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- #NotYourPrincess : : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 10 kings & queens who changed the world
- 14 cows for America
- 180° south
- 20 soccer superstars
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 40 years of Queen
- 50 fashion designers you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 700 Sundays
- 740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- A beautiful mind
- A champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A coat of yellow paint : moving through the noise to love the life you live
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A day in Tuscany : more confessions of a Chianti tour guide
- A friend called Anne : one girl's story of war, peace, and a unique friendship with Anne Frank
- A game plan for life : the power of mentoring
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A lion called Christian
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man without a country
- A million little pieces
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A nation rising : [untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history]
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- A picture book of Dwight David Eisenhower
- A picture book of Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A reporter's life
- A secret gift : : [how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression]
- A small place
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A thousand days of magic : dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House
- A thousand trails home : living with caribou
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A walk across America
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A wild idea
- A window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A writer's life
- A year and six seconds : a love story
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the world : [journey of a passionate traveler]
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- ADHD & me : what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table
- Abe Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abe Lincoln remembers
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abigail Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : 16th U.S. president
- Abraham Lincoln : a life of honesty
- Abraham Lincoln : a life of respect
- Abraham Lincoln : the 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era : the man and his times
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Across the minefields
- Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
- After Capone : the life and world of Chicago mob boss Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti
- After all
- Aftershocks : : a memoir
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Al Capone : Scarface
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a life of genius
- Albert Einstein : genius of the twentieth century
- Albert Einstein : universal genius
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alexander : the boy soldier who conquered the world
- Alexander Calder
- Alexander Calder and his magical mobiles
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell : setting the tone for communication
- Alexander Graham Bell invents
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a biography
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander the Great : master of the ancient world
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Ali's comeback : : the untold story
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All by my selves : Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and me
- All in : : an autobiography
- All is grace : a ragamuffin memoir
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the kings men
- All there is : : love stories from StoryCorps
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All things wise and wonderful
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Alone : [orphaned on the ocean]
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always a song : singers, songwriters, sinners, and saints : my story of the folk music revival
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
- Amazing president Theodore Roosevelt
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : Lucky : the story of Charles Lindbergh
- Amelia Earhart : this broad ocean
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America's fighting admirals : [winning the war at sea in World War II]
- America's queen : the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- American Jennie : the remarkable life of Lady Randolph Churchill
- American Revolution battles and leaders
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American lion : [Andrew Jackson in the White House]
- American on purpose : the improbable adventures of an unlikely patriot
- American rose : [a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee]
- Amos Fortune, free man
- An altar in the world : a geography of faith
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- Ancient mathematicians
- And I paint it : Henriette Wyeth's world
- And furthermore
- And then what happened, Paul Revere?
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Jackson : America's 7th president
- Andrew Jackson : good, evil & the presidency
- Andrew Jackson : his life and times
- Andy Warhol : a documentary film
- Andy Warhol : pop art painter
- Angela's ashes
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anne Frank : hidden hope
- Anne Frank : the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography
- Anne Frank : the life of a young girl
- Anne Frank : the young writer who told the world her story
- Anne Frank and children of the Holocaust
- Anne Frank remembered
- Annexed
- Annie Oakley : American sharpshooter
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Are you my mother? : a comic drama
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Art 21 : : art in the twenty-first century, Seasons one and two.
- As a woman : what I learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy after I transitioned
- Assassination vacation
- Audrey Hepburn : an elegant spirit
- Audrey Hepburn remembered
- Autobiography of a Yogi
- Autobiography of a face
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Babe Ruth : a twentieth-century life
- Babe Ruth saves baseball
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Bad dog, Marley!
