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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
- 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 bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- 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 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 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 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 made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A narrative of the early days and remembrances of Oceola Nikkanochee, prince of Econchatti
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- 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 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 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 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
- 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's dueling words
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Keys : singer-songwriter
- All about Benjamin Franklin
- All about Helen Keller
- 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 a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- 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 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
- 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 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 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 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
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- 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
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Ariana Grande
- Ariana Grande
- Armstrong
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Arthur Ashe
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress, 1900-2017
- 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
- BARTALI'S BICYCLE : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bad medicine : catching New York's deadliest pill pusher
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- 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
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- 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
- 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 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
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benedict XVI : a life, Volume I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Bessie Coleman : first female African American and Native American pilot
- 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 : pop star
- Beyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
- 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 : the American presidents
- Bill Gates
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- 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, 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 Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- 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 radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Blood, sweat, & tears : Jake Gaither, Florida A & M, and the history of Black college football
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Bonnie and Clyde : notorious outlaws of the Great Depression
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Borges and me : an encounter
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born criminal : Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical suffragist
- Born to be king : Prince Charles on planet Windsor
- 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 swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Brand empire celebrities
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking the ice
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond : the story of rock's greatest manager
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Mars
- Bruno Mars
- Bryce Harper
- Bryce Harper : baseball star
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
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- CODE BREAKER, SPY HUNTER : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Called for life : how loving our neighbor led us into the heart of the Ebola epidemic
- Calvin Coolidge
- Cam Newton
- Cam Newton : football star
- Camila Cabello : pop and r&b singer
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Capital dames : the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868
- Capital days : Michael Shiner's journal and the growth of our nation's capital
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Cardi B
- Carli Lloyd
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Underwood
- Carson Wentz
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Cassius X : the transformation of Muhammad Ali
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Cesar Chavez
- Cezanne
- Chance the Rapper
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Drew : distinguished surgeon and blood researcher
- Charles Schulz
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Brontë : 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
- Chernobylʹskai͡a molitva : khronika budushchego
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music