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- A curious boy : the making of a scientist
- 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
- 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
- Alexander von Humboldt : explorer, naturalist & environmental pioneer
- 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
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- 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 admiral's yarn
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bad karma : the true story of a Mexican surf trip from hell
- 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
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Bill Clinton
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bury my heart in a free land : Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history
- Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa
- Call him Mac : Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona years
- Clara Barton : founder of the American Red Cross
- Clint Eastwood
- Commanders of the People's Liberation Army Air Force : an overview
- Composers : their lives and works
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- First ladies of the Republic : Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role
- Fox and I : an uncommon friendship
- 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 V : never a dull moment
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- Georgia O'Keeffe : a life
- Girls solve everything : stories of women entrepreneurs building a better world
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- Good apple : tales of a Southern evangelical in New York
- Good talk : a memoir in conversations
- 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
- How to forget : a daughter's memoir
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- Illegal : reflections of an undocumented immigrant
- Immortal valor : the black Medal of Honor winners of World War II
- 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
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- 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
- 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
- Liberation : teens in the concentration camps and the teen soldiers who liberated them
- Light come shining : the transformations of Bob Dylan
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little libraries, big heroes
- Little sister : my investigation into the mysterious death of Natalie Wood
- Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun
- Louise Thompson Patterson : a life of struggle for justice
- Madam C. J. Walker's gospel of giving : black women's philanthropy during Jim Crow
- Margarita Aleksandrovna Dikova : outstanding archaeologist of Chukotka, a biographical sketch
- Marilyn : una biografaia
- Martín de Porres : the rose in the desert
- Michael Jordan
- Michelle Obama : a life
- Monument man : the life and art of Daniel Chester French
- Mozart
- Mozart : gift of God
- Multimedia presentations
- My life in progressive politics : against the grain
- My moment : 106 women on fighting for themselves
- 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
- Orwell's roses
- Our country's presidents
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Phil : the rip-roaring (and unauthorized!) biography of golf's most colorful superstar
- Phil Spector : sound of the Sixties
- Portraits of Hispanic American heroes
- Pulling Harvey out of her hat : the amazing story of Mary Coyle Chase
- Pure narco : one man's true story of 25 years inside the cartels
- Queen of our times : the life of Queen Elizabeth II
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Rain of gold
- Rescuers defying the Nazis : non-Jewish teens who rescued Jews
- Resistance : teen partisans and resisters who fought Nazi tyranny
- Return to India : a memoir
- Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America
- 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
- Savarkar
- Scientist : E.O. Wilson : a life in nature
- 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)
- Shotgun angels : my story of broken roads and unshakeable hope
- Si yo pude... ¡tú más!
- 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
- Stand up, stand out! : 25 rebel heroes who stood up for their beliefs--and how they could inspire you
- Summertime : George Gershwin's life in music
- Tasha : a son's memoir
- Tecumseh and the prophet : the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation
- Tennessee Williams
- The Black history of the White House
- The Bolt supremacy : inside Jamaica's sprint factory
- The Chinese Communist Party : a century in ten lives
- The Cloudbuster Nine : the untold story of Ted Williams and the baseball team that helped win World War II
- The Happiness Philosophers : The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians
- 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 adman's dilemma : from Barnum to Trump
- The almanac of American philanthropy
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The eighth wonder of the world : the true story of Andrae the Giant
- The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon
- The first Kennedys : the humble roots of an American dynasty
- The forgotten first : Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the breaking of the NFL color barrier
- The greatest generation grows up : American childhood in the 1930s
- The just : how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
- 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 master : the long run and beautiful game of Roger Federer
- The matriarch : Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
- The monster's bones : the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- 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 real Anthony Fauci : Bill Gates, big pharma, and the global war on democracy and public health
- The rise and fall of Athens : nine Greek lives : Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander
- The river of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
- The space barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
- 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
- The trials of Harry S. Truman : the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953
- The ugly cry : a memoir
- 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
- Torn from their bindings : a story of art, science, and the pillaging of American university libraries
- 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
- Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 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
- Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole
- 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
- Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
- Who is Colin Kaepernick?
- 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
- Written in bone : hidden stories in what we leave behind
- Yes, chef : a memoir
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