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- "I heard you paint houses" : : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 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
- 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 brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- 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 forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A hero on Mount St. Helens : the life and legacy of David A. Johnston
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A living Gospel : reading God's story in holy lives
- A man's world : portraits
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- 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 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 silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A stranger among saints : Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- 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 well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- 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 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 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
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- 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
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : : a life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- 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
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, [Vol. III], 1856-1860
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- America's reluctant prince : : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's reluctant prince : : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- 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 disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American dreams : portraits & stories of a country
- 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 oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American philosophy : a love story
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- 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
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An unconventional wife : the life of Julia Sorell Arnold
- An unladylike profession : American women war correspondents in World War I
- And God created Burton
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- 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 home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- 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
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum : an American life
- 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"
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be strong and of good courage : how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny
- 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 C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Lincoln
- 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 and after : : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- 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 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
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Beyond valor : a World War II story of extraordinary heroism, sacrificial love, and a race against time
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- 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 Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black fortunes : : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blaze of light : the inspiring true story of Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor recipient
- Blood and oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
- 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
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- 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 : the making of a liberal icon
- Borges and me : an encounter
- 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 to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bouton : the life of a baseball original
- 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
- Brother Robert : growing up with Robert Johnson
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Carrie Fisher : : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Cassius X : the transformation of Muhammad Ali
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Catherine of Aragon : an intimate life of Henry VIII's true wife
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles James, portrait of an unreasonable man : fame, fashion, art
- 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
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- 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
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Co-conspirator for justice : the revolutionary life of Dr. Alan Berkman
- 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
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Madeleine : : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Colin Kaepernick : : from free agent to change agent
- 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
- Crescendo : the story of a musical genius who forever changed a southern town
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crow killer : the saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Crystal Eastman : a revolutionary life
- 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.
- D-Day girls : : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dadland
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dangerous ground : : my friendship with a serial killer
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darling, I'm going to Charlie : a memoir
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Dear Mr. Beckett : the Samuel Beckett file
- Death in ten minutes : the forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- 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
- Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
- 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
- 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 : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War
- 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
- Dutch girl : : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Earl Scruggs : banjo icon
- Earl Warren : a life of truth and justice
- Echo in Ramadi : the firsthand story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's deadliest city
- Ed Sheeran : writing out loud
- Edgar : an autobiography
- Edge of the map : the mountain life of Christine Boskoff
- Edison
- Edison
- Edison
- 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
- El Jefe : the stalking of Chapo Guzmán
- Eleanor
- 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
- Eliot Ness and the mad butcher : : hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology
- Eliot Ness and the mad butcher : hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology
- 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 I's secret lover : the royal affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
- 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
- Elton John : rocket m*n
- Elway : a relentless life
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- 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
- Empires of the sky : zeppelins, airplanes, and two men's epic duel to rule the world
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enemy of all mankind : : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ennio Morricone : in his own words
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- 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
- Every last tie : the story of the Unabomber and his family
- Everything beautiful in its time : : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- 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
- Exactly as you are : the life and faith of Mister Rogers
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
- Family in six tones : a refugee mother, an American daughter
- Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fannie Lou Hamer : America's freedom fighting woman
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fear is a choice : tackling life's challenges with dignity, faith, and determination
- Feuding fan dancers : Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the golden age of the showgirl
- Fighting Fox Company : the battling flank of the Band of Brothers
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Fighting words : the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars
- Finding Dora Maar : an artist, an address book, a life
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- 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 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 my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw --and my quest to follow
- 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 : : Sandra Day O'Connor, an intimate portrait of the first woman Supreme Court justice
- First : : Sandra Day O'Connor, an intimate portrait of the first woman Supreme Court justice
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an intimate portrait of the first woman Supreme Court justice
- 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