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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 10 true tales, Vietnam War heroes
- 10 true tales, War heroes : voices from Iraq
- 10 true tales, World War II heroes
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 25 mujeres que gobernaron
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 50 artists you should know
- 50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- 50 trailblazers of the 50 states : celebrate the lives of inspiring people who paved the way from every state in America!
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A SPY IN PLAIN SIGHT : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen--America's most damaging Russian spy
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A burning in my bones : the authorized biography of Eugene Peterson
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D.R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- A journey with Christopher Columbus
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Picasso
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A narrative of the early days and remembrances of Oceola Nikkanochee, prince of Econchatti
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A royal ride : Catherine the Great's great invention
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A year in the woods
- A year without a name
- A. Philip Randolph and the struggle for civil rights
- ADVENTURER : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova
- ALL STAR : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- ANNA : the biography
- AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Admiral Hyman Rickover : engineer of power
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African-American history makers collection : readers that grow with you : 4 books in one!
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- Alicia Keys : singer-songwriter
- All about Benjamin Franklin
- All about Martin Luther King, Jr.
- All about Stephen Hawking
- All about Steve Wozniak
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Along came Coco : a story about Coco Chanel
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always inventing : a photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman
- Amazing women
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- Amelia Earhart : the truth at last : propaganda versus fact in the disappearance of America's first lady of flight
- America, border culture dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- American Daredevil : comics, communism, and the battles of Lev Gleason
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- 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
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden
- An admiral's yarn
- An improbable friendship : the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission
- An invisible thread
- And I paint it : Henriette Wyeth's world
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angelina Jolie
- 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
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Annie Easley
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different
- Anthony Davis
- Antonio Brown
- Antonio Brown : football star
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Ariana Grande
- Ariana Grande
- Armstrong
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Arthur Ashe
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Ashoka the fierce : how an angry prince became India's emperor of peace
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- Astronauts
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Autumn
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Ayah Bdeir
- BECAUSE OUR FATHERS LIED : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bad medicine : catching New York's deadliest pill pusher
- Bad motherfucker : the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Banksy : graffitied walls and wasn't sorry
- Barack Obama
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barnum : an American life
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Basketball's greatest nicknames : Chocolate Thunder, Spoon, The Brow, and more!
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Becky Sauerbrunn
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Madison : the extraordinary origins of the least likely founding father
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Before they were stars
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind the bookcase : Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benedict XVI : a life, Volume I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin's last bet : the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity
- Bessie Coleman
- Bessie Coleman : bold pilot who gave women wings
- Bessie Coleman : first female African American and Native American pilot
- Best seat in the house : 18 golden lessons from a father to his son
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton : the American presidents
- Bill Gates
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Eilish
- 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
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Billy the Kid : a notorious gunfighter of the Wild West
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Biographical directory of the United States Congress
- Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, inclusive
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Biz Mackey, a giant behind the plate : the story of the Negro league star and Hall of Fame catcher
- Black American history for dummies
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black artists shaping the world
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- Black diamond queens : African American women and rock and roll
- Black firsts : 500 years of trailblazing achievements and ground-breaking events
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who survived slavery and became millionaires
- Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black women in science : a black history book for kids
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir