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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- --if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1876 : year of the gun : the year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse and the two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) created the Wild West, and why it's still with us
- 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
- 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
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Black women's history of the United States
- A Royal Ride : Catherine the Great's Great Invention
- 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, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- 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 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 great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- 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 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 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 place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A rose named peace: : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- 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 spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A voice named Aretha
- 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's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- 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
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- 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
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- 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
- Aim for the skies : Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith's race to complete Amelia Earhart's quest
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a curious mind
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- 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 across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- 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 she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on Murderers' Row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- 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
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- 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
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daughter : a memoir
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- 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
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Anders Celsius
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna Pavlova
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna of all the Russias : the life of Anna Akhmatova
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Anne Frank's chestnut tree
- Another gospel? : a lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity
- Anthony Davis
- Anthony Davis
- Apollo 11 and the first men on the moon
- Apollo : god of the sun, healing, music, and poetry
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- Aretha Franklin
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur Ashe
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- 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
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audrey Hepburn
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Ayrton Senna
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- 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
- Barbie : Ruth Handler
- Barnum : an American life
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Basketball greats
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be amazing : a history of pride
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because Claudette
- Becoming Babe Ruth
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- 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 Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benjamin Banneker : brilliant surveyor, mathematician, and astronomer
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Bethany Hamilton
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty White : 100 remarkable moments in an extraordinary life
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates : founder of Microsoft
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean King
- Billie Jean King
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Bing Crosby
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- 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
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Board games : Milton Bradley
- Boardwalk babies
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bogart
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born ready : the true story of a boy named Penelope
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- 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 draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie : a biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave hearted : the women of the American west 1836-1880
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breaking the ice
- 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
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Brother & sister
- Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years
- Bruce Lee
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- 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
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- California soul : an American epic of cooking and survival
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Call me crazy
- Canyon dreams : a basketball season on the Navajo Nation
- Captain Tom
- Carlos Santana : sound of the heart, song of the world
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry on : a story of resilience, redemption, and an unlikely family
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Cesar Chavez
- Cesar Chavez
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin's around-the-world adventure
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Dickens and the street children of London
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotta Bass
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- Chasing the Bear : how Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Chicago Bulls
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Citizen soldier : a life of Harry S. Truman
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- 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
- Close-up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Coco Chanel
- 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: Lise
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Concussion
- Confessions of a bookseller
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty and law
- Conversations with Scorsese
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- Cost of living : essays
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- Courageous world changers
- Crash override : how Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crazy Horse
- Crazy Horse and Custer : born enemies
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crispus Attucks
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- 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
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dad's maybe book
- Dadland
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dancing through fields of color : the story of Helen Frankenthaler
- Dangerous Jane
- Daniel Boone
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the flower fragrant garden : two sisters separated by China's Civil War
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie
- David Bowie : a life
- Death by atrocious animals
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Degas : painter of ballerinas
- Delicious : the life & art of Wayne Thiebaud
- 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