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- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- 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
- 97,196 words : essays
- 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 castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- 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 forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- 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 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 guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre and her dramatic captivity and daring escape from Nazi Germany
- 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 light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- 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 man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- 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 pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- 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 queer history of the United States for young people
- 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 sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity & his surprising thoughts on God
- 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 well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- 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
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abby Wambach
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abraham
- Abraham Joshua Heschel : mind, heart, soul
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- 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
- 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
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the 1969 Mets
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- 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
- Alex Morgan : soccer star
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- 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-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
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- America border culture dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- America is immigrants
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- 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 : 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 cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American heroes
- American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- American pain : how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- 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
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- 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
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : a life in hiding
- Antarctica's Lost Aviator : The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth
- Anthony Davis
- Antonio Brown
- 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
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- Astrophysicist and space advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey : my first Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Auston Matthews
- Autobiografía
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum : an American life
- 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 C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Best actress : the history of Oscar-winning women
- 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
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- 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
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blackbeard
- Blake Griffin
- Blood : a memoir
- 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
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- 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
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bowie : an illustrated life
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breanna Stewart
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- 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
- Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- 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
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Cam Newton
- Camgirl
- 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
- Cardi B
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carl Van Doren : a man of ideas
- Carli Lloyd
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
- Carter reads the newspaper
- 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 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
- 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
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- 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 talker stories
- 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
- Commander in cheat : how golf explains Trump
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Contact high : a visual history of hip-hop
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Cowboy is a verb : notes from a modern-day rancher
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Critical survey of young adult literature
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Crystal Eastman : a revolutionary life
- Custer : the making of a young general
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dad's maybe book
- Dak Prescott
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous ground
- Danica Patrick
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Daring Amelia
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- 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
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Derek Carr
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
- 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
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and work
- Do you mind if I cancel? : (things that still annoy me)
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolley Madison : hostess and patriot
- Dolly Parton
- 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/killer
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Drug warrior : inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones
- Edison
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- 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
- Ellen Ochoa : dynamic space director
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elton John : rocket m*n
- Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Emma Stone
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Emmeline : my first Emmeline Pankhurst
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- 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
- Encyclopedia of American religious history
- Enormous SMALLNESS : a story of E.E. Cummings
- Enrique's journey : the true story of a boy determined to reunite with his mother
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life/
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- 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
- Exactly as you are : the life and faith of Mister Rogers
- 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
- Ezekiel Elliott
- FDR
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- 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
- Fast girl : a life spent running from madness
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First ladies
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Flash count diary : menopause and the vindication of natural life
- 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 small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forgotten Americans who made history
- Forgotten Women : the writers
- Forgotten women : the artists
- 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
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- 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 : American hero
- 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
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida : my first Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo : an illustrated life
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From red earth : a Rwandan story of healing and forgiveness
- 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
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Future perfect : a skeptic's search for an honest mystic
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Gabby Douglas
- 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
- Gatsby's Oxford : Scott, Zelda and the Jazz Age invasion of Britain: 1904-1929
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Gender queer
- Genetics expert Joanna L. Kelley
- Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy
- Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947