- Bad girls of the Bible : and what we can learn from them
- Bad lawyer : a memoir of law and disorder
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : Presidente de Estados Unidos
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barefoot in the rubble
- Barnum Brown : dinosaur hunter
- Barry the bravest Saint Bernard
- Baseball's greatest hitters
- Basilone : Marine Corps legend & American hero
- Basketball stars
- Basketball's top 10 slam dunkers
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Beautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- Beautiful things : : a memoir
- Becoming : : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Jane
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Beethoven : the sound and the fury
- Beethoven for kids : his life and music with 21 activities
- Behind the mask : the life of Queen Elizabeth I
- Believe it
- Bell and the science of the telephone
- Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"
- Ben Franklin
- Ben Franklin : printer, author, inventor, politician
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : printer, scientist, author, and diplomat
- Benjamin Franklin : scientist and statesman
- Benjamin Franklin, American genius : his life and ideas, with 21 activities
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Bevelations : lessons from a mutha, auntie, bestie
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond band of brothers : [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters]
- Beyond the miracle worker : the remarkable life of Anne Sullivan Macy and her extraordinary friendship with Helen Keller
- Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Bill Gates : a twentieth-century life
- Bill Peet : an autobiography
- Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux
- Black Fox : the true story of Adolph Hitler
- Black Hawk : Sac rebel
- Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Blockhead : the life of Fibonacci
- Blood and treasure : : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood red snow : the memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front
- Bloody times : the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Blue nights
- Bob Hope : America's entertainer
- Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America
- Bonhoeffer : : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born free
- Born free : a lioness of two worlds
- Born on the fourth of July
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to run : [a hidden tribe, super athletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen]
- Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
- Born to the mob : the true-life story of the only man to work for all five of New York's Mafia families
- Boss : Richard J. Daley of Chicago
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boy : tales of childhood
- Boy soldier : a memoir of innocence lost and humanity regained in northern Uganda
- Brave companions : portraits in history
- Bravey : : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard
- Breaking waves : Winslow Homer paints the sea
- Breathe : a life in flow
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Bringing down the house : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : : a memoir
- Brothers at bat : the true story of an amazing all-brother baseball team
- Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story
- Brown girl dreaming
- Buck
- Buffett : the making of an American capitalist
- Bulu : African wonder dog
- Burma chronicles
- Burning man : the trials of D.H. Lawrence
- Buying a piece of Paris : a memoir
- C'est la vie : an American conquers the city of light, begins a new life, and becomes--zut alors!--almost French
- Cack-handed : a memoir
- Calamity Jane
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Calvin Coolidge
- Can I see your I.D.? : true stories of false identities
- Can't you make them behave, King George?
- Candy bomber : the story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
- Cary Grant, dark angel
- Casey Jones
- Catherine the Great : : [portrait of a woman]
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Caviar dreams, tuna fish budget
- Chariots of fire
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens : England's most captivating storyteller
- Charles Dickens : a life
- Charles Dickens : scenes from an extraordinary life
- Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith
- Chasing Churchill : in search of my grandfather
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- Chasing Madoff
- Che Guevara : a revolutionary life
- Cheaper by the dozen
- Cherry : a memoir
- Chicago massacre Richard Speck
- Chicken with plums
- Chief Crazy Horse : following a vision
- Chief Joseph : the voice for peace
- Chinaberry sidewalks
- Christopher Columbus : explorer of the New World
- Christopher Columbus : opening the Americas to European exploration
- Chuck Close : face book
- Churchill
- Cicero : the life and times of Rome's greatest politician
- Cinderella Man : James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history
- Circo
- Citizen King
- Clapton : [the autobiography]
- Clara Barton
- Classical composers : the lives and works of the great musical creators of the medieval, Baroque and Classical eras, with 200 illustrations
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude & Camille : a novel of Monet
- Claude Monet
- Claude Monet : the magician of colour
- Claude Monet : the painter who stopped the trains
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra : Egypt's last and greatest queen
- Cleopatra : a life
- Cleopatra and Antony : power, love, and politics in the ancient world
- Cleopatra, the first woman of power
- Coco Chanel : the legend and the life
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code talker
- Cold hands, warm heart : Alaskan adventures of an Iditarod champion
- Cole Porter : a biography
- Color of war, VI, Hitler
- Columbus : opening up the new world
- Comfort me with apples : more adventures at the table
- Commodore : the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Composers : their lives and works
- Composing a further life : the age of active wisdom
- Constantine : ruler of Christian Rome
- Conversations with God
- Conversations with Tom Petty
- Cook : James Cook charts the Pacific Ocean
- Corazon Aquino
- Cost of living : essays
- Crashing through : a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see
- Crazy Horse : a Lakota life
- Crazy for the storm : : a memoir of survival
- Critical companion to Emily Dickinson : a literary reference to her life and work
- Cromwell, the Lord Protector
- Crusade in Europe
- Crying in H Mart : : a memoir
- Cubs : where have you gone?
