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- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York
- A severe mercy
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- About Alice
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- And nothing but the truthiness : the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Ann-Margret : my story
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Artists, writers, and musicians : an encyclopedia of people who changed the world
- At first light : a true World War II story of a hero, his bravery, and an amazing horse
- B.S.I love you : sixty funny years with the famous and the infamous
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barbra : the way she is
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Battle ready : memoir of a SEAL warrior medic
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between you and me : a memoir
- Birthright : the true story that inspired Kidnapped
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Bogart
- Born to rule : five reigning consorts, granddaughters of Queen Victoria
- Bowie : a biography
- Byrd & Igloo : a polar adventure
- Chart toppers : the great performers of popular music over the last 50 years
- Chronicle of the popes : the reign-by-reign record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the present
- Churchill & son
- Clara Bow : runnin' wild
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Composed : a memoir
- Concussion
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Congressman Lincoln : the making of America's greatest president
- Darwin
- Day of fury : the story of the tragic shootings that forever changed the village of Winnetka
- De Niro : a biography
- Dead lucky : life after death on Mount Everest
- 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
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dostoevsky
- Eisenhower
- Eleanor
- Elephant man
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a radical for woman's rights
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Every day in Tuscany : seasons of an Italian life
- First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
- Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- Frank : the voice
- Friends for freedom : the Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Goebbels : a biography
- Golden : how Rod Blagojevich talked himself out of the governor's office and into prison
- Grateful American : a journey from self to service
- Greatest moments in women's sports
- Growing up Pedro
- Gutenberg
- Hang time : days and dreams with Michael Jordan
- Heroes of history
- Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- His oldest friend : the story of an unlikely bond across generations
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hitler and Stalin : the tyrants and the Second World War
- Hollywood animal : a memoir
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- Hunters : U.S. snipers in the War on Terror
- I am Amelia Earhart
- I am Gandhi
- I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I could do that : Esther Morris gets women the vote
- I'll stand by you : one woman's mission to heal the children of the world
- I'm glad my mom died
- I'm hosting as fast as I can! : Zen and the art of staying sane in Hollywood
- Ice : a memoir of gangster life and redemption-- from South Central to Hollywood
- In search of a kingdom : Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
- Incomparable grace : JFK in the presidency
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Jackie's girl : my life with the Kennedy family
- Keep on! : the story of Matthew Henson, co-discoverer of the North Pole
- King of fools
- Knowing Mandela : a personal portrait
- Ladies on the loose : women travellers of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Lady Bird Johnson : an oral history
- Lee--the last years
- Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust
- Let's play two : the legend of Mr. Cub, the life of Ernie Banks
- Life
- Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
- Life is so good
- Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy
- Lifelines : famous contemporaries from 600 B.C. to 1975
- Living history
- Louis Braille
- Louisa May Alcott : the woman behind Little women
- Love and hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart of a new nation
- Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods
- Madhouse at the end of the Earth : the Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night
- May and Amy : a true story of family, forbidden love, and the secret lives of May Gaskell, her daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
- Me & Patsy, kickin' up dust : my friendship with Patsy Cline
- Michelle Obama : first lady of hope
- Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature
- No regrets : the life of Edith Piaf
- Old Tippecanoe : William Henry Harrison and his time
- One breath : freediving, death, and the quest to shatter human limits
- Operation Valkyrie : the German generals' plot against Hitler
- Orphan trains : the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed
- Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
- Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls
- Pearl S. Buck : a biography
- Pure joy : the dogs we love
- Putting the rabbit in the hat : a memoir
- Quivers
- Reaching for the moon
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Refined by fire : a family's triumph of love and faith : a soldier's story of 9-11
- Respect : the life of Aretha Franklin
- Rothstein : the life, times, and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 World Series
- Sacred honor : a biography of Colin Powell
- Saddam's secrets : how an Iraqi general defied and survived Saddam Hussein
- Sally Ride : America's first woman in space
- Sam Walton, made in America : my story
- Schindler's legacy : true stories of the list survivors
- Schulz and Peanuts : a biography
- Sergeant Reckless : the true story of the little horse who became a hero
- Slow dancing with a stranger : lost and found in the age of Alzheimer's
- Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope
- Sonic wind : the story of John Paul Stapp and how a renegade doctor became the fastest man on Earth
- Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Speed kings : the 1932 Winter Olympics and the fastest men in the world
- Spies : a narrative encyclopedia of dirty deeds and double dealing from biblical times to today
- Spy fiction : a connoisseur's guide
- St. Joseph's children : a true story of terror and justice
- Star : how Warren Beatty seduced America
- Steve Jobs : the man who thought different : a biography
- Suni Lee
- Swerve or die : life at my speed in the first family of NASCAR racing
- Taste : my life through food
- Temptations
- Ten years later : six people who faced adversity and transformed their lives
- The Mad Bomber of New York : the extraordinary true story of the manhunt that paralyzed a city
- The Mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The Obamas
- The Wright Brothers
- The adventures of Marco Polo
- The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights
- The anti-romantic child : a story of unexpected joy
- The art of her deal : the untold story of Melania Trump
- The autobiography of Mark Twain
- The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir
- The bite in the apple : a memoir of my life with Steve Jobs
- The book of eulogies : a collection of memorial tributes, poetry, essays, and letters of condolence
- The boy who came back from heaven : a remarkable account of miracles, angels, and life beyond this world
- The boys : a memoir of Hollywood and family
- The bullfighter checks her makeup : my encounters with extraordinary people
- The complete Patricia Cornwell companion
- The day John died
- The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice
- The football book
- The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
- The good spy : the life and death of Robert Ames
- The investigator : fifty years of uncovering the truth
- The invisible wall : a love story that broke barriers
- The killer of little shepherds : a true crime story and the birth of forensic science
- The last American aristocrat : the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams
- The last days of John Lennon
- The man who saved the union : Ulysses Grant in war and peace
- The measure of a man : a spiritual autobiography
- The orchard : a memoir
- The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
- The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
- The ratline : the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive
- The school that escaped the Nazis : the true story of the schoolteacher who defied Hitler
- The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz
- The triple agent : the al-Qaeda mole who infiltrated the CIA
- The triumph of Nancy Reagan
- The triumph of liberty : a 2,000-year history, told through the lives of freedom's greatest champions
- The unfit heiress : the tragic life and scandalous sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
- The weight of a mustard seed : the intimate story of an Iraqi general and his family during thirty years of tyranny
- The wild truth
- Then came life : living with courage, spirit, and gratitude after breast cancer
- This little dreamer : an inspirational primer
- Thomas Jefferson : the art of power
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- To rescue the republic : Ulysses S. Grant, the fragile Union, and the crisis of 1876
- Topgun : an American story
- Touching the shadows : a love tested and renewed
- Travel and description, 1765-1865, : together with a list of county histories, atlases, and biographical collections and a list of territorial and state laws,
- Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
- Unsinkable : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Warriors don't cry : a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
- Washington's general : Nathanael Greene and the triumph of the American Revolution
- We are the Supremes
- What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen
- Who did it first? : 50 politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs who revolutionized the world
- Who is George Lucas?
- Who was Blackbeard?
- Who was Bob Marley?
- Who was Maya Angelou?
- Who was Napoleon?
- Who was Selena?
- Who was Steve Irwin?
- Who was the greatest? : Muhammad Ali
- Why not me?
- Wild by nature : from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot
- Witness to a century : encounters with the noted, the notorious, and the three SOBs
- Women & art : a history of women painters and sculptors from the renaissance to the 20th century
- You don't look your age : and other Fairy Tales
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