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- 50 jobs in 50 states : one man's journey of discovery across America
- Abraham Lincoln
- Admiral Hyman Rickover : Engineer of Power
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- American Urbanist : How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- Applied control theory for embedded systems
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Bad sister
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Billie Eilish, the unofficial biography : from e-girl to icon
- Bird brother : a falconer's journey and the healing power of wildlife
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Bond King : How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
- Brando : songs my mother taught me
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- Brigadier John Tiltman : a giant among cryptanalysts
- Ching Shih : the world's most successful pirate
- Confessions of a serial entrepreneur : why I can't stop starting over
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Cowboys, mountain men, and grizzly bears : fifty of the grittiest moments in the history of the wild West
- Cracking the code : how to win hearts, change minds, and restore America's original vision
- Creating Q*bert and other classic video arcade games
- Damn Lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Dancing barefoot : five short but true stories about life in the so-called space age
- Dare to be different : inspirational words from people who changed the world
- Dare to disappoint : growing up in Turkey
- Diamonds and deadlines : a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Did ye hear mammy died
- Dilettante : true tales of excess, triumph, and disaster
- Disability visibility : first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Donald Trump : our 45th president
- Eggs or anarchy : the remarkable story of the man tasked with the impossible: to feed a nation at war
- Ella persistio en la ciencia : mujeres brillantes que marcaron la diferencia
- En el lugar de los hechos : 25 años de trabajo periodistico
- Endgame : Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness
- Enrique's journey : the true story of a boy determined to reunite with his mother
- Every good boy does fine : a love story, in music lessons
- Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
- Face the music : a memoir
- Fatty legs
- Fearlessly different : an autistic actor's journey to Broadway's biggest stage
- Fighting to survive World War II : terrifying true stories
- Fighting to survive animal attacks : terrifying true stories
- Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the science of prehistoric life
- Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the science of prehistoric life
- Frank, who liked to build : the architecture of Frank Gehry
- Free : a child and a country at the end of history
- Full out : lessons in life and leadership from America's favorite coach
- George Crum and the Saratoga chip
- George V : never a dull moment
- Greta Thunberg
- Happy at any cost : the revolutionary vision and fatal quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
- Harriet Tubman : toward freedom
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Here's the deal : a memoir
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- Home in the world : a memoir
- How to hear the universe : Gaby González and the search for Einstein's ripples in space-time
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I came all this way to meet you : writing myself home
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I write what I like : selected writings
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- Ice : a memoir of gangster life and redemption : from South Central to Hollywood
- Identity : a story of transitioning
- Imagina
- It's not yet dark
- J Balvín
- Jim's book : the surprising story of Jim Penman - Australia's backyard millionaire
- Julia Morgan : an intimate biography of the trailblazing architect
- Just Tyrus : a memoir
- Just a girl : a true story of World War II
- Keats : a brief life in nine poems and one epitaph
- Kendrick Lamar
- Las cuatro vidas de Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
- Lead with humility : 12 leadership lessons from Pope Francis
- Leading Apple with Steve Jobs : management lessons from a controversial genius
- Leyendas del Atlético de Madrid : 110 jugadores que han escrito la historia del club rojiblanco
- Lies my mother told me : tall tales from a short woman
- Living legends and full agency : implications of repealing the combat exclusion policy
- Los sueños de la niña de la montaña : Memoria de una utopia cumplida
- Lost & found : a memoir
- Lost on a mountain in Maine
- Love me as I am
- Mama Miti : Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya
- Manifesto : on never giving up
- Manifesto : on never giving up
- Marie-Antoinette : the making of a French queen
- Martha : on trial, in jail, and on a comeback
- Microbe hunters
- Modeling and verification using UML statecharts : a working guide to reactive system design, runtime monitoring, and execution-based model checking
- My life in leadership : the journey and lessons learned along the way
- My place in the sun : life in the golden age of Hollywood and Washington
- Natalie Wood : the complete biography
- Nerdy, shy, and socially inappropriate : a user guide to an Asperger life
- Nos llamaron Enemigo
- Oblivion or glory : 1921 and the making of Winston Churchill
- On Nineteen eighty-four : a biography
- Ordinary equality : the fearless women and queer people who shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment
- Out of the shadows : how Lotte Reiniger made the first animated fairytale movie
- Overdue : reckoning with the public library
- Ozuna
- Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery
- Pathological : the true story of six misdiagnoses
- Peninsula of lies : a true story of mysterious birth and taboo love
- Play, Louis, play! : the true story of a boy and his horn
- Pokémon : Satoshi Tajiri
- Pro DNS and BIND
