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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
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 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
- 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
- 50 paintings you should know
- 50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- 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 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 bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- 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 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 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 dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- 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 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 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 man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- 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 picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- 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 serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- 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 stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity, & his surprising thoughts on God
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A voice named Aretha
- 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
- 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
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adventurers and athletes
- Aerosmith : the ultimate illustrated history of the bad boys from Boston
- African American firsts : famous, little-known, and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- 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
- 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
- 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 : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- 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 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 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-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
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost president : the men who lost the race but changed the nation
- 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 : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amazing women
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : pioneering aviator and force for women's rights
- Amelia Earhart : the thrill of it
- 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 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 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 spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- 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 Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An Unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- 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
- 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 was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- 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
- Arthur Ashe : 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
- 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
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- 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 news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Barack Obama : groundbreaking president
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barnum : an American life
- 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
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Before she was Harriet
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind rebel lines : the incredible story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War spy
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Ben & Jerry : ice cream manufacturers
- Ben Franklin : inventor, diplomat, icon... and a human being
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Beneath a ruthless sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32 : To the future, Ben Franklin!
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyoncé in formation : remixing Black feminism
- Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big book of who : baseball
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Biography today : profiles of people of interest to young readers
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Jack : the ballad of Jack Johnson
- Black Water : family, legacy, and blood memory
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blaze of light : the inspiring true story of Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor recipient
- Blood and oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Borges and me : an encounter
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave companions : portraits in history
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking barriers : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Breaking the ice
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Brooklyn in love : a delicious memoir of food, family, and finding yourself
- Bryce Harper : baseball star
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bulls-eye : a photobiography of Annie Oakley
- Bundini : don't believe the hype
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Caesar : life of a colossus
- Calamity : the many lives of Calamity Jane
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Caleb Davis Bradham : Pepsi-Cola inventor
- Caligula : the mad Emperor of Rome
- Cam Newton : football star
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carson Wentz : football star
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Cassius X : the transformation of Muhammad Ali