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- 'Twas the night before Pride
- --if you lived at the time of the American Revolution
- --if you lived at the time of the Civil War
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 amazing facts about the Negro
- 100 things Cubs fans should know & do before they die
- 100 things to know about numbers, computers & coding
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 12 great moments that changed newspaper history
- 12 seconds of silence : how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
- 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
- 1621 : a new look at Thanksgiving
- 17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 1776
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1812 : a traveler's guide to the war that defined a continent
- 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
- 1883 : a Yellowstone origin story
- 1900-20 : linen & lace
- 1913 : seeds of conflict
- 1916 : a global history
- 1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder
- 1944 : FDR and the year that changed history
- 1969 : the year everything changed
- 1969 Vietnam War protest March
- 20 fun facts about the industrial revolution
- 20 fun facts about women in ancient Egypt
- 20 fun facts about women in ancient Greece and Rome
- 20 fun facts about women of the Middle Ages
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 300
- 300
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 50 animals that have been to space
- 500 nations : an illustrated history of North American Indians
- 66 on 66 : a photographer's journey
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Black women's history of the United States
- A Christmas grace : a novel
- A German requiem
- A King's Ransom
- A Quilt for Christmas
- A beauty so rare
- A big day for baseball
- A big day for baseball
- 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 bond never broken
- A bound heart
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A breath of hope
- A breath of snow and ashes
- A bride's story
- A brief history of creation : science and the search for the origin of life
- A burnable book
- A cat's tale : a journey through feline history
- A collective bargain : unions, organizing, and the fight for democracy
- A column of fire
- A column of fire
- A corruption of blood
- A crack in creation : gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution
- A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906
- A crazy day with cobras
- A crazy day with cobras
- A dangerous business
- A dangerous collaboration
- A daring venture
- A darker sea : Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 : a novel
- A daughter's inheritance
- A day long to be remembered : Lincoln in Gettysburg
- A day to pick your own cotton
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A desperate hope
- A devious death
- A distance too grand
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A duke worth fighting for
- A fall of shadows
- A fierce radiance : a novel
- A fine start
- A first-class catastrophe : the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
- A flag for Juneteenth
- A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes
- A game of fear
- A gentleman in Moscow
- A gentlewoman's guide to murder
- A ghost tale for Christmas time
- A gilded lady
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good night for ghosts
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future
- A hero born
- A higher call
- A history of African-Americans in McLean County, Illinois, 1835-1975
- A history of American sports in 100 objects
- A history of God : the 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- A history of architecture in 100 buildings
- A history of me
- A history of photography in 50 cameras
- A history of the world in 6 glasses
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A hunt in winter : a Joe Swallow mystery
- A journey through art : a global history
- A journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kingdom strange : the brief and tragic history of the lost colony of Roanoke
- A lady in disguise
- A lady like Sarah : a Rocky Creek romance
- A libertarian walks into a bear : the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)
- A light in the storm : the diary of Amelia Martin
- A light in the wilderness
- A light in the wilderness : a novel
- A long petal of the sea : a novel
- A long walk to water : a novel
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of character
- A matter of character : a novel
- A mercy
- A million years in a day : a curious history of everyday life from the Stone Age to the phone age
- A more perfect reunion : race, integration, and the future of America
- A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910
- A net for small fishes
- A nice little place on the North Side : Wrigley Field at one hundred
- A night divided
- A night divided
- A note yet unsung
- A passage to India
- A pawn for a queen : an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's court
- A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America
- A people's history of the United States : 1492-2001
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect place
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A place to belong
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A primary source history of the Dust Bowl
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A pure heart
- A quiet flame
- A quilt for Christmas
- A rare Benedictine
- A reliable wife : a novel
- A reluctant belle
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A ringside affair : boxing's last golden age
- A rising man
- A rogue of my own
- A royal pain
- A shot in the arm!
- A single shard
- A single spark
- A single thread
- A skinful of shadows
- A slant of light : a novel
- A slip of a girl
- A snapshot of murder
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A squirrelly situation
- A step so grave
- A stone's throw : an Ellie Stone mystery
- A sunless sea : a William Monk novel
- A sunless sea : a William Monk novel
- A sweet smell of roses
- A tale of two murders
- A tale of two murders
- A tale of two murders : guilt, innocence, and the execution of Edith Thompson
- A taste for monsters
- A tender hope
- A terrible thing to waste : environmental racism and its assault on the American mind
- A thief in the theater
- A thing of beauty : travels in mythical and modern Greece
- A thousand shall fall : a Civil War novel
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to dance
- A timeline of warships
- A treacherous curse
- A treacherous curse
- A war for the soul of America : a history of the culture wars
- A whisper of peace : a novel
- A whole new league
- A woman called Sage : a novel
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A worse place than hell : how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation
- AP U.S. history 2022
- Abbey Road : the best studio in the world
- Abbott : 1973
- Abigail
- Abigail Adams in her own words
- Abner & me : a baseball card adventure
- Abner Doubleday and baseball's beginning : separating fact from fiction
- Abolitionism : the movement to end slavery
- About time : a history of civilization in twelve clocks
- Above and beyond : NASA's journey to tomorrow
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Absolutely everything! : a history of Earth, dinosaurs, rulers, robots and other things too numerous to mention
- Absolution by murder : a Sister Fidelma mystery
- Action Park : fast times, wild rides, and the untold story of America's most dangerous amusement park
- Action! : how movies began
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace : first computer programmer
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam of the road
- Addy learns a lesson : a school story
- Addy saves the day : a summer story
- Addy's surprise : a Christmas story
- Adolf Hitler
- Adèle & Simon in America
- African American lives
- African Town
- African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals
- After Jackie : pride, prejudice, and baseball's forgotten heroes : an oral history
- After Lincoln : how the north won the Civil War and lost the peace
- After the last border : two families and the story of refuge in America
- After the rain
- Afterlives
- Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 6
- Agent Sniper : the Cold War superagent and the ruthless head of the CIA
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agincourt
- Ahimsa
- Air power : a global history
- Air raid search and rescue
- Aircraft
- Airplanes from then to now
- Akin : a novel
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capone does my homework
- Al Capone does my shirts
- Al Capone does my shirts
- Al Capone shines my shoes
- Alaska
- Albert Nobbs
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- Alice Austen lived here
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- All about earthquakes : discovering how Earth moves and shakes
- All about hurricanes : discovering Earth's wildest storms
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All different now : Juneteenth, the first day of freedom
- All for Stilton, Stilton for all!, 15
- 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 of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
- All she left behind
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that is wicked : a gilded-age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the Presidents' gardens : Madison's cabbages to Kennedy's roses : how the White House grounds have grown with America
- All the light we cannot see
- All the light we cannot see : a novel
- All the lives we never lived : a novel
- All things hidden
- All things hidden
- All things new
- All things new
- All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah
- Allies
- Alone in Berlin
- Along a storied trail
- Alphabetical : how every letter tells a story
- Amazing grace
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia's war
- America : an illustrated history
- America dancing : from the cakewalk to the moonwalk
- America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States
- America on fire : the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s
- America's bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve
- America's bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve
- America's game : the NFL at 100
- America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union
- America's pastor : Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation
- America's quarterback : Bart Starr and the rise of the National Football League
- American Indian code talkers
- American Revolution
- American Revolution
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Theatre Wing : an oral history : 100 years, 100 voices, 100 million miracles
- American cake : from colonial gingerbread to classic layer, the stories and recipes behind more than 125 of our best-loved cakes
- American comics : a history
- American dialogue : the founders and us
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American experience, Freedom riders
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American gospel : God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation
- American hate : survivors speak out
- American history
- American hunter : how legendary hunters shaped America
- American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
- American poison : how racial hostility destroyed our promise
- American psychosis : a historical investigation of how the Republican Party went crazy
- American spy : a novel
- Among the fallen
- An African American and Latinx history of the United States
- An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States
- An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
- An American tail
- An aim for the homemaker : 75 years of education and outreach, 1924-1999
- An atlas of extinct countries
- An echo in the bone : a novel
- An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
- An eye for glory : the Civil War chronicles of a Citizen Soldier
- An igloo on the Moon : exploring architecture
- An impartial witness
- An indigenous peoples' history of the United States
- An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An unexpected love
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Maya
- Ancient Mesopotamia
- Ancient Mesopotamia revealed
- Ancient Rome
- Ancient Rome : an interactive history adventure
- Ancient Rome : dig up the secrets of the dead
- And I darken
- And after the fire : a novel
- And starring Pancho Villa as himself
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Anders Celsius
- Andrew Carnegie and the steel industry
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angel Island immigration
- Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal
- Animals on the trail with Lewis and Clark
- Animation
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna's crossing
- Anna's crossing : an Amish beginnings novel
- Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
- Anne's kindred spirits
- Anne's school days : Inspired by Anne of Green Gables
- Annelies
- Annelies
- Anonymous
- Antes de ser libres
- Anthem
- Antibiotics
- Antibiotics
- Antisemitism : here and now
- Antitrust : taking on monopoly power from the gilded age to the digital age
- Apache
- Apollo to the moon: : a history in 50 objects
- Apollo's angels : a history of ballet
- Apollo's legacy : perspectives on the moon landings
- Appetite for America : how visionary businessman Fred Harvey built a railroad hospitality empire that civilized the Wild West
- Apprentices
- Arcade gaming
- Archive 17 : a novel of suspense
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
- Armed in America : a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry
- Art : a visual history
- Artifacts throughout American history
- Ashes
- Ashes in the snow
- Ashes of roses
- Asian American histories of the United States
- Assassination
- At love's command
- At the Battle of Yorktown : an interactive battlefield adventure
- At the hands of persons unknown : the lynching of Black America
- Atomic Blonde
- Atomic love
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Atrocities in action
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Attila the Hun : enemy of Ancient Rome
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Auma's long run
- Australia
- Automobile
- Avid reader : a life
- Away : a novel
- Babe Ruth and the baseball curse
- Babylon Berlin
- Bach to the rescue!!! : how a rich dude who couldn't sleep inspired the greatest music ever
- Back to the Future : the ultimate visual history
- Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
- Bad days in history : a gleefully grim chronicle of misfortune, mayhem, and misery for every day of the year
- Bad days in sports
- Bad girls never say die
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Ballparks : a journey through the fields of the past, present, and future
- Balm : a novel
- Balto of the Blue Dawn
- Bangkok wakes to rain : a novel
- Banned book club
- Barbed wire baseball
- Barbie : Ruth Handler
- Barbie and the three musketeers
- Barefoot dreams of Petra Luna
- Barns of Illinois
- Barnum : an American life
- Baseball : a history of America's game
- Baseball then to wow!
- Basketball : a love story
- Basketball greats
- Basketball shoes, shorts, and style
- Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era
- Battle flag
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle lines : a graphic history of the Civil War
- Battle of Leningrad
- Battles for Scandinavia
- Battles of Lexington and Concord
- Be careful what you wish for
- Be careful what you wish for
- Beaverland : how one weird rodent made America
- Beavers in American history
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before we disappear
- Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own
- Beheld : a novel
- Being a human : adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness
- Being your best at baseball
- Being your best at basketball
- Being your best at football
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Bell's Star
- Bellewether
- Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction
- Beloved poison
- Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
- Beneath a prairie moon : a novel
- Beneath a scarlet sky
- Beneath the darkest sky
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benno and the night of broken glass
- Berlin calling : a story of anarchy, music, the Wall, and the birth of the new Berlin
- Bertha takes a drive : how the Benz automobile changed the world
- Best kept secret
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen
- Betrayal on the bowery
- Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville
- Better to wish
- Between shades of gray
- Between shades of gray : the graphic novel