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- !Zhirinovsky!
- "--where love begins"
- "...Mig mezhdu proshlym i budushchim"
- "A good poor man's wife" : being a chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and her family in nineteenth-century New England
- "Air Force spoken here" : General Ira Eaker and the command of the air
- "All-American monster" : the unauthorized biography of Timothy McVeigh
- "Always live better than your clients" : the fabulous life and times of Benjamin Sonnenberg, America's greatest publicist
- "Beast" Butler : the incredible career of Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler
- "Before I kill more."
- "Ben-Hur" Wallace : the life of General Lew Wallace
- "Big Bill" Haywood
- "Boney" Fuller : soldier, strategist, and writer, 1878-1966
- "Boss" Tweed ; : the story of a grim generation
- "Clemency" Canning : Charles John, 1st Earl Canning, Governor-General and Viceroy of India, 1856-1862
- "Curtis", the life of Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K. C.
- "Dear genius-- " : a memoir of my life with Truman Capote
- "Delo voennykh" 1937 goda : za chto rasstreli︠a︡li Tukhachevskogo
- "Delo vracheĭ" 1953 goda : pokazanii︠a︡ obvini︠a︡emogo
- "Favored strangers" : Gertrude Stein and her family
- "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler
- "H.B." and Laurence Irving
- "He built Seattle" ; : a biography of Judge Thomas Burke
- "Honest Abe" : a study in integrity based on the early life of Abraham Lincoln
- "Honey Fitz" : three steps to the White House : the life and times of John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Ian Maclaren" : the life of the Rev. John Watson, D.D.
- "Ike" Eisenhower : statesman and soldier of peace
- "Il Duce" : the life and work of Benito Mussolini
- "Johnny, we hardly knew ye" ; : memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- "King Lehr" and the gilded age
- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Marse Henry," : a biography of Henry Watterson
- "Mr. Crofts, the king's bastard" : a biography of James, duke of Monmouth (1649)-1685)
- "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777" : the treason of Charles Lee, major general, second in command in the American Army of the Revolution
- "Mr. Secretary"
- "Noble fellow," William Starling Sullivant
- "Not I, but the wind ..."
- "Not I, but the wind ..."
- "Old Bruin" : Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858 : the American naval officer who helped found Liberia, hunted pirates in the West Indies, practised diplomacy with the Sultan of Turkey and the King of the Two Sicilies ; commanded the Gulf Squadron in the Mexican War, promoted the steam navy and the shell gun, and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan / | by Samuel Eliot Morison
- "Old Rowley" : a private life of Charles II
- "One smart cookie" : how a housewife's chocolate-chip recipe turned into a multimillion dollar business--the story of Mrs. Field's cookies
- "Our famous guest" : Mark Twain in Vienna
- "Pat" Hurley : the story of an American
- "Posmotrim, kto kogo pereupri︠a︡mit ..." : Nadezhda I︠A︡kovlevna Mandelʹshtam v pisʹmakh, vospominanii︠a︡kh, svidetelʹstvakh
- "Pretty good for a woman" : the enigmas of Evelyn Scott
- "Secret and confidential" : the experiences of a military attaché
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "T. E. Lawrence" in Arabia and after
- "The lion of the vigilantes" William T. Coleman and the life of old San Francisco
- "The sex side of life" : Mary Ware Dennett's pioneering battle for birth control and sex education
- "The terrible siren" : Victoria Woodhull
- "To Lord Byron" : feminine profiles based upon unpublished letters, 1807-1824
- "We met in Paris" : Grace Frick and her life with Marguerite Yourcenar
- "With bleeding footsteps" : Mary Baker Eddy's path to religious leadership
- "Yellowstone Kelly" : the memoirs of Luther S. Kelly
- "Yellowstone Kelly" ; : the memoirs of Luther S. Kelly
- "You're in your mother's arms" : the life and legacy of Congressman Phil Burton
- "Young Bob" La Follette : a biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr., 1895-1953
- "Young Hickory," : the life and times of President James K. Polk
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic
- 'Subtle is the Lord-- ' : the science and the life of Albert Einstein
- ... General Forrest
- ... Gibbon
- ... Recollections of an immigrant
- ... Samuel Brannan and the golden fleece : a biography
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 10-pun de yomeru denki, 1-nensei
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 103-sai ni natte wakatta koto : jinsei wa hitori demo omoshiroi
- 127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 27 years with Baden-Powell
- 338171 T.E. (Lawrence of Arabia)
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 50 contemporary artists you should know
- 83 Minutes : The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
- 85 days : the last campaign of Robert Kennedy
- 97,196 words : essays
- A "chief rabbi" of Rome becomes a Catholic : a study in fright and spite
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Brazilian mystic : being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro
- A Buckeye titan
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Christian in politics, Luther W. Youngdahl : a story of a Christian's faith at work in a modern world
- A Cornish childhood : autobiography of a Cornishman
- A Cornish childhood : autobiography of a Cornishman
- A Cornishman at Oxford : the education of a Cornishman
- A Cromwellian major general : the career of Colonel James Berry, illustrated by his letters and other comtemporary documents
- A Florentine portrait : Saint Philip Benizi, 1233-1285
- A Huguenot family in the XVI century : The memoirs of Philippe De Mornay, sieur du Plessis Marly
- A Jerseyman's journal : fifty years of American business and politics
- A Little House sampler
- A Maverick American
- A Memorial to Charles Page
- A Methodist saint : the life of Bishop Asbury
- A New England romance : the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody (1807-1892)
- A Perthshire naturalist : Charles Macintosh of Inver
- A President's odyssey
- A Prussian liberal : the life of Eduard von Simson
- A Puritan in Babylon, the story of Calvin Coolidge
- A Quaker from Cromwell's army : James Nayler
- A Queen's command
- A Russian philosophe, Alexander Radishchev, 1749-1802
- A Salem shipmaster and merchant : the autobiography of George Nichols
- A Southern rebel : the life and times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890-1965
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A Stuart portrait : being a brief study of a Stuart princess, Elizabeth, daughter of James 1st, electress palatine and queen of Bohemia, known in her lifetime and remembered long after as "the Queen of hearts"
- A Texas ranger and frontiersman : the days of Buck Barry in Texas, 1845-1906
- A Thoreau profile
- A Thoreau profile
- A Trappist writes home : letters of Abbot Gerard McGinley, o.c.s.o., to his family
- A Tudor tragedy : the life and times of Catherine Howard
- A Victorian American : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- A Victorian in the modern world
- A Victorian rebel : the life of William Morris
- A Victorian romantic : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- A Victorian schoolmaster : Henry Hart of Sedbergh
- A Woman named Jackie
- A Yankee Xavier, Henry P. McGinchey, S. J
- A Yankee adventurer : the story of Ward and the Taiping rebellion
- A Yankee saint : John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community
- A Yanqui in Patagonia
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka
- A battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A beacon for the blind : being a life of Henry Fawcett, the blind postmaster-general
- A beau sabreur Maurice de Saxe, marshal of France : his loves, his laurels, and his times, 1696-1750
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66
- A biographical sketch : John Sedgwick, major-general
- A biographical sketch of Francis James Blight : F. R. S. E., publisher, chairman and managing director from 1899 to 1927 of Charles Griffin and company, ltd., publishers
- A biographical sketch of the life of the late Captain Michael Cresap ...
- A biography of Edward Marsh
- A biography of James M. Peebles ...
- A biography of Thomas Wolfe
- A biography of William Cullen Bryant : with extracts from his private correspondence
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book of dreams
- A boy for the ages
- 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 bridge across the Jordan : the friendship between a Jewish carpenter and the King of Jordan
- A brief sketch of George Peabody : and a history of the Peabody education fund through thirty years
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A builder of the West ; : the life of General William Jackson Palmer
- A builder of the new South : being the story of the life work of Daniel Augustus Tompkins
- A buried life : personal recollections of A. E. Housman
- A cackhanded war
- A capitalist romance : Singer and the sewing machine
- A captain in industry
- A case of human bondage
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A cavalier in Muscovy
- A cavalier in Texas
- A cavalryman's story : memoirs of a twentieth-century Army general
- A cedar of Lebanon
- A century and one : life story of William Robert Candler
- A century of Kate Greenaway
- A certain Democrat : Senator Henry M. Jackson : a political biography
- A chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- A chance for glory
- A character of the trimmer : being a short life of the First Marquis of Halifax
- A charmed life : growing up in Macbeth's castle
- A child of miracles : the story of Patsy Li
- A closer look at Ariel : a memory of Sylvia Plath
- A coat of yellow paint : moving through the noise to love the life you live
- A collection of facts and documents, relative to the death of Major-General Alexander Hamilton ; : with comments : together with the various orations, sermons, and eulogies
- A college professor of the renaissance : Lucio Marineo Sículo among the Spanish humanists
- A common good : the friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
- A conqueror of space : an authorized biography of the life and work of Lee De Forest
- A conscientious turncoat ; : the story of John M. Palmer, 1817-1900
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy
- A constitutional king : George the First
- A cosmopolitan actor : David Garrick and his French friends
- A court in exile : Charles Edward Stuart and the romance of the Countess d'Albanie
- A courtesan of paradise : Louise, duchesse de La Vallière, or Sister Louise of the Order of Mount Carmel
- A critical American : the politics of Dwight Macdonald
- A crown of fire : the life and times of Girolamo Savonarola
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A 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
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter of the Medicis : the romantic story of Margaret of Valois
- A day in the life of President Johnson
- A day in the life of President Kennedy
- A death in Zamora
- A death with dignity : when the Chinese came
- A debonair scoundrel : an episode in the moral history of San Francisco
- A defense of Edgar Allan Poe : life, character and dying declarations of the poet. An official account of his death
- A degree of prudery : a biography of Fanny Burney
- A different face : the life of Mary Wollstonecraft
- A different kind of victory : a biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart
- A difficult soul : Zinaida Gippius
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A doctor's memories
- A doctor's odyssey : a sentimental record of Le Roy Crummer : physician, author, bibliophile, artist in living, 1872-1934
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J.B.S. Haldane
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dreamer of dreams : being a new and intimate telling of the love-story and life-work of "Will Penn the Quaker."
- A fair conspirator : Marie do Rohan, duchesse de Chevreuse
- A family lawsuit : the story of Elisabeth Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte
- A family of two worlds : a portrait of her mother
- A fatal passion : the story of Victoria Melita, the uncrowned last Empress of Russia
- A few memories
- A field-marshal in the family : a personal biography of Montgomery of Alamein
- A field-marshal's memoirs
- A fire in the mind : the life of Joseph Campbell
- A fire is burning, it is in me : the life and writings of Michiyo Fukaya
- A fire was lighted, the life of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
- A first class temperament : the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- A fitting death for Billy the Kid
- A flame in sunlight : the life and work of Thomas de Quincey
- A flower for my mother
- A forgotten John Russell : being letters to a man of business, 1724-1751
- A forgotten empress : Anna Ivanovna and her era, 1730-1740
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A friend of the Queen : (Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen)
- A gallant of Lorraine : François, seigneur de Bassompierre, marquis d'Harouel, maréchal de France (1579-1646)
- A gardener touched with genius : the life of Luther Burbank
- A gardener touched with genius : the life of Luther Burbank
- A general of the Revolution, John Sullivan of New Hampshire
- A general's life : an autobiography
- A genius for living : the life of Frieda Lawrence
- A genius in the family : Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim through a small son's eyes
- A gentle knight : my husband, Walter White
- A gentleman of the old Natchez region, Benjamin L. C. Wailes
- A gentleman of the olden time : François de Scépeaux, sire de Vieilleville, 1509-1571
- A gentleman rebel : the exploits of Anthony Wayne
- A girl from China (Soumay Tcheng)
- A girl of the eighties at college and at home : from the family letters of Charlotte Howard Conant and from other records
- A girl's story
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good German : Adam von Trott zu Solz
- A good fight : the story of F. D. R.'s conquest of polio
- A good man : the life of Sam J. Ervin
- A good time was had
- A goodly heritage : a history of Jane Austen's family
- A grandfather for Benjamin Franklin : the true story of a Nantucket pioneer and his mates ..
- A great adventuress : Lady Hamilton and the revolution in Naples (1753-1815)
- A great and glorious romance
- A great coquette : Madame Recamier and her salon
- A great emperor, Charles V, 1519-1558
- A great experiment : an autobiography
- A great mystic of the eighteenth century : the Ven. Sister Mary Celeste Crostarosa
- A great rich man : the romance of Sir Walter Scott
- A greater love : Prince Charles's twenty year affair with Camilla Parker Bowles
- A group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) being records of the younger Wedgwoods and their friends : embracing the history of the discovery of photography and a facsimile of the first photograph
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A half century among the Siamese and the Lāo ; : an autobiography
- A half of two lives
- A halo for Gómez
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A heritage of stone
- A hermit disclosed
- A hero all his life : a memoir by the Mantle family
- A hero for our time : an intimate story of the Kennedy years
- A hero for the Americas : the legend of Gonzalo Guerrero
- A hero in spite of himself : Brand Whitlock : in art, politics & war
- A hidden wholeness : the visual world of Thomas Merton
- A historian's progress
- A historical inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, his friends, relatives and early life, his connection with the Muscovy company and discovery of Delaware Bay
- A history of Islam in 21 women
- A history of William Penn : founder of Pennsylvania
- A history of the life and death, virtues and exploits of General George Washington : with curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen
- A history of the life of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham : a forgotten soldier of the civil wars
- A history of the life of Edward the Black prince : and of various events connected therewith, which occurred during the reign of Edward III. king of England
- A history of the life of Richard Cœur-de-Lion, king of England
- A history of the political life of the Right Honourable William Pitt : including some account of the times in which he lived
- A hotbed of tranquility : my life in five worlds
- A house in Chicago
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A hunger for home : Louisa May Alcott and Little women
- A journey into Rabelais's France
- A journey with Elsa Cloud
- A joyful noise
- A keeper of royal secrets : being the private and political life of Madame de Genlis
- A keystone of empire, Francis Joseph of Austria
- A kind of private magic
- A king's romance : the story of Milan and Natalie, first king and queen of Servia
- A knock at midnight
- A lady of the last century : (Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu), illustrated in her unpublished letters, collected and arranged with a biographical sketch, and a chapter on blue stockings
- A lady of the salons : the story of Louise Colet
- A lamp for India : the story of Madame Pandit
- A legacy : being the life and remains of John Martin, school master and poet
- A letter to Jo
- A letter to my wife
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life for the Congo : the story of Althea Brown Edmiston
- A life in our times : memoirs
- A life in the struggle : Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition
- A life of Cardinal Mercier
- A life of Chekhov
- A life of Confucius
- A life of Emma Hamilton
- A life of Francis Amasa Walker
- A life of Francis Parkman
- A life of George Westinghouse
- A life of Gilbert Burnet : bishop of Salisbury. I. Scotland, 1643-1674, by T.E.S. Clarke. II. England, 1674-1715, with bibliographical appendixes, by H.C. Foxcroft
- A life of John Davis, the navigator, 1550-1605, discoverer of Davis straits
- A life of John Wilkes
- A life of Joseph Priestley
- A life of Kenneth Rexroth
- A life of Lord Lyndhurst from letters and papers in possession of his family
- A life of Luther
- A life of Matthew Arnold
- A life of Matthew Fontaine Maury
- A life of Robert Cecil : first Earl of Salisbury
- A life of Silas Wright 1795-1847 : United States senator from New York 1833-1844, governor of the state of New York 1844-1846
- A life of Thomas Chatterton
- A life of Walt Whitman
- A life of the great Lord Fairfax, commander-in-chief of the Army of the Parliament of England
- A lifetime of riches : the biography of Napoleon Hill
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A light to the gentiles : the life story of the venerable Francis Libermann
- A likely story : one summer with Lillian Hellman
- A lion for love : a critical biography of Stendhal
- A little original sin : the life and work of Jane Bowles
- A little original sin : the life and work of Jane Bowles
- A little revenge : Benjamin Franklin and his son
- A long way forward : the biography of Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton
- A lost commander : Florence Nightingale
- A lot to ask : a life of Barbara Pym
- A love in shadow
- A loving gentleman : the love story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter
- A man against insanity
- A man and his friends : the life story of Milton H. Esberg, good citizen, successful business man, and warm hearted loyal friend; the tribute of a friend
- A man called Peter : the story of Peter Marshall
- A man for others : Maximilian Kolbe saint of Auschwitz in the words of those who knew him
- A man from Kansas : the story of William Allen White
- A man from Maine
- A man named John : the life of Pope John XXIII
- A man of courage, Robert A. Taft
- A man of letters : Montgomery remembered : a memorial volume for John McVey Montgomery : in which 73 colleagues offer memorial salutes to a West Coast poet, mountaineer, and Beat literary chronicler
- A man of our times : the life-history of a Japanese-Canadian fisherman
- A man spoke, a world listened : the story of Walter A. Maier and the Lutheran hour
- A man to match his mountains : Badshah Khan, nonviolent soldier of Islam
- A man under orders : Lieutenant General William K. Harrison, Jr.
- A margin of hope : an intellectual autobiography
- A marriage of true minds : an intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A measure filled : the life of Lena Madesin Phillips drawn from her autobiography
- A measure of understanding
- A meditator's life of the Buddha : based on the early discourses
- A memoir : Richard A. Gleeson, S. J., 1861-1945
- A memoir of Baron Bunsen
- A memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D : with some of his professional and miscellaneous writings
- A memoir of Charles Mayne Young, tragedian : with extracts from his son's journal
- A memoir of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth : with selections from his correspondence
- A memoir of Edward Askew Sothern
- A memoir of Henry Bradshaw : fellow of King's college, Cambridge, and university librarian
- A memoir of Henry Perrine Baldwin, 1842 to 1911
- A memoir of Honoré de Balzac
- A memoir of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, K.T.
- A memoir of Mary Ann
- A memoir of Mrs. Augustus Craven (Pauline de La Ferronnays) ... with extracts from her diaries and correspondence
- A memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A memoir of Sebastian Cabot
- A memoir of her royal highness Princess Mary Adelaide, duchess of Teck
- A memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio : countess of Chinchon and vice-queen of Peru (A.D. 1629-39) with a plea for the correct spelling of the Chinchona genus
- A memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M. A : late vicar of Hursley
- A memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A., late vicar of Hursley
- A memoir of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry ...
- A memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N. : with extracts from his diaries and correspondence
- A memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck : a description of the dedication of the monument erected to his memory at Guilford, Connecticut; and of the proceedings connected with the unveiling of the poet's statue in the Central park, New York
- A memorial to Theodore Roosevelt
- A memorial volume of American history : McKinley and men of out times, together with the great questions with which they have been identified and which are still pressing for solution
- A merchant prince : life of Hon. Senator John Macdonald
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A military genius : life of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland ("the great unrecognized member of Lincoln's cabinet")
- A mingled yarn : the life of R.P. Blackmur
- A ministry to man : the life of John Lovejoy Elliott, a biography
- A modest harmony : seven summers in a Scottish glen
- A month in Siena
- A monument to Saint Jerome : essays on some aspects of his life, works, and influence
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A mother in history
- A mother of czars : a sketch of the life of Marie Feodorowna, wife of Paul I. and mother of Alexander I. and Nicholas I.
- A mother's ordeal : one woman's fight against China's one-child policy
- A mystic on the Prussian throne : Frederick-William II
- A mystic under arms
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A naturalist's scrapbook
- A nest of tigers : the Sitwells in their times
- A new American, from the life story of Salvatore A. Cotillo, Supreme court justice, state of New York
- A new life of Anton Chekhov
- A new life of Charlotte Brontë
- A new woman of Japan : a political biography of Katō Shidzue
- A nineteenth-century teacher, John Henry Bridges ...
- A non-existent man : an autobiography
- A pair of lawn sleeves : a biography of William Smith (1727-1803)
- A passage to Egypt : the life of Lucie Duff Gordon
- A passion for freedom : the life of Sharlot Hall
- A patriot's mistake : being personal recollections of the Parnell family
- A patriot's progress : Henry Williamson and the First World War
- A pearl to India : the life of Roberto de Nobili
- A peasant sage of Japan : the life and work of Sontoku Ninomiya
- A perfect husband
- A perilous advantage : the best of Natalie Clifford Barney
- A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant : and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
- A personal record
- A pictorial life of Jack London
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A pietist of the Napoleonic wars and after : the life of Countess von Reden
- A pilgrimage of ideas, or, The re-education of Sherwood Eddy
- A pilgrimage of passion : the life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- A pilgrimage to the home of Joseph de Galvez : the father of California
- 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 poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A poet in Parliament : the life of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1802-1839
- A poet's children, Hartley and Sara Coleridge
- A political life : the education of John V. Lindsay
- A portrait of Abraham Lincoln in letters
- A portrait of André Malraux
- A portrait of Charles Lamb
- A portrait of Jane Austen
- A portrait of Pancho : the life of a great Texan, J. Frank Dobie
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A precursor of Perry ; : or, The story of Takano Nagahide
- A prince in their midst : the adventurous life of Achille Murat on the American frontier
- A prince of Arabia : the Emir Shereef Ali Haider
- A prince of Mantua : the life and times of Vincenzo Gonzaga. Translated from the Italian by Stuart Hood
- A prince of our disorder : the life of T. E. Lawrence
- A princess of the Italian reformation : Giulia Gonzaga, 1513-1566, her family and her friends
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A proof of eminence : the life of Sir John Hawkins
- A proper drink : the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world
- A proper drink : the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world
- A prophet from amongst you : the life of Yigael Yadin : soldier, scholar, and mythmaker of modern Israel
- A prophet in two countries : the life of F.E. Simon
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A publisher and his friends : Memoir and correspondence of the late John Murray, with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843
- A pygmy monopolist : the life and doings of R. D. Hume
- A queen at bay : the story of Cristina and Don Carlos
- A queen at home : an intimate account of the social and domestic life of Queen Victoria's court
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A quest for security : the life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720
- A question of character : a life of John F. Kennedy
- A question of madness
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A rage for justice : the passion and politics of Phillip Burton
- A rage to live : a biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
- A rake and his times : George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
- A rare book saga : the autobiography of H. P. Kraus
- A reasonable rebel, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- A rebel's journey : Mustafa Sho'aiyan and revolutionary theory in Iran
- A refuge from darkness : Wilfrid Israel and the rescue of the Jews
- A regency chapter : Lady Bessborough and her friendships