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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 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
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- A band called Death
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of the first all-black high school rowing team
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A very punchable face
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A voice named Aretha
- 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
- AC/DC 1973-1980 : the Bon Scott years
- AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln : Defender of the Union!
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Agatha Christie
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : icon
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the fighting founding father!
- 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 creatures great and small
- All in : an autobiography
- 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 frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- American animals : a memoir
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- An invisible thread
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Andy Warhol
- Anne Frank : get to know the girl beyond her diary
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apropos of nothing
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aretha Franklin
- Ariana Grande : music superstar
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audrey Hepburn
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Babe Ruth : baseball's all-time best!
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barack Obama
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Barney Dreyfuss : Pittsburgh's baseball titan
- Baseball superstar Aaron Judge
- Baseball's G.O.A.T. : Babe Ruth, Mike Trout, and more
- Basketball superstar Lebron James
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Basketball's G.O.A.T. : Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and more
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the life and memes of the coolest actor in Hollywood
- Becoming
- Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Before Donald Trump was president
- Before John Adams was president
- Before John F. Kennedy was president
- Before Teddy Roosevelt was president
- Before Thomas Jefferson was President
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Belushi
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- Benjamin Franklin : inventor of the nation!
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography
- Betsey. : a memoir
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Bevelations : lessons from a mutha, auntie, bestie
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Beyond valor : a World War II story of extraordinary heroism, sacrificial love, and a race against time
- Big Apple diaries
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts
- Billie
- Billie Eilish
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Bob Dylan
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Booker T. Washington
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Breaking barriers : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Bring on the empty horses
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brother Robert : growing up with Robert Johnson
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young somali immigrant.
- Called out : why I traded two dream jobs for a life of true calling
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carrying the colors : the life and legacy of Medal of Honor recipient Andrew Jackson Smith
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Centered : trading your plans for a life that matters
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chris Paul
- Christian Yelich
- Chuck Berry : the original king of rock 'n' roll
- Chunky
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Clarence Saunders & the founding of Piggly Wiggly : the rise & fall of a Memphis maverick
- Clarence's big secret
- Claude Monet
- Cleopatra
- Coco Chanel
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Corazon Aquino
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Crazy rich : power, scandal, and tragedy inside the Johnson & Johnson dynasty
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Cubed : the puzzle of us all
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman keeper
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dark midnight when I rise : the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour [book on cd] : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Diana at sixty
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Dick Waterman : a life in blues
- Different strokes : Serena, Venus, and the unfinished Black tennis revolution
- Dirty sexy money : the unauthorized biography of Kris Jenner
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics
- Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't go gentle : a film about idles
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Drew Brees
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
- El Deafo
- El Deafo : superpowered edition
- Eleanor
- 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 Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elvis : still taking care of business
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is under control : a memoir with recipes
- Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- FOR THAT ONE DAY : the Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida : Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Fallout
- Famous phonies : legends, fakes, and frauds who changed history
- Far out man : tales of life in the counterculture
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fierce poise : Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- Films of endearment : a mother, a son and the '80s films that defined us
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw--and my quest to follow
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- Five wars : a soldier's journey to peace
- Flamin' hot : the incredible true story of one man's rise from janitor to top executive
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- Football superstar Aaron Rodgers
- Football superstar Tom Brady
- Football's G.O.A.T. : Jim Brown, Tom Brady, and more
- 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
- Foxfire 11 : the old homeplace, wild plant uses, preserving and cooking food, hunting stories, fishing, and more affairs of plain living
- Foxfire 12 : war stories, Cherokee traditions, summer camps, square dancing, crafts, and more affairs of plain living
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free lunch
- Frida Kahlo
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Gatecrasher : how I helped the rich become famous and ruin the world
- Genius makers : the mavericks who brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the world
- 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
- Gidget the surfing dog : catching waves with a small but mighty pug
- Give them Lala
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Going back : 16 Jewish women tell their life stories, and why they returned to Germany-the country that once wanted to kill them
- Good boy : my life in seven dogs
- Good husbandry : a memoir : growing food, love, and family on Essex Farm
- Good morning, destroyer of men's souls
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Great demon kings : a memoir of poetry, sex, art, death, and enlightenment
- Great exploration hoaxes
- Greenlights
- Greenlights
- Gregor Mendel
- Growing up Duggar : from our hearts to yours
- Guru Nanak : first of the Sikhs
- Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles
- HRH : so many thoughts on royal style
- Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention
- Hannibal
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Hard to handle : the life and death of the Black Crowes : a memoir
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom
- Harry : a biography of a prince
- Harry Dean Stanton : Hollywood's Zen rebel
- Harry S. Truman : the 33rd president
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter
- Hear my voice : the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States
- HerStory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
- Here, right matters : an American story
- Hernán Cortés : conquistador, colonizer, and destroyer of the Aztec Empire
- Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the age of revolution
- Hiding in plain sight : Lady Bird Johnson in the White House
- High school
- Hillary Clinton : ground-breaking politician
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hitler: downfall, 1939-1945
- 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 Park : a memoir
- Holy hot mess : finding God in the details of this weird and wonderful life
- Home baked : my mom, marijuana, and the stoning of San Francisco
- Honor Bound : an American story of dreams and service
- Horror stories : a memoir
- Hot Wheels developer : Elliot Handler
- House of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- House of sticks : a memoir
- How to astronaut : an insider's guide to leaving planet earth
- How to be human : an autistic man's guide to life
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- I am Anne Frank
- I am Benjamin Franklin
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Brian Wilson
- I am Helen Keller
- I am Jane Goodall
- I am Leonardo da Vinci
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Ozzy
- I am Sacagawea
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not your slave : a memoir
- I am restored : how I lost my religion but found my faith
- I came as a shadow : an autobiography
- I had a miscarriage : a memoir, a movement
- I left my homework in the Hamptons : what I learned teaching the children of the one percent
- I want you to know we're still here : a post-Holocaust memoir
- I was a French Muslim : memories of an Algerian freedom fighter
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
- If you lived here you'd be famous by now : true stories from Calabasas
- Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
- In search of Van Gogh : capturing the life of the artist through photographs and paintings
- In search of a kingdom : Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Indelible Ann : the larger-than-life story of Governor Ann Richards
- Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Into the deep : a memoir from the man who found Titanic
- Inventors who changed the world
- Is this anything?
- Isaac Newton and the laws of motion
- It's Garry Shandling's book
- Jackie Robinson
- James Monroe : a life
- Jane Goodall : the hope
- Janis : her life and music
- 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 Page : the anthology
- JoJo Siwa : fan favorite
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
- Joel Embiid
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- John James Audubon : the making of an American
- John Marshall : the final founder, a biography and thoughts on the issues of American history he inspired
- John Prine : in spite of himself
- John Ronald's dragons : the story of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Josephine Baker
- Jump at the sun : the true life tale of unstoppable storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
- Just As I Am
- Just as I am
- Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
- Just pretend
- Kamala Harris
- Kamala Harris : rooted in justice
- Karl, get out of the garden! : Carolus Linnaeus and the naming of everything
- Kate's Light : Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse
- Katherine Jackson French : Kentucky's forgotten ballad collector
- Ken Burns, Here & there
- Kevin Durant
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America
- Kin : a memoir
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- Kirby : king of comics
- Kobe Bryant : NBA champion
- Kylie Jenner : makeup mogul
- Lady in waiting : my extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown
- Ladyparts : a memoir
- Last chance Texaco : chronicles of an American troubadour
- Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss
- Latinitas : celebrating 40 big dreamers
- Laura Ingalls Wilder : prairie to page
- Leave it to Abigail! : the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams
- Leave out the tragic parts : a grandfather's search for a boy lost to addiction
- Leaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Let's never talk about this again : a memoir
- Lewis Latimer : the man behind a better light bulb
- Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy
- Like crazy : life with my mother and her invisible friends
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Little Miss Westie
- Live in love : growing together through life's changes
- Long way home
- Lonnie Johnson : NASA scientist and inventor of the Super Soaker
- Look up with me : Neil deGrasse Tyson : a life among the stars
- Lost shepherd : how Pope Francis is misleading his flock
- Lotte's magical paper puppets : the woman behind the first animated feature film
- Louis Braille
- Louisville's historic Black neighborhoods
- Love, Zac : small-town football and the life and death of an American boy
- Loved and wanted : a memoir of choice, children, and womanhood
- Lyndon B. Johnson : the 36th president
- Mad at the world : a life of John Steinbeck
- Madam C.J. Walker : inventor and businesswoman
- Madame Saqui : revolutionary rope dancer
- Made in China : a memoir of love and labor
- Madison's gift : five partnerships that built America
- Mae Jemison
- Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them
- Making their voices heard : the inspiring friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
- Malcolm X
- Mamie on the mound : a woman in baseball's Negro leagues
- Mankind, have a nice day! : a tale of blood and sweatsocks
- Many lives, many masters : the true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives
- Marco Polo : epic traveler throughout Asia
- Margaret Atwood : a word after a word after a word is power
- Marianne & Leonard : words of love
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie and radioactivity
- Mario and the hole in the sky : how a chemist saved our planet
- Marjory saves the Everglades : the story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : voice for equality!
- Mary Blair's unique flair : the girl who became one of the Disney legends
- Mary who wrote Frankenstein
- Matchsticks : an education in black and white
- Maya Angelou
- Me
- Me & Patsy, kickin' up dust : my friendship with Patsy Cline
- Me and sister Bobbie : true tales of the family band
- Meet George Washington : America's First President
- Meet Nat Love: cowboy and former slave
- Meet Paul Revere : revolutionary hero
- Meet Phillis Wheatley : poet and former slave
- Meet Sitting Bull, Lakota Chief
- Megan Rapinoe
- Meghan Markle : making a difference as a duchess
- Meghan and Harry : the real story
- Meghan and Harry : the real story
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
- Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
- Mengele : unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- Mike Nichols : a life
- Mike Trout
- Mill town : reckoning with what remains
- Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit
- Mindy Kaling
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
- Miseducated : a memoir
- Miss Unlikely : from farm girl to Miss America
- Mister Rogers
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood : a visual history
- Mitch, please! : how Mitch McConnell sold out Kentucky (and America, too)
- Moms who hike : walking with America's most inspiring adventurers
- Montezuma II
- Mookie Betts
- More myself : a journey
- More than love : an intimate portrait of my mother, Natalie Wood
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali : the greatest of all time!
- Muslim girls rise : inspirational champions of our time
- My American dream : a life of love, family, and food