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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- 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
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 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 boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- 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 computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- 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 is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A lifelong passion : Nicholas and Alexandra : their own story
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- 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 mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- 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 season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- 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 spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A voice named Aretha
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A wild idea
- 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
- A.J. Styles : the phenomenal one
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : our 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abraham Lincoln, the writer : a treasury of his greatest speeches and letters
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Ada Lovelace
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After all
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- 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 Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British 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
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Albert Pujols : a baseball star who cares
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- 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 across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- 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 over but the shoutin'
- 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 frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All there is : love stories from StoryCorps
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on Murderers' Row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Aly Raisman
- Amanda Gorman
- Amanda Gorman : poet & activist
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : first woman over the Atlantic
- 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 Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- 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 daughter : a memoir
- American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert southwest
- 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 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 spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American terrorist : Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City bombing
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- 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 Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson : our 17th president
- Andy Warhol
- 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
- 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
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- Ann-Margret : my story
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Ansty Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Are you a scientist?
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- 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
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Ayn Rand and the world she made
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- 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
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra : the way she is
- Barkley : a biography
- 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
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be amazing : a history of pride
- 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
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Because Claudette
- Becoming Beyoncé : the untold story
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Becoming sister wives : the story of an unconventional marriage
- 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 and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before the world was ready : stories of daring genius in science
- 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
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Benjamin Harrison : our 23rd president
- Bethany Hamilton
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big top burning : the story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on Earth
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billy Joel : the life & times of an angry young man
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- Birthright : the true story that inspired Kidnapped
- Black artists shaping the world
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- 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
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bogart
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Book of honor : covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- Born ready : the true story of a boy named Penelope
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to rule : five reigning consorts, granddaughters of Queen Victoria
- Bowie : a biography
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave hearted : the women of the American west 1836-1880
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breaking the code : a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
- 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
- Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers in arms : a true World War II story of Wojtek the bear and the soldiers who loved him
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Bush
- 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
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Calvin Coolidge : our 30th president
- Canyon dreams : a basketball season on the Navajo Nation
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carl Sandburg
- Carmelo Anthony
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- 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
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- 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
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Flair : bow to your queen
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- 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 flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- 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
- Churchill & son
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- 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
- Claude Monet : he saw the world in a brilliant light
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- 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
- 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
- Commander in cheat : how golf explains Trump
- 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
- Control freak : my epic adventures making video games
- Conversations with Scorsese
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Crash override : how Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crazy Horse and Custer : born enemies
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.