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- "Ambassador of the Pacific Northwest"
- "Come, Blackrobe" : De Smet and the Indian tragedy
- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- true"Frankly, we did win this election" : the inside story of how Trump lost
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "I will fight no more forever" : Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
- true"I'd love to kiss you-- " : conversations with Bette Davis
- "In this corner ...!" : forty world champions tell their stories
- "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
- true"Nice" Jewish girls
- 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
- true"Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein
- true"The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- true"There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- true"We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- "We were five" : the Dionne quintuplets' story from birth through girlhood to womanhood
- "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
- true'Tis : a memoir
- true(Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- true--if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- true10 kings & queens who changed the world
- true10 women who changed science and the world
- 100 Christian women who changed the twentieth century
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 artists who changed the world
- 100 famous Americans who changed American history
- 100 greatest pitchers
- 100 greatest sports champions
- 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 of the world's most beautiful paintings
- 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
- true100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100 women who shaped world history
- true100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever : my story
- 1000 makers of the millennium
- true1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 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
- 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
- true13 American artists children should know
- 13 architects children should know
- true13 artists children should know
- 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
- 150 biografías de mexicanos ilustres
- true150 glimpses of the Beatles
- true1666 : plague, war, and hellfire
- true17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- true18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- true1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- true1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1929, America before the Crash
- true1941 : the year Germany lost the war
- true1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 24 poetas latinoamericanos
- 25 mujeres que dieron batalla
- 25 women who dared to go
- 25 women who fought back
- true28 : stories of AIDS in Africa
- 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
- true33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- true41 : a portrait of my father
- true41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 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 modern artists you should know
- true50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- 50 women artists you should know
- 50 years of photographing Hollywood : the Hurrell style
- true5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- true56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 700 Sundays
- 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
- true8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- true82 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
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- true90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- true90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life
- 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
- trueA Different Drummer : My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
- 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
- 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 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
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- trueA Rum affair : a true story of botanical fraud
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Summer Job : Valsetz, Oregon 1951
- A Texas cowboy : or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony
- A ballerina's tale
- A bar on every corner : sobering up in a tempting world
- 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
- trueA 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 big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- trueA bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A biographical guide to the great jazz and pop singers
- 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 boob's life : how America's obsession shaped me ... and you
- 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 called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- trueA boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- 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 and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- trueA brave face : two cultures, two families, and the Iraqi girl who bound them together
- A bridge for passing
- trueA brief illustrated history of exploration
- trueA brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- trueA bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- trueA bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- trueA brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- trueA broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- 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 captive spirit : selected prose
- trueA carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- trueA castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- 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 meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- trueA change of heart : a memoir
- A chef's life, Season five
- A chef's life, Season three
- trueA child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child shall lead them : stories of transformed young lives at Medjugorje
- trueA 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
- 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
- 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 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
- trueA consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- trueA conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- trueA cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in occupied France
- A cops and robbers story
- 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
- trueA crime in the family
- trueA cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- 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 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
- trueA day with Picasso
- trueA demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A dictionary of twentieth-century art
- trueA difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- trueA dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- 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
- 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
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- trueA dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- trueA dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- trueA drinking life : a memoir
- trueA drop of midnight : a memoir
- trueA family place : a Hudson Valley farm, three centuries, five wars, one family
- trueA famous dog's life : the story of Gidget, America's most beloved Chihuahua
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- trueA fatal friendship : Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- trueA father's story
- trueA fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- trueA fighting chance
- A fire in the mind : the life of Joseph Campbell
- trueA flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- trueA forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian, who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- trueA free man : a true story of life and death in Delhi
- trueA freewheelin' time : a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
- A friend like Henry : the remarkable true story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world
- trueA friend like Iggy
- trueA funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- trueA funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- trueA game of character : a family journey from Chicago's southside to the Ivy League and beyond
- A garden gallery : the plants, art, and hardscape of Little and Lewis
- trueA ghost in the throat
- trueA gift imprisoned : the poetic life of Matthew Arnold
- trueA gift of hope : helping the homeless
- trueA girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- trueA girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- trueA girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D.R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- trueA girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- trueA girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- trueA godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- trueA good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good enough daughter : a memoir
- trueA good life wasted, or, Twenty years as a fishing guide
- trueA good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- trueA good man in evil times : the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the man who saved the lives of countless refugees in World War II
- trueA good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A goodly heritage : a history of Jane Austen's family
- trueA great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- trueA great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- trueA greater love : Prince Charles's twenty-year affair with Camilla Parker Bowles
- trueA guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- trueA guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guide to Hemingway's Paris
- A guide to the Impressionist landscape : day trips from Paris to sites of great nineteenth-century paintings
- trueA gypsy in Auschwitz
- A head full of notions : a story about Robert Fulton
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- trueA heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- trueA hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- A hero for our time : an intimate story of the Kennedy years
- A hero on Mount St. Helens : the life and legacy of David A. Johnston
- A hesitation before birth : the life of Franz Kafka
- trueA higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A history of Henry County, Virginia, with biographical sketches of its most prominent citizens and genealogical histories of half a hundred of its oldest families
- A history of Islam in 21 women
- A history of Jefferson County in the state of New York, from the earliest period to the present time
- trueA history of me
- A history of silence : a memoir
- trueA home for Mr. Emerson
- trueA homesteader's portfolio
- trueA honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- trueA hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- trueA hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- trueA hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A hostage to fortune
- A house divided : the lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
- trueA house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
- trueA house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A house is not a home
- A house of many rooms : a family memoir
- A house of trees
- trueA house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction - a memoir
- A house with four rooms
- A hundred and one days
- trueA is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- trueA is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- trueA journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A journey with Christopher Columbus
- trueA journey with Hernán Cortés
- A journey with Juan Ponce de León
- trueA journey with Sieur de La Salle
- trueA jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
- trueA killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- trueA kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- trueA kingdom of their own : the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster
- trueA lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- trueA labyrinth of kingdoms : 10,000 miles through Islamic Africa
- trueA lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains
- A lady's ranch life in Montana
- trueA land of big dreamers : voices of courage in America
- trueA 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 lawyer's journey : the Morris Dees story
- A lawyer's life on two continents
- trueA leg to stand on
- trueA lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueA life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- trueA life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- trueA life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- trueA life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- trueA life in the twentieth century : innocent beginnings, 1917-1950
- trueA life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- trueA life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Jung
- trueA life of Picasso
- trueA life on the edge : memoirs of Everest and beyond
- A life wild and perilous : mountain men and the paths to the Pacific
- trueA lifetime burning in every moment : from the Journals of Alfred Kazin
- A lifetime of fishing
- trueA light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A light so lovely : the spiritual legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time
- trueA likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- trueA lion called Christian
- trueA literary tour de France : the world of books on the eve of the French Revolution
- trueA little bit wicked : (life, love, and faith in stages)
- trueA little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little me
- trueA long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- trueA long way from Tipperary : a memoir
- A long way home
- trueA long way home
- trueA lynching in the heartland : race and memory in America
- trueA magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- trueA man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- trueA man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the S.S. United States
- trueA man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A man called Intrepid : the incredible WWII narrative of the hero whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history
- A man called Intrepid : the secret war
- trueA man called Peter : the story of Peter Marshall
- trueA man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man unafraid; : the story of John Charles Frémont,
- A man walks into a barn : navigating fatherhood in the flawed and fascinating world of horses
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- trueA marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A midwife's story
- A midwife's tale
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl
- trueA mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband, Danny Pearl
- trueA mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- trueA million little pieces
- trueA mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind of her own : a life of the writer George Sand
- trueA most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- trueA mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- trueA moveable feast : the restored edition
- trueA nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- trueA natural woman : a memoir
- trueA necessary spectacle : Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the tennis match that leveled the game
- trueA new history of photography
- trueA newer world : Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the claiming of the American West
- trueA night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- trueA parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for danger : Nansen's Arctic adventures
- trueA passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss