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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- ...And Dignity for All : Unlocking Greatness through Values-Based Leadership
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows
- 127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 97,196 words : essays
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka
- 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 certain idea of France : the life of Charles de Gaulle
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A charmed life : growing up in Macbeth's castle
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- 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 guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hopeful heart : louisa may alcott before little women
- A knock at midnight
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A month in Siena
- 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 clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A patriot's progress : Henry Williamson and the First World War
- A perfect husband
- A proper drink : the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world
- A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A soldier's memories in peace and war
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the paralympic games
- A terrible splendor : three extraordinary men, a world poised for war, and the greatest tennis match ever played
- 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 wild love for the world : Joanna Macy and the work of our time
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Above the Rim : How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball
- Absurdistan : a bumpy ride through some of the world's scariest, weirdest places
- Accomplished : African-American women in Victorian America
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation
- Ada Lovelace
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrenaline junkie : a memoir
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Afropessimism
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Aimée & Jaguar : a love story, Berlin 1943
- Aire encantado : dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alguien como yo : la lucha de una niña indocumentada por alcanzar el sueño americano
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All I ever wanted : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- All I ever wanted : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small : the warm and joyful memoirs of the world's most beloved animal doctor
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a Drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the rage : a partial memoir in two acts and a prologue
- All the things we never knew : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- Alpha
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- Amelia Earhart
- America is immigrants
- America is in the heart
- America is in the heart
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American daughter : a memoir of intergenerational trauma, a mother's dark secrets, and a daughter's quest for redemption
- American desperado
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- Among the white moon faces : an Asian-American memoir of homelands
- An Egyptian journal
- An Impeccable Spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent
- An Unladylike Profession : American Women War Correspondents in World War I
- An empire of their own : how the Jews invented Hollywood
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angel on the yardarm : the beginnings of fleet radar defense and the kamikaze threat
- Angels with dirty faces : three stories of crime, prison, and redemption
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Another gospel? : a lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity
- Anton Chekhov : a life
- Anything your little heart desires : an American family story
- Aoc : a celebration of the fierce brilliance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apple : (skin to the core)
- Archy Lee's struggle for freedom : the true story of California gold, the nation'stragic march toward Civil War, and a young black man's fight for liberty
- Areli es una dreamer : una historia real
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story by Areli Morales, a DACA recipient
- As I walked out one midsummer morning : a memoir
- As a woman : what I learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy after I transitioned
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Attu boy : a young Alaskan's WWII memoir
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Average expectations : lessons in lowering the bar
- BRUCE LEE
- Baby love : choosing motherhood after a lifetime of ambivalence
- Baden-Powell
- Banker to the world : leadership lessons from the front lines of global finance
- Basketball GOATs : the greatest athletes of all time
- Basketball's greatest players
- Battlegrounds
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beat breast cancer like a boss : 30 powerful stories
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Being Ram Dass
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a nazi prison camp
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Bevelations : lessons from a mutha, auntie, bestie
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billion dollar loser : the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
- Bird brother : a falconer's journey and the healing power of wildlife
- Black American refugee
- Black Boy
- Black Boy
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black Titan : A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire
- Black Water : family, legacy and blood memory
- Black ballerinas
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Black spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black water : Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Blue light of the screen : on horror, ghosts, and god
- Bode : go fast, be good, have fun
- Bohemians West : free love, family, and radicals in twentieth-century America
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bond King : How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born for this : my story in music
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bound feet & Western dress
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Bradbury beyond Apollo
- Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) life
- Brazen
- Bread for Words
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Bridge for passing
- Broken horses
- Broken music : a memoir
- Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
- Brother & sister
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By and by : Charles Tindley, the father of gospel music
- COMPUTER DECODER : Dorothy Vaughan, computer scientist
- Cabo Trafalgar in the moonlight : pen & sail: my life with Dudley Pope
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Call me American
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Canta conmigo : la historia de Selena Quintanilla
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carbon queen : the remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
- Carla Hayden: Librarian of Congress
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Catching the wind : edward kennedy and the liberal hour, 1932-1975
- Catfish and mandala : a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Center center : a funny, sexy, sad almost-memoir of a boy in ballet
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Chaos monkeys revised edition : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
- Charles Dickens : a life
- Charles Drew
- Charles Williams : the third Inkling
- Charlie Chan : the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlize : life's one helluva ride
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Checking in : how getting real about depression saved my life-and can save yours
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Childhood days : a memoir
- Childhood years : a memoir
- Children
- China men
- Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
- Ching chong China girl : from fruitshop to foreign correspondent
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Chunky
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill & son
- Cider with Rosie : a memoir
- Citizen Outlaw : a gangster's journey
- Citizen Outlaw : one man's journey from gangleader to peacekeeper
- Clara Lemlich
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Closing Ranks : My Life as a Cop
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Colin Kaepernick : athletes who made a difference
- Coming home : from the life of Langston Hughes
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Coming up for air
- Composers : their lives and works
- Compromised : counterintelligence and the threat of Donald J. Trump
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confederate bushwhacker : Mark Twain in the shadow of the Civil War
- Confesiones de un chef
- Confess : the autobiography
- Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays
- Confident women
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constructing a nervous system
- Conversations
- Coretta Scott King
- Cost of living : essays
- Counting on Katherine
- Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
- Courage : my story of persecution
- Crazy Horse : the Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family
- Crazy brave : a memoir
- Crossroads : my story of tragedy and resilience as a Humboldt Bronco
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Cubed : the puzzle of us all
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes : 100 historias de mujeres extraordinarias
- Cuentos para niños que se atreven a ser diferentes
- Cul-de-sac
- Cultural landscape report for Chatham, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Stafford County, Virginia : site history, existing conditions, analysis and evaluation, treatment
- Dad's maybe book
- Daddy : a Memoir
- Damaged : the heartbreaking true story of a forgotten child
- Damn right! : behind the scenes with Berkshire Hathaway billionaire Charlie Munger
- Damn shame : a memoir of desire, defiance and show tunes
- Dance or die : a story of war, family, art, and redemption
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir
- Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark hearts : the world's most famous horror writers
- Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
- Dark was the night
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- Days in the Caucasus
- Days of grace : a memoir
- Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss
- Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss
- Death traps : the survival of an American armored division in World War II
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Dennis Brutus
- Descent into darkness : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir
- Desire : a memoir
- Diamonds and deadlines : a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Did ye hear mammy died
- Dirty Blvd : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Dirty Sexy Money : The Unauthorized Biography of Kris Jenner
- Dirty gold : the rise and fall of an international smuggling ring
- Dirty rocker boys : love and lust on the Sunset Strip
- Discovering great artists : hands-on art for children in the styles of the great masters
- Divine : la historia de la mujer ̀ms hermosa del mundo (casi)
- Do what you want : the story of Bad Religion
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual politics in nineteenth-century America
- Dorothea Lange
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dragons in the snow : avalanche detectives and the race to beat death in the mountains
- Dragons in the snow : avalanche detectives and the race to beat death in the mountains
- Dream with me : race, love, and the struggle we must win
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Dusk night dawn : on revival and courage
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Edmund Hillary : a biography
- Edmund Hillary : a biography : the extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
- Einstein
- El Jefe : the stalking of Chapo Guzmán
- El libro de Emma Reyes : memoria por correspondencia
- Eleanor
- Eleanor : a life
- Eleanor in the village : Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village
- Eleanor makes her mark : how Eleanor Roosevelt reached out, spoke up and changed the world
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth I : a study in insecurity
- Ella persistio en la ciencia : mujeres brillantes que marcaron la diferencia
- Eloquence of the sardine : extraordinary encounters beneath the sea
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire builder : John D. Spreckels and the making of San Diego
- Empires of the sky : zeppelins, airplanes, and two men's epic duel to rule the world
- Empires of the sky : zeppelins, airplanes, and two men's epic duel to rule the world
- Empower : conquering the disease of fear
- Empty : a memoir
- En el lugar de los hechos : 25 años de trabajo periodistico
- En la casa de los sueños
- En otras palabras
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Erdogan's empire : Turkey and the politics of the Middle East
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eva and Eve : A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everest : the remarkable story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- Every good boy does fine : a love story, in music lessons
- Everything Beautiful in Its Time
- Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
- Everything she touched : the life of Ruth Asawa
- Evonne Goolagong
- Experiencing Erickson : an introduction to the man and his work
- Experiencing Erikson
- Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont
- Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against Dupont
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- FBI's ten most wanted fugitives : 60th anniversary, 1950-2010
- Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
- False choices : the faux feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Family in six tones : a refugee mother, an American daughter
- Family of Origin, Family of Choice : stories of queer Christians
- Farm girl : a Wisconsin memoir
- Father of the Lost Boys : a memoir
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Fearlessly different : an autistic actor's journey to Broadway's biggest stage
- Fearlessly different : an autistic actor's journey to Broadway's biggest stage
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fierce poise : Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- Filled with fire and light : portraits and legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic world
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw and my quest to follow
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- Finding your harmony : dream big, have faith, and achieve more than you can imagine
- Finding your harmony : dream big, have faith, and achieve more than you can imagine
- Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
- Flamin' hot : the incredible true story of one man's rise from janitor to top executive
- Flashes of creation : George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big bang debate
- Flim-Flam Man : a True Family History
- Flip the script : lessons learned on the road to a championship
- Floating in a most peculiar way
- Fly into the wind : how to harness faith and fearlessness on your ascent to greatness
- Fly into the wind : how to harness faith and fearlessness on your ascent to greatness
- Flying, Falling, Catching : An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom
- Follow the rabbit-proof fence
- Food-related stories
- Football GOATs : the greatest athletes of all time
- For all who hunger
- For all who hunger : searching for communion in a shattered world
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the science of prehistoric life
- Four Wars, Five Presidents : a Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House
- Frank Ramsey : a Sheer Excess of Powers
- Frank, who liked to build : the architecture of Frank Gehry
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frida Íntima
- From Harvey River : a memoir of my mother and her island
- From Sarah to Sydney : the woman behind All-Of-a-Kind Family
- From farmworker to astronaut : my path to the stars = De campesino a astronauta : mi viaje a las estrellas
- From silk to silicon : the story of globalization through ten extraordinary lives
- From staircase to stage : the story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan
- From the hood to the holler : a story of separate worlds, shared dreams, and the fight for America's future
- From this broken hill
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Gabo y Mercedes : una despedida
- Gabo y Mercedes : una despedida
- Game Changers: Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Gatecrasher : how I helped the rich become famous and ruin the world
- Gather together in my name
- Genius makers : the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world
- George Crum and the Saratoga chip
- George Platt Lynes : the daring eye
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington on leadership
- Germaine : the life of Germaine Greer
- Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case
- Getting the pretty back : [friendship, family and finding the perfect lipstick]
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl on a motorcycle
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Give them Lala