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- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
- Aaron Copland and his world
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Air Apaches : the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II
- Albert A. Peña Jr. : Dean of Chicano politics
- Alexander Hamilton : documents decoded
- Alexander the Great : from his death to the present day
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali
- 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 wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alter egos : Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American environmental leaders : from colonial times to the present
- American women
- An American vision : three generations of Wyeth art : N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth
- An admiral's yarn
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese death camp
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Being Hindu : understanding a peaceful path in a violent world
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Bill Clinton
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called 'Alien'
- Bury my heart in a free land : Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history
- Call him Mac : Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona years
- Clara Barton : founder of the American Red Cross
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Clint Eastwood
- Commanders of the People's Liberation Army Air Force : an overview
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Dark star : a biography of Vivien Leigh
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Deaf persons in the arts and sciences : a biographical dictionary
- Devil's bargain : Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the nationalist uprising
- Disgraceland : musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties
- El Chapo : the untold story of the world's most infamous drug lord
- El Che
- El pequeño libro de las grandes feministas : un santoral laico
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3, 1939-1962,The war years and after,
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Fibonacci : the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world
- First ladies of the Republic : Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role
- France : a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Gary Soto
- Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
- George H.W. Bush
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Grant
- Great commanders
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Heirs of the founders : Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- High school
- His father's son : the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.
- Hit the target : eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe
- How to forget : a daughter's memoir
- In the camps : teens who survived the Nazi concentration camps
- In the ghettos : teens who survived the ghettos of the Holocaust
- In the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- Instructions not included : how a team of women coded the future
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane Goodall : la mejor amiga de los chimpancaes
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Johnny Cash : the redemption of an American icon
- Justice Leah Ward Sears : seizing serendipity
- Lady in red : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- Las mujeres en la faisica
- Liberation : teens in the concentration camps and the teen soldiers who liberated them
- Light come shining : the transformations of Bob Dylan
- Lincoln shot! : a president's life remembered
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little libraries, big heroes
- Lost kingdom : Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings and America's first imperial adventure
- Louise Thompson Patterson : a life of struggle for justice
- Manos que bailan : caomo Teresa Carreño tocao el piano para el Presidente Lincoln
- Martín de Porres : the rose in the desert
- Mercies in disguise : a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them
- Michelle Obama : a life
- Monument man : the life and art of Daniel Chester French
- Mozart : gift of God
- My life in progressive politics : against the grain
- Nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- Nature's allies : eight conservationists who changed our world
- Obama : the historic presidency of Barack Obama : 2,920 days
- On his Majesty's service : observations of the British home fleet from the diary, reports, and letters of Joseph H. Wellings, assistant U.S. naval attaché, London, 1940-41
- Ordinary hazards : a memoir
- Our country's presidents
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Patrick Roy, champion goalie
- Phil Spector : sound of the Sixties
- Portraits of Hispanic American heroes
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Raging bull
- Rain of gold
- Reds
- Rescuers defying the Nazis : non-Jewish teens who rescued Jews
- Resistance : teen partisans and resisters who fought Nazi tyranny
- Return to India : a memoir
- Rivals unto death : Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- S.E. Hinton : author of The outsiders
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Saint Patrick retold : the legend and history of Ireland's patron saint
- Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers : the Texas victory that changed American history
- Service in a time of suspicion : experiences of Muslims serving in the U.S. military post-9/11
- Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
- She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman
- She can really lay it down : 50 rebels, rockers & musical revolutionaries (who happen to be women)
- Shostakovich : a life
- Shotgun angels : my story of broken roads and unshakeable hope
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story
- Simone Biles : making the case for the greatest of all time
- Sitting Bull : Lakota warrior and defender of his people
- Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution
- Sor Juana : or, the persistence of pop
- Stalin, Volume I & II, Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Summer
- Summertime : George Gershwin's life in music
- Tecumseh and the prophet : the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation
- Tennessee Williams
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- The Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of jazz & blues
- The Black history of the White House
- The Bolt supremacy : inside Jamaica's sprint factory
- The Happiness Philosophers : The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians
- The Manson women and me : monsters, morality, and murder
- The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists
- The South African Gandhi : stretcher-bearer of empire
- The York patrol : the real story of Alvin York and the unsung heroes who made him World War I's most famous soldier
- The almanac of American philanthropy
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The big break : the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival
- The castaway's war
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War
- The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon
- The fifty-year decline and fall of Hollywood
- The greatest generation grows up : American childhood in the 1930s
- The last ocean : a journey through memory and forgetting
- The life and times of T.H. Gallaudet
- The making of a Mexican American mayor : Raymond L. Telles of El Paso and the origins of Latino political power
- The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth
- The matriarch : Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
- The measure of Paris
- The monk of Mokha
- The other Wes Moore : one name, two fates
- The pendulum : a granddaughter's search for her family's forbidden Nazi past
- The president's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our first families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The promise and the dream : the untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
- The psychology book
- The queens of animation : the untold story of the women who transformed the world of Disney and made cinematic history
- The river of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- The space barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
- The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
- The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz
- The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
- Theodore Dreiser
- Theodore Roosevelt for the defense : the courtroom battle to save his legacy
- Theoretical physicist Brian Greene
- This strange wilderness : the life and art of John James Audubon
- Three ordinary girls : the remarkable story of three Dutch teenagers who became spies, saboteurs, Nazi assassins--and WWII heroes
- Thurgood
- To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- Trejo : my life of crime, redemption, and Hollywood
- True believer : the rise and fall of Stan Lee
- True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of
- Turncoat : Benedict Arnold and the crisis of American liberty
- Upstairs at the White House : my life with the first ladies
- Vivekânanda, : a biography
- Vlad Draculea : la historia del príncipe guerrero que inspiró la leyenda de Drácula
- W.E.B. Du Bois : an American intellectual and activist
- We should all be feminists
- What do you do with a voice like that? : the story of extraordinary congresswoman Barbara Jordan
- What you have heard is true : a memoir of witness and resistance
- Women in sports : a reference handbook
- Women in white coats : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine
- Women photographers : from Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
- Yes, chef : a memoir
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- Hommes d'État -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Imprimeurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Acteurs de cinéma -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Inventeurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Mathématiciens -- Hongrie -- Biographies
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- Composers -- United States -- Biographies
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