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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 black inventors and their inventions
- 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
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- A Higher Call : an Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
- A band called Death
- A block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
- 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 history of me
- 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 little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- 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 pictorial history of Clark County, Kentucky
- 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 redemptive path forward : from incarceration to a life of activism
- 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
- Abandoned prayers : an incredible true story of murder, obsession, and Amish secrets
- 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!
- Abuela in shadow, abuela in light
- 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
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- 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 that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- 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
- Allen County, Kentucky : a pictorial history
- 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
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- American animals : a memoir
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- An invisible thread
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Andy Warhol
- Another Appalachia : coming up queer and Indian in a mountain place
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apropos of nothing
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aretha Franklin
- Ariana Grande : music superstar
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- 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
- Ava's man
- Babe Ruth : baseball's all-time best!
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- 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 GOATs : the greatest athletes of all time
- 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
- Be my baby : a memoir
- 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 Elisabeth Elliot
- 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!
- Benton County, Tennessee : a pictorial history
- 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 possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Beyond valor : a World War II story of extraordinary heroism, sacrificial love, and a race against time
- Big Apple diaries
- Bill Frisell, beautiful dreamer : the guitarist who changed the sound of American music
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts
- Billie Eilish
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- Black boy smile : a memoir in moments
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blips on a screen : how Ralph Baer invented TV video gaming and launched a worldwide obsession
- 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
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bonne Terre, Missouri : history and families
- 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
- Both/and : a life in many worlds
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- 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
- Butler County, Kentucky, history & families
- Butler County, Missouri, history and families
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young somali immigrant.
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Called out : why I traded two dream jobs for a life of true calling
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Care free black girls : a celebration of black women in popular culture
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carroll County, Tennessee : a pictorial history
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carrying the colors : the life and legacy of Medal of Honor recipient Andrew Jackson Smith
- Carter reads the newspaper
- 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
- Child : a memoir
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Chris Paul
- Christian Yelich
- Chuck Berry : the original king of rock 'n' roll
- Chunky
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Citation : in a class by himself
- 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
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- 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
- Corrections in ink : a memoir
- Counting on Katherine
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Crazy rich : power, scandal, and tragedy inside the Johnson & Johnson dynasty
- Created equal : Clarence Thomas in his own words
- 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
- Cumberland County, Kentucky : history & families
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Daring dogs : 30 true tales of heroic hounds
- Dark midnight when I rise : the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Dark was the night
- Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
- Death in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park : stories of accidents and foolhardiness in the most popular park
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desperate : an epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia
- 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
- Dispatches from Pluto : lost and found in the Mississippi Delta
- 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 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
- El nįno sin nombre : la lucha de un nįo por sobrevivir
- 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
- Elvis, Linda and me
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empty : a memoir
- 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
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Daniel Boone : his last days in Missouri & the strange fate of his remains / Ted Franklin Belue
- 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 me
- Finding me
- 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
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- 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
- Forward ; : notes on the future of our democracy
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Fox and I : an uncommon friendship
- 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
- Fred & Marjorie : a doctor, a dog, and the discovery of insulin
- Frederick Douglass
- Free lunch
- Freezing order : a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo : the revolutionary painter!
- From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement
- From here to there : inventions that changed the way the world moves
- From the ashes : my story of being indigenous, homeless, and finding my way
- 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
- Gender queer : a memoir
- General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky : assessing the "reign of terror" of the summer of 1864
- 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
- Gideon Shryock, his life and his architecture, 1802-1880
- Gidget the surfing dog : catching waves with a small but mighty pug
- Give them Lala
- God bless this mess : learning to live and love through life's best (and worst) moments
- 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
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Golf's G.O.A.T. : Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and more
- 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 pangs
- Guru Nanak : first of the Sikhs
- Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles
- Gymnastics's G.O.A.T : Nadia Comaneci, Simone Biles, and more
- HRH : so many thoughts on royal style
- Hancock County, Kentucky : pictorial history, 1829-2014
- 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 : fighter for freedom!
- Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom
- Harrison County, Kentucky : history & families
- 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
- Hello, Molly! : a memoir
- Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh in Paris : The art of resistance
- 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
- Hillbilly Jim : the incredible story of a wrestling superstar
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- 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
- History of Scott County, Missouri : history & families
- 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
- Hollywood Park : a memoir
- Holy hot mess : finding God in the details of this weird and wonderful life
- Home and away : a professor's journal
- Home baked : my mom, marijuana, and the stoning of San Francisco
- Home of the brave : an American history book for kids : 15 immigrants who shaped U.S. history
- Home/land : a memoir of departure and return
- Honor Bound : an American story of dreams and service
- Hooked : how crafting saved my life
- 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
- House of sticks : a memoir
- How do I un-remember this? : unfortunately true stories
- How to astronaut : an insider's guide to leaving planet earth
- How to be a girl : a mother's memoir of raising her transgender daughter
- How to be human : an autistic man's guide to life
- How to stitch an American dream : a story of family, faith & the power of giving
- 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 a girl from Africa : a memoir
- 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 am somebody : three films by Madeline Anderson
- I came as a shadow : an autobiography
- I dream he talks to me : a memoir of learning how to listen
- 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 was better last night : a memoir
- 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 love : a memoir of love and loss
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- 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
- In the spirit of a dream : 13 stories of American immigrants of color
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- 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
- Invisible child : poverty, survival & hope in an American city
- Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city
- Is this anything?
- Isaac Newton and the laws of motion
- It's Garry Shandling's book
- It's not about the gun : lessons from my global career as a female FBI agent
- Jackie Robinson
- James Monroe : a life