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- "My brothers have my back" : inside the November 1969 battle on the Vietnamese DMZ
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing and manhood in Appalachia
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 19 minutes to live - : helicopter combat in Vietnam
- 42 is not just a number
- 50 rappers who changed the world : a celebration of rap legends
- A Titanic love story : Ida and Isidor Straus
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A ghost in the throat
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A matter of inches : how I survived in the crease and beyond
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- 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 truck full of money
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Ada Lovelace
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : [the outsider]
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexandra the Great : the story of the record-breaking filly who ruled the racetrack
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : U.S. Representative
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- 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-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
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Amanda Gorman
- Amazing athletes : 40 inspiring icons
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing women
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Indian stories of success : new visions of leadership in Indian Country
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American daughter : a memoir
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angela Merkel : Chancellor of Germany
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anna Strong : a spy of the American Revolution
- Anne Frank
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Artist biographies
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Ava Duvernay : movie director
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Ayrton Senna
- BTS : K-pop kings
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Battle of brothers : William & Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Bayard Rustin
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Bethany Hamilton
- Betsy Ross
- Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville
- Between the world and me
- Between two worlds : the art and life of Amrita Sher-Gil
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean King
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billy Graham : an ordinary man and his extraordinary God
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black like me
- Black music greats : 40 inspiring icons
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blackpink : queens of K-pop
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Boardwalk babies
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Borges and me : an encounter
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Candace Parker
- Captain Tom Moore
- Carla Hayden : Librarian of Congress
- Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds : Princess Leia & Unsinkable Tammy in Hell
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Champions of women's soccer
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Checking in : how getting real about depression saved my life-and can save yours
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Clementine. : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Close up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Courage : my story of persecution
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuthbert Grant : leader of the Métis people
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Danica Patrick
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie : a life
- Dear William : a father's memoir of addiction, recovery, love, and loss
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton : country music star
- Dolores Huerta : labor activist
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dwayne Johnson : actor and pro wrestler
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Einstein's wife : the story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
- El Chapo : the untold story of the world's most infamous drug lord
- Eleanor
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop : a love story
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Evonne Goolagong
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Exploring Florida's Emerald Coast : a rich history and a rare ecology
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fall down seven times, stand up eight : Patsy Takemoto Mink and the fight for Title IX
- Family properties : race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Figures in film and television : Lucille Ball, Walt Disney, Jim Henson, Alfred Hitchcock, Bruce Lee, George Lucas
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding me
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flashes of creation : George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big bang debate
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Fossil hunter
- Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the science of prehistoric life
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Francesco Tirelli's ice cream shop
- Francis Bacon : revelations
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Game : an autobiography
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Garbo
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- George Washington, entrepreneur : how our founding father's private business pursuits changed America and the world
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls can! : smash stereotypes, defy expectations, and make history!
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Grandad Mandela
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grant
- Grant
- Greta Thunberg
- Greta Thunberg : teen climate activist
- Growing up Pedro
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Hawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Hello, Molly! : [a memoir]
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- High school
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hockey
- Hockey's record breakers
- Hold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- Holding the line : inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- How I saved the world
- How to be a girl : a mother's memoir of raising her transgender daughter
- How to become an accidental genius
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not a label
- I am yours : a shared memoir
- I begin with spring : the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau