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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A life of my own
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- Ada Lovelace
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Al Franken : giant of the Senate
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources
- Ali : a life
- All about Madame C.J. Walker
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Lincoln
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Between the world and me
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big Sonia.
- Bitwise : a life in code
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now / Alan Rusbridger
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Called to rise : a life in faithful service to the community that made me
- Calvin Graham's World War II Story
- Camelot's end : Kennedy vs. Carter and the fight that broke the democratic party
- Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger
- Can't help myself : lessons and confessions from a modern advice columnist
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Don't let me down : a memoir
- Dreamers
- Eliza Hamilton : founding mother
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elvis is King!
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Era of ignition : coming of age in a time of rage and revolution
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Every day is extra
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fashion climbing
- Fauna and family : more Durrell Family Adventures on Corfu
- Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Flat broke with two goats : a memoir
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Freddie Mercury. : the greatest showman : the ultimate review
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- Gandhi
- Giant of the Senate
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grant
- Grant
- Growing up Pedro
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- Hal.
- Hang time : my life in basketball
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Have dog, will travel : a poet's journey
- Heartbeat of struggle : the revolutionary life of Yuri Kochiyama
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- Helen Keller
- Henry VIII and the men who made him
- HerStory
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hilleman : a perilous quest to save the world's children
- Hired gun.
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- How schools work : an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education
- How sweet the sound : the story of Amazing grace
- I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death
- I can't make this up : life lessons
- I've got this round : more tales of debauchery
- Imagine John Yoko
- In pieces : a memoir
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of a prophet : a spiritual journey with Kahlil Gibran
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Inventor, engineer, and physicist Nikola Tesla
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane.
- Jesus : my autobiography
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- John Cook's Civil War story
- John Lewis : courage in action
- Johnny Cash : the life and legacy of the Man in Black
- Johnny Clem's Civil War story
- Judas : how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- Just mercy : adapted for young people : a true story of the fight for justice
- Killing it : an education
- Kitchen yarns : notes on life, love, and food
- L'appart : the delights and disasters of making my Paris home
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- Ladysitting : my year with nana at the end of her century
- Last man standing : Mort Sahl and the birth of modern comedy
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lessons : my path to a meaningful life
- Let it bang : a young black man's reluctant odyssey into guns
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Life in code : a personal history of technology
- Life in the garden
- Liner notes : on parents & children, exes & excess, death & decay & a few of my other favorite things
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Long shot : the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
- Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning
- MacArthur's spies : the soldier, the singer, and the spymaster who defied the Japanese in World War II
- Madame Claude : her secret world of pleasure, privilege, and power
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Maker of patterns : an autobiography through letters
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Mama's boy : a story from our Americas
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manolo. : the boy who made shoes for lizards
- March forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Mary, who wrote Frankenstein
- Maya Lin : thinking with her hands
- Michelle Obama : first lady, going higher
- Minority leader : how to lead from the outside and make real change
- Momcilo Gavric's World War I story
- Morningstar : growing up with books
- Mother American night : my life in crazy times
- Mozart : the man revealed
- Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense
- My American dream : a life of love, family, and food
- My country, my life : fighting for Israel, searching for peace
- My father left me Ireland : an American son's search for home
- My journey to the stars
- My squirrel days
- Napoleon : a life
- Native country of the heart : a memoir
- Never grow up
- Nina : jazz legend and civil-rights activist Nina Simone
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- No one tells you this : a memoir
- No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson
- North : finding my way while running the Appalachian Trail
- Notes for the everlost : a field guide to grief
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Of love & war
- Old dog.
- Old in art school : a memoir of starting over
- Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas
- Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku
- Once upon a farm : lessons on growing love, life, and hope on a new frontier
- One fun day with Lewis Carroll : a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
- Ordinary, extraordinary Jane Austen : the story of six novels, three notebooks, a writing box, and one clever girl
- Out of line : a life of playing with fire
- Paddle your own canoe : one man's fundamentals for delicious living
- Papi : my story
- Paul Simon : the life
- Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant
- Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Polka dot parade
- Pope Francis. : a man of his word
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens, Book one
- RBG.
- Raising Trump
- Ray Bolger : more than a scarecrow
- Real fake : : the art, life and crimes of Elmyr de Hory
- Rebel : my life outside the lines
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Recovery : freedom from our addictions
- Renoir's dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon
- Reporter : a memoir
- Richard III : England's most controversial king
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- Rising star, setting sun : Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and the presidential transition that changed America
- Robin
- Robin Williams. : come inside my mind
- Roses and radicals : the epic story of how American women won the right to vote
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Sally Ride : life on a mission
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago
- Science educator and advocate Bill Nye
- Second wind : a sunfish sailor, an island, and the voyage that brought a family together
- Secrets of a Marine's wife : a true story of marriage, obsession, and murder
- She wants it : desire, power, and toppling the patriarchy
- Sick : a memoir
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Soaring earth : a companion memoir to Enchanted air
- Solid seasons : the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sounds like Titanic : a memoir
- Spy pilot : Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 incident, and a controversial Cold War legacy
- Steve McQueen. : American icon
- Sybil Ludington's Revolutionary War story
- Take every wave. : the life of Laird Hamilton
- Tea with the dames.
- Tell me more : stories about the 12 hardest things I'm learning to say
- Tesla : inventor of the modern
- Thanks a lot, Mr. Kibblewhite : my story
- The Bettencourt affair : the world's richest woman and the scandal that rocked Paris
- The Family Medici : the hidden history of the Medici dynasty
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Middle Ages : new conquests and dynasties
- The Netanyahu years
- The Promise and the Dream : the Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
- The Ravenmaster : my life with the ravens at the Tower of London
- The Shining Path : love, madness, and revolution in the Andes
- The Trump White House : changing the rules of the game
- The United States v. Jackie Robinson
- The age of Caesar : five Roman lives
- The annotated memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust
- The astronaut who painted the moon : the true story of Alan Bean
- The back channel : a memoir of American diplomacy and the case for its renewal
- The banished immortal : a life of Li Bai (Li Po)
- The bold world : a memoir of family and transformation
- The bug girl : Maria Merian's scientific vision
- The comeback : Greg LeMond, the true king of American cycling, and a legendary Tour de France
- The crayon man : the true story of the invention of Crayola crayons
- The cut out girl : a story of war and family, lost and found
- The death and life of Aida Hernandez : a border story
- The doctor from India.
- The enigma of Clarence Thomas
- The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight
- The faithful spy : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler
- The farmer's son : calving season on a family farm
- The fearless Benjamin Lay : the Quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist
- The first wave : the D-Day warriors who led the way to victory in World War II
- The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
- The fox hunt : a refugee's memoir of coming to America
- The girl in the back : a female drummer's life with Bowie, Blondie, and the '70s rock scene
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The girl who ran : Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon
- The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after
- The great Nadar : the man behind the camera
- The great Nijinsky : god of dance
- The hue and cry at our house : a year remembered
- The king.
- The lady is a spy : Virginia Hall, World War II hero of the French resistance
- The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
- The loyal son : the war in Ben Franklin's house
- The man who designed the future : Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America
- The master plan : my journey from life in prison to a life of purpose
- The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal
- The only girl : my life and times on the masthead of Rolling Stone
- The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west
- The poison squad : one chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century
- The push : a climber's journey of endurance, risk, and going beyond limits
- The restless wave : good times, just causes, great fights, and other appreciations
- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando
- The seasons of my mother : a memoir of love, family, and flowers
- The shape of the world : a portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright
- The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
- The stone crusher : the true story of a father and son's fight for survival in Auschwitz
- The story of movie star : Anna May Wong
- The totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness
- The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
- The white darkness
- The widower's notebook : a memoir
- The world as it is : a memoir of the Obama White House
- There are no grown-ups : a midlife coming-of-age story
- Things my son needs to know about the world
- This is Cuba : an American journalist under Castro's shadow
- This will only hurt a little
- Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power
- Tiger Woods
- Tigerland : 1968-1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing
- To the new owners : a Martha's Vineyard memoir
- To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
- Tragedy plus time : a tragi-comic memoir
- True stories from an unreliable eyewitness : a feminist coming of age
- Tuesday's promise : one veteran, one dog, and their bold quest to change lives
- Uncommon people : the rise and fall of the rock stars
- Unmasked
- Unstoppable : my life so far
- Ursula K. Le Guin : conversations on writing
- Veterans : faces of World War II
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- What is it all but luminous : notes from an underground man
- What you make it : the authorized biography of Doug Pinnick
- When death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon
- Where there's hope : healing, moving forward, and never giving up
- Whiskey in a teacup : what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
- Who I am
- Who are Venus and Serena Williams?
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who says women can't be computer programmers? : the story of Ada Lovelace
- Who was H.J. Heinz?
- Who was Napoleon?
- Who was Norman Rockwell?
- Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
- With passion : an activist lawyer's journey
- Without precedent : John Marshall and his times
- Witness : lessons from Elie Wiesel's classroom
- Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
- Women in sports : a reference handbook
- Women's work : a reckoning with home and help
- Won't you be my neighbor?
- Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
- Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal
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