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- "For the sake of my country" : the diary of Col. W.W. Ward, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, Morgan's Brigade, C.S.A.
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 black inventors and their inventions
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 12 years a slave
- 13 artists children should know
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 14 cows for America
- 15 to life : Kenneth's story
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 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
- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 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
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 3 2 1 awesome! : 20 fearless women who dared to be different
- 4,000 years of uppity women : rebellious belles, daring dames, and headstrong heroines through the ages
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 years of Exile : the story of a band in transition
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 1/2 narrow : my life in shoes
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel & Andrew Jackson
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A baker's dozen
- A ballerina's tale
- A band called Death
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, build a bungalow, diaper a baby monkey, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- 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 cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A chef's life, Season five
- A chef's life, Season four
- A chef's life, Season one
- A chef's life, Season three
- A chef's life, Season two
- A chef's life, The final harvest
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- A covert affair : [Julia Child and Paul Child in the O.S.S.]
- A covert affair : the adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dark and bloody ground
- A different life : growing up learning disabled and other adventures : a memoir
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dual biography : Lloyd Tilghman and Francis Asbury Shoup : two forgotten Confederate generals
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A few honest words : the Kentucky roots of popular music
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A full house of growing pains : a Hollywood mother's journey--
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl's got to breathe : the life of Teresa Wright
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A good and perfect gift : faith, expectations, and a little girl named Penny
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of Highland County, Virginia
- A history of Kentucky Baptists : from 1769 to 1885
- A history of Marion County, South Carolina, from its earliest times to the present, 1901
- A history of Richland County, Vol. 1, 1732-1805
- A history of Shenandoah County, Virginia
- A history of me
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- 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 life in parts
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of my own
- A life of privilege, mostly
- A life well played : my stories
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A literary history of Kentucky
- A little bit wicked : life, love, and faith in stages
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way home
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of the first all-black high school rowing team
- A mother's courage : talking back to autism
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A newspaper reference work : men of affairs of Paducah and Western Kentucky
- A pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A pictorial history of Clark County, Kentucky
- A picture book of Benjamin Franklin
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A picture book of Florence Nightingale
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of John F. Kennedy
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A picture book of Patrick Henry
- A picture book of Paul Revere
- A picture book of Robert E. Lee
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth
- A picture book of Thomas Jefferson
- A pilgrim in a pilgrim church : memoirs of a Catholic archbishop
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A poem is a naked person
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A portrait of rivalry : an untold story
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A question of bounty : the shadow of doubt
- A redemptive path forward : from incarceration to a life of activism
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf
- A sense of the mysterious : science and the human spirit
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A sick life : TLC 'n me : stories from on and off the stage
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A sketch of the life and character of Daniel Boone
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A story of stewardship : the life and legacy of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwin Gheens : unpublished manuscripts by John Filiatreau and by Bill J. Leonard
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very dangerous woman : the lives, loves and lies of Russia's most seductive spy
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A very punchable face
- A view from a broad
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A voice named Aretha
- A volcano beneath the snow : John Brown's war against slavery
- A walk across America
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A walk with Jane Austen : a journey into adventure, love, and faith
- A wild idea
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert
- 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
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in space ; : and beyond a year in space
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- AC/DC 1973-1980 : the Bon Scott years
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust : off the record with the Beatles, Bowie, Elton & so much more
- Abe & Fido : Lincoln's love of animals and the touching story of his favorite canine companion
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- About Alice
- Above the line : lessons in leadership and life from a championship season
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : Defender of the Union!
- Abraham Lincoln : President
- Abraham Lincoln : the 16th President
- Abraham Lincoln : the Great Emancipator
- Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years
- Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth
- Abuela in shadow, abuela in light
- Accepted : how the first gay superstar changed WWE
- Access all areas : stories from a hard rock life
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Acid for the children
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acid test : LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action Jackson
- Activist : a story of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting
- Ada Lovelace
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adolf Hitler : German dictator
- Adolph Rupp : Kentucky's basketball baron
- Adolph Rupp and the rise of Kentucky basketball
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- Adventures of a traveling country boy
- African American Almanac
- African American doctors of World War I : the lives of 104 volunteers
- African American faces of the Civil War : an album
- 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
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- 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
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an English mystery
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agatha Christie : traveler, archaeologist, and author
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Ahead of the hounds
- Ai Weiwei : never sorry
- Ain't it time we said goodbye : the Rolling Stones on the road to exile
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capone : icon
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Jaffee's mad life
- Alan Turing
- Alben Barkley : a life in politics
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : forging the path of modern physics
- Albert Einstein : genius of space and time!
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the fighting founding father!
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : Macedonian king and conqueror
- Alexander the Great : journey to the end of the earth
- Alexander the Great : the hunt for a new past
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Nobel
- Ali : a life
- Ali : an American champion
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
- All American : two young men, the 2001 Army-Navy game and the war they fought in Iraq
- All anybody ever wanted of me was to work : the memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman
- All at sea : a memoir
- All bets are off : losers, liars, and recovery from gambling addiction
- 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 creatures great and small
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All happy families : a memoir
- All in : an autobiography
- All in : the autobiography of Billie Jean King
- All in : the education of General David Petraeus
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All my dogs : a life
- 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 that you leave behind: : a memoir
- 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 money in the world
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way to America : the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel
- All the ways we kill and die : an elegy for a fallen comrade and the hunt for his killer
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Allen County, Kentucky : a pictorial history
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
- 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
- Alpha docs : the making of a cardiologist
- Alvin York : a new biography of the hero of the Argonne
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Alzheimer's with my mother, Eilleen
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : Lady Lindy
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- Amelia Earhart : the turbulent life of an American icon
- America's obsessives : the compulsive energy that built a nation
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's team : the official history of the Dallas Cowboys
- American Experience, America's wild west
- American Isis : the life and art of Sylvia Plath
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American animals : a memoir
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American bear : an adventure in the kindness of strangers
- American daughter : a memoir
- American desperado : my life, from Mafia soldier to cocaine cowboy to secret government asset
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American experience, Wyatt Earp
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American gypsy
- American heroes on the homefront : the hearts of heroes
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American masters, This is Bob Hope
- American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- American moments, Lewis and Clark
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover muslim FBI agent
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
- American sniper : [the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history]
- American socialist : the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spy : my secret history in the CIA, Watergate, and beyond
- American terrorist : Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City bombing
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- Among the islands
- Amoralman : a true story and other lies
- Amy
- An American conscience : the Reinhold Niebuhr story
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist
- An apple a day : a memoir of love and recovery from anorexia
- An autobiography of Jack London
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An imperfect god : George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of America
- An invisible thread
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- An invisible thread Christmas story
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An outlaw and a lady : a memoir of music, life with Waylon, and the faith that brought me home
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- Ancient aliens, Season 5, volume 2
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- And so it goes : Kurt Vonnegut, a life
- And the good news is-- : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And the good news is-- : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then life happens : a memoir
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andre the Giant : life and legend
- Andre the giant
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Carnegie : industrialist and philanthropist
- Andrew Carnegie and the steel industry
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Andrew Jackson : heroic leader or cold-hearted ruler?
- Andrew Jackson : the 7th President
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson, his life and times
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy Kaufman : the truth, finally
- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angel Wings: A Story of Love, Faith, Infertility, Surrogacy, and Not Giving Up Hope
- Angel in aisle 3 : the true story of a mysterious vagrant, a convicted bank executive, and the unlikely friendship that saved both their lives
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections