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- 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
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A voice named Aretha
- 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
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Agatha Christie
- Al Capone : icon
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- 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
- Amelia Earhart
- American animals : a memoir
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Anne Frank : get to know the girl beyond her diary
- 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
- Barack Obama
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- 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
- Becoming
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- 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
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Blood : a memoir
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Brave Clara Barton
- Breaking barriers : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Clarence's big secret
- Claude Monet
- Cleopatra
- Coco Chanel
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Counting on Katherine
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Darkest hour [book on cd] : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Dick Waterman : a life in blues
- Different strokes : Serena, Venus, and the unfinished Black tennis revolution
- Dispatches from Pluto : lost and found in the Mississippi Delta
- Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elvis : still taking care of business
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Explore with Sir Walter Raleigh
- Famous phonies : legends, fakes, and frauds who changed history
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Narnia : the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
- 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
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frida Kahlo
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Gregor Mendel
- Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention
- Hannibal
- Hard to handle : the life and death of the Black Crowes : a memoir
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom
- Harry : a biography of a prince
- Harry S. Truman : the 33rd president
- Hernán Cortés : conquistador, colonizer, and destroyer of the Aztec Empire
- High school
- Hillary Clinton : ground-breaking politician
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hockey's G.O.A.T. : Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, and more
- Hoda : how I survived war zones, bad hair, cancer, and Kathie Lee
- Horror stories : a memoir
- Hot Wheels developer : Elliot Handler
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Helen Keller
- I am Jane Goodall
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not your slave : a memoir
- I look up to ... Michelle Obama
- I want you to know we're still here
- Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Inventors who changed the world
- Isaac Newton and the laws of motion
- It's Garry Shandling's book
- Janis : her life and music
- 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
- John James Audubon : the making of an American
- John Prine : in spite of himself
- John Ronald's dragons : the story of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Josephine Baker
- Karl, get out of the garden! : Carolus Linnaeus and the naming of everything
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- Kirby : king of comics
- Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss
- Leave it to Abigail! : the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Long way home
- Lost shepherd : how Pope Francis is misleading his flock
- Louis Braille
- Lyndon B. Johnson : the 36th president
- Madam C.J. Walker : inventor and businesswoman
- Madison's gift : five partnerships that built America
- Making their voices heard : the inspiring friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Mankiller : activist, feminist, Cherokee chief
- 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
- Marianne & Leonard : words of love
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie and radioactivity
- Mario and the hole in the sky : how a chemist saved our planet
- Martina & Chrissie : the greatest rivalry in the history of sports
- Mary Blair's unique flair : the girl who became one of the Disney legends
- Mary who wrote Frankenstein
- Me
- 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
- Mengele : unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- Michelle Obama
- Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit
- Mister Rogers
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood : a visual history
- Montezuma II
- Mother Jones and her army of Mill Children
- Muslim girls rise : inspirational champions of our time
- My American dream : a life of love, family, and food
- My autobiography of Carson McCullers
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- Napoleon : soldier of destiny
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nazi saboteurs : Hitler's secret attack on America
- Nelson Mandela
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Nina : jazz legend and civil-rights activist Nina Simone
- No better friend, no worse enemy : the life of General James Mattis
- No map, great trip : a young writer's road to page one
- No truth without Ruth : the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Normal : a mother and her beautiful son
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- One fun day with Lewis Carroll : a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
- Open book
- Oprah
- Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet
- Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
- Paul Simon : the life
- Phantom lady : Hollywood producer Joan Harrison, the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock
- Pirate queen : a story of Zheng Yi Sao
- Pirates and shipwrecks : real tales of terror on the high seas : true stories
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen of Scots : the true life of Mary Stuart
- Queen unseen : my life with the greatest rock band of the 20th century
- Race against time : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era
