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- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy from Tupelo : the complete 1953-1956 recordings
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 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 journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abby Wambach
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abraham
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele : music sensation
- Adiós eterno : los últimos días del Divo
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- Alejandro Sanz : #vive
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Amelia Earhart
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Indian stories of success : new visions of leadership in Indian Country
- American Pharoah
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- American philosophy : a love story
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship and the power of connections
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Bonny
- Anne Frank
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artist biographies
- Artists : their lives and works
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrophysicist and space advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Autobiografía
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be the one : six true stories of teens overcoming hardship with hope
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Becoming Billie Holiday
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bethany Mota
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Bill Monroe : the life and music of the Blue Grass man
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blackbeard
- Blake Griffin
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Born to run
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bryce Harper
- Bryce Harper
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Cam Newton
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Capital dames : the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carli Lloyd
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cazando a El Chapo : la historia contada desde adentro por el agente de la ley estadounidense que capturó al narcotraficante más buscado del mundo
- Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Drew
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Clayton Kershaw
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coco Chanel
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Cold case : Billy the Kid : investigating history's mysteries
- Colin Kaepernick
- Collapse and chaos : the story of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Critical survey of young adult literature
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dangerous ground
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Daring Amelia
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Daughters of the samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- David Bowie : a life
- Davy Crockett
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana : queen of hearts
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolley Madison : hostess and patriot
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Doughboys on the Western Front : memories of American soldiers in the Great War
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliot Ness
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emma Stone
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Enormous SMALLNESS : a story of E.E. Cummings
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life/
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Exhibition on screen, Michelangelo, love and death
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore with Christopher Columbus
- Explore with Francisco Pizarro
- Explore with Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
- Explore with Gertrude Bell
- Explore with Giovanni da Verrazzano
- Explore with Henry Hudson
- Explore with Ibn Battuta
- Explore with Jacques Cartier
- Explore with John Cabot
- Explore with Leif Eriksson
- Explore with Marquette and Jolliet
- Explore with Mary Kingsley
- Explore with Ponce de León
- Explore with Sir Walter Raleigh
- Explore with Stanley and Livingstone
- FDR
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Failing up : how to take risks, aim higher, and never stop learning
- Family history of fear : a memoir
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First ladies
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederic Chopin
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo : an illustrated life
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Gal Gadot : soldier, model, Wonder Woman
- Game change : the life and death of Steve Montador and the future of hockey
- Gandhi
- Gathering of sisters : a year with my old order Mennonite family
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Genetics expert Joanna L. Kelley
- Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy
- George Gershwin
- George Handel
- George Washington's journey : the President forges a new nation
- George and Barbara Bush : a great American love story
- Go long!
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- Go slow : the life of Julie London
- GoPro inventor Nick Woodman
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Goebbels : a biography
- Gold dust woman : a biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Google cybersecurity expert Parisa Tabriz
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- Grace Hopper : queen of computer code
- Grace Kelly : Hollywood dream girl
- Grant
- Great lives from history, African Americans
- Great lives from history, Inventors & inventions
- Great lives from history, Latinos
- Great lives from history, The 17th century, 1601-1700
- Great lives from history, The 18th century, 1701-1800
- Great lives from history, The 19th century, 1801-1900
- Great lives from history, The 20th century, 1901-2000
- Great lives from history, The Middle Ages, 477-1453
- Great lives from history, The Renaissance & early modern era, 1454-1600
- Great lives from history, The ancient world, prehistory-476 C.E.
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Handel in London : a genius and his craft
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- Hannibal's oath : the life and wars of Rome's greatest enemy
- Harry : life, loss and love
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Heroes for my daughter
- Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Higher, steeper, faster : the daredevils who conquered the skies
- Hillary Clinton : ground-breaking politician
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- His Holiness : the fourteenth Dalai Lama
- His father's son : the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- How Bernie won : inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- and where we go from here
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- I am Gandhi
- I am Sacagawea
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In search of Isaiah Berlin : a literary adventure
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In search of Mozart
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the footsteps of Jesus : a chronicle of his life and the origins of Christianity
- In the midnight hour : the life & soul of Wilson Pickett
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Is that Kafka? : 99 finds
- Isaac Newton
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- J.R.R. Tokien : su vida, sus obras y su influencia
- JFK in the senate : pathway to the presidency
- Jackie Robinson : breaking the color line in baseball
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jacqueline Kennedy : cultural icon
- Jake makes a world : Jacob Lawrence, a young artist in Harlem
- James Wright : a life in poetry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage
- Jazz Jennings : voice for LGBTQ youth
- Jean Cocteau : a life
- Jennifer Lawrence : movie star
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joan of Arc : a history
- Joe Gould's teeth
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John Lewis : courage in action
- John McCain : American maverick
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Jose Altuve
- Juan Gabriel : un amor eterno : su vida en voz de sus amigos
- Judas : how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- Julius Rosenwald : repairing the world
- Karl Marx : greatness and illusion
- Kate Middleton
- Katie Luther, first lady of the Reformation : the unconventional life of Katharina von Bora
- Keith Richards : a life in pictures
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kickoff!
- Kid athletes : true tales of childhood from sports legends
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- King of the dinosaur hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology
- Kyrie Irving
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Labyrinths : Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady in red : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Laila Ali
- Las horas más oscuras : cómo Churchill salvó al mundo del abismo
- Leading lady : Sherry Lansing and the making of a Hollywood groundbreaker
- Lebron James : basketball champion
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Letters to Vera
- Lewis Howard Latimer
- Liam Hemsworth
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
- Like brothers
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Lindsey Vonn
- Lionel Messi
- Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Living with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- Looking back : a book of memories
- Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Looking for the stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
- Losing isn't everything : the untold stories and hidden lessons behind the toughest losses in sports history
- Lost in the Pacific, 1942 : not a drop to drink
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louis Pasteur advances microbiology
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love in a time of hate : the story of Magda and André Trocmé and the village that said no to the Nazis
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Luis Miguel : la historia : la verdad sobre la vida del cantante mexicano más exitoso de todos los tiempos
- MJ : the genius of Michael Jackson
- MacArthur at war : World War II in the Pacific
- Madison's gift : five partnerships that built America
- Malala Yousafzai : champion for education
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Manny Pacquiao
- Manson : the life and times of Charles Manson
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Marching with Martin
- Marian Anderson
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie advances the study of radioactivity
- Mars science lab engineer Diana Trujillo
- Martha Washington : loyal public servant