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- "An honorable place in American air power" : Civil Air Patrol coastal patrol operations, 1942-1943
- "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us" : travails of mutual accountability in Afghanistan
- 100 amazing facts about the Negro
- 100 million years of food : what our ancestors ate and why it matters today
- 12 angry men : true stories of being a black man in America today
- 12 days of Tudor Christmas
- 1453 : the holy war for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West
- 1492 : the year the world began
- 1619 : Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
- 1632
- 1634 : the Bavarian crisis
- 1634 : the Galileo affair
- 1634 : the Ram rebellion
- 1635 : a parcel of rogues
- 1635 : the Cannon law
- 1635 : the Dreeson incident
- 1635 : the papal stakes
- 1635 : the tangled web
- 1635 : the wars for the Rhine
- 1636 : The Barbie Consortium
- 1636 : the Atlantic encounter
- 1636 : the Cardinal virtues
- 1636 : the China venture
- 1636 : the Kremlin games
- 1636 : the Ottoman onslaught
- 1636 : the Saxon uprising
- 1636 : the Viennese waltz
- 1636 : the chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz
- 1636 : the chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz
- 1636 : the devil's opera
- 1637 : The Polish Maelstrom
- 1637 : the Polish maelstrom
- 1637 : the Volga rules
- 1776
- 1776
- 1776
- 1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 1812 : the war that forged a nation
- 1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder
- 1917 : Vladmir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the year that created the modern age
- 1919
- 1919 the year that changed America
- 1920 : the year that made the decade roar
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1941 : fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war
- 1947 : where now begins
- 1968 : the rise and fall of the new American Revolution
- 1968 : today's authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 1983, Reagan, Andropov, and a world on the brink
- 199 cemeteries to see before you die
- 400 Miles to Freedom
- 50 inventions that shaped the modern economy
- 50 summers
- 8 murders a day
- 9 presidents who screwed up america : and four who tried to save her
- 900 days : myth and reality of the siege of Leningrad
- 90s bitch : media, culture, and the failed promise of gender equality
- 90s bitch : the decade that destroyed the modern American woman
- 99 : stories of the game
- @Large : Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
- A (brief) history of vice : how bad behavior built civilization
- A Black Englishman
- A Death in the Islands : the Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow
- A Hope Divided : a novel of the Civil War
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Moveable Feast
- A People Uncounted : The Untold Story of the Roma
- A Place to Belong
- A Play of Lords
- A Rookie Cop vs. The West Coast Mafia : Breaking Up The ""Best in the West"" Gang
- A Son of Africa
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A Tudor Turk
- A Village with My Name : a Family History of China's Opening to the World
- A beautiful lie
- A beauty so rare
- A big day for baseball
- A black women's history of the United States
- A body in the bathhouse
- A broken vessel
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A cage without bars
- A cat's tale : a journey through feline history
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A collective bargain : unions, organizing, and the fight for democracy
- A column of fire
- A concise history of Brazil
- A constellation of vital phenomena : a novel
- A covert action : Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War struggle in Poland
- A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906
- A crazy day with cobras
- A culinary history of Taipei : beyond pork and ponlai
- A dangerous collaboration
- A dangerous idea : Eugenics, genetics and the American dream
- A darker sea : Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
- A darker sea : Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 : a novel
- A darkly beating heart
- A darkness strange and lovely
- A deal with the devil : the dark and twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history
- A disability history of the United States
- A division of the spoils
- A doctrine reader : the Navies of United States, Great Britain France, Italy, and Spain
- A dream foreclosed : black America and the fight for a place to call home
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dying light in Corduba
- A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum : murder in ancient Rome
- A few red drops : the Chicago race riot of 1919
- A few right thinking men
- A first-class catastrophe : the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
- A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes
- A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes
- A generation of sociopaths : how the baby boomers betrayed America
- A ghost tale for Christmas time
- A gift from darkness : how i escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
- A group of one
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A hanging at dawn : a Bess Crawford short story
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of WWII
- A history and annotated account of the benthic marine algae of Taiwan
- A history of America in ten strikes
- A history of France
- A history of Ireland in 250 episodes
- A history of Malawi, 1859-1966
- A history of food in 100 recipes
- A history of modern Latin America : 1800 to the present
- A history of sugar marketing through 1974
- A history of the Jews
- A history of the Tennessee Valley Authority
- A history of the united states in five crashes : Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
- A history of the united states in five crashes : Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
- A history of the world in 6 glasses
- A hobbit, a wardrobe and a great war : how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis rediscovered faith, friendship, and heroism in the cataclysm of 1914-1918
- A holy baptism of fire and blood : the Bible and the American Civil War
- A house in the sky
- A lady by midnight
- A lady never surrenders
- A lady's guide to mischief and mayhem
- A lasting impression
- A less perfect union : the case for states' rights
- A less perfect union : the case for states' rights
- A life for ballet
- A light in the dark : a history of movie directors
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little history of archaeology
- A long petal of the sea : a novel
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A mad, wicked folly
- A madness so discreet
- A matter of souls
- A million shades of gray
- A million shades of gray
- A more perfect reunion : race, integration, and the future of America
- A more perfect reunion : race, integration, and the future of America
- A most English princess : a novel of Queen Victoria's daughter
- A most English princess : a novel of Queen Victoria's daughter
- 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 magical girl
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A murdered peace
- A necessary evil : a novel
- A night divided
- A night to surrender
- A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America
- A people's history of computing in the United States
- A people's history of the United States
- A perilous undertaking : a Veronica Speedwell mystery
- A place called Winter
- A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order
- A place to belong
- A place to belong
- A place to hang the moon
- A plague of bogles
- A play of Dux Moraud
- A play of Isaac
- A play of knaves
- A play of piety
- A play of treachery
- A poison dark and drowning
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A prickly problem
- A proper drink : the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A reckless desire
- A resolution at midnight
- A rising man
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A season of gifts
- A season of gifts
- A shopkeeper's millennium : society and revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
- A short history of Russia's first civil war : the Time of Troubles and the founding of the Romanov dynasty
- A shout in the ruins
- A slant of light : a novel
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A slip of a girl
- A sound among the trees : a novel
- A spectacle of corruption : a novel
- A splendid exchange : how trade shaped the world
- A splendid exchange : how trade shaped the world from prehistory to today
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the paralympic games
- A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression
- A strange and blighted land : Gettysburg : the aftermath of a battle
- A study in ashes
- A tale of two cities
- A taste of Naples : Neapolitan culture, cuisine, and cooking
- A taste of Paris : a history of the Parisian love affair with food
- A terrible beauty : a Lady Emily mystery
- A terrible splendor : three extraordinary men, a world poised for war, and the greatest tennis match ever played
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : a story of resistance, friendship and survival
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A very English scandal : sex, lies, and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment
- A walk through Paris
- A whale in Paris : how it happened that Chantal Duprey befriended a whale during the Second World War and helped liberate France
- A whispering of spies
- A wild and precious life : a memoir
- A wilder time : notes from a geologist at the edge of the Greenland ice.
- A.D. 33
- AP U.S. history
- AP U.S. history 2015
- AP U.S. history 2016
- AP U.S. history 2017-2018
- AP US history 2016
- AVIATOR
- Aachen : the U.S. Army's battle for Charlemagne's city in WWII
- Able Archer 83 : the secret history of the NATO exercise that almost triggered nuclear war
- Above & Beyond : John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
- Above and beyond : NASA's journey to tomorrow
- Abraham : the world's first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer
- Abraham Lincoln : Defender of the Union!
- Abstract art : a global history
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accounting for slavery : masters and management
- Across five Aprils
- Across the China Sea : a novel
- Across the alley
- Across the reef : the Marine assault of Tarawa
- Action Park : fast times, wild rides, and the untold story of America's most dangerous amusement park
- Admission Impossible
- Adolf Hitler : the definitive biography
- Adolf hitler : the definitive biography
- African American history
- Africaville : a novel
- After Stonewall
- After the last border : two families and the story of refuge in America
- Against elections : the case for democracy
- Against the grain : a deep history of the earliest states
- Against the loveless world : a novel
- Age of the Horse : an equine journey through human history
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- Agricultural conservation program : 45-year statistical summary, 1936 through 1980
- Aimée & Jaguar : a love story, Berlin 1943
- Aircraft carrier requirements and strategy, 1977-2001
- Airman
- Airman : una traición convertida en leyenda
- Airstream : America's world traveler
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alex and Eliza : a love story
- Alexander Graham Bell : master of sound
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- Ali and Nino
- Alias Grace
- Alice on the island : a Pearl Harbor survival story
- Alien nation : Chinese migration in the Americas from the coolie era through World War II
- All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw
- All about Korea : stories, songs, crafts, and more
- All against all : the long winter of 1933 and the origins of the second World War
- All in a Drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that trash : the story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and our problem with stuff
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the crooked saints
- All the lives I want : essays about my best friends who happen to be famous strangers
- All the lives we never lived : a novel
- All the lives we never lived : a novel
- All the single ladies : unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation
- All the world a stage : the theater in history
- Almost autumn
- Aloha rodeo : three Hawaiian cowboys, the world's greatest rodeo, and a hidden history of the American West
- Amadeus
- Amazing stories of the space age : true tales of Nazis in orbit, soldiers on the moon, orphaned martian robots, and other fascinating accounts from the annals of spaceflight
- Amazons and military maids : women who dressed as men in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness
- America (the audiobook) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
- America before : the key to Earth's lost civilization
- America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States
- America in Retreat : the Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19
- America is immigrants
- America's bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve
- America's bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve
- America's deadliest battle : Meuse-Argonne, 1918
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's women : [four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines]
- American Dialogue : the Founding Fathers and Us
- American Experience - Earth Days
- American Experience - The Lobotomist
- American Experience : Stonewall Uprising
- American Rhône : how Maverick Winemakers changed the way Americans drink
- American Serengeti : the last big animals of the Great Plains
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American cake : from colonial gingerbread to classic layer, the story behind our best-loved cakes from past to present
- American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American experience - freedom summer
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis - and how to end it
- American history unbound : Asians and Pacific Islanders
- American nations : a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America
- American nations : a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America
- American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
- American pastoral
- American poison : how racial hostility destroyed our promise
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American revolution : a nonfiction companion to Revolutionary War on Wednesday
- American serial killers : the epidemic years 1950-2000
- American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia
- American wine : a coming-of-age story
- American wine : a coming-of-age story
- Americana : a 400-year history of American capitalism
- Ametora : how Japan saved American style = Ametora : Nihon ga Amerika sutairu o sukutta monogatari
- Among heroes : true stories of friendship, sacrifice, and heroism in the U.S. Navy SEAL teams
- Amsterdam : a history of the world's most liberal city
- Amy Snow
- An African American and Latinx history of the United States
- An American genocide : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873
- An American quilt : unfolding a story of family and slavery
- An English bride in Scotland
- An Hour Before Daylight : Memories Of A Rural Boyhood
- An aerospace bibliography
- An empire of their own : how the Jews invented Hollywood
- An extraordinary union
- An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood
- An illusion of love
- An incomplete revenge : a Maisie Dobbs novel
- An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An organizer's tale : speeches
- An uninterrupted view of the sky
- Ancient brews : rediscovered and re-created
- And the band played on : politics, people, and the aids epidemic
- And the pursuit of happiness
- And their children after them
- And then she fell : a Cynster novel
- Andersonville
- Andrei Rublev
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angel
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Animal : the Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob's Most Feared Assassin
- Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food from sustainable to suicidal
- Animation : the whole story
- Annals
- Anne Frank
- Anne of Green Gables
- Anne of Ingleside
- Anne of Windy Poplars
- Anne of the island
- Anne, la de los Tejados Verdes
- Anniversaries : from a year in the life of Gesine Cresspahl
- Another America : the story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it
- Antebellum and Civil War San Francisco : a western theater for northern & southern politics
- Antes de ser libres
- Antes de ser libres
- Anthem
- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation
- Antisemitism : here and now
- Anything you can imagine : Peter Jackson and the making of Middle-earth
- Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf's Church
- Apothecary Melchior and the ghost of Rataskaevu Street
- Apothecary Melchior and the mystery of St Olaf's Church
- Apotheke : modern medicinal cocktails
- April morning : a novel
- Apéritif : cocktail hour the French way
- Archie to SAM : a short operational history of ground-based air defense
- 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
- Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless
- Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
- Aria
- ArtCurious : stories of the unexpected, slightly odd, and strangely wonderful in art history
- Artcurious : stories of the unexpected, slightly odd, and strangely wonderful in art history
- Arthur
- Arthur
- Artificial intelligence : an illustrated history : from medieval robots to neural networks
- Ashes
- Ashes
- At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68
- At the Plaza : an illustrated history of the world's most famous hotel
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Atomic accidents : a history of nuclear meltdowns and disasters : from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
- Atomic accidents : a history of nuclear meltdowns and disasters, from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
- Atrapada en el tiempo
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audacity Jones steals the show
- Austria
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Aviation mysteries of the North : disappearances in Alaska and Canada
- Avid reader : a life
- Avid reader : a life
- Babylon's banksters : the alchemy of deep physics, high finance and ancient religion : an essay concerning the relationships between aether physics, economics, astrology, alchemy, geomancy, ancient temples, and the politics of suppression
- Background and development of the National Reporting System for Family Planning Services
- Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad girls throughout history
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballots and bullets : Black Power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland
- Ballpark : baseball in the American city
- Balm : a novel
- Balto of the Blue Dawn
- Band of Brothers
- Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
- Bandit's Tale : The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
- Banished
- Banned book club
- Barbed wire baseball
- Barkskins : a novel
- Barmy british empire
- Barons of the sea : and their race to build the world's fastest clipper ship
- Baseball
- Baseball goes west : the Dodgers, the Giants, and the shaping of the major leagues
- Baseless : my search for secrets in the ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
- Basketball : a love story
- Bastogne : the story of the first eight days, in which the 101st Airborne Division was closed within the ring of German forces
- Batman : Gotham City's guardian
- Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era
- Battles that changed history
- Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world
- Bay Area cocktails : a history of culture, community and craft
- Bay Area coffee : a stimulating history
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beastly bones
- Beastly bones
- Beaten down, worked up : the past, present, and future of American labor
- Becoming Chinese American : a history of communities and institutions
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Bedeviled : a shadow history of demons in science
- Bedroom : an intimate history
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-century France
- Begin again : James Baldwin's America and it's urgent lessons for our own
- Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own
- Beheld
- Behemoth : a history of the factory and the making of the modern world
- Behind the light switch : toward a theory of air mobility
- Behind the light switch : toward a theory of air mobility
- Behold, America : the entangled history of "America First" and "the American Dream"
- Behold, America : the entangled history of "America first" and "the American dream"
- Belai͡a gvardii͡a
- Belai︠a︡ nochʹ
- Belgium
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe and Destroy : Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
- Bell's Star
- Bellarion
- Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
- Belmont-Paul Women's Equality
- Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction
- Beneath the lion's gaze : a novel
- Benno and the night of broken glass
- Berlin 1936 : sixteen days in August