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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
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 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 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
- 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
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 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
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 9 1/2 narrow : my life in shoes
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- 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 Higher Call : an Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
- 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 band called Death
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- 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, 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 : 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 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 García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A few honest words : the Kentucky roots of popular music
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A full house of growing pains : a Hollywood mother's journey--
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- 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 good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- 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 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 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 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 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 newspaper reference work : men of affairs of Paducah and Western Kentucky
- 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 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 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 very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A very punchable face
- 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 with Jane Austen : a journey into adventure, love, and faith
- A wild idea
- A wolf called Romeo
- 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 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 Adams : champion for women
- 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
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- 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
- Adolf Hitler : German dictator
- Adolph Rupp and the rise of Kentucky basketball
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- Adventures of a traveling country boy
- 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
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- 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 : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agatha Christie : traveler, archaeologist, and author
- Agent Josephine
- 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 : 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 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
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- 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 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 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
- 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
- Alpha docs : the making of a cardiologist
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- 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
- 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 Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American animals : a memoir
- American bear : an adventure in the kindness of strangers
- American daughter : a memoir
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American experience, Wyatt Earp
- American heroes on the homefront : the hearts of heroes
- 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 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 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
- Amish confidential
- 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 excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An invisible thread
- 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
- Ancient aliens, Season 5, volume 2
- And There Was Light
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- 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 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
- Angel Wings: A Story of Love, Faith, Infertility, Surrogacy, and Not Giving Up Hope
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections
- Angels on our shoulders : World War II B-29 superfortress destroying the empire of Japan
- Angry sky
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Bonny
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
- Anne Frank : the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography
- Annie Oakley
- Annie and Helen
- Another Appalachia : coming up queer and Indian in a mountain place
- Another little piece of my heart : my life of rock and revolution in the '60s
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Antarctica : ice and sky
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Any day now : David Bowie : the London years, 1947-1974
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly Elegy / edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Apropos of nothing
- Archimedes
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aren't you forgetting someone? : essays from my mid-life revenge
- Aretha Franklin
- Ariana Grande : music superstar
- Armstrong
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- 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
- Astrid Linggren
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- 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
- Atlantic fever : Lindbergh, his competitors, and the race to cross the Atlantic
- Atlas of the State of Illinois : to which are added various general maps, history, statistics and illustrations
- Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs
- 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
- Audience of one : Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America
- Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey and Givenchy : a fashion love affair
- Audubon
- Augustus
- Aurelia, Aurélia : a memoir
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Autobiography of a face
- Autobiography of a recovering skinhead : Frank Meeink's story
- Autumn
- Ava Gardner : the secret conversations
- Ava's man
- Babe Ruth : baseball's all-time best!
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bach : music in the castle of heaven
- Back in the fight : the explosive memoir of a special operator who never gave up
- Back of the bus
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Backstage pass
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall
- Bad sister
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Ballard and Carlisle counties history : volume I
- Ballerina
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Baltimore boys
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barack
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barack Obama : out of many, one
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barney Dreyfuss : Pittsburgh's baseball titan
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barren County
- Barton Stone : a spiritual biography
- Baseball superstar Aaron Judge
- Baseball's G.O.A.T. : Babe Ruth, Mike Trout, and more
- Baseball's Record Breakers
- 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
- Basketball's greatest stars