- Rachel Carson and ecology for kids : her life and ideas, with 21 activities and experiments
- Reach for the Skai : how to inspire, empower, and clapback
- Read the Beatles : classic and new writings on the Beatles, their legacy, and why they still matter
- Ready to fly : how Sylvia Townsend became the bookmobile ballerina
- Reagan : an American journey
- Recollections of my nonexistence
- Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
- Renegade : Martin Luther, the graphic biography
- Revolutionary brothers : Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
- River of blood : American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans / edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams ; foreword by Adam Green
- Roaring back : the fall and rise of Tiger Woods
- Robin
- Robin
- Ruby Bridges : get to know the girl who took a stand for education
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Sacagawea
- Seabiscuit : an American legend
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sisters : Venus and Serena Williams
- Smacked : a story of white-collar ambition, addiction, and tragedy
- Soccer's G.O.A.T. : Pele, Lionel Messi, and more
- Somebody's gotta do it : why cursing at the news won't save the nation, but your name on a local ballot can
- Sound pictures : the life of Beatles producer George Martin : the later years, 1966-2016
- Sting : from northern skies to Fields of gold
- Tea with the dames
- Tesla : inventor of the modern
- The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation
- The Real Benedict Arnold : The Truth Behind the Legend
- The Watergate girl : my fight for truth and justice against a criminal president
- The art of Neil Gaiman
- The astronaut maker : how one mysterious engineer ran human spaceflight for a generation
- The boy who grew a forest : the true story of Jadav Payeng
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
- The doctor with an eye for eyes : the story of Dr. Patricia Bath
- The eye that never sleeps : how Detective Pinkerton saved President Lincoln
- The fabulous Bouvier sisters : the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee
- The faith of Mike Pence
- The fall of Richard Nixon : a reporter remembers Watergate
- The fierce 44 : black Americans who shook up the world
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The girl with a mind for math : the story of Raye Montague
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The harder you work, the luckier you get : an entrepreneur's memoir
- The impossible first : from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone
- The incredible yet true adventures of Alexander von Humboldt : the greatest inventor-naturalist-scientist-explorer who ever lived
- The lady's handbook for her mysterious illness : a memoir
- The last temptation of Rick Pitino : a story of corruption, scandal, and the big business of college basketball
- The making of a miracle : the untold story of the captain of the 1980 gold medal-winning US Olympic hockey team
- The man who invented the electric guitar : the genius of Les Paul
- The man who went to the far side of the moon : the story of Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins
- The oldest student : how Mary Walker learned to read
- The only woman in the photo : Frances Perkins & her New Deal for America
- The poison squad : one chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century
- The power of her pen : the story of groundbreaking journalist Ethel L. Payne
- The presidential masters of prehistory, vol. 1
- The presidents visual encyclopedia
- The race to save the Romanovs : the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family
- The real Dolley Madison
- The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- The real Wallis Simpson : a new history of the American divorcee who became the Duchess of Windsor
- The religion of democracy : seven liberals and the American moral tradition
- The ride of a lifetime : lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister (1791-1840)
- The ship of dreams : the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era
- The splendid and the vile
- The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The true story of Zippy Chippy : the little horse that couldn't
- The unexpected spy : from the CIA to the FBI, my secret life taking down some of the world's most notorious terrorists
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading
- The unstoppable Garrett Morgan : inventor, entrepreneur, hero
- The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz
- Theodore Roosevelt, naturalist in the arena
- These fevered days : ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson
- This little trailblazer : a girl power primer
- Three days in Moscow : Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Soviet empire
- Thurgood
- Tim Cook : the genius who took apple to the next level
- Touched by the sun : my friendship with Jackie
- True indie
- Upstairs at the White House : my life with the first ladies
- Ursula K. Le Guin : conversations on writing
- Washington's spies : the story of America's first spy ring
- We are the luckiest : the surprising magic of a sober life
- Wham! George Michael & me
- What Miss Mitchell saw
- What it is : race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues
- When Eleanor Roosevelt learned to jump a horse
- When angels sing : the story of rock legend Carlos Santana
- When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains
- When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
- Who is Bono?
- Who is Judy Blume?
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- Who was Daniel Boone?
- Who was Nikola Tesla?
- Who was Richard Nixon?
- Who was Sam Walton?
- Who was Thomas Alva Edison?
- Wild game : my mother, her lover, and me
- Will the circle be unbroken : a memoir of learning to believe you're gonna be okay
- With all due respect : defending America with grit and grace
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Woodlawn : One Hope. One Dream. One Way.
- Woodrow Wilson : the 28th president
- Wright brothers, wrong story : how Wilbur Wright solved the problem of manned flight
- Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
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