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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 1000 years of memories : the remarkable life stories of ten individuals who have reached age 100 and beyond
- 127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
- 13 hours : a firsthand account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 25 women who thought of it first
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 50 paintings you should know
- 50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 83 Minutes : The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
- 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 Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Pope and a President : John Paul II, Ronald Regan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, diaper a baby monkey, build a bungalow, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book of remarkable criminals
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A common struggle
- A company of heroes : personal memories about the real band of brothers and the legacy they left us
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A dog named Leaf : the hero from heaven who saved my life
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the red scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A layman's life of Jesus
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home : a memoir
- A long way home : a memoir
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of honor : the autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A picture book of George Washington
- A place in the country
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A shepherd's life
- A short autobiography
- A silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- 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 stolen life : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A taste of power : a black woman's story
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity, & his surprising thoughts on God
- A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A three dog life
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A very punchable face
- A voice named Aretha
- A volcano beneath the snow : john brown's war against slavery
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- 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 of temperament
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- ABOVE SUSPICION
- AOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams and the women who shaped America
- Abode of love
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln, a man of faith and courage : stories of our most admired president
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Act one : an autobiography
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Admiral Jellicoe
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adoniram Judson : bound for Burma
- Adventurers and athletes
- Adventures & letters of Richard Harding Davis
- Aerosmith : the ultimate illustrated history of the bad boys from Boston
- African American Connecticut explored
- African American firsts : famous, little-known, and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- African Americans on Martha's Vineyard : from enslavement to presidential visit
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- After the last border : two families and the story of refuge in America
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime 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
- Albert Einstein : a curious mind
- Albert Einstein : ingenious physicist and father of relativity
- Alex Haley : and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Morgan
- Alexa Bliss : five feet of fury
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander the Great : journey to the end of the earth
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : political headliner
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All ball : basketball's greatest players
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All falling faiths : reflections on the promise and failure of the 1960s
- All in a Drop : How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
- 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 you leave behind : a memoir
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the way to America : the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel
- 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
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost president : the men who lost the race but changed the nation
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alone on the wall
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : persistence
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Alton brown : EveryDayCook
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amateurs
- Amazing women
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : pioneering aviator and force for women's rights
- Amelia Earhart : the thrill of it
- America I am legends : rare moments and inspiring words
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Girl entrepreneur : Pleasant Rowland
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American airpower comes of age : General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II diaries, Volume 1
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daredevil : the extraordinary life of Richard Halliburton, the world's first celebrity travel writer
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American legend : the real-life adventures of David Crockett
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- American wine : a coming-of-age story
- Among heroes : true stories of friendship, sacrifice, and heroism in the U.S. Navy SEAL teams
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amy : a life through the lens
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An Edinburgh Eleven : Pencil Portraits from College Life
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An Unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- An astronaut's guide to life on earth : what going to space taught me about ingenuity, determination, and being prepared for anything
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An invisible thread
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And the good news is... : lessons from the bright side
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol : a Biography
- Andy Warhol : prince of pop
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Anonymous is a woman : a global chronicle of gender inequality
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different
- Anthony Davis
- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anya Seton : a writing life
- Anything but ordinary Addie : the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, queen of magic
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Ariana : the unauthorized biography
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur Conan Doyle : a life
- Artists : their lives and works
- Artists and their pets : true stories of famous artists and their animal friends
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- At seventy : a journal
- At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Atheists in America
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audubon : painter of birds in the wild frontier
- Augusta Savage : sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava's man
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Avid reader : a life
- Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Ayn Rand and the world she made
- BTS : icons of K-pop : the unofficial biography
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Bad : an unprecedented investigation into the Michael Jackson cover-up
- Bad girls of fashion : style rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Ball Four : the final pitch
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Ballots for Belva : the true story of a woman's race for the presidency
- Barack Obama : groundbreaking president
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbara Bush
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barnum : an American life
- Baseball's most notorious personalities : a gallery of rogues
- Basketball's greatest players
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- 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 boy : a father's journey through his son's addiction
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Becoming C.S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becomin