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- 1000 years of famous people
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 50 paintings you should know
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A common struggle
- A company of heroes : personal memories about the real band of brothers and the legacy they left us
- A dog named Leaf : the hero from heaven who saved my life
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 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 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 kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A life that matters : the legacy of Terri Schiavo -- a lesson for us all
- A long way home : a memoir
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of honor : the autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- 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 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 revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A short autobiography
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- 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
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Adolf Hitler
- Adoniram Judson : bound for Burma
- African American Connecticut explored
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : ingenious physicist and father of relativity
- Alex Haley : and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All over but the shoutin'
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- Almost president : the men who lost the race but changed the nation
- Alone on the wall
- Althea Gibson : persistence
- Alton brown : EveryDayCook
- Amazing women
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- 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
- American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- 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 philosophy : a love story
- American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- 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 Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An Unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- An unquenchable thirst : following Mother Teresa in search of love, service, and an authentic life
- And the good news is... : lessons from the bright side
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anthony Davis
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anything but ordinary Addie : the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, queen of magic
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA
- Audubon : painter of birds in the wild frontier
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
- Ball Four : the final pitch
- Barack Obama : groundbreaking president
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- 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
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Becoming Madison : the extraordinary origins of the least likely founding father
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Beethoven : anguish and triumph
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind closed doors : my service as the Queen Mother's equerry
- Behind rebel lines : the incredible story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War spy
- Behind the bell : behind the scenes of Saved by the Bell with the guy who was there for everything
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Nixon : the fears and hopes of an American president
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Ben & Jerry's, the inside scoop : how two real guys built a business with social conscience and a sense of humor
- Ben Carson : a chance at life
- Ben Franklin : inventor, diplomat, icon... and a human being
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berlusconi : The Epic Story of the Billionaire Who Took Over Italy
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between good and evil : [a master profiler's hunt for society's most violent predators]
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond the dance : a ballerina's life
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton : mastering the presidency
- Bill Gates
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies, The patriots
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Biography today : profiles of people of interest to young readers
- Bite me! : the unofficial guide to Buffy the vampire slayer
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Jack : the ballad of Jack Johnson
- Black like me : the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to run
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave companions : portraits in history
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Brief encounters : conversations, magic moments, and assorted hijinks
- Brigham Young : pioneer prophet
- Bright lights, big ass : a self-indulgent, surly ex-sorority girl's guide to why it often sucks in the city, or, Who are these idiots and why do they all live next door to me?
- Britney : inside the dream : the biography
- Brothers in arms : the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's forgotten heroes
- Bryce Harper : baseball star
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bulu : African wonder dog
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- Butler's lives of the saints : concise, modernized edition
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Caesar : life of a colossus
- Cam Newton : football star
- Caravaggio : painter of miracles
- Carry on, warrior
- Catch a wave : the rise, fall & redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Cesar Chavez
- Chalked up : inside elite gymnastics' merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and elusive Olympic dreams
- Charles Darwin's around-the-world adventure
- Charles Schulz
- Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charmed lives : a family romance
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Cheech is not my real name : but don't call me Chong!
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chesty : the story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
- China's son : growing up in the Cultural Revolution
- Chris Evans
- Christian Dior : the man who made the world look new
- Chronicles, Volume one
- Citizen emperor : Napoleon in power
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra the Great : the woman behind the legend
- Columbus : The lost voyage
- Columbus : the musical crossroads
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Confessions of a video vixen
- Conversations with Major Dick Winters : life lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers
- Coretta Scott King
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Crossing the continent, 1527-1540 : the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South
- Crucible of Command : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cyclist who went out in the cold : adventures riding the Iron Curtain
- Dadland
- Daring Amelia
- Darkness visible : a memoir of madness
- Daughters of the samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- David Crockett : the Lion of the West
- De niro : a life
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Defying Hitler : a memoir
- Delivered from evil : true stories of ordinary people who faced monstrous mass killers and survived
- Destiny and power : [the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush]
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
- Dez Bryant
- Diego Rivera : his world and ours
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer : in the midst of wickedness
- Dinner with Dimaggio : memories of an American hero
- Disciples : the World War II missions of the CIA directors who fought for Wild Bill Donovan : Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Casey
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolley Madison
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Dorothy L. Sayers : a careless rage for life : a new biography
- Dr. Mütter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine
- Dr. Seuss
- Dream more : celebrate the dreamer in you
- Dreaming in Indian : contemporary Native American voices
- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Ebbets to Veeck to Busch : eight owners who shaped baseball
- Edith Wharton
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Eisenhower : soldier and president
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor of Aquitaine : a life
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elsa schiaparelli : a biography
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- End the Fed
- Enduring courage : ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the dawn of the age of speed
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Ethan Allen : his life and times
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything you ever wanted : a memoir
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Famous people in history
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fever pitch
- Fierce convictions : the extraordinary life of Hannah More : poet, reformer, abolitionist
- Film flam : essays on Hollywood
- First family : [Abigail and John]
- First ladies
- Fleeing for freedom : stories of the Underground Railroad
- Florence Foster Jenkins : the inspiring true story of the world's worst singer
- Flory : a miraculous story of survival
- For Country and Corps : the Life of General Oliver P. Smith
- Foxe : voices of the martyrs
- Frank Lloyd Wright for kids
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Freud in his time and ours
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fun home : a family tragicomic
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- GI brides : the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love
- Generations in Black and white : photographs
- Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Eastman
- Georges Laraque : the story of the NHL's unlikeliest tough guy
- Ghost boy : [the miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped inside his own body]
- Ghost boy : the miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped inside his own body
- Gifted hands
- Gifted hands : the Ben Carson story
- Giovanni da Verrazzano : explorer of the Atlantic Coast of North America
- Girl unbroken : a sister's harrowing story of survival from the streets of Long Island to the farms of Idaho
- Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- and the journey of a generation
- Gizelle's bucket list : my life with a very large dog
- Go big or go home : the journey toward the dream
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Good girl : a memoir
- Gorge : my journey up Kilimanjaro at 300 pounds
- Grace Hopper : queen of computer code
- Grace of Monaco : the true story
- Grandes personajes : inventos e ideas que cambiaron el mundo
- Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- HOGs in the shadows : combat stories from Marine snipers in Iraq
- Had I known : a memoir of survival
- Hana's suitcase : a true story
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- Harriet Tubman, secret agent : how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War
- Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
- Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world
- Helen Keller : rebellious spirit
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry Ford