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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 extraordinary stories for courageous girls : unforgettable tales of women of faith
- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 27 : the legend & mythology of the 27 club
- 3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise
- 30 people who changed the world
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- 90 Church : : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A circle of quiet
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A dog called hope : : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D.R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A honeybee heart has five openings : : a year of keeping bees
- A hope more powerful than the sea : : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A house in the mountains : : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A loving saint : Sai Baba
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A marvelous life : : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mother's reckoning : : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- 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 prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A private war : : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A prophet with honor : : the Billy Graham story
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A rumor of war
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A stranger among saints : Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A truck full of money : : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of parliament
- A voice named Aretha
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A wild and precious life : a memoir
- A win for women : Billie Jean King takes down Bobby Riggs
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental presidents : : eight men who changed America
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace : pioneering computer programming
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adnan's story : : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After 9/11 : one girl's journey through darkness to a new beginning
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Aim for the skies : Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith's race to complete Amelia Earhart's quest
- Akira to Zoltán : twenty-six men who changed the world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alan Turing
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : the life, times, and rise of "AOC"
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Alia Muhammad Baker : saving a library from war
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All Blood Runs Red : The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
- All about Amelia Earhart
- All about Barack Obama
- All about Frederick Douglass
- All about Madam C.J. Walker
- All about Mariano Rivera
- All about Roberto Clemente
- All about Sir Edmund Hillary
- All about Stephen Curry
- All about Steve Wozniak
- All about Winston Churchill
- All blood runs red : : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All is grace : a biography of Dorothy Day
- All that heaven allows : : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the colors we will see : reflections on barriers, brokenness, and finding our way
- All the things we never knew
- All the things we never knew : : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- All the way to the tigers : a memoir
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All-American murder : : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart (The First Names Series)
- Amelia Earhart : beyond the grave
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Girl entrepreneur : Pleasant Rowland
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American daughter : a memoir
- American hero : the true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American predator : : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American psychic : a spiritual journey from the heartland to hollywood, heaven, and beyond
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the age of revolution
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An invisible thread
- An unlikely ballerina
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angela Merkel : Chancellor of Germany
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Boleyn : : 500 years of lies
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : get to know the girl beyond her diary
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Annie Easley
- Anthony Davis
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Aretha Franklin : legendary singer
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- At play in the lions' den : a biography and memoir of Daniel Berrigan
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audacity : how Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail
- Audrey Hepburn
- Australian Women Pilots : Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air
- Autumn
- Ava : a life in movies
- Avedon : something personal
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Backstage pass
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Banks
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Battle of brothers : William & Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Steve Jobs : : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Behind the Bench : Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches
- Behind the bookcase : Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Hindu : understanding a peaceful path in a violent world
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe me : : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32 : To the future, Ben Franklin!
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Harrison
- Benjamin Harrison
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bethany Hamilton
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyoncé : singer, songwriter, and actress
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Beyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Billy the Kid : a notorious gunfighter of the Wild West
- Billy, Alfred, and General Motors : the story of two unique men, a legendary company, and a remarkable time in American history
- Bindi Irwin's wild life
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black man, White House : an oral history of the Obama years
- Black music greats : 40 inspiring icons
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black women who dared
- Blackbeard : a notorious pirate in the Caribbean
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Bobby Kennedy : : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Bonnie and Clyde : notorious outlaws of the Great Depression
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Brand empire celebrities
- Brave
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Braxton Bragg : the most hated man of the Confederacy
- Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Breanna Stewart
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- Bright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Brother & sister
- Brother Francis of Assisi
- Brother, I'm dying
- Bruce Lee : : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Bruno Mars : singer and songwriter
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid : notorious outlaws of the West
- Butcher of Poland : Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- C. G. Jung : a biography in books
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Call me American : a memoir
- Calvin Coolidge
- Calvin Spann : daring fighter pilot
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Candace Parker
- Canyon dreams : a basketball season on the Navajo Nation
- Capital days : Michael Shiner's journal and the growth of our nation's capital
- Captain Tom
- 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
- Carey Price : how a First Nations kid became a superstar goaltender
- Carli Lloyd
- Carli Lloyd : soccer star
- Carlos Santana : sound of the heart, song of the world
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cary Grant : : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Cesar Chavez
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Champions of Change : 25 Women Who Made History
- Champions of men's soccer
- Champions of women's soccer
- Chance the Rapper : : one chance
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Darwin and evolution
- Charles Schulz
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Flair : bow to your queen
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's Last Icon
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasin' the bird : Charlie Parker in California
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Chester Arthur
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chief Seattle and the town that took his name : the change of worlds for the native people and settlers on Puget Sound
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90's dynasty
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill : warrior : how a military life guided Winston's finest hours
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- CinderGirl : my journey out of the ashes to a life of hope, a memoir
- City of devils : : the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Civil War witness : Mathew Brady's photos reveal the horrors of war
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Claudette Colvin
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Coach Wooden and me : : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel
- Coco Chanel : pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name : Lise : : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris