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- "21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- "And I was there" : Pearl Harbor and Midway--breaking the secrets
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" | The life and works of William Carlos Williams : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "Uncle Dick" Wootton, the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region : an account of the adventures and thrilling experiences of the most noted American hunter, trapper, guide, scout, and Indian fighter now living
- "Wase time!" : a teen's memoirs of Gila River Internment Camp days
- "We"
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- '74 and Sunny
- 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky : Jimi Hendrix : voodoo child
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 'You must remember this--' : popular songwriters 1900-1980
- (A tribute to) Carl Gustav Jung : artist of the soul
- 10 days Anne Frank
- 10 things you don't know about, Season 1
- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 100 Hispanic-Americans who shaped American history
- 100 Hispanics you should know
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 most popular genre fiction authors : biographical sketches and bibliographies
- 100 personajes que hicieron historia : conoce a quienes forjaron el mundo moderno
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- 100% official Justin Bieber : just getting started
- 100% woman : the story of Michelle Dumaresq
- 1000 years of famous people
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 mujeres en la historia de México
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 12 years a slave
- 127 horas
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women : parables from prison
- 14 cows for America
- 14 minutes : a running legend's life and death and life
- 15 stars : Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall : three generals who saved the American century
- 150 biografías de mexicanos ilustres
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 extraordinary American women
- 1666 : plague, war, and hellfire
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 1876 : year of the gun : the year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse and the two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) created the Wild West, and why it's still with us
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 200 años, doscientos mexicanos
- 200 mexicanos que nos heredó el mundo
- 20th century journey : a memoir of a life and the times
- 20th-century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 25 mujeres que dieron batalla
- 25 mujeres que gobernaron
- 25 mujeres que se atrevieron
- 25 to life : the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
- 25 women who dared to create
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 28 business thinkers who changed the world : the management gurus and mavericks who changed the way we think about business
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 365 santos : su guía diaria de meditación con los santos/
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5 elephants
- 5-minute stories for fearless girls
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 contemporary artists you should know
- 50 fearless women who made American history : an American history book for kids
- 500 great military leaders
- 501 movie stars
- 700 sundays
- 703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- 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
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 1/2 narrow : my life in shoes
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- 99 : stories of the game
- 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 Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Chinese life
- A Confederate girl : the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
- A Dream Called Home : A Memoir
- A Faulkner chronology
- A G-man's life : the FBI, being "Deep Throat," and the struggle for honor in Washington
- A History of Black achievement in America, Foundation for equality | Depression and war
- A History of black achievement in America, Civil rights | New age
- A History of black achievement in America, Fight for freedom | Blacks enter the gilded age
- A History of black achievement in America, Settling the new world and founding the United States of America | Emergence of the black hero
- 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 Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Kino guide : a life of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Arizona's first pioneer and a guide to his missions and monuments
- A Kino guide; : a life of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Arizona's first pioneer and a guide to his missions and monuments.
- A Little House sampler
- A Navajo legacy : the life and teachings of John Holiday
- A PICTORIAL LIFE OF JACK LONDON
- A PUNTA DE LANZA : una historia veridica
- A Papago traveler : the memories of James McCarthy
- A Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- A Royal Ride : Catherine the Great's Great Invention
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Tolkien treasury : stories, poems, and illustrations celebrating the author and his world
- A Victorian gentlewoman in the Far West; : the reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote.
- A Woman named Jackie
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A beautiful game : the world's greatest players and how soccer changed their lives
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful, cruel country
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, diaper a baby monkey, build a bungalow, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A biography of Tiger Woods
- A biologist abroad
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bond unbroken
- A book of saints : an evocative celebration in prose and paintings
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy in war
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave face : two cultures, two families, and the Iraqi girl who bound them together
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A breed apart : a journey to redemption
- A brief history of time
- A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A broom of one's own : words on writing, housecleaning, and life
- A brother's journey : Surviving a childhood of abuse
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A call to service
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A capitalist in North Korea : my seven years in the hermit kingdom
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A casebook on Dylan Thomas
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A change of heart : a memoir
- A cheetah's tale
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A clean street's a happy street : a Bronx memoir
- A coach's life
- A common heritage : Noah Webster's blue-back speller
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A companion to first ladies
- 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 computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy
- A cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- 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 curious madness : an American combat psychiatrist, a Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from World War II
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A day in the life of a marine biologist
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A desperado in Arizona, 1858-1860; : or, The life, trial, death, and confession of Samuel H. Calhoun, the soldier-murderer.
