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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 12 artists with disabilities
- 12 women in medicine
- 14 cows for America
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 20 fun facts about Aaron Burr
- 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 Fairmount Avenue
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 97,196 words : essays
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Black women's history of the United States
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A delayed life : the true story of the librarian of Auschwitz
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A farewell to arms, legs, & jockstraps : a sportswriter's memoir
- A father's story
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A greater story : my rescue, your purpose, and our place in God's plan
- A history of me
- A history of my brief body
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A light so lovely : the spiritual legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A love-stretched life : stories on wrangling hope, embracing the unexpected, and discovering the meaning of family
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- A million little pieces
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A rose named peace: : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A visible man : a memoir
- A voice named Aretha
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abner Doubleday and baseball's beginning : separating fact from fiction
- Abolitionism : the movement to end slavery
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : lawyer, leader, legend
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adolf Hitler
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : the life, times, and rise of "AOC"
- Ali : a life
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over but the shoutin'
- All over but the shoutin'
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- All that remains : a life in death
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All things wise and wonderful
- Alone : orphaned on the ocean
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Always a song : singers, songwriters, sinners, & saints : my story of the folk music revival
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always remember me : how one family survived World War II
- Amanda Gorman
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- America's quarterback : Bart Starr and the rise of the National Football League
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna of all the Russias : the life of Anna Akhmatova
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Annie Oakley
- Anthony Davis
- Apollo : god of the sun, healing, music, and poetry
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aretha Franklin
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Arthur Ashe
- As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Audrey Hepburn
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Ayrton Senna
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balto and the great race
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barack Obama
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Barbie : Ruth Handler
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Basketball greats
- Be amazing : a history of pride
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming Babe Ruth
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Kid Quixote : a true story of belonging in America
- Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Belushi
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Between the lines : stories from the underground
- Between the world and me
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia
- Big Apple diaries
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Cunningham : on the street : five decades of iconic photography
- Bill Gates : founder of Microsoft
- Billie Jean King
- Billie Jean King
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- Bird brother : a falconer's journey and the healing power of wildlife
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Bitter brew : the rise and fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's kings of beer
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blips on a screen : how Ralph Baer invented TV video gaming and launched a worldwide obsession
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- Blue nights
- Board games : Milton Bradley
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bogart
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born country : how faith, family, and music brought me home
- Born ready : the true story of a boy named Penelope
- Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the south seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bowie : a biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys will be boys : the glory days and party nights of the Dallas Cowboys dynasty
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brat
- Brave Clara Barton
- Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) lifetime
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breaking the ice
- Breathe : a letter to my sons
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Bright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brotherhood : dharma, destiny, and the American dream
- Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years
- Bruce Lee
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- California soul : an American epic of cooking and survival
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Call me crazy
- Called out of darkness : a spiritual confession
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Catching the light
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Cesar Chavez
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens and the street children of London
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotta Bass
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- Chasing grace : reflections of a Catholic girl, grown up
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Chicago Bulls
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Children of the land
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Chunky
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill's shadow : the life and afterlife of Winston Churchill
- Citizen soldier : a life of Harry S. Truman
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Clara Lemlich
- Clark Gable : a biography
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clever Hans : the true story of the counting, adding, and time-telling horse
- Clever maids : the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales
- Close-up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code makers & code breakers
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Badass : the true story of Virginia Hall
- Code name: Lise
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Comeback season : my unlikely story of friendship with the greatest living Negro League baseball players
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Concussion
- Confessions of a bookseller
- Consent : a memoir
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Conversations with Scorsese
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Corazon Aquino
- Coretta Scott King
- Corrections in ink : a memoir
- Cost of living : essays
- Could you be a monster wave surfer?
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- Crayola : Edwin Binney & C. Harold Smith
- Crazy Horse
- Crispus Attucks
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Cuando los ángeles cantan : la historia de la leyenda de rock Carlos Santana
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Dad's maybe book
- Dance me to the end : ten months and ten days with ALS
- Dangerous Jane
- Daniel Boone
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Daughters of the flower fragrant garden : two sisters separated by China's Civil War
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- David Bowie
- David Bowie : a life
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear William : a father's memoir of addiction, recovery, love, and loss
- Degas : painter of ballerinas
- Delicious : the life & art of Wayne Thiebaud
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe Mccarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism and friendship ; adapted for young adults
- Diamond Doris : the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Did ye hear Mammy died? : a memoir
- Didn't we almost have it all : in defense of Whitney Houston
- Diego : bigger than life
- Diego Rivera : his world and ours
- Dig if you will the picture : funk, sex, God, and genius in the music of Prince
- Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from the legendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Disloyal : a memoir : the true story of the former personal attorney to the president of the United States
- Do you mind if I cancel? : (things that still annoy me)
- Doctor to the Resistance : the heroic true story of an American surgeon and his family in occupied Paris
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Does the noise in my head bother you? : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolley Madison, the White House, and the big tornado
- Dolly Parton
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Don't give up, don't give in : lessons from an extraordinary life
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump
- Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America
- Dorothy & Herbert : an ordinary couple and their extraordinary collection of art
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Downton Shabby : one American's ultimate DIY adventure restoring his family's English castle
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel : a biography
- Dr. Seuss : imaginative children's book writer and illustrator
- Drawing from memory
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Dreamers
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dwayne Johnson
- Dwayne Johnson
- Dwight Yoakam : a thousand miles from nowhere
- Dying of politeness
- Eddie Bauer : down jacket developer
- Eden's outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
- Egypt's golden couple : when Akhenaten and Nefertiti were Gods on Earth