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- true"21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- "Ambassador of the Pacific Northwest"
- "And I was there" : Pearl Harbor and Midway--breaking the secrets
- "Che" Guevara
- "Chips" and slivers : 30 years of logging recollections
- "Come, Blackrobe" : De Smet and the Indian tragedy
- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- true"I'd love to kiss you-- " : conversations with Bette Davis
- "I'll never fight fire with my bare hands again" : recollections of the first forest rangers of the Inland Northwest
- "It used to be ... but now ..." : an oral history of Lebanon, Oregon and surrounding areas
- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- true"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- "My dearest wife-- your loving hubby" : letters from a WWI soldier (Corporal Gordon Byron Zumwalt, Polk County, Oregon)
- "Schoolmarms"
- true"Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- true"Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- true"Son" : a psychopath and his victims
- true"Strong Medicine speaks" : a Native American elder has her say : an oral history
- "Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein
- true"The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "The only woman in the room" : the Norma Paulus story
- true"There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "Tunnel 13" : the story of the DeAutremont brothers and the West's last great train hold up
- "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
- true"We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- true"We have conquered pain" : the discovery of anesthesia
- "We were five"; : the Dionne quintuplets' story from birth through girlhood to womanhood,
- "We"
- "Whip the rebellion" : Ulysses S. Grant's rise to command
- "Words for the hour" : a new anthology of American Civil War poetry
- true#DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- true#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- true#Presidents : follow the leaders
- true'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- 'Tis : a memoir
- true'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- true(Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- --And Jerry Mathers as "the Beaver"
- --come what may
- true--if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
- true... and a hard rain fell : a GI's true story of the war in Vietnam
- true1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- true10 kings & queens who changed the world
- 10 maestros de la plástica mexicana : Dr. Atl ... [et al.
- true10 women who changed science and the world
- true100 African-Americans who shaped American history
- 100 Christian women who changed the twentieth century
- 100 Native Americans who shaped American history
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 artists who changed the world
- 100 athletes who shaped sports history
- 100 contemporary artists : 100 zeitgenössische Künstler = 100 artistes contemporains
- 100 famous Americans who changed American history
- 100 greatest men
- 100 greatest pitchers
- 100 greatest sports champions
- 100 greatest women
- 100 historias extraordinarias para niñas valientes : relatos inolvidables sobre mujeres de fe
- 100 leaders who changed the world
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 people who changed America
- 100 philosophers : a guide to the world's greatest thinkers
- 100 scientists who changed the world
- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- true100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 100 tricks every boy can do : how my brother disappeared
- 100 women who shaped world history
- 100 years--100 quilts : Arizona Centennial Quilt Project
- true100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever : my story
- true100,000 hearts : a surgeon's memoir
- 1000 makers of the millennium
- true1001 nights in Iraq : [the shocking story of an American forced to fight for Saddam against the country he loves]
- true101 Changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- true108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- true109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- true12 children who changed the world
- 12 immigrants who made American politics great
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 12, 20 & 5; a doctor's year in Vietnam
- 127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
- true13 American artists children should know
- 13 architects children should know
- true13 artists children should know
- true13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- true13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- true13 women artists children should know
- true14 cows for America
- true14 minutes : a running legend's life and death and life
- 14 vacas para América
- true15 stars : Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall : three generals who saved the American century
- 150 biografÃas de mexicanos ilustres
- true150 glimpses of the Beatles
- true16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- true1666 : plague, war, and hellfire
- true17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 1745-1880 history of Indiana County, Penn'a
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- true18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 180° south
- 182 days in Iraq : plus a year of reaction at home
- true1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- true1924 : the year that made Hitler
- true1941 : the year Germany lost the war
- true1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 1948 : a soldier's tale : the bloody road to Jerusalem
- true20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 20th century journey : a memoir of a life and the times
- true24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 24 poetas latinoamericanos
- 25 mujeres que dieron batalla
- 25 women who dared to go
- 25 women who fought back
- true26 Fairmount Avenue
- true26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- true28 : stories of AIDS in Africa
- true28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 29 Gifts : [how a month of giving can change your life]
- 29 gifts : how a month of giving can change your life
- true3 2 1 awesome! : 20 fearless women who dared to be different
- 3 fat chicks on a diet : because we're all in it together
- 300 years of American art
- true32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- true33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- true40 acres and no mule
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- true41 : a portrait of my father
- true42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- true438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 47 below
- true5 elephants
- true5 giraffes
- 50 American artists you should know
- 50 American heroes every kid should meet
- 50 artists you should know
- 50 contemporary women artists : [groundbreaking contemporary art from 1960 to now]
- 50 famous Americans
- 50 modern artists you should know
- true50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- true50 things you should know about American presidents
- 50 women artists you should know
- 50 years of photographing Hollywood : the Hurrell style
- true500 acres and no place to hide : more confessions of a counterfeit farm girl
- true5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- true56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 6 films
- true64735 : from a name to a number : a Holocaust survivor's autobiography
- 7 mujeres : y el secreto de su grandeza
- true7 tattoos : a memoir in the flesh
- 70 x 7 and beyond
- 700 Sundays
- true700 sundays
- true703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- true740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- true747 : creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation
- 76 reflections : a bicentennial salute
- true8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 800 days on the Eastern Front : a Russian soldier remembers World War II
- true81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- true82 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
- true83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- true88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- true90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of life & death
- true90-day geisha : my time as a Tokyo hostess
- true99 : stories of the game
- trueA $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- trueA Beautiful Mind : a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
- trueA Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Biographical dictionary of artists
- trueA Black women's history of the United States
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- trueA Brush full of Colour : the World of Ted Harrison
- trueA Caldecott celebration : six artists and their paths to the Caldecott Medal
- A Cambodian odyssey
- trueA Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Child called "it" ; : and, the lost boy : one child's courage to survive
- trueA Chinese life
- A Confederate girl : the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
- A Coon's tale
- A Cuban refugee's journey to the American dream : the power of education
- trueA Different Drummer : My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
- A Dimple Hill girl : autobiography of Doris Wiese Thomas Dreger
- A Disney childhood : comic books to sailing ships : a memoir
- trueA Farley Mowat reader
- trueA Jew today
- trueA Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- trueA Kim Jong-il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Kitchen in France : a Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse
- A Lenape among the Quakers : the life of Hannah Freeman
- A Little House sampler
- trueA Little house traveler : writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's journeys across America
- A Lively little history of Harney County : a centennial souvenir album, 1889-1989
- trueA Matter of Honor : Pearl Harbor : Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
- trueA Mormon in the White House? : 10 things every American should know about Mitt Romney
- A Nazi childhood
- A New Jersey biographical index : covering some 100,000 biographies and associated portraits in 237 New Jersey cyclopedias, histories, yearbooks, periodicals, and other collective biographical sources published to about 1980
- trueA Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- trueA Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- trueA Pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- trueA Rum affair : a true story of botanical fraud
- A Russian princess remembers : the journey from tsars to glasnost
- A Sabbath life : a woman's search for wholeness
- trueA Safeway in Arizona : what the Gabrielle Giffords shooting tells us about the Grand Canyon State and life in America
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Small world of our own : authentic pioneer stories of the Pacific Northwest from the Old Settlers contest of 1892
- A Summer Job : Valsetz, Oregon 1951
- A Texas cowboy : or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony
- trueA Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Tolkien treasury : stories, poems, and illustrations celebrating the author and his world
- A Vietcong memoir
- trueA WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II
- trueA backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A bag of marbles
- A ballerina's tale
- A bar on every corner : sobering up in a tempting world
- A barefoot boy from Oklahoma : the Dewey Sullivan story
- trueA battle for the soul of Islam : an American Muslim patriot's fight to save his faith
- trueA battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- trueA beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel laureate John Nash
- A beautiful mind, a beautiful life. The bubz guide to being unstoppable.
- A beautiful mine : women prospectors of the old West
- trueA beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- trueA bed of red flowers : in search of my Afghanistan
- trueA 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, build a bungalow, diaper a baby monkey, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- trueA being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A better class of person : an autobiography
- trueA big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A biographical guide to the great jazz and pop singers
- A bit of a blue : the life and work of Frances Fuller Victor
- A black woman did that! : 42 boundary-breaking, bar-raising, world-changing women
- trueA blessing over ashes : the remarkable odyssey of my unlikely brother
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- trueA bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bold fresh piece of humanity : a memoir
- trueA boob's life : how America's obsession shaped me... and you
- A book of famous dogs
- A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ... and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individuals states : together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present time : the biography of about two hundred of the leading men : a description of the principal cities and towns : with statistical tables ...