- A devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- A dictionary of twentieth-century art
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different life : growing up learning disabled and other adventures : a memoir
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog called hope : the Special Forces wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long trip home
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dream of undying fame : how Freud betrayed his mentor and invented psychoanalysis
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A factotum in the book trade : a memoir
- A family sketch and other private writings
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A feeling for the organism : the life and work of Barbara McClintock
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : falling in love with the English countryside
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A fortunate life
- A fractured mind : my life with multiple personality disorder
- A friend like Iggy
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A general's life : an autobiography
- A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- A ghost in the throat
- A girl named Helen Keller
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guide to psychologists and their concepts
- A handful of happiness : how a prickly creature softened a prickly heart
- A hell of mercy : a meditation on depression and the dark night of the soul
- A hero for our time : an intimate story of the Kennedy years
- A hidden life : a memoir of August 1969
- A higher call
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher standard : leadership strategies from America's first female four-star general
- A historical and biographical record of the territory of Arizona
- A history of me
- A history of the Lewis and Clark journals
- A history of women's achievement in America
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction - a memoir
- A hunt for justice : the true story of a woman undercover wildlife agent
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A journey : my political life
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A kitchen in France : a year of cooking in my farmhouse
- 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 lady's ranch life in Montana
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A legacy of courage : the story of Arthur Van Haren, Jr. : Arizona WWII ace fighter pilot
- A life beyond reason : a father's memoir
- A life in code : pioneer cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life in smoke : a memoir
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck
- A life of Emily Brontë
- A life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A life of Napoleon
- A life of Picasso
- A life of William Inge : the strains of triumph
- A life of discovery : Michael Faraday, giant of the scientific revolution
- A life of lies and spies : tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
- A life of love : the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- A life of my own
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A life wild and perilous : mountain men and the paths to the Pacific
- A life worth living : the adventures of a passionate sportsman
- A lion called Christian
- A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A little war of our own : the Pleasant Valley feud revisited
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- 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 long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A long way home : a memoir
- A loss for words : the story of deafness in a family
- A love like no other : stories from adoptive parents
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- 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 of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A man with a dream : Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A man without a country
- A man's life : dispatches from dangerous places
- A many-colored toga; : diary.
- A map of the child : a pediatrician's tour of the body
- A marriage of true minds : an intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of choices : memoirs of a female physicist
- A matter of consequences
- A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the Civil Rights revolution
- A measureless peril : America in the fight for the Atlantic, the longest battle of World War II
- A mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband, Danny Pearl
- A million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A monk swimming : a memoir
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new day
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A nightmare's prayer : a Marine Corps Harrier pilot's war in Afghanistan
- A nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- A paper life
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for freedom : the life of Sharlot Hall
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A people's history of the U.S. military : ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect union : Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation
- A perfect union : [Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation]
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A persistent peace : one man's struggle for a nonviolent world
- A photographer's life : a journey from Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist to celebrated nature photographer
- A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Davy Crockett
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Patrick Henry
- A pioneer farm girl : the diary of Sarah Gillespie, 1877-1878
- A pioneer woman's memoir : based on the journal of Arabella Clemens Fulton
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A place called Waco : a survivor's story
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A place of belonging : five founding women of Fairbanks, Alaska
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A prince of our disorder : the life of T. E. Lawrence
- A private family matter : a memoir
- A private life of Henry James : two women and his art
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A que venimos? ¡A triunfar! : cómo encontre mi voz entre la esperanza, la fuerza y la determinación
- A question of choice
- A quiet American : the secret war of Varian Fry
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A ranger born : a memoir of combat and valor from Korea to Vietnam
- A reader's guide to Walt Whitman
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
- A remarkable mother
- A reporter's life
- A reprint of the History of Arizona Territory : showing its resources and advantages : with illustrations of its scenery, residences, farms, mines, mills, hotels, business houses, schools, churches, &c. from original drawings
- A restless spirit : the story of Robert Frost
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A rough ride to redemption : the Ben Daniels story
- A royal affair : George III and his scandalous siblings
- A royal duty
- A runner's high : my life in motion
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A season on the brink : a year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers