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- "Scribbling women" : true tales from astonishing lives
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 greatest tyrants
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- 12 artists with disabilities
- 12 women in medicine
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 13 Hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 14 cows for America
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 150 pounds gone forever : how I lost half my size and you can too
- 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
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story ... with recipes
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 50 artists you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 paintings you should know
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 700 Sundays
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 97,196 words : essays
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Civil War drummer boy : the diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
- A Methodist circuit rider on the Illinois frontier in the 1830's and his later history
- A Rockwell portrait: : an intimate biography
- A Royal Ride : Catherine the Great's Great Invention
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A bar on every corner : sobering up in a tempting world
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, diaper a baby monkey, build a bungalow, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A better yesterday : living life after abuse
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- 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 boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A brilliant madness
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- 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 child's Christmas in Wales
- A common struggle
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : The legacy of Barack Obama
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the conquest of the American continent
- A country practice : scenes from the veterinary life
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A deeper blue : the life and music of Townes Van Zandt
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- 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 different drummer : my thirty years with Ronald Reagan
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A distant mirror
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A door in the ocean : a memoir
- A dream is a wish your heart makes : my story
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dunk only counts two points : stories of my life in small college basketball
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A farewell to arms, legs, & jockstraps : a sportswriter's memoir
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A father first : how my life became bigger than basketball
- A father's story
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A free man : [a true story of life and death in Delhi]
- A friend called Anne : one girl's story of war, peace, and a unique friendship with Anne Frank
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A general history of the robberies & murders of the most notorious pirates
- 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 girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- 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 great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- A greater story : my rescue, your purpose, and our place in God's plan
- 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 heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A higher call
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A history of my brief body
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A horn for Louis
- A horse named Seabiscuit
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A journey : my political life
- 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 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 library for Juana : the world of Sor Juana Inés
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of my own
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- 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 long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : [memoirs of a boy soldier]
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home : a memoir
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A match made in Hell : the Jewish boy and the Polish outlaw who defied the Nazis
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A monk swimming : a memoir
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- A peculiar tribe of people : murder and madness in the heart of Georgia
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of Jackie Robinson
- A picture book of Jesse Owens
- A picture book of John F. Kennedy
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Paul Revere
- A picture book of Robert E. Lee
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Sam Houston
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A picture book of Simon Bolivar
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth
- A picture book of Thomas Jefferson
- A piece of cake
- A pirate looks at fifty
- 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 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 promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York
- A restless spirit : the story of Robert Frost
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season on the brink : a year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A skating life
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A song flung up to heaven
- A sort of life
- A special fate : Chiune Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust
- 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 spotlight for Harry
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- 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 spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A story worth telling : Betty J. "Nip" Baumgardner
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A tragic honesty : the life and work of Richard Yates
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A truck full of money
- A vanished world : medieval Spain's golden age of enlightenment
- A voice from the wildernesss : the story of Anna Howard Shaw
- A voice named Aretha
- A volcano beneath the snow : John Brown's war against slavery
- A well-paid slave : Curt Flood's fight for free agency in professional sports
- A whale biologist at work
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull
- A woman in charge : [the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton]
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 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
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- A young patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- ADHD & me : what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table
- Aaron Burr, the conspiracy and years of exile, 1805-1836
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers : Super Bowl XLV
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abe Lincoln and the muddy pig
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abe Lincoln remembers
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : eyewitness to America's birth
- Abigail Adams : young patriot
- Abigail Adams in her own words
- Able to play : overcoming physical challenges
- Abner Doubleday and baseball's beginning : separating fact from fiction
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a courageous leader
- Abraham Lincoln : a life of honesty
- Abraham Lincoln : a presidential life
- Abraham Lincoln : lawyer, leader, legend
- Abraham Lincoln : preserving the union
- Abraham Lincoln : the 16th President
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abraham Lincoln,
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- 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
- Action Jackson
- Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- 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
- Adele
- Adjust your color : the truth of Petey Greene
- Admiral "Bull" Halsey : the life and wars of the Navy's most controversial commander
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Aerosmith : the ultimate illustrated history of the Boston bad boys
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- African American entrepreneurs
- African American inventors
- African American lives, 2
- African American military heroes
- African princess : the amazing lives of Africa's royal women
- African-American inventors
- After Jackie : pride, prejudice, and baseball's forgotten heroes : an oral history
- After the Holocaust
- After the cheering stops : an NFL wife's story of concussions, loss, and the faith that saw her through
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- 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 autobiography
- Age and guile beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut : twenty-five years of P.J. O'Rourke
- Age is just a number : achieve your dreams at any stage in your life
- Agent M
- Agent Sniper : the Cold War superagent and the ruthless head of the CIA
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- 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
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world
- Alan Turing
- Alan Turing : master of cracking codes
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a biography
- Albert Einstein : a curious mind
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Albert Pujols
- Alberto Del Rio
- Albrecht Dürer
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Ovechkin
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell : inventor and teacher
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alexander Graham Bell invents
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a life
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : from New York, a documentary film
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton in worlds unknown
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander the Great : lessons from history's undefeated general
- Alexander the Great : master of the ancient world
- Alexander the Great : the greatest ruler of the ancient world
- Alexander the Great : the hunt for a new past
- Alexander the Great rocks the world
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : the life, times, and rise of "AOC"
- Ali : a life
- Ali : an American champion
- Alia's mission : saving the books of Iraq : inspired by a true story
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- Alice : Princess Andrew of Greece
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso : prima ballerina
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