- trueA bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- trueA bowl full of peace : a true story
- trueA boy and a jaguar
- trueA boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- trueA boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named Boomer
- trueA boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- trueA boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- trueA brave face : two cultures, two families, and the Iraqi girl who bound them together
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A bridge for passing
- trueA brief illustrated history of exploration
- trueA brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- trueA bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brilliant madness
- trueA brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- trueA broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A broken tree : how DNA exposed a family's secrets
- trueA brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- trueA brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- trueA brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- trueA buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- trueA bum deal : an unlikely journey from hopeless to humanitarian
- A butterfly journey : Maria Sibylla Merian, artist and scientist
- A cab at the door; : a memoir,
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- trueA 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
- trueA captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A captive spirit : selected prose
- trueA castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A cat called Norton : the true story of an extraordinary cat and his imperfect human
- A cat's life : Dulcy's story
- trueA cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A century of Coos and Curry : history of southwest Oregon
- A century of country : an illustrated history of country music
- trueA century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- trueA certain loneliness : a memoir
- A chain of hands
- trueA chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- A champion's guide to thriving beyond breast cancer : healing stories for the mind, body and soul, giving you hope comfort, and encouragement in your journey
- trueA chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- trueA chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- trueA change of heart : a memoir
- A charge to keep
- A chef's life, Season five
- A chef's life, Season four
- A chef's life, Season one
- A chef's life, Season three
- A chef's life, Season two
- trueA child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called Noah : a family journey
- trueA child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- trueA child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- trueA child's journey out of autism : one family's story of living in hope and finding a cure
- A choice of days : essays from happy days, newspaper days, and heathen days
- A chosen few : the resurrection of European Jewry
- trueA circle of sisters : Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- trueA clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- trueA client called Noah : a family journey continued
- A coach's life
- trueA comedy & a tragedy : a memoir of learning how to read and write
- A comfort of cats
- trueA common pornography : a memoir
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- trueA common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A commonwealth of thieves : [the improbable birth of Australia]
- trueA commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- trueA company of heroes : personal memories about the real band of brothers and the legacy they left us
- A company of heroes; : the American frontier, 1775-1783
- trueA complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- trueA 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
- trueA computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- trueA consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- trueA cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in occupied France
- trueA cottage in Portugal
- A cottage in Portugal
- trueA 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
- trueA country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- trueA covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A covert affair : [Julia Child and Paul Child in the O.S.S.]
- A cowboy detective : a true story of twenty-two years with a world-famous detective agency
- trueA crime in the family
- A cure for Naaman
- trueA cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious life for a lady; : the story of Isabella Bird, a remarkable Victorian traveller
- trueA curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- trueA dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
- trueA dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- trueA dark and bloody ground
- trueA daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A day at the beach : recollections
- A day in the life : the music and artistry of the Beatles
- A day in the life of a police officer
- A day in the life of a school basketball coach
- A day late and a dollar short
- A day of pleasure : stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw
- trueA day with Picasso
- trueA deeper blue : the life and music of Townes Van Zandt
- trueA delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- trueA demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- trueA devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- A diary from Dixie : the Civil War's most celebrated journal, written 1860-1865 by the wife of James Chesnut, Jr., an aide to President Jefferson Davis and a brigadier-general in the Confederate Army
- A dictionary of twentieth-century art
- trueA different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- trueA difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- trueA disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- trueA 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
- trueA distant mirror : [the calamitous 14th century]
- trueA distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- trueA distorted revolution : how Eric's Trip changed music, Moncton, and me
- trueA doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A doctor's war
- A dog called Perth : the true story of a beagle
- trueA dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved 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
- trueA dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- trueA door in the ocean : a memoir
- trueA drawing in the sand : a story of African American art
- trueA dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- trueA dream is a wish your heart makes : my story
- trueA dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- trueA dream so big : our unlikely journey to end the tears of hunger
- trueA drinking life : a memoir
- trueA drop of midnight : a memoir
- A family gathering