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- "21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 'You must remember this--' : popular songwriters 1900-1980
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 100 greatest men
- 100 greatest women
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 12 business leaders who changed the world
- 12 children who changed the world
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 14 cows for America
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 1960 : the last pure season
- 20 feet from stardom
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5 giraffes
- 50 Main Street : the face of America
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 700 Sundays
- 740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the medal of honor
- 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
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 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 Child called "it" ; : and, the lost boy : one child's courage to survive
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Muslim American slave : the life of Omar Ibn Said
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A Prince among Stones : that business with the Rolling Stones and other adventures
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A beautiful day in the neighborhood
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A biography of Led Zeppelin : when giants walked the earth
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A brief history of time
- A brief history of time
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A child's journey out of autism : one family's story of living in hope and finding a cure
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A covert affair : the adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A day in the life, Seasons 1 & 2
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
- A dog called hope : the Special Forces wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A factotum in the book trade : a memoir
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A fractured mind : my life with multiple personality disorder
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A game of character : a family journey from Chicago's southside to the Ivy League and beyond
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A good fight
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- 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's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A heart that works
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A higher call
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A hummingbird in my house : the story of Squeak
- A journal
- A journey : my political life
- A journey : my political life
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- 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 legacy of madness : recovering my family from generations of mental illness
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life in the twentieth century : innocent beginnings, 1917-1950
- A life of love : the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A lion called Christian
- A lion's tale : around the world in spandex
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- 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 home
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- 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 man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of good hope
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man without a country
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A measureless peril : America in the fight for the Atlantic, the longest battle of World War II
- A memoir of premature motherhood
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million little pieces
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of the first all-black high school rowing team
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A paper life
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A piece of cake : a memoir
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A political history of Wisconsin
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A remarkable mother
- A reporter's life
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A rose named Peace : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- A runner's high
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit
- A skating life
- A slant of sun : one child's courage
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the paralympic games
- 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 stolen life : a memoir
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A strong west wind : a memoir
- A tarantula in my purse : and 172 other wild pets
- 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 three dog life
- A ticket to the circus : a memoir
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A very punchable face : a memoir
- A voice named Aretha
- A walk through Paris
- A weekend with Picasso
- 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 at the table : a memoir of my father
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman at war : storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
- A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull
- A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert
- A woman in amber : healing the trauma of war and exile
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A year and six seconds : a memoir of stumbling from heartbreak to happiness
- A year in the woods
- A year in the world : journey of a passionate traveller
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveler
- A young patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Rodgers : leader of the Pack.
- Abby Wambach
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln goes to Washington, 1837-1865
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : a life
- Abigail Adams : courageous patriot and First Lady
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a Penguin life
- Abraham Lincoln : great American President
- Abraham Lincoln : the life of America's sixteenth president
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Acceptance : a legendary guidance counselor helps seven kids find the right colleges--and find themselves
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ace of aces : the Dick Bong story
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across a dark and wild sea
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action Jackson
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Adele
- Adolf Hitler : dictator of Nazi Germany
- Adrian Peterson
- After Diana : William, Harry, Charles, and the royal house of Windsor
- After Elizabeth : the rise of James of Scotland and the struggle for the throne of England
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After the Holocaust
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the fire : a true story of friendship and survival
- After the fire : a true story of friendship and survival
- Aftermath : on marriage and separation
- Afternoons with Harper Lee
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie, an autobiography
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- 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
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Air heroes of World War II : sixteen stories of heroism in the air
- Airborne : a photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Gore : a wake-up call to global warming
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : universal genius
- Alberto Giacometti
- Aldo Leopold : American ecologist
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Ko : from Iowa to Broadway, my Billy Elliot story
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander : the boy soldier who conquered the world
- Alexander Graham Bell : setting the tone for communication
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : founding father and statesman
- Alexander Hamilton : from obscurity to greatness
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : the life of a king and conqueror
- Alexander the Great : world conqueror
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : get to know the rising politician
- Ali : a life
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- Alice Cooper, golf monster : a rock 'n' roller's 12 steps to becoming a golf addict
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice Ramsey's grand adventure
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- Alive in the killing fields : surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- All Lara's wars
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All at sea : a memoir
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All good things : from Paris to Tahiti, life and longing
- All hail the queen : twenty women who ruled
- All in : an autobiography
- All my knotted-up life : a memoir
- All of me
- All star! : Honus Wagner and the most famous baseball card ever
- All that moves us : life lessons from a pediatric neurosurgeon
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way to America : the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel
- All the way to Berlin : a paratrooper at war in Europe
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Ally : my journey across the American-Israeli divide
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost pioneers : one couple's homesteading adventure in the West
- Almost president : the men who lost the race but changed the nation
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alone : orphaned in the ocean
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always remember me : how one family survived World War II
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
- Amazing grace : the story of America's most beloved song
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- Ambulance girl : how I saved myself by becoming an EMT
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : legendary aviator
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America's champion swimmer : Gertrude Ederle
- America's great comic-strip artists : from the Yellow Kid to Peanuts
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's obsessives : the compulsive energy that built a nation
- America's other Audubon
- America's quarterback : Bart Starr and the rise of the National Football League
- America's queen : the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 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 Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Savage : insights, slights, and fights on faith, sex, love, and politics
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American chica : two worlds, one childhood
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daughter : a memoir
- American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
- American dreams : portraits and stories of a country
- American entrepreneur : how 400 years of risk-takers, innovators, and business visionaries built the U.S.A.
- American experience : America's first lady, Dolley Madison
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- American heroes : profiles of men and women who shaped early America
- American legacy : the story of John & Caroline Kennedy
- American on purpose : the improbable adventures of an unlikely patriot
- American outlaw
- American pharaoh : Mayor Richard J. Daley: his battle for Chicago and the nation
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American prince : a memoir
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover muslim FBI agent
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American saint : the life of Elizabeth Seton
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
- American sniper
- American sniper : [the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history]
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American son : a portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American story : a lifetime search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things
- American terrorist : Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City bombing
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- American triumvirate : Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the modern age of golf
- American values : lessons I learned from my family