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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 13 artists children should know
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 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
- A Higher Call : an Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
- A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- 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 consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García 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 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 likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A mind like mine : 21 famous people and their mental health
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A super sticky mistake
- A voice named Aretha
- A wild idea
- 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
- 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
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : President
- Abuela in shadow, abuela in light
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- 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
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agatha Christie : traveler, archaeologist, and author
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capone : icon
- Alan Turing
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Nobel
- Ali : a life
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- 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 blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- 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 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
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American daughter : a memoir
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An invisible thread
- 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 Warhol
- Anna : the biography
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Ariana Grande : music superstar
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- 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
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Ava's man
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Baseball superstar Aaron Judge
- Basketball superstar Lebron James
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Basketball's G.O.A.T. : Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and more
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the life and memes of the coolest actor in Hollywood
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Before Andrew Jackson was president
- Before Barack Obama was President
- Before Donald Trump was president
- Before Franklin D. Roosevelt was president
- Before I grew up
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Billie Eilish
- Bird : exploring the winged world
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Blackbeard : a notorious pirate in the Caribbean
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- 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
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- 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 run
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Breaking barriers : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Calvin Coolidge
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrying the colors : the life and legacy of Medal of Honor recipient Andrew Jackson Smith
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Celia planted a garden : the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- Centered : trading your plans for a life that matters
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- 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
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Chris Paul
- Christopher Columbus : discovering the Americas
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Citation : in a class by himself
- Clarence Saunders & the founding of Piggly Wiggly : the rise & fall of a Memphis maverick
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Cleopatra
- Coco Chanel
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated woman
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Confessions of a bookseller
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crazy Horse and Custer : born enemies
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- 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
- Damn Lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dare to be different : inspirational words from people who changed the world
- Daring dogs : 30 true tales of heroic hounds
- Dark midnight when I rise : the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Dark star : a biography of Vivien Leigh
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- 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
- David Copperfield's history of magic
- Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
- Dear Mr. Beckett : the Samuel Beckett file
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- 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
- Dirty sexy money : the unauthorized biography of Kris Jenner
- Disloyal : a memoir : the true story of the former personal attorney to the president of the United States
- Dispatches from Pluto : lost and found in the Mississippi Delta
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Drew Brees
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dying : a memoir
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Eleanor
- 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 & 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
- 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
- Elvis, Linda and me
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Escape : one day we had to run
- 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 beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- 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
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- 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 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 freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding me
- Finding me
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an American life
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- 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
- 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
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- 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
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin Pierce
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- 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 a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- From here to there : inventions that changed the way the world moves
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi for kids : his life and ideas, with 21 activities
- General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky : assessing the "reign of terror" of the summer of 1864
- George H.W. Bush
- George Lucas : a life
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- George Washington : the 1st president
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- George Washington, Frontier Colonel
- George Washington, entrepreneur : how our founding father's private business pursuits changed America and the world
- Gerald Ford
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Give them Lala
- 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
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Golf's G.O.A.T. : Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and more
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Grant
- Gregor Mendel
- Greta Thunberg
- Grover Cleveland
- Grover Cleveland : the 22nd and 24th President
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles
- Gymnastics's G.O.A.T : Nadia Comaneci, Simone Biles, and more
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- 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's escape
- Harry : a biography of a prince
- Harry S. Truman
- Harry S. Truman : the 33rd president
- Hatemonger : Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the white nationalist agenda
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter
- 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
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh in Paris : The art of resistance
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- HerStory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
- 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
- Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the age of revolution
- Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- 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
- Hiding in plain sight : Lady Bird Johnson in the White House
- High school
- Hillary Clinton : ground-breaking politician
- 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 truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- 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
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Holy hot mess : finding God in the details of this weird and wonderful life
- Home of the brave : an American history book for kids : 15 immigrants who shaped U.S. history
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Honor Bound : an American story of dreams and service
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hot Wheels developer : Elliot Handler
- House of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- How to be a girl : a mother