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- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- How Angel Peterson got his name, and other outrageous tales about extreme sports, Gary Paulsen
- Cornel West, by John Morrison
- Who was Ernest Hemingway?, by Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Great authors of children's literature, by Wendy Mass
- Who is R.L. Stine?, by M.D. Payne ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The secret garden, by Carol Greene
- Stephen Crane, by Mark Sufrin
- A normal life, a memoir, Kim Rich
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Bad boy, a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
- Retablos, stories from a life lived along the border, Octavio Solis
- Flora and Tiger, 19 very short stories from my life, Eric Carle
- Imagine that!, how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat, by Judy Sierra ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown, Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- Rebel in the rye, IFC Films ; Black Label Media ; Bloom ; written and directed by Danny Strong ; produced by Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, Danny Strong, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill ; a Black Label Media, West Madison Entertainment, Bloom presentation ; a Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, Villa Stanley production ; a Danny Strong film
- White girls, Hilton Als
- No map, great trip, a young writer's road to page one, Paul Fleischman
- Walking with Henry, based on the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, by Thomas Locker
- Planting stories, the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré, words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers, Jean Fritz
- Edith Wharton in France, Claudine Lesage
- Who wrote the modern classics?, [By] Nora Stirling
- American authors, 1600-1900, a biographical dictionary of American literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. Complete in one volume with 1300 biographies and 400 portraits
- I begin with spring, the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau, written by Julie Dunlap ; illustrated by Megan Elizabeth Baratta
- Brooklyn, a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie, by Truman Capote ; photographs by David Attie ; introduction by George Plimpton ; afterword by Eli Attie
- Zora Neale Hurston, writer and storyteller, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
- Who was Mark Twain?, by April Jones Prince ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- The wall, growing up behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sís
- Great lives, American literature, Doris Faber and Harold Faber
- Prairie fires, the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser
- Spilt milk, memoirs, Courtney Zoffness
- Hole in my life, Jack Gantos
- Island treasures, growing up in Cuba : includes Where the flame trees bloom, Under the royal palms, and the new collection Days at La Quinta Simoni, Alma Flor Ada ; illustrations by Edel Rodriguez and Antonio Martorell
- Guts, the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books, Gary Paulsen
- Henry David Thoreau, a life, Laura Dassow Walls
- Literary landmarks of Boston, a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston, by Lindsay Swift. --
- Louisa May Alcott, young novelist, by Beatrice Gormley ; illustrated by Meryl Henderson
- Who was E.B. White?, by Gail Herman ; illustrated by Dede Putra
- Who wrote the classics?, [By] Nora Stirling. Illustrated by Emil Weiss
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