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- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5 elephants
- 5 giraffes
- 703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip : a Memoir of Seventh Grade
- A baby panda is born
- A ballerina's tale
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book of ages : an eccentric miscellany of great and offbeat moments in the lives of the famous and infamous, ages 1 to 100
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A dark history : the kings & queens of Europe : from medieval tyrants to mad monarchs
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A fossil-hunter's notebook : my life with dinosaurs and other friends
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A higher call
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A labor of love : an autobiography
- A life of my own
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York
- A royal romance : William & Kate
- A safe place : the story of a father, a son, a murder
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A severe mercy
- A simple path
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A three dog life
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- Abigail Adams and the women who shaped America
- Above and beyond : the aviation Medals of Honor
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abraham Lincoln, his life and public services
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Action presidents, #2, Abraham Lincoln!
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After My Lai : my year commanding first platoon, Charlie Company
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Pujols : a baseball star who cares
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : an American champion
- All about Stephen Hawking
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All gone : a memoir of my mother's dementia, with refreshments
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over but the shoutin'
- All things possible : setbacks and success in politics and life
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Amelia Earhart
- America is my neighborhood
- America's serial killers : portraits in evil
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American rhapsody : writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- And nothing but the truthiness : the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angel in aisle 3 : the true story of a mysterious vagrant, a convicted bank executive, and the unlikely friendship that saved both their lives
- Anger Is an energy : my life uncensored
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : her life
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Annie and Helen
- Ansel Adams
- Ariana Grande
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Artists, writers, and musicians : an encyclopedia of people who changed the world
- As they see 'em : a fan's travels in the land of umpires
- Ask me why I hurt : the kids nobody wants and the doctor who heals them
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Ayn Rand and the world she made
- B.S.I love you : sixty funny years with the famous and the infamous
- BAT-21 : based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. Hambleton, USAF
- Backbone : living with chronic pain without turning into one
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
- Battle ready : memoir of a SEAL warrior medic
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be the change : a grandfather Gandhi story
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatrix Potter & the unfortunate tale of a borrowed guinea pig
- Beautiful inside and out : conquering thyroid disease with a healthy, happy, "thyroid sexy" life
- Becoming
- Becoming Beyoncé : the untold story
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before I say goodbye : recollections and observations from one woman's final year
- Before she was Harriet
- Before the world was ready : stories of daring genius in science
- Before they were stars
- Being George Washington : the indispensable man, as you've never seen him
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Martha : the inside story of Martha Stewart and her amazing life
- Believer : my forty years in politics
- Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
- Ben Franklin : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32, To the future, Ben Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin's wise words : how to work smart, play well, and make real friends
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Bet the house : how I gambled over a grand a day for 30 days on sports, poker, and games of chance
- Bethany Hamilton
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between you and me : a memoir
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur
- Big Show
- Bill Clinton
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Birthright : the true story that inspired Kidnapped
- Black Elk's vision : a Lakota story
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Blood aces : the wild ride of Benny Binion, the Texas gangster who created Vegas poker
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Bono : the amazing story of a rescue cat who inspired a community
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born free, a lioness of two worlds
- Born to rule : five reigning consorts, granddaughters of Queen Victoria
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Both of us : my life with Farrah
- Bowie : a biography
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Branch Rickey
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Breaking the code : a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
- Brett Favre : the all-time leader
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Brinkley's beat : people, places, and events that shaped my time
- Broken on the back row : a journey through grace and forgiveness
- Brothers forever : the enduring bond between a Marine and a Navy SEAL that transcended their ultimate sacrifice
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- But enough about me : a memoir
- Byrd & Igloo : a polar adventure
- C.S. Lewis : a biography
- Call me American : a memoir
- Called out of darkness : a spiritual confession
- Carmelo Anthony
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Cat daddy : what the world's most incorrigible cat taught me about life, love, and coming clean
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Chart toppers : the great performers of popular music over the last 50 years
- Cherry : a memoir
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Chris Paul
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Christian the lion : based on the amazing and heartwarming true story
- Christmas from heaven : the true story of the Berlin candy bomber
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Chronicle of the Russian tsars : the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of imperial Russia
- Chronicle of the popes : the reign-by-reign record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the present
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil War spies
- Clara Bow : runnin' wild
- Claude Monet : the painter who stopped the trains
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cloud, wild stallion of the Rockies : a companion book to the program seen on public television's Nature series
- Code name "Zorro" : the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Colonial Jamestown
- Coming back stronger
- Coming home to myself
- Conan Doyle : portrait of an artist
- Confession of a serial killer : the untold story of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer
- Congressman Lincoln : the making of America's greatest president
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Coretta Scott King
- Cosby : his life and times
- Cosby : his life and times
- Courage under fire : true stories of bravery from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Cravings : how I conquered food : a memoir
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Critical care : a new nurse faces death, life, and everything in between
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crossing the borders of time : a true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed
- Dali
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dancing under the red star : the extraordinary story of Margaret Werner, the only American woman to survive Stalin's gulag
- Daring play : how a courageous Jackie Robinson transformed baseball
- Darwin
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Dav Pilkey : children's storyteller
- Day of fury : the story of the tragic shootings that forever changed the village of Winnetka
- De Niro : a biography
- Dead men do tell tales
- Deadly illusions : Jean Harlow and the murder of Paul Bern
- Deadly valentines : the story of Capone's henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, his blonde alibi
- Dear Mr. You
- Dear Mr. You
- Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
- Death in Gaza
- Death in the city of light : the serial killer of Nazi-occupied Paris
- Death of a King : the real story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final year
- Deep South : four seasons on back roads
- Deep Thoughts from a Hollywood Blonde
- Deep south : four seasons on back roads
- Defiant : the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned
- Deke! : U.S. manned space : from Mercury to the shuttle
- Delancey : a man, a woman, a restaurant, a marriage
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion and defiance : my journey in love, faith and politics
- Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
- Diary of a player : how my musical heroes made a guitar man out of me
- Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
- Different voices : women and the Holocaust
- Dizzy & Jimmy : my life with James Dean : a love story
- Doc Holliday : the life and legend
- Doctor to the Resistance : the heroic true story of an American surgeon and his family in occupied Paris
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't mind if I do
- Don't stop believin'
- Don't stop believin'
- Donald Trump
- Donner dinner party
- Donnie Brasco : my undercover life in the Mafia
- Dostoevsky
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down a sunny dirt road : an autobiography
- Down size : 12 truths for turning pants-splitting frustration into pants-fitting success
- Dreamers
- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Dwight Yoakam : a thousand miles from nowhere
- E.B. White : a biography
- Ed Sheeran
- Edward Hopper paints his world
- Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
- Einstein : his life and his universe
- Eisenhower : a life
- Eisenhower : a life
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a radical for woman's rights
- Elizabeth and Mary : cousins, rivals, queens
- Elizabeth leads the way : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the right to vote
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Ella : Queen of Jazz
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elvis : the story of the rock and roll King
- Elvis Presley : the searcher
- Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
- Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- Enchantment : the life of Audrey Hepburn
- Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall -- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Ernest Hemingway : a life story
- Ernie Pyle's war : America's eyewitness to World War II
- Escape
- Escape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West
- Escape points : a memoir
- Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
- Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history
- Every day I fight
- Every tool's a hammer : life is what you make it
- Everybody can help somebody
- Evil intentions : the story of how an act of kindness led to senseless murder
- Exit through the gift shop
- Exposing hidden worlds : how Jacob Riis' photos became tools for social reform
- Eyes to the wind : a memoir of love and death, hope, and resistance
- Falling to Earth : an Apollo 15 astronaut's journey
- Family secrets : the case that crippled the Chicago mob
- Fannie never flinched : one woman's courage in the struggle for American labor union rights
- Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
- Fashion climbing
- Fast girl : a life spent running from madness
- Fast into the night : a woman, her dogs, and their journey north on the Iditarod Trail
- Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
- Fearless flyer : Ruth Law and her flying machine
- Fido
- Fields of battle : Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the boys who went to war
- Fifty sides of the Beach Boys
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Find a way
- Finding Grace : a true story about losing your way in life-- and finding it again
- Finding it : and satisfying my hunger for life without opening the fridge
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Finding the bright side : the art of chasing what matters
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- Floodwaters and Flames : the 1913 Disaster in Dayton, Ohio
- Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale : the making of an icon
- Fly 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
- Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- Flying machines : how the Wright brothers soared
- Flyover lives : a memoir
- Football's greatest defenders
- Football's greatest receivers