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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 13 artists children should know
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder
- 20 fun facts about Aaron Burr
- 20 fun facts about Alexander Hamilton
- 20 fun facts about Benjamin Franklin
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 20 fun facts about James Madison
- 20 fun facts about Thomas Jefferson
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A voice named Aretha
- A win for women : Billie Jean King takes down Bobby Riggs
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- AC/DC 1973-1980 : the Bon Scott years
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : President
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : traveler, archaeologist, and author
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Nobel
- Ali : a 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 over but the shoutin'
- All that heaven allows: : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- An invisible thread
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : get to know the girl beyond her diary
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- 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
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Auto racing's G.O.A.T. : Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson, and more
- Autumn
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Baseball's G.O.A.T. : Babe Ruth, Mike Trout, and more
- Basketball's G.O.A.T. : Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and more
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Before Andrew Jackson was president
- Before Barack Obama was President
- Before Donald Trump was president
- Before Franklin D. Roosevelt was president
- Before John Adams was president
- Before John F. Kennedy was president
- Before Ronald Reagan was president
- Before Teddy Roosevelt was president
- Before Thomas Jefferson was President
- Before Ulysses S. Grant was President
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- 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
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Blackbeard : a notorious pirate in the Caribbean
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Brave Clara Barton
- Breaking barriers : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Calvin Coolidge
- Camille Claudel
- Capital Days : Michael Shiner's Journal and the Growth of Our Nation's Capital
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chester Arthur
- Choosing courage : inspiring stories of what it means to be a hero
- Christopher Columbus : discovering the Americas
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Claude Monet
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coco Chanel
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated woman
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Count the wings : the life and art of Charley Harper
- Counting on Katherine
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dad's maybe book
- Dadland
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark star : a biography of Vivien Leigh
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour [book on cd] : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- 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 Mr. Beckett : the Samuel Beckett file
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana : 7 days
- Diana : Her True Story - In Her Own Words
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Dick Waterman : a life in blues
- Dispatches from Pluto : lost and found in the Mississippi Delta
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolores Huerta : advocate for women and workers
- Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dying : a memoir
- Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
- Edison
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Eleanor Roosevelt : progressive reformer
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, Volume three, 1939-1962
- 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 Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ellen DeGeneres : television comedian and gay rights activist
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis : still taking care of business
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a Black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Explore with Sir Walter Raleigh
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Famous phonies : legends, fakes, and frauds who changed history
- Fannie never flinched : one woman's courage in the struggle for American labor union rights
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Narnia : the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an American life
- Florence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Football's G.O.A.T. : Jim Brown, Tom Brady, and more
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frankie liked to sing
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Franklin Pierce
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- 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
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi for kids : his life and ideas, with 21 activities
- George H.W. Bush
- George Lucas : a life
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- George Washington : the 1st president
- George Washington Carver : a life
- George Washington, Frontier Colonel
- Gerald Ford
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Gloria takes a stand : how Gloria Steinem listened, wrote, and changed the world
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grant
- Grant
- Gregor Mendel
- Grover Cleveland
- Grover Cleveland : the 22nd and 24th President
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Gustav Stickley
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- Hard to handle : the life and death of the Black Crowes : a memoir
- Harlem hellfighters
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom
- Harriet Tubman's escape
- Harry : a biography of a prince
- Harry S. Truman
- Harry S. Truman : the 33rd president
- Hearing is believing
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Herbert Hoover
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hernán Cortés : conquistador, colonizer, and destroyer of the Aztec Empire
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- High school
- Hillary Clinton : ground-breaking politician
- Hitler : a biography
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Hockey's G.O.A.T. : Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, and more
- Hoda : how I survived war zones, bad hair, cancer, and Kathie Lee
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Horror stories : a memoir
- Hot Wheels developer : Elliot Handler
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hunting LeRoux : the inside story of the DEA takedown of a criminal genius and his empire
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Gandhi
- I am George Washington
- I am Helen Keller
- I am Jane Goodall
- I am Jim Henson
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Sacagawea
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not your slave : a memoir
- I look up to ... Michelle Obama
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I want you to know we're still here
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Imagine that! : how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
- Immigrants from Mexico and Central America
- Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In days to come : a new hope for Israel
- In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In search of Pharrell Williams
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Inside Trump's White House : the real story of his presidency
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Inventing the future : a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
- Inventors who changed the world
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isaac Newton and the laws of motion
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's Garry Shandling's book
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jacqueline Kennedy : cultural icon
- James Buchanan
- James Herriot's dog stories : warm and wonderful stories about the animals herriot loves best
- James K. Polk : the 11th president
- James Madison
- James Madison : the 4th President
- James Monroe
- James Monroe : the 5th president
- James Still : a life
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Goodall
- Janis : her life and music
- Jay-Z : made in America
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jenna Marbles
- Jesse Owens
- Jet girl : my life in war, peace, and the cockpit of the world's most lethal aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Jim Henson : puppeteer and producer
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Jimmy Carter
- Joan of Arc : French soldier and saint
- John Adams : the 2nd President
- John Aubrey : my own life
- John F. Kennedy's Presidency
- John James Audubon : the making of an American
- John Marshall : the man who made the Supreme Court
- John Prine : in spite of himself
- John Quincy Adams
- John Quincy Adams : the 6th president
- John Ronald's dragons : the story of J.R.R. Tolkien
- John Tyler
- Johnny Cash : the life and legacy of the Man in Black
- Johnny Cash : the redemption of an American icon
- Josephine Baker
- Joy enough : a memoir
- Just kids
- Karl, get out of the garden! : Carolus Linnaeus and the naming of everything
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Kid artists : true tales of childhood from creative legends
- Kid athletes : true tales of childhood from sports legends
- Kid scientists : true tales of childhood from science superstars
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- Kirby : king of comics
- L.M. Montgomery
- LBJ's 1968 : power, politics, and the presidency in America's year of upheaval
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Ladysitting : my year with nana at the end of her century
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Lara : the untold love story that inspired Doctor Zhivago
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- LeBron James : king of the court
- Leave it to Abigail! : the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Lenin on the train
- Leonard Bernstein
- Leonardo and the pen that drew the future
- Leonardo da Vinci