- Promises to keep : how Jackie Robinson changed America
- Queer heroes
- Quick & painless business writing : an essential guide to clear and powerful communication
- RISE : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now
- Real life, real love : life lessons on joy, pain & the magic that holds it all together
- Rebels against the Raj : Western fighters for India's freedom
- Rebent sinner
- Reboot : probably more than you ever wanted to know about starting a global business
- Red Barber : the life and legacy of a broadcasting legend
- Red brick, Black Mountain, white clay : reflections on art, family, and survival
- Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America
- Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America
- Rise : my story
- Riverman : an American odyssey
- Road to power : how GM's Mary Barra shattered the glass ceiling
- Robert K. Greenleaf : a life of servant leadership
- Rock & roll highway : the Robbie Robertson story
- Rudolf Steiner : the relevance of Waldorf education
- Searching for peace : a memoir of Israel
- Self-portrait in black and white : unlearning race
- Sentence : ten years and a thousand books in prison
- Sol LeWitt : a life of ideas
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II, adapted for young adults
- Sportin' life : John W. Bubbles, an American classic
- Stalin's library : a dictator and his books
- Still just a geek : an annotated memoir
- The Hag : the life, times, and music of Merle Haggard
- The Hag : the life, times, and music of Merle Haggard
- The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures : A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
- The Nazi hunters : how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi
- The Nazis knew my name : a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
- The Turnaround Kid : what I learned rescuing America's most troubled companies
- The Washington war : FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II
- The Washington war : FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II
- The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
- The age of astonishment : John Morris in the miracle century : from the Civil War to the Cold War
- The baby on the fire escape : creativity, motherhood, and the mind-baby problem
- The broadcast century and beyond : a biography of American broadcasting
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code
- The day freedom died : the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction
- The devil's half acre : the untold story of how one woman liberated the South's most notorious slave jail
- The fire never goes out : a memoir in pictures
- The great Nowitzki : basketball and the meaning of life
- The greatest trades of all time : top traders making big profits from the crash of 1929 to today
- The king's shadow : obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
- The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning
- The legendary Miss Lena Horne
- The life and works of Jane Austen
- The meaning of pride
- The missing golden ticket and other splendiferous secrets
- The mistress of Paris : the 19th-century courtesan who built an empire on a secret
- The orbital perspective : lessons in seeing the big picture from a journey of seventy-one million miles
- The palace papers : inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil
- The perfect sound
- The perfect sound
- The price of loyalty : George W. Bush, the White House, and the education of Paul O'Neill
- The priest and the prophetess : Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the revolutionary Atlantic world
- The rise (and falls) of Jackie Chan
- The rise : Kobe Bryant and the pursuit of immortality
- The rise : Kobe Bryant and the pursuit of immortality
- The secret listener : an ingenue in Mao's court
- The song of our scars : the untold story of pain
- The storyteller : tales of life and music
- The trials of Harry S Truman : the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953
- The turning point : 1851--a year that changed Charles Dickens and the world
- The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing
- The urge : our history of addiction
- They called us enemy
- They said this would be fun : Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
- They said this would be fun : race, campus life, and growing up
- Thrown upon the world : a true story
- Tiger woman on Wall Street : winning business strategies from Shanghai to New York and back
- Tiny dancer
- To boldly grow : finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard
- Tomboy : a graphic memoir
- Trans mission : my quest to a beard
- Trans mission : my quest to a beard
- True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson
- Truly, Madly
- Unbreakable : how I turned my depression and anxiety into motivation and you can too
- Unbreakable : how I turned my depression and anxiety into motivation and you can too
- Unequal : a story of America
- Unmasked : my life solving America's cold cases
- Unorthodox : mi verdadera historia
- Values-driven business : how to change the world, make money, and have fun
- Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
- Was it worth it? : a wilderness warrior's long trail home
- Watch My Smoke : the Eric Dickerson Story
- White lies : the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret
- Who was Amelia Earhart?
- Who was Julius Caesar?
- Who was William Shakespeare?
- Wish it lasted forever : life with the Larry Bird Celtics
- Women leaders at work
- Women of Walt Disney Imagineering : 12 women reflect on their trailblazing theme park careers
- Women of Walt Disney Imagineering : 12 women reflect on their trailblazing theme park careers
- Woodsqueer : Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
- You deserve better : what life has taught me about love, relationships, and becoming your best self
- You don't lose 'til you quit trying : lessons on adversity and victory from a Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient
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