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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "They wore the sash" : state regents serving the Florida State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 1894-2021
- 1 Recce : through stealth our strength
- 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
- 20 hrs. 40 min. : our flight in the Friendship : the American girl, first across the Atlantic by air, tells her story
- 25 mujeres que gobernaron
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 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 bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A Wrinkle in Time
- 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 death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- 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 GarcÃa 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 girl's story
- 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 feast : essays
- 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 hard kick in the nuts : what I've learned from a lifetime of terrible decisions
- A history of me
- 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 library for Juana : the world of Sor Juana Inés
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Picasso
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- 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 man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- 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 place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- 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 sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- 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 the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- 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 spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen -- America's most damaging Russian spy
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A story is to share : how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale
- A team of their own : how an international sisterhood made Olympic history
- 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 waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city
- 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 worthy piece of work : the untold story of Madeline Morgan and the fight for Black history in schools
- A year in the woods
- A year without a name
- A. Philip Randolph and the struggle for civil rights
- AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Copland
- 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
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abuela, don't forget me
- 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
- 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
- Adventurer : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova
- 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
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- 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
- 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
- Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- 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 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 : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- 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 tigers : a memoir
- 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
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- 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, a redemption story : choosing hope, creating unity
- 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 murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- 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 rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- 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 martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- 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
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- 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
- Animal allies : 15 amazing women in wildlife research
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- 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
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- 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
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- 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
- Bad sex : truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution
- 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
- Bandoola : the great elephant rescue
- Banksy : graffitied walls and wasn't sorry
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- 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 dreams
- Basketball's G.O.A.T. : Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and more
- 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
- Beating chains
- 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
- Because Claudette
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becky Sauerbrunn
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming Beatrix : the life of Beatrix Potter and the world of Peter Rabbit
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- 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 Thelma Lou : my journey to Hollywood, Mayberry, and beyond
- 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 Teddy Roosevelt was president
- 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