- D-Day survivor : an autobiography
- Da Gama : Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope
- Daniel Boone and the Cumberland Gap
- Darkness visible : a memoir of madness
- David Beckham
- Day by day with Taylor Swift
- Dear Cary : my life with Cary Grant
- Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- Death in a prairie house : Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin murders
- Death in the city of light : the serial killer of Nazi-occupied Paris
- Decision points
- Decoded
- Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
- Derek Jeter : baseball superstar
- Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia
- Designs on the heart : the homemade art of Grandma Moses
- Destiny of the Republic : : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president
- Destiny of the Republic : : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president
- Destiny of the Republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
- Devil at my heels
- Devotion : a memoir
- Dewey : [the small-town library cat who touched the world]
- Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
- Dewey the library cat : a true story
- Dewey the library cat : a true story
- Dewey's Christmas at the library
- Diana : an amazing life : the People cover stories 1981-1997
- Diary of a young naturalist
- Diego Rivera : his world and ours
- Diego Velázquez
- Different like Coco
- Dispatches from the edge : [a memoir of war, disasters, and survival]
- Distant skies : an American journey on horseback
- Doc Holliday : the life and legend
- Does the noise in my head bother you? : [a rock 'n' roll memoir]
- Does the noise in my head bother you? : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- Dolley Madison, the White House, and the big tornado
- Don't know much about the kings & queens of England
- Don't know much about the presidents
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Don't put me in, coach : my incredible NCAA journey from the end of the bench to the end of the bench
- Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual politics in nineteenth-century America
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : : a historical perspective
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel : a biography
- Drawing from memory
- Dream big! : how to reach for your stars
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Drew Brees
- Drinking : a love story
- Drunkard : a hard-drinking life
- Dry
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Earth squad
- Eat, pray, love : [one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia]
- Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
- Edgar Degas
- Edgar Degas : paintings that dance
- Edward Hopper
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Eisenhower : in war and peace
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt : transformative first lady
- Eleanor of Aquitaine : queen of France, queen of England
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : a friendship that changed the world
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth I : the people's queen : her life and times, 21 activities
- Elizabeth Taylor : a loving tribute
- Elizabeth leads the way : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the right to vote
- Elizabeth the Queen : inside the life of a modern monarch
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Ellen Ochoa
- Ellen and Edith : Woodrow Wilson's first ladies
- Elton John
- Elvis : a graphic novel
- Elvis : from Memphis to Hollywood
- Elvis Presley : from the beginning to the end
- Eminem AKA
- Empire of pain : : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
- Enchantment : the life of Audrey Hepburn
- Endurance : an epic of polar adventure
- Enough already : learning to love the way I am today
- Enrique's journey
- Eric Liddell : Champion of Conviction
- Ernest Hemingway : wrestling with life
- Ernest Shackleton
- Escape
- Escape from Auschwitz
- Escape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West
- Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words
- Escape! : the story of the great Houdini
- Essentially Charli : : the ultimate guide to keeping it real
- Euclid : the great geometer
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Even more fantastic failures : true stories of people who changed the world by falling down first