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- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 16 extraordinary African Americans
- 16 extraordinary Asian Americans
- 16 extraordinary young Americans
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 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
- 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 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
- A letter to Jo
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- 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 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
- Aaron Burr : portrait of an ambitious man
- trueAbandon me : memoirs
- Abigail Adams
- trueAbove the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- trueAbused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- African American healers
- trueAfter Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- trueAfter the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- 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 baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- trueBeastie Boys book
- trueBeatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- trueBeatrix Potter, scientist
- trueBeautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- 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
- trueBefore she was Harriet .[ compact disc and book set ]
- 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 tÍ¡sari-to nenastoiÍ¡ashchie! : nevydumannyÄ pamflet
- 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
- trueBillie Eilish
- trueBillie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- trueBillion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- trueBlack Elk : the life of an American visionary
- 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
- 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
- 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
- trueBourdain : the definitive oral biography
- trueBox : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- 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
- 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
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Lee
- trueBugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Builders of New England
- trueBush
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- Coretta Scott King
- trueCounting on Katherine
- trueCrave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail
- trueCrying in H Mart : a memoir
- trueDadland
- trueDance with demons : the life of Jerome Robbins
- trueDancing hands : how Teresa Carre©ło played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dancing through fields of color : the story of Helen Frankenthaler
- 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 was the night
- trueDarkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- 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
- trueDavid Hockney : the biography, 1937-1975 : a rake's progress
- Davy Crockett : defender of the Alamo
- 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
- trueDodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolores Huerta : advocate for women and workers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- trueEnemy 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
- 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 : artifacts from a life
- trueEsquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist . [compact disc and book set]
- trueEunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- trueEvery day is a gift : a memoir
- trueEverything is fine : a memoir
- trueEverything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- trueExquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- FDR's splendid deception
- trueFab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- trueFacing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- trueFamily history of fear : a memoir
- Fascinating : the life of Leonard Nimoy
- trueFaster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- trueFather of lions : one man's remarkable quest to save the Mosul Zoo
- trueFearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
- trueFearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- trueFinding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- trueFinding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- trueFinding home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- trueFirst founding father : Richard Henry Lee and the call to independence
- trueFirst in peace : how George Washington set the course for America
- trueFirst to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- trueFive days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- trueFlorence Griffith Joyner
- trueFlorence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
- trueFly 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
- trueFly high, John Glenn : the story of an American hero
- trueFor small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- trueFor the people : a story of justice and power
- trueFounding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- trueFrancis Bacon : revelations
- trueFrancis of Assisi : he who spoke with animals
- trueFrank & Ava : in love and war
- 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
- trueFrederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- trueFree, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freedom's teacher : the life of Septima Clark
- trueFrida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- trueFrom Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- 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
- trueGame changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi before India
- trueGehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- George Washington : the first president
- trueGeorge Washington Carver : a life
- trueGirls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business