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- "Ambassador of the Pacific Northwest"
- "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
- "In this corner ...!" : forty world champions tell their stories
- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- "Son" : a psychopath and his victims
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- "Words for the hour" : a new anthology of American Civil War poetry
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- 'Tis : a memoir
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 greatest pitchers
- 100 greatest sports champions
- 100 historias extraordinarias para niñas valientes : relatos inolvidables sobre mujeres de fe
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 of the world's most beautiful paintings
- 100 scientists who changed the world
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- 12 immigrants who made American politics great
- 13 artists children should know
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 150 biografÃas de mexicanos ilustres
- 1666 : plague, war, and hellfire
- 17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1941 : the year Germany lost the war
- 1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 24 poetas latinoamericanos
- 3 2 1 awesome! : 20 fearless women who dared to be different
- 300 years of American art
- 41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 47 below
- 5 giraffes
- 50 American artists you should know
- 50 American heroes every kid should meet
- 50 artists you should know
- 50 real heroes for boys : true stories of courage, integrity, compassion, leadership, and more!
- 50 years of photographing Hollywood : the Hurrell style
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Black women's history of the United States
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Brush full of Colour : the World of Ted Harrison
- A Jew today
- A Lenape among the Quakers : the life of Hannah Freeman
- A Little House sampler
- A Little house traveler : writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's journeys across America
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A 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 ballerina's tale
- A bar on every corner : sobering up in a tempting world
- A battle for the soul of Islam : an American Muslim patriot's fight to save his faith
- A battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A beautiful mind, a beautiful life. The bubz guide to being unstoppable.
- A beautiful mine : women prospectors of the old West
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boob's life : how America's obsession shaped me ... and you
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A bridge for passing
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A bum deal : an unlikely journey from hopeless to humanitarian
- A captive spirit : selected prose
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- 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
- A chef's life, Season five
- A child shall lead them : stories of transformed young lives at Medjugorje
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- A 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 commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A company of heroes : personal memories about the real band of brothers and the legacy they left us
- 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 covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A day with Picasso
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A doctor's war
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A father's story
- A fighting chance
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A friend like Henry : the remarkable true story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world
- 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 girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A good enough daughter : a memoir
- A 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
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guide to the Impressionist landscape : day trips from Paris to sites of great nineteenth-century paintings
- A head full of notions : a story about Robert Fulton
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- 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 Jefferson County in the state of New York, from the earliest period to the present time
- A homesteader's portfolio
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A hostage to fortune
- A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
- A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A house of many rooms : a family memoir
- A house of trees
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction - a memoir
- A hundred and one days
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A journey with Hernán Cortés
- A journey with Sieur de La Salle
- A 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
- A kingdom of their own : the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A labyrinth of kingdoms : 10,000 miles through Islamic Africa
- A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains
- A lady's ranch life in Montana
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- A life in the twentieth century : innocent beginnings, 1917-1950
- A life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- A life on the edge : memoirs of Everest and beyond
- A lifetime burning in every moment : from the Journals of Alfred Kazin
- A lifetime of fishing
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A little bit wicked : (life, love, and faith in stages)
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little me
- A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- A long way home
- A long way home
- A lynching in the heartland : race and memory in America
- A man and his mountain : the everyman who created Kendall-Jackson and became America's greatest wine entrepreneur
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A 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
- A man called Peter : the story of Peter Marshall
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- 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
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind of her own : a life of the writer George Sand
- A mother's story
- A necessary spectacle : Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the tennis match that leveled the game
- A new history of photography
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A person of Pakistani origins
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A picture book of Benjamin Franklin
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Robert E. Lee
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A place of exodus : home, memory, and Texas
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A pocketful of goobers : a story about George Washington Carver
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A positive life : living with HIV as a pastor, husband, and father
- A president from Hawaii
- A president in the family : Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson
- A priest forever : the life of Father Eugene Hamilton
- A primer of Jungian psychology
- A private life of Henry James : two women and his art
- A promised land
- A propósito de nada
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A random act : an inspiring true story of fighting to survive and choosing to forgive
- A raven named Grip : how a bird inspired two famous writers, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
- A real boy : a true story of autism, early intervention, and recovery
- A remarkable mother
- A restless spirit : the story of Robert Frost
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A rose for Mrs. Miniver : the life of Greer Garson
- A saint a day : 365 true stories of faith and heroism
- A schoolteacher in old Alaska : the story of Hannah Breece
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A season of night : New Orleans life after Katrina
- A season on the mat : Dan Gable and the pursuit of perfection
- A second chance at heaven : my surprising journey through hell, heaven, and back to life
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A serious character : the life of Ezra Pound
- A short life of Jonathan Edwards
- A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A simple monk : writings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A skating life
- A sketch of Sam Bass, the bandit : a graphic narrative : his various train robberies, his death, and accounts of the deaths of his gang and their history
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A soldier's disgrace
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A special education : one family's journey through the maze of learning disabilities
- A special fate : Chiune Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust
- A speck in the sea : a story of survival and rescue
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spotlight for Harry
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A still and quiet conscience : the archbishop who challenged a pope, a president, and a church
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A tale of love and darkness
- A teenager's journey : overcoming a childhood of abuse
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity & his surprising thoughts on God
- A thorn in my pocket : Temple Grandin's mother tells the family story
- A thousand deer : four generations of hunting and the hill country
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand hills : Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand trails home : living with caribou
- A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A three dog life
- A ticket to the circus : a memoir
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A tragic legacy : how a good vs. evil mentality destroyed the Bush presidency
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A treasury of great American scandals : tantalizing true tales of historic misbehavior by the founding fathers and others who let freedom swing
- A tribute to Ricky Nelson
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A useful woman : the early life of Jane Addams
- A vanished world : medieval Spain's golden age of enlightenment
- A venom in the blood
- A very easy death.
- A very private woman : the life and unsolved murder of presidential mistress Mary Meyer
- A victor, not a butcher : Ulysses S. Grant's overlooked military genius
- A view from a broad
- A voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- A volcano beneath the snow : John Brown's war against slavery
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A warning
- A weekend with Rembrandt
- A weekend with Renoir
- A weekend with Velázquez
- A weekend with Winslow Homer
- A well-paid slave : Curt Flood's fight for free agency in professional sports
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A who's who of sports champions : their stories and records
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wild idea
- A window over the sink : a mainly affectionate memoir
- A window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A wing and a prayer : the "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in action over Europe in World War II
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman named Jackie
- A woman of valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War
- A woman soldier's own story : the autobiography of Xie Bingying
- A world of her own : 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers
- A world of knowing : a story about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age
- A year in space ; : and, Beyond a year in space
- A year in the South : four lives in 1865
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the life of a duchess : Catherine, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
- A year in the woods : twelve small journeys into nature
- A year without a name : a memoir
- A young patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy
- A-Rod : the many lives of Alex Rodriguez
- A. Lincoln : his last 24 hours
- A. Philip Randolph and the labor movement
- AOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abdication
- Abe Lincoln remembers
- Abe Lincoln, log cabin to White House.
- Abe Lincoln, the young years
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : First Lady and patriot
- Abigail Adams : a biography
- Abigail Adams : eyewitness to America's birth
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abortion wars : a half century of struggle, 1950-2000
- About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mom to her dirty son
- Above and beyond
- Above and beyond : a history of the Medal of Honor from the Civil War to Vietnam
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : Civil War President
- Abraham Lincoln : for the people
- Abraham Lincoln : healing a divided nation
- Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abraham Lincoln, the writer : a treasury of his greatest speeches and letters
- Abraham Lincoln, will you ever give up?
- Abraham's search for God
- Abrazar el exito : la autobiografÃa de quien transformó la adversidad en un camino de superación constante
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Acceptance : a legendary guidance counselor helps seven kids find the right colleges--and find themselves
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Ace of aces : the life of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
- Acid Christ : Ken Kesey, LSD and the politics of ecstasy
- Across America on an emigrant train
- Across the Great Divide : Robert Stuart and the discovery of the Oregon Trail
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act of love : the killing of George Zygmanik
- Act one : an autobiography
- Action Jackson
- Activist : a story of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace : la primera programadora de la historia
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Admiral Richard Byrd : alone in Antarctica
- Admiral Yi Sun-sin : a brief overview of his life and achievements
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it
- Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River : being a narrative of the expedition fitted out by John Jacob Astor, to establish the "Pacific Fur Company," with an account of some Indian tribes on the coast of the Pacific
- Adventures with the Buddha : a personal Buddhism reader
- Africa in my blood : an autobiography in letters : the early years
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African American biography
- African American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of Blacks in America
- African American firsts : famous, little-known, and unsung triumphs of Blacks in America
- African American scientists and inventors
- African Americans : voices of triumph
- African Samurai : the True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African queen : the real life of the Hottentot Venus
- After Diana : William, Harry, Charles, and the royal house of Windsor
- After Jackie : pride, prejudice, and baseball's forgotten heroes : an oral history
- After the cheering stops : an NFL wife's story of concussions, loss, and the faith that saw her through
- After the fall : a climber's true story of facing death and finding life
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Again calls the owl
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : my story
- Against death and time : one fatal season in racing's glory years
- Against tall odds : being a David in a Goliath world
- Against the grain : reflections of a rebel Republican
- Agatha Christie : a biography
- Agatha Christie, Inside the mind of Agatha Christie & Agatha Christie's England
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Ageless : the naked truth about bioidentical hormones
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent of destiny : the life and times of General Winfield Scott
- Agnes Martin : her life and art
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Aimee Semple McPherson and the resurrection of Christian America
- Air pioneers
- Akhenaten, Egypt's false prophet
- Al Capone : a biography
- Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world
- Alan Turing : the enigma
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The imitation game
- Alaska calls
- Alaska's wolf man : the 1915-55 wilderness adventures of Frank Glaser
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : genius of the twentieth century
- Albert Einstein : great lives in graphics
- Albert Einstein : revolutionary physicist
- Albert Pujols
- Albert Pujols : a baseball star who cares
- Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world
- Alec Guinness : the authorized biography
- Alex, the life of a child
- Alexander Calder and his magical mobiles