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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- 14 cows for America
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- 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 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 bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- 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 commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A fever in the heart : and other true cases
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future-- : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- 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 kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A lifelong passion : Nicholas and Alexandra : their own story
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- 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 most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A promised land
- A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A royal duty
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- 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 stolen life : a memoir
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A voice named Aretha
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : our 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Abraham Lincoln, the writer : a treasury of his greatest speeches and letters
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After all
- After life : answers from the other side
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All in : an autobiography
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All over but the shoutin'
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always remember me : how one family survived World War II
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Amanda Gorman
- Amanda Gorman : poet & activist
- 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 : first woman over the Atlantic
- America's first families : an inside view of 200 years of private life in the White House
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert southwest
- 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 sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American terrorist : Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City bombing
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- And furthermore
- And nothing but the truthiness : the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And you know you should be glad : a true story of lifelong friendship
- Andrew Jackson : our 7th president
- Andrew Johnson : our 17th president
- 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
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- Ann-Margret : my story
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Are you a scientist?
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aretha Franklin
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- At first light : a true World War II story of a hero, his bravery, and an amazing horse
- Audition : a memoir
- Ava's man
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Ayn Rand and the world she made
- Babe Ruth saves baseball
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balto and the great race
- Banksy : graffitied walls and wasn't sorry
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : our 44th president
- Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barbra : the way she is
- 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 greats
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be amazing : a history of pride
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming sister wives : the story of an unconventional marriage
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- 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 they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Benjamin Harrison : our 23rd president
- Betsey. : a memoir
- Betsy Ross and the U.S. flag : separating fact from fiction
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur
- Beyond band of brothers
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Big Apple diaries
- Big top burning : the story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on Earth
- Bill Clinton
- Billie
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Eilish
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- Birthright : the true story that inspired Kidnapped
- Black artists shaping the world
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- Bloodsworth : the true story of the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA
- Bloom : a memoir
- Blue nights
- Bob Dylan in America : featuring music by Bob Dylan and the artists who inspired him
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bogart
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Book of honor : covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- Born ready : the true story of a boy named Penelope
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Born to rule : five reigning consorts, granddaughters of Queen Victoria
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Bowie : a biography
- Boxing's G.O.A.T: : Muhammad Ali, Manny Pacquiao, and more
- Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brando : songs my mother taught me
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave enough
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breaking the code : a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
- Brian Wilson : long promised road
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Bringing down the house : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years
- Brothers in arms : a true World War II story of Wojtek the bear and the soldiers who loved him
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- C.S. Lewis : a biography
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Callgirl
- Calvin Coolidge : our 30th president
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Carl Sandburg
- Carmelo Anthony
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Champions of flight, Clayton Knight and William Heaslip : artists who chronicled aviation from the Great War to victory in WWII
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Chart toppers : the great performers of popular music over the last 50 years
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president
- Chester A. Arthur : our 21st president
- Chicken soup for the soul celebrating people who make a difference
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Christopher Columbus and the Americas : separating fact from fiction
- 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
- Chuck Berry : an American life
- Chunky
- Churchill & son
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Cicero : the life and times of Rome's greatest politician
- Civil War spies
- Clara Bow : runnin' wild
- Clara Lemlich
- Clark Gable : a biography
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Clever Hans : the true story of the counting, adding, and time-telling horse
- Clever maids : the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales
- Cloud, wild stallion of the Rockies : a companion book to the program seen on public television's Nature series
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code makers & code breakers
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Columbine
- Comeback kids : three animals who overcame the impossible
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Composed : a memoir
- Conan Doyle : portrait of an artist
- Concussion
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Congressman Lincoln : the making of America's greatest president
- Conversations with Scorsese
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting the stars
- Courage and consequence : my life as a conservative in the fight
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir of a crime
- Dark hearts : the world's most famous horror writers
- Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
- Dark was the night
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Dav Pilkey : children's storyteller
- David Brinkley : 11 presidents, 4 wars, 22 political conventions, 1 moon landing, 3 assassinations, 2,000 weeks of news and other stuff on television and 18 years of growing up in North Carolina
- Davy Crockett
- Day of fury : the story of the tragic shootings that forever changed the village of Winnetka
- Days of grace : a memoir
- De Niro : a biography
- Dead lucky : life after death on Mount Everest
- Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States
- 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 girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Death in the city of light : the serial killer of Nazi-occupied Paris
- Deep south : four seasons on back roads
- Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South
- Defiant : the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned
- Degas : painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Denali : a man, a dog, and the friendship of a lifetime
- Destined to die young
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Detroit : an American autopsy
- Dewey the library cat : a true story
- Diamond Doris : the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from the legendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Dirty daddy : the chronicles of a family man turned filthy comedian
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- 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
- Does the noise in my head bother you? : [a rock 'n' roll memoir]
- Dolly Parton
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : our 45th president
- Dostoevsky
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dovey undaunted : a black woman breaks barriers in the law, the military, and the ministry
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel : a biography
- Dream big, little one
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Dry
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage