BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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- Titans of history, the giants who made our world, Simon Sebag Montefiore ; with John Bew, Martyn Frampton, Dan Jones and Claudia Renton
- Differ we must, how Lincoln succeeded in a divided America, Steve Inskeep
- The house of Dudley, a new history of Tudor England, Joanne Paul
- On great fields, the life and unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Ronald C. White
- Goebbels, a biography, Peter Longerich ; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe
- The hundred-year walk, an Armenian odyssey, Dawn Anahid MacKeen
- Master slave husband wife, an epic journey from slavery to freedom, Ilyon Woo
- Reagan, the life, H.W. Brands
- First family, George Washington's heirs and the making of America, Cassandra A. Good
- Madam, the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age, Debby Applegate
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books, Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library, Edward Wilson-Lee
- The man in the willows, the life of Kenneth Grahame, Matthew Dennison
- From Germany to Germany, journal of the year, 1990, Günter Grass ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston
- Russian tattoo, a memoir, Elena Gorokhova
- Hunting the falcon, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe, John Guy and Julia Fox
- In the garden of the righteous, the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, Richard Hurowitz
- Mirrors of greatness, Churchill and the leaders who shaped him, David Reynolds
- A delayed life, the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz, Dita Kraus
- Flirting with danger, the mysterious life of Marguerite Harrison, socialite spy, Janet Wallach
- Glorious war, the Civil War adventures of George Armstrong Custer, Thom Hatch
- A woman of influence, the spectacular rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England, Vanessa Wilkie
- Evelyn Waugh, a life revisited, Philip Eade
- The Churchill sisters, the extraordinary lives of Winston and Clementine's daughters, Rachel Trethewey
- Michelle Obama, a photographic journey, introduction & text by Antonia Felix ; photo editor, Christopher Measom
- The Queen, her life, Andrew Morton
- Elizabeth Bishop, a miracle for breakfast, Megan Marshall
- Becoming Hitler, the making of a Nazi, Thomas Weber
- My friend Anne Frank, the inspiring and heartbreaking true story of best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds, Hannah Pick-Goslar with Dina Kraft
- James & Dolley Madison, America's first power couple, Bruce Chadwick
- The true believer, the secret life of Noel Field, Stalin's last American spy, Kati Marton
- William Penn, a life, Andrew R. Murphy
- Kennedy and King, the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights, Steven Levingston
- Son of the Old West, the odyssey of Charlie Siringo: cowboy, detective, writer of the wild frontier, Nathan Ward
- Our man in Tokyo, an American ambassador and the countdown to Pearl Harbor, Steve Kemper
- African samurai, the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan, Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard
- The diary of a young girl, the definitive edition, Anne Frank ; edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler ; translated by Susan Massotty
- This America of ours, Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the forgotten fight to save the wild, Nate Schweber
- Emperor of Rome, ruling the ancient Roman world, Mary Beard
- The counterfeit Countess, the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust, Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
- Mobituaries, great lives worth reliving, Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg ; illustrations by Mitch Butler
- The Bonanza King, John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West, Gregory Crouch
- Belle, the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice, Paula Byrne
- Sting-ray afternoons, a memoir, Steve Rushin
- Chasing the last laugh, Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour, Richard Zacks
- Rasputin, faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs, Douglas Smith
- Cross of snow, a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nicholas A. Basbanes
- Madam, the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age, Debby Applegate
- Ten Caesars, Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine, Barry Strauss
- Flee north, a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland, Scott Shane
- Messalina, empress, adulteress, libertine : the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world, Honor Cargill-Martin