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- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 16 extraordinary African Americans
- 16 extraordinary Asian Americans
- 16 extraordinary young Americans
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 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 crime in the family
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A letter to Jo
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A voice named Aretha
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- Aaron Burr : portrait of an ambitious man
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- African American healers
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Albert Einstein : a graphic history of the father of modern physics
- 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
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All 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
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All 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
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- 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 Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- 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
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Aziatskaiï¸ a︡ evropeizatï¸ s︡iiï¸ a︡ : Tï¸ S︡arʹ Petr Alekseevich
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- 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
- Before she was Harriet .[ compact disc and book set ]/
- Before they were stars
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Bessie Coleman : daring to fly
- Besy 2.0 : a tï¸ s︡ari-to nenastoiï¸ a︡shchie! : nevydumannyÄ pamflet
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bill Clinton : the American presidents
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billion 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
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- 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
- Born to run
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called 'Alien'
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Lee
- Bush
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from the terrifying cult NXIVM
- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo : places of their own
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Champions of women's soccer
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Charles Darwin's around-the-world adventure
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- 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]
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90's dynasty
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Confucius: : great teacher of China
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Dadland
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carre©ło played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dancing through fields of color : the story of Helen Frankenthaler
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Dangerous mystic : Meister Eckhart's path to the God within
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- Davy Crockett : defender of the Alamo
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolores Huerta : advocate for women and workers
- Donald J. Trump : a president like no other
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Eakins revealed : the secret life of an American artist
- Edgar Allan Poe : a mystery
- Edison
- Edison
- Edison vs. Tesla, the battle over their last invention
- Edna Lewis : at the table with an American original
- Educated for freedom : the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
- El Greco
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- 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
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elton John : rocket m*n
- Elvis : the story of the rock and roll King
- Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Empire of deception
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- 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
- Enrique's journey : The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life/
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist . [compact disc and book set]/
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- FDR's splendid deception
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Family history of fear : a memoir
- Fascinating : the life of Leonard Nimoy
- Father of lions : one man's remarkable quest to save the Mosul Zoo
- Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
- First founding father : Richard Henry Lee and the call to independence
- First in peace : how George Washington set the course for America
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Florence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- 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
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Francis of Assisi : he who spoke with animals
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, #5
- Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From a small seed : the story of Eliza Hamilton
- Full bloom : the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi before India
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- George Washington : the first president
- George Washington Carver : a life
- 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 Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Google it : a history of Google
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- GorʹkiÄ : strasti po Maksimu
- Gosnell : the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer
- Grandad Mandela
- Grant
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harry Houdini
- Hendrix : the illustrated story
- Henry Clay : the man who would be president
- Henry VIII
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. military
- 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 Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler : a biography
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Holy terror : Andy Warhol close up
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- House of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- Humboldt and the cosmos
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hungry : eating, road-tripping, and risking it all with the greatest chef in the world
- I am a promise
- 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 Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In the Shadow of Liberty : the Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irving Berlin : New York genius
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- Istoriiï¸ a︡ mirovoÄ kulʹtury : Zapisi i vypiski ; Perevody : Zhiznʹ dvenadtï¸ s︡ati tï¸ s︡ezareÄ ; Rasskazy Gerodota o Greko-Persidskikh voÄnakh i eshche o mnogom drugom
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- It's Up to You, ABE Lincoln
- It's ok to laugh : (crying is cool, too)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer : a life
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jack London and the Klondike gold rush
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
- Jackie Robinson : an integrated life
- 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 Brown : black and proud
- James Madison : the founding father
- Janis : her life and music
- Jasper Johns : pictures within pictures 1980-2015
- Jean Cocteau : a life
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Jihadi John
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan Rivers confidential : the unseen scrapbooks, joke cards, personal files, and photos of a very funny woman who kept everything
- Joan procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber
- Johannes Vermeer
- John Lewis : courage in action
- John Marshall : definer of a nation
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Jonas Salk : a life
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Judas : how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Kafka
- Karl Marx : greatness and illusion
- 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
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kindness and wonder : why Mr. Rogers matters now more than ever
- King Edward VIII : an American life
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- King of the tightrope : when the Great Blondin ruled Niagara
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Lady Byron & her daughters
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lara : the untold love story that inspired Doctor Zhivago
- LeBron James
- Leaders who changed history
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Leonardo da Vinci : a graphic history of the "Renaissance Man"
- 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
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
- Life is short (no pun intended)
- Lift your light a little higher : the story of Stephen Bishop : slave-explorer
- Lights! Camera! Alice! : the thrilling true adventures of the first woman filmmaker
- Like brothers
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lin-Manuel Miranda : composer, actor, and creator of Hamilton
- Lincoln & Churchill : statesmen at war
- Lincoln on the verge : thirteen days to Washington
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lionel Messi
- Listen : how Pete Seeger got America singing
- Little dancer aged fourteen
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy, Jr., and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Lost tycoon : the many lives of Donald J. Trump
- Lou Reed : a life
- Lou Reed : a life
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Loving Robert Lowell
- Luna and me : the true story of a girl who lived in a tree to save a forest
- Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
- MacArthur at war : World War II in the Pacific
- 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
- Making Oscar Wilde
- 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
- Mantle : the best there ever was
- Many lives, many masters
- Marconi : the man who networked the world
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe : the private life of a public icon
- Marilyn, the classic
- Martin Buber : a life of faith and dissent
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther : visionary reformer
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Maya Lin : thinking with her hands
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Melania and Michelle : first ladies in a new era
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Mengele : unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- Mensch-marks : life lessons of a human rabbi - wisdom for untethered times
- Mental : lithium, love, and losing my mind
- Miedo : Trump en la Casa Blanca
- Mighty Moe : the true story of a thirteen-year-old women's running revolutionary
- Mission : Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe
- Misty Copeland
- Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving
- Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Model woman : Eileen Ford and the business of beauty
- Monument maker : Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- Munch
- Muslim girls rise : inspirational champions of our time
- My First Life : Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet
- My family and other animals
- My father and Atticus Finch : a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama
- My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My grandfather would have shot me : a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past
- My journey to the stars
- My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
- My mother's kitchen : breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the meaning of life
- 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
- Never in finer company : the men of the Great War's lost battalion
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Neymar : a soccer dream come true
- Nina : jazz legend and civil-rights activist Nina Simone
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Ninita's big world : the true story of a deaf pygmy marmoset
- No quarter : the three lives of Jimmy Page
- No surrender : a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism
- No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Nostradamus : the illustrated prophecies : the new and authoritative translation to commemorate Nostradamus' 500th anniversary
- Not a game : the incredible rise and unthinkable fall of Allen Iverson
- Not bad for Delancey Street : the rise of Billy Rose
- O'Keeffe : the life of an American legend
- Obama : the call of history
- Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas
- Olivia de Havilland : lady triumphant
- On being human : a memoir of waking up, living real, and listening hard
- One fun day with Lewis Carroll : a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Orchestra of exiles : the story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the one thousand Jews he saved from Nazi horrors
- Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark
- Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet
- Our story : a memoir of love and life in China
- Pamela Colman Smith : the untold story