields of color : the story of Helen Frankenthaler
- trueDancing with the octopus : a memoir of a crime
- trueDangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- trueDangerous mystic : Meister Eckhart's path to the God within
- trueDare not linger : the presidential years
- trueDark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
- trueDark was the night
- trueDarkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Daughters of America; or, Women of the century.
- trueDaughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- trueDave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Crosby : remember my name
- trueDavid Hockney : the biography, 1937-1975 : a rake's progress
- Davy Crockett : defender of the Alamo
- 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
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- trueDevices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
- trueDiderot and the art of thinking freely
- trueDigging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- 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
- Dolores Huerta : advocate for women and workers
- trueDon't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
- trueDonald J. Trump : a president like no other
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- trueDorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- trueDorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- trueDown along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- trueDrawing on walls : a story of Keith Haring
- trueDream big, little one
- trueDreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- trueDreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Duke Kahanamoku
- 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
- trueEdison
- Edison
- trueEdison vs. Tesla, the battle over their last invention
- 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
- El Greco
- trueEleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- 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
- trueElizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- 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
- trueElizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
- trueElon Musk : a mission to save the world
- trueElon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elton John : rocket m*n
- trueElvis : the story of the rock and roll King
- trueElvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- trueEmily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- trueEmpire of deception
- trueEmpire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- trueEmpress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- trueEmpress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire