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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 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 brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- 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 delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- 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 higher calling : pursuing love, faith, and Mount Everest for a greater purpose
- A history of Islam in 21 women
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- 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 life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life well led : the biography of Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, British anthropologist
- 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 man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- 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 promised land
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A river runs through us : true tales of the Rio Abajo
- 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 silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- 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 summer of birds : John James Audubon at Oakley House
- A super sticky mistake
- 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 traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- 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 called Moses : a prophet for our time
- 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 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
- AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Rodgers : superstar quarterback
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abby Wambach
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- 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
- 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
- Afropessimism
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- 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
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Alejandro Sanz : #vive
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Morgan : soccer star
- Alexander Hamilton
- 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
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : the life, times, and rise of "AOC"
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the horrors of war : a Jewish girl, a British doctor, and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen
- 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 the way to the tigers : a memoir
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Aly Raisman
- Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- 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 animals : a memoir
- 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 oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- 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 queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- 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
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship and the power of connections
- Anger is my middle name : a memoir
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : a life in hiding
- Anonymous is a woman : a global chronicle of gender inequality
- Another good dog : one family and fifty foster dogs
- Another life is possible : insights from 100 years of life together
- Antarctica's Lost Aviator : The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth
- Anthony Davis
- Antonio Brown
- Antonio Brown : superstar wide receiver
- Anya Seton : a writing life
- Apache odyssey : a journey between two worlds
- Apology to the young addict : a memoir
- Around Hillsboro
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artist biographies
- Artists : their lives and works
- As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl
- As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
- 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
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire
- Audrey : my first Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Auston Matthews
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Autobiografía
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Awa Tsireh, Pueblo painter and metalsmith
- Awesome minds : the creators of the iPhone
- Awesome minds : video game creators
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum : an American life
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Be bold! Be brave! : 11 Latinas who made U.S. History = ¡Sé audaz, sé valiente! : 11 Latinas que hicieron historia en Estados Unidos
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- 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
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- 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 Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Becoming a part of my history : through images and stories of my ancestors
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Beethoven : a life
- 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
- Behind the bookcase : Miep Geis, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
- Behind the mountains
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- 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
- Best actress : the history of Oscar-winning women
- Bethany Mota
- Betsey. : a memoir
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between everything and nothing : the journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the quest for asylum
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Beyond the hundredth meridian : John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West
- 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
- Billy the Kid : the Lost Interviews
- Billy the Kid's grave : a history of the Wild West's most famous death marker
- 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 Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blake Griffin
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- 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
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bohemians West : free love, family, and radicals in twentieth-century America
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Borges and me : an encounter
- Born just right
- 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 fly : a memoir
- 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
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Braun Strowman : monster among men
- Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) life
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breanna Stewart
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- Bright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- 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)
- Brother & sister
- Brother Robert : growing up with Robert Johnson
- Bryce Harper
- Bryce Harper
- Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bulletproof
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- But time and chance : the story of Padre Martinez of Taos, 1793-1867
- But what I really want to do is direct : lessons from a life behind the camera
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Buzzie and the Bull : a GM, a clubhouse favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 championship season
- 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
- Caesar Kleberg and the King Ranch
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Call the midwife : farewell to the East End
- Call the midwife : shadows of the workhouse
- Cam Newton
- Camgirl
- 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 : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant, the making of a Hollywood legend
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the Liberal hour
- Cazando a El Chapo : la historia contada desde adentro por el agente de la ley estadounidense que capturó al narcotraficante más buscado del mundo
- Celeste Holm syndrome : on character actors from Hollywood's golden age
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Drew
- Charles F. Lummis : author and adventurer : a gathering
- Charlie Siringo's West : an interpretive biography
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing Geronimo : the journal of Leonard Wood, May-September 1886
- 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
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Cheer up, Ben Franklin!
- Chefs' fridges : more than 35 world-renowned cooks reveal what they eat at home
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chief of police : the career of Richard CdeBaca during extraordinary times in New Mexico (1956-1994)
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Children of the land
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Chuck Berry : hail! hail! rock 'n' roll
- Churchill : a graphic biography
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Citizen reporters / : S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America
- 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
- Claudette Colvin refuses to move : courageous kid of the Civil Rights Movement
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Clayton Kershaw
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra
- Coco Chanel
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Code talker stories
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Cold case : Billy the Kid : investigating history's mysteries
- Colin Kaepernick
- Come, reza, ama
- Comic book creators
- Commander in cheat : how golf explains Trump
- Company of heroes : my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company
- Compassion in exile : the story of the 14th Dalai Lama
- Compassion in exile : the story of the 14th Dalai Lama
- Compromised : counterintelligence and the threat of Donald J. Trump
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Conbody : the revolutionary bodyweight prison boot camp, born from an extraordinary story of hope
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constellations : reflections from life
- Contact high : a visual history of hip-hop
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Coronado : knight of pueblos and plains
- Courageous people who changed the world
- 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
- Crazy Horse : the Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family
- Critical survey of young adult literature
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Crystal Eastman : a revolutionary life
- Cubed : the puzzle of us all
- 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.
- Cy Young : the baseball life and career
- Cyclopedia of literary places
- Dad's maybe book
- Dak Prescott
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir
- Dangerous ground
- Danica Patrick
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare to dream : Irish people who took on the world (and won)!
- Daring Amelia
- Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of 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
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Bowie : a life
- Davy Crockett
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss