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- '85 : the greatest team in football history
- --if you lived at the time of the American Revolution
- --if you lived at the time of the Civil War
- 100 million years of food : what our ancestors ate and why it matters today
- 101 things you thought you knew about the Titanic-- but didn't!
- 11 in '11 : a hometown hero, La Russa's last ride in red, and a miracle World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals
- 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
- 1621 : a new look at Thanksgiving
- 1635 : the papal stakes
- 17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 1776
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1883 : a Yellowstone origin story
- 1920 : the year that made the decade roar
- 1944 : FDR and the year that changed history
- 1944 : FDR and the year that changed history
- 1969 : the year everything changed
- 20 fun facts about auto racing
- 20 fun facts about the gold rush
- 2019 Game on! : the only gaming annual you need!
- 20th century flashbacks, The space race, 1957-1975
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 50 animals that have been to space
- 50 great American places : essential historic sites across the U.S.
- 50 things you should know about American presidents
- 67 shots : Kent State and the end of American innocence
- A Bride for Noah
- A Christmas grace
- A Christmas grace : a novel
- A Christmas homecoming
- A Christmas prayer : a cross-country journey in 1850 leads to high mountain danger and romance
- A Fianče's guide to first wives and murder
- A German requiem
- A Quilt for Christmas
- A beauty so rare
- A big day for baseball
- A blaze of glory : [a novel of the Battle of Shiloh]
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bond never broken
- A bound heart
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A breath of hope
- A breath of snow and ashes
- A bride in the bargain
- A brief history of creation : science and the search for the origin of life
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A burnable book
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A century of music : Peoria symphony orchestra, 1897-1997
- A circle of elephants
- A civil issue
- A column of fire
- A column of fire
- A column of fire
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A constellation of vital phenomena : a novel
- A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906
- A crazy day with cobras
- A dangerous business
- A dangerous collaboration
- A daring venture
- A dark history : the kings & queens of Europe : from medieval tyrants to mad monarchs
- A darker sea : Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 : a novel
- A daughter's inheritance
- A daughter's inheritance
- A day long to be remembered : Lincoln in Gettysburg
- A day to pick your own cotton
- A deal with the devil : the dark and twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history
- A death in Live Oak
- A devious death
- A devious death
- A distance too grand
- A fierce radiance : a novel
- A first-class catastrophe : the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
- A gentleman in Moscow
- A gentlewoman's guide to murder
- A ghost tale for Christmas time
- A gift for Mama
- A girl in three parts
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good night for ghosts
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guide book of United States type coins : a complete history and price guide for the collector and investor : copper, nickel, silver, gold
- A heart full of hope
- A heart's disguise
- A heart's disguise
- A heart's home
- A heart's home
- A higher call
- A history of America in ten strikes
- A history of France
- A history of Judaism
- A history of South Africa
- A history of marriage : from same sex unions to private vows and common law, the surprising diversity of a tradition
- A history of the Amish
- A history of warfare
- A hope divided
- A hopeful heart
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A journey through philosophy in 101 anecdotes
- A journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple
- A kids' guide to the American Revolution
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A lady in disguise : a novel
- A lady like Sarah : a Rocky Creek romance
- A lady like sarah : a rocky creek romance
- A lady's guide to etiquette and murder
- A lady's guide to gossip and murder
- A lifelong passion : Nicholas and Alexandra : their own story
- A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin
- A long petal of the sea : a novel
- A long petal of the sea : a novel
- A long walk to water : a novel
- A longer fall
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A man with a past
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of character
- A matter of character : a novel
- A mercy
- A mission to Paris : a novel
- A morbid taste for bones
- A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910
- A nice little place on the North Side : Wrigley Field at one hundred
- A night divided
- A note yet unsung
- A people's history of the United States
- A perilous proposal : novel
- A place called freedom
- A place to belong
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A poison dark and drowning
- A question of power : electricity and the wealth of nations
- A quilt for Christmas
- A reliable wife : a novel
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A rising man
- A rogue of my own
- A royal pain
- A savage war : a military history of the Civil War
- 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 shot in the arm!
- A single thread
- A single thread
- A slant of light : a novel
- A soldier returns : a western story
- A sovereign people : the crises of the 1790s and the birth of American nationalism
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- 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 squirrelly situation
- A star for Mrs. Blake
- A sunless sea : a William Monk novel
- A surrendered heart
- A sweet smell of roses
- A tale of two murders
- A tale of two murders : guilt, innocence, and the execution of Edith Thompson
- A tender hope
- A terrible thing to waste : environmental racism and its assault on the American mind
- A thief in the theater
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A timeline of fighter jets and bomber planes
- A timeline of guns, missiles, and rockets
- A timeline of helicopters
- A timeline of tanks and other armored vehicles
- A timeline of warships
- A to Z : how writing changed the world
- A traitor's tears
- A treacherous curse
- A treasury of Civil War tales
- A warrior's heart
- A whale in Paris : how it happened that Chantal Duprey befriended a whale during the Second World War and helped liberate France
- A whisper of peace : a novel
- A woman called Sage : a novel
- A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to Washington and changed the nation
- A world on fire : Britain's crucial role in the American Civil War
- Abigail Adams and the women who shaped America
- Above and beyond : the aviation Medals of Honor
- Abracadabra : the story of magic through the ages
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy
- Absolution by murder : a Sister Fidelma mystery
- Acceptable loss : a William Monk novel
- Accidental archaeologists : true stories of unexpected discoveries
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Across the tracks : remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
- Across the wide dark sea : the mayflower journey
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Adam of the road
- Administrations of lunacy : racism and the haunting of American psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
- African American lives
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After the fall : being American in the world we've made
- Against a brightening sky
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agincourt
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Airman
- Airplanes from then to now
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capone and his American boys : memoirs of a mobster's wife
- Al Capone does my shirts
- Al Capone shines my shoes
- Alaska
- Alex and Eliza : a love story
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali & Nino
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alice by heart
- All about baseball
- All about basketball
- All about earthquakes : discovering how Earth moves and shakes
- All about hurricanes : discovering Earth's wildest storms
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All for a sister
- All for one
- All gone : things that aren't there anymore
- All in a day's work : seventy-five years of Caterpillar
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
- All she left behind
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the Presidents' gardens : Madison's cabbages to Kennedy's roses : how the White House grounds have grown with America
- All the broken places
- All the devils are here : the hidden history of the financial crisis
- All the light we cannot see
- All the light we cannot see
- All the light we cannot see : a novel
- All the lives we never lived : a novel
- All things hidden
- All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah
- Allies
- Allingham : Canyon Diablo
- Alone in Berlin
- Along a storied trail
- Along the wall and watchtowers : a journey down Germany's divide
- Amazing grace
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
- America : the story of us
- America in the twenties : a history
- America rock
- America's Black founders : revolutionary heroes and early leaders : with 21 activities
- America's bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve
- America's first families : an inside view of 200 years of private life in the White House
- America's pastor : Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation
- America's serial killers : portraits in evil
- America's tea parties : not one but four! : Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia
- American Indian women
- American Judaism : a history
- American Revolution
- American Revolution
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American dialogue : the founders and us
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American experience, Freedom riders
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American gospel : God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation
- American history
- American history : the New York Public Library book of answers
- American messiahs : false prophets of a damned nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American republics : a continental history of the United States, 1783-1850
- American serial killers : the epidemic years 1950-2000
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American spy : a novel
- American will : the forgotten choices that changed our republic
- Americanon : an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books
- Amy Snow
- An A to Z of ancient Egypt
- An American in Paris : the musical
- An American story
- An American tail
- An Irish country Christmas
- An album of memories : personal histories from the greatest generation
- An assassin's guide to love & treason
- An atlas of geographical wonders : from mountaintops to riverbeds : a selection of comparative maps and tableaux
- An echo in the bone : a novel
- An echo in the darkness
- An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
- An illustrated history of the popes : Saint Peter to John Paul II
- An impartial witness
- An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people
- An unconditional freedom
- An unexpected love
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egypt : kingdom of the Pharaohs
- Ancient Greece : birthplace of democracy
- Ancient Rome
- Ancient evenings
- And I darken
- And I darken
- And after the fire : a novel
- And the band played on
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And we rise : the Civil Rights Movement in poems
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angels of North County
- Animals go to war : from dogs to dolphins
- Animals on the trail with Lewis and Clark
- Animation
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna Strong and the Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anna's crossing : an Amish beginnings novel
- Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
- Anne Frank
- Anne of Green Gables
- Anne's kindred spirits
- Annelies
- Anonymous
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Anthem
- Antitrust : taking on monopoly power from the gilded age to the digital age
- Apache lament
- Apocalypse '45
- Apollo's angels : a history of ballet
- Architectural excellence : 500 iconic buildings
- Archive 17 : a novel of suspense
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- Area 51 : the revealing truth of UFOs, secret aircraft, cover-ups & conspiracies
- Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
- Armed in America : a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry
- Armenia
- Arms of Nemesis
- Art : a visual history
- Art and beauty in the heartland : the story of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony at Oregon, Illinois, 1898-1942
- As sure as the dawn
- Ashes
- Ashes in the snow
- Asylum light : stories from the Dr. George A. Zeller era and beyond; Peoria State Hospital, Galesburg mental health center, and George A. Zeller Mental Health center
- At home with Illinois Governors : a social history of the Illinois Executive Mansion, 1855-2003
- At love's command
- Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories
- Atlantic Ocean : the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the world
- Atlas of weapons and war
- Atomic Blonde
- Atomic adventures : secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear science
- Atomic love
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Auma's long run
- Austria
- Auto America : car culture 1950s-1970s
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Away : a novel
- Aztec and Maya : an illustrated history
- Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
- Bad days in history : a gleefully grim chronicle of misfortune, mayhem, and misery for every day of the year
- Bad girls never say die
- Bahamas
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballard : the great American single shot rifle
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balto of the Blue Dawn
- Band of angels
- Banned book club
- Barbarians rising
- Barbed wire baseball
- Barbie all dolled up : celebrating 50 years of Barbie
- Barefoot dreams of Petra Luna
- Barn find road trip : 3 guys, 14 days and 1,000 lost collector cars discovered
- Barns of Illinois
- Baseball history for kids : America at bat from 1900 to today with 19 activities
- Baseball then to wow!
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Baseball, Tenth inning
- Basketball greats
- Basketball shoes, shorts, and style
- Basketball teams by the numbers
- Battle flag
- Battles of the Revolutionary War
- Battleships : United States battleships, 1935-1992
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be careful what you wish for
- Be careful what you wish for
- Be careful what you wish for
- Bear's boys
- Beast : blood, struggle and dreams at the heart of mixed martial arts
- Beatrice and Benedick
- Beautiful creatures
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Beheld : a novel
- Behemoth : a history of the factory and the making of the modern world
- Bell's Star
- Bellewether
- Beloved poison
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds