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- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A month in Siena
- A perfect husband
- A proper drink : the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Afropessimism
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Aimée & Jaguar : a love story, Berlin 1943
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the things we never knew : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- 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
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anything your little heart desires : an American family story
- 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
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Basketball's greatest players
- 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
- 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
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Born for this : my story in music
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Bridge for passing
- Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
- Brother & sister
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- 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
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Charles Dickens : a life
- 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
- Ching chong China girl : from fruitshop to foreign correspondent
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Colors of the mountain
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Crazy Horse : the Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family
- Crazy brave : a memoir
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes : 100 historias de mujeres extraordinarias
- 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
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Dirty Blvd : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Einstein
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Erdogan's empire : Turkey and the politics of the Middle East
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- False choices : the faux feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Family secrets : crossing the colour line
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Gendering radicalism : women and communism in twentieth-century California
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Gold dust woman : a biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good morning, destroyer of men's souls
- Grant
- Hannibal
- Harriet Tubman : Conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Hendrix : the ultimate illustrated history
- Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America ; essays
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : some girls are born to lead
- Hitler : a global biography
- Hold on, but don't hold still : hope and humor from my seriously flawed life
- I am Gandhi
- I am Helen Keller
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not your slave : a memoir
- I loved her in the movies : memories of Hollywood's legendary actresses
- I want you to know we're still here
- I, Rigoberta Menchú : an Indian woman in Guatemala
- Iacocca : an autobiography
- Iacocca : an autobiography
- Images and shadows : part of a life
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Paris : twenty women, on life in the City of Light
- In days to come : a new hope for Israel
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In the land of men : a memoir
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Initiated : memoir of a witch
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- It's Garry Shandling's book
- It's up to you, Ben Franklin
- Janis : her life and music
- Janis : her life and music
- Jet girl : my life in war, peace, and the cockpit of the world's most lethal aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Journeys out of the body
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Kafka y la mu©łeca viajera
- Kafka y la muñeca viajera
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- Kitchen table wisdom : stories that heal
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- La bailarina de Auschwitz : una inspiradora historia de valentía y supervivencia
- Lady in red : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- Last call : bartenders on their one final drink and the late-night wisdom and rituals of closing time
- LeBron James
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Lionel Messi
- Long way home
- Los niños de Irena : la extraordinaria historia de la mujer que salvó a 2500 niños del gueto de Varsovia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial
- Loulou & Yves : the untold story of Loulou de la Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
- Lush : a memoir
- Machiavelli : the man who taught the people what they have to fear
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Mario y el agujero en el cielo : cómo un químico salvó nuestro planeta
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Masked : the life of Anna Leonowens, schoolmistress in the court of Siam
- Maximum volume : the life of Beatles producer George Martin, the early years: 1926-1966
- Michael Collins : forgotten astronaut
- Michael Curtiz : a life in film
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
- Montana : the biography of football's Joe Cool
- Mr. Crum's potato predicament
- Music to my years : a mixtape-memoir of growing up and standing up
- Muslim girls rise : inspirational champions of our time
- My First Life : Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet
- My adventures with your money : George Graham Rice and the golden age of the con artist
- My autobiography of Carson McCullers
- Naked in the Zendo : stories of uptight Zen, wild-ass Zen, and enlightenment wherever you are
- Nazi saboteurs : Hitler's secret attack on America
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Never enough : Donald Trump and the pursuit of success
- No better friend, no worse enemy : the life of General James Mattis
- No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison
- No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison
- Normal : One Kid's Extraordinary Journey
- Normal : a mother and her beautiful son
- Normal sucks : how to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines
- Not Pretty Enough : the Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- O captain, my captain : Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
- O captain, my captain : Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
- Obviously : stories from my timeline
- Odetta : a life in music and protest
- On wings of words : the extraordinary life of Emily Dickinson
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- Over the edge of the world : Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe
- Pain studies
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Patrimony : a true story
- Paul : a biography
- Paul Simon : the life
- Phantom lady : Hollywood producer Joan Harrison, the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock
- Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American
- Play ball! : 14 great stars from baseball's Negro leagues
- Pope Francis
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- President Carter : the White House years
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Queen Meryl : the iconic roles, heroic deeds, and legendary life of Meryl Streep
- Queen Meryl : the iconic roles, heroic deeds, and legendary life of Meryl Streep
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise
- Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom
- Race against time : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era
- Reaching for the moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Recollections of my nonexistence
- Renaissance woman : the life of Vittoria Colonna
- Resist : 35 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice
- Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis
- Revolutionary science : transformation and turmoil in the age of the guillotine
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rising above, Inspiring women in sports
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Robin
- Robin
- Robin
- Running toward mystery : the adventure of an unconventional life
- Saban : the making of a coach
- Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers : The Texas Victory That Changed American History
- Savage messiah : how Dr. Jordan Peterson is saving Western civilization
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant
- Simone Biles : dominant gymnast
- Smacked : a story of white-collar ambition, addiction, and tragedy
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution
- Something wonderful : Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway revolution
- Stalling for time : my life as an FBI hostage negotiator
- Stalling for time : my life as an FBI hostage negotiator
- Standing up against hate : how black women in the Army helped change the course of WWII
- Sticky fingers : the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Sword of the Yue maiden
- Tadaima! I am home : a transnational family history
- Ten Years a Nomad
- Teresa of Avila : doctor of the soul
- Tesla : inventor of the modern
- Thank you for your service
- The Browns of California : the family dynasty that transformed a state and shaped a nation
- The Chinese lady : Afong Moy in early America
- The Dalai Lama : an extraordinary life
- The Family Medici : the hidden history of the Medici dynasty
- The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act
- The Gauguin atlas
- The Kinfolk entrepreneur : ideas for meaningful work
- The Lowells of Massachusetts : an American family
- The Silver Swan : In Search of Doris Duke
- The Sound of Silence : Growing Up Hearing with Deaf Parents
- The Splendid and the Vile
- The beginning of everything : the year I lost my mind and found myself
- The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman
- The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The commander : Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab independence, 1914-1948
- The cryotron files : the untold story of dudley buck, pioneer computer scientist and cold war government agent
- The dance claimed me : a biography of Pearl Primus
- The dance of life : the new science of how a single cell becomes a human being
- The diary of Samuel Pepys
- The enigma of Clarence Thomas
- The escape artist
- The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight
- The first Muslim : the story of Muhammad
- The first time : finding myself and looking for love on reality TV
- The ghost : the secret life of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton
- The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked Jazz-Age America
- The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz- age America
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The harder you work, the luckier you get : an entrepreneur's memoir
- The heart : Frida Kahlo in Paris
- The hermit king : the dangerous game of Kim Jong Un
- The inevitability of tragedy : Henry Kissinger and his world
- The journey of Robert Monroe : from out-of-body explorer to consciousness pioneer
- The last cowboys : a pioneer family in the new West
- The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
- The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
- The little book of feminist saints
- The lost detective : becoming Dashiell Hammett
- The lost girls : three friends, four continents, one unconventional detour around the world
- The making of a radical : a political autobiography
- The man in the red coat
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The man who knew : the life and times of Alan Greenspan
- The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
- The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets
- The never-ending present : the story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
- The power notebooks
- The red book : Liber novus : a reader's edition
- The richest man who ever lived : the life and times of Jacob Fugger
- The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
- The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando
- The shadow emperor : a biography of Napoléon III
- The shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny
- The ship of dreams : the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era
- The ship of dreams : the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era
- The sober diaries : how one woman stopped drinking and started living
- The songs we know best : John Ashbery's early life
- The speed of sound : breaking the barrier between music and technology
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The spy in Moscow Station : a counterspy's hunt for a deadly Cold War threat
- The spy in Moscow Station : a counterspy's hunt for a deadly Cold War threat
- The storyteller's Nashville
- The stranger beside me : Ted Bundy, his shocking true story, including intimate details of the serial-killer's final moments
- The sun is a compass : a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds
- The sun is a compass : a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds : a memoir
- The triumph of William McKinley : why the election of 1896 still matters
- The twelve Caesars
- The unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg : American icon
- The upside of being down : how mental health struggles led to my greatest successes in work and life
- The want-ad killer
- The whole harmonium : the life of Wallace Stevens
- The wise king : a Christian prince, Muslim Spain, and the birth of the Renaissance
- The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
- These fevered days : ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson
- This promise of change : one girl's story in the fight for school equality
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Three days in Moscow : Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Soviet empire
- Tilopa's wisdom : his life and teachings on the Ganges Mahamudra
- To love and let go : a memoir of love, loss, and gratitude
- True indie
- Trumbo : a biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist
- Una educación
- Unorthodox : the scandalous rejection of my hasidic roots
- Untamed
- Unveiling grace : the story of how we found our way out of the Mormon Church
- Ursula K. Le Guin : conversations on writing
- Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- When Sue found Sue : Sue Hendrickson discovers her T. rex
- When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
- When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
- Where the past begins : a writer's memoir
- Who are the Rolling Stones?
- Who is Dolly Parton?
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- Who was Clara Barton?
- Who was Frida Kahlo?
- Who was Jesse Owens?
- Wilkie Collins
- William Tecumseh Sherman : in the service of my country : a life
- With all due respect : defending America with grit and grace
- Wrestling with his angel : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, 1849-1856
- You must change your life : the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
- Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
- Yusra swims
- Zeitoun
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