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- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : [a memoir]
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 'You must remember this--' : popular songwriters 1900-1980
- --and a hard rain fell : a GI's true story of the war in Vietnam
- 10 feet tall and bulletproof
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 most popular genre fiction authors : biographical sketches and bibliographies
- 100 women who shaped world history
- 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- 1185 Park Avenue : a memoir
- 14 cows for America
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 23 days in July : inside Lance Armstrong's record-breaking Tour de France victory
- 24 years of House work-- and the place is still a mess : my life in politics
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 29 gifts : how a month of giving can change your life
- 32 third graders and one class bunny : life lessons from teaching
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5 elephants
- 5 giraffes
- 501 great artists
- 501 great writers
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 700 Sundays
- 703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 9 1/2 narrow : my life in shoes
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Caldecott celebration : six artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip : a Memoir of Seventh Grade
- A Jew today
- A Little House sampler
- A Methodist circuit rider on the Illinois frontier in the 1830's and his later history
- A New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A Perfect Union : Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
- A Rockwell portrait: : an intimate biography
- A Tolkien treasury : stories, poems, and illustrations celebrating the author and his world
- A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II
- A baby panda is born
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- 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 and a jaguar
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A brief history of time
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- 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 century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A charge to keep : my journey to the White House
- A charmed life : growing up in Macbeth's castle
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales : and five poems
- A child's journey out of autism : one family's story of living in hope and finding a cure
- A circle of sisters : Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A country practice : scenes from the veterinary life
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A dark history : the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to the fall of Rome erial Rome
- A dark history : the kings & queens of Europe : from medieval tyrants to mad monarchs
- A dash of daring : Carmel Snow and her life in fashion, art, and letters
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog called hope : the Special Forces wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream is a wish your heart makes : my story
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A fever in the heart : and other true cases
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A first-class temperament : the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A fool's gold : a story of ancient Spanish treasure, two pounds of pot, and the young lawyer almost left holding the bag
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A fossil-hunter's notebook : my life with dinosaurs and other friends
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A friend called Anne : one girl's story of war, peace, and a unique friendship with Anne Frank
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future-- : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A general's life : an autobiography
- 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 girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A golfer's life
- A good enough daughter : a memoir
- A good life wasted, or, Twenty years as a fishing guide
- 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 heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A higher call
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of early Carbondale, Illinois, 1852-1905
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A journey : my political life
- A journey : my political life
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kind of grace : the autobiography of the world's greatest female athlete
- A knight of another sort : Prohibition days and Charlie Birger
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A labor of love : an autobiography
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A land of big dreamers : voices of courage in America
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in our times : memoirs
- A life in parts
- A life in the twentieth century : innocent beginnings, 1917-1950
- A life of Picasso, Vol. 3, Triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A life of my own
- A life wild and perilous : mountain men and the paths to the Pacific
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A light that never goes out : the enduring saga of the Smiths
- A likely story : one summer with Lillian Hellman
- A lion called Christian
- A little bit wicked : (life, love, and faith in stages)
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A little revenge : Benjamin Franklin and his son
- A little tiger in the Chinese night : an autobiography in art
- A little too close to God : the thrills and panic of a life in modern Israel
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A look over my shoulder : a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the SS United States
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man named Pearl
- A man of honor : the autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of letters
- A man of salt and trees : the life of Joy Morton
- A man without a country
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A match made in Hell : the Jewish boy and the Polish outlaw who defied the Nazis
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband, Danny Pearl
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A monk swimming : a memoir
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
- 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 natural woman : a memoir
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A paper life
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A picture book of Sacagawea
- A picture book of Sam Houston
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called Waco : a survivor's story
- A place in the country
- 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 promised land
- A promised land
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A question of character : a life of John F. Kennedy
- A question of choice
- A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A remarkable woman : a biography of Katharine Hepburn
- A reporter's life
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A royal duty
- A royal romance : William & Kate
- A rumor of war
- A safe place : the story of a father, a son, a murder
- A season for justice : the life and times of civil rights lawyer Morris Dees
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A season on the brink : a year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A secret gift : [how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression]
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A secret life : the lies and scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- A severe mercy
- A simple path
- A single step : a memoir
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A skating life
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- A small town near Auschwitz : ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A special fate : Chiune Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spoonful of sugar : a memoir
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy at the heart of the Third Reich : the extraordinary story of Fritz Kolbe, America's most important spy in World War II
- 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 spy's journey : a CIA memoir
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A story of God and all of us : a novel based on the epic TV miniseries The Bible
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A tale of love and darkness
- A thousand days of magic : dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- 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 time to heal : the autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A treasury of the great children's book illustrators
- A truck full of money
- A useful woman : the early life of Jane Addams
- A vanished world : medieval Spain's golden age of enlightenment
- A victor, not a butcher : Ulysses S. Grant's overlooked military genius
- A view from a broad
- A voice named Aretha
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A walk across America
- A walk toward Oregon : a memoir
- A walk with Jane Austen : a journey into adventure, love, and faith
- A wedding in Haiti : the story of a friendship
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wild idea
- A will for the woods
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman at war : storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
- A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman named Jackie
- 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 woman's story of pioneer Illinois
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- A-Rod : the many lives of Alex Rodriguez
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- A. Lincoln, the crucible of Congress
- A.J. Styles : the phenomenal one
- ABBA forever : the winner takes it all
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Rodgers : Super Bowl MVP
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln goes to Washington, 1837-1865
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : a biography
- Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
- Abigail Adams and the women who shaped America
- About Alice
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mom to her dirty son
- Above and beyond
- Above and beyond : the aviation Medals of Honor
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham : the first historical biography
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a courageous leader
- Abraham Lincoln : a life
- Abraham Lincoln : from pioneer to president
- Abraham Lincoln : our 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln : our sixteenth president
- Abraham Lincoln : the great emancipator
- Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America : a biography
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abraham Lincoln, his life and public services
- Abraham Lincoln, the boy, the man
- Abraham Lincoln, the man behind the myths
- Abraham Lincoln, the writer : a treasury of his greatest speeches and letters
- Accardo : the genuine godfather
- Accidental branding : how ordinary people build extraordinary brands
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Acheson : the Secretary of State who created the American world
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acquainted with the night : a parent's quest to understand depression and bipolar disorder in his children
- Across Spoon River : an autobiography
- Across the Great Divide : Robert Stuart and the discovery of the Oregon Trail
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action presidents, #1, George Washington!
- Action presidents, #2, Abraham Lincoln!
- Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada, a life and a legacy
- Adele
- Adele
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Adele : the biography
- Adlai Stevenson : his life and legacy
- Admiral Arleigh Burke
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Adventures of a psychic : the fascinating and inspiring true-life story of one of America's most successful clairvoyants
- Adventures with the Buddha : a personal Buddhism reader
- African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan