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- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A crime in the family
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A man's world : portraits
- A mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A truck full of money : : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A truck full of money : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A walk through Paris
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- Above suspicion
- Adele : the stories behind the songs
- Adnan's story : : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : : a life
- Ali : a life
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American heiress : : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American philosophy : a love story
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Audrey Hepburn : in words and pictures
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Augustus : first emperor of Rome
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava : a life in movies
- Avedon : something personal
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barracoon : : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beastie Boys book
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Steve Jobs : : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming Steve Jobs : : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Nixon : : a man divided
- Being Nixon : : a man divided
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies : : the real West
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bing Crosby : a pocket full of dreams : the early years, 1903-1940
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Blood brothers : : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- 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
- Bobby Kennedy : : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born Trump : : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born survivors : : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born survivors : : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Boys in the trees : : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Broad band : : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bruce Lee : : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Bush
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Catherine of Aragon : an intimate life of Henry VIII's true wife
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles James, portrait of an unreasonable man : fame, fashion, art
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing Phil : the adventures of two undercover agents with the world's most charming con man
- Chasing light : : Michelle Obama through the lens of a White House photographer
- Chasing light : Michelle Obama through the lens of a White House photographer
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chicago flashback : the people and events that shaped a city's history
- Chief Seattle and the town that took his name : the change of worlds for the native people and settlers on Puget Sound
- Chief engineer : Washington Roebling : the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
- Chin : the life and crimes of mafia boss Vincent Gigante
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : : walking with destiny
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill's trial : : Winston Churchill and the salvation of free government
- Churchill's trial : Winston Churchill and the salvation of free government
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Conversations with McCartney
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crow killer : the saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer : the making of a young general
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or the life and times of Michael A.
- Cuz : the life and times of Michael A.
- Dadland
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dangerous ground : : my friendship with a serial killer
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darling, I'm going to Charlie : a memoir
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Dear Mr. Beckett : the Samuel Beckett file
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Destiny and power : : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana, our mother : : her life and legacy
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- Diane von Furstenberg : a life unwrapped
- Did it! : from yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary
- Dig if you will the picture : funk, sex, God, and genius in the music of Prince
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exupéry's lost child
- Disraeli : the novel politician
- Dodge City : : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dodge City : : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Benjamin Rush : the founding father who healed a wounded nation
- Driving Miss Norma : : one family's journey saying "yes" to living
- Driving Miss Norma : one family's journey saying "yes" to living
- Earl Scruggs : banjo icon
- Echo in Ramadi : the firsthand story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's deadliest city
- Ed Sheeran : writing out loud
- Edison vs. Tesla : : the battle over their last invention
- Edison vs. Tesla : the battle over their last invention
- Edna Lewis : at the table with an American original
- Edward VII : : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Eight survived : the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, Volume three, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Elon Musk : : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk : : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk : : rules of success
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Empire of deception : : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Endless frontier : Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enter Helen : the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the rise of the modern single woman
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Eunice : : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : : the star-crossed love story of two World War II correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two World War II correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Every last tie : the story of the Unabomber and his family
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Evita : the life of Eva Perón
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Feuding fan dancers : Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the golden age of the showgirl
- Finding Roger : an improbably theatrical love story
- Fire on the track : : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First founding father : Richard Henry Lee and the call to independence
- First ladies of running : 22 inspiring profiles of the rebels, rule breakers, and visionaries who changed the sport forever
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Florence Foster Jenkins : the inspiring true story of the world's worst singer
- 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
- Foo Fighters : learning to fly
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forging a president : how the wild West created Teddy Roosevelt
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick the Great : king of Prussia
- From Cold War to hot peace : : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- 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 Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From cradle to stage : : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Frontier grit : : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Game change : the life and death of Steve Montador and the future of hockey
- Game face : a lifetime of hard-earned lessons on and off the basketball court
- Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- George Gershwin : an intimate portrait
- George Harrison : behind the locked door
- George Michael : the life 1963-2016
- Ghostbuster's daughter : life with my dad, Harold Ramis
- Girl unbroken : a sister's harrowing story of survival from the streets of Long Island to the farms of Idaho
- Gizelle's bucket list : my life with a very large dog
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Gold dust woman : : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School
- Grant
- Grant
- Grant
- Grant
- Greta Garbo : divine star
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories & misadventures
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Gumption : : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gumption : : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gunslinger : : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Gustav Klimt at home
- H. H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Handel in London : a genius and his craft
- Hank & Jim : : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- Hannibal's oath : the life and wars of Rome's greatest enemy
- Harry : : a biography of a prince
- Harry : a biography of a prince
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir
- Henry Clay, America's greatest statesman
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her again : : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert Marshall
- Hero of the empire : : the Boer War, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill
- Hero of the empire : : the Boer War, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill
- Hero of the empire : the Boer War, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill
- 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
- Himalaya bound : one family's quest to save their animals - and an ancient way of life / Michael Benanav
- His father's son : the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hit refresh : : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hit refresh : : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Hollywood godfather : the life and crimes of Billy Wilkerson
- Homer and the holiday miracle : a true story
- Homeward bound : : the life of Paul Simon
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of Nutter : the rebel tailor of Savile Row
- Hunting El Chapo : : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- Hustling Hitler : the Jewish vaudevillian who fooled the Führer
- Hustling Hitler! : : the Jewish vaudevillian who fooled the Fuhrer
- I saw the light : the story of Hank Williams
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I've got this round : more tales of debauchery
- I, me, mine
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In days to come : a new hope for Israel
- In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the footsteps of Jesus : a chronicle of his life and the origins of Christianity
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Incarnations : a history of India in fifty lives
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press