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- "Mama, tell me about when you were little!" : a true story of growing up in a small town in Norway during the turn of the century
- 100 years from Mississippi.
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- 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 New England town at Dartmouth College -- Rockport, Massachusetts
- A Rockport childhood : idyll and reality
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book of dragons
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales : and five poems
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A collision of truths : a life in conflict with a cherished faith
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A doryman's day
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A few seconds of radiant filmstrip : a memoir of seventh grade
- A fighting chance
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A ghost in the throat
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life in parts
- A living remedy : a memoir
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A naturalist's scrapbook
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A revolution in three acts : the radical vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A seal called Andre : the two worlds of a Maine harbor seal
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A street cat named Bob.
- A studio of her own : women artists in Boston, 1870-1940
- A suitcase full of faith : how one woman found her dream trusting the compass of her soul
- A take-charge girl blazes a trail to Congress : the story of Jeannette Rankin
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A thousand trails home : living with caribou
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very punchable face
- A visible man : a memoir
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A young Finn on Cape Ann
- ABBA forever. : the winner takes it all
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Abuela, don't forget me
- Abundant beauty : the adventurous travels of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action presidents, V. 2, Abraham Lincoln!
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Adventurer : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Aftermath : on marriage and separation
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie., Inside the mind of Agatha Christie & Agatha Christie's England
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the graphic history of an American founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander II : the last great tsar
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : Master of the Ancient World
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources
- Ali : a life
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All down darkness wide : a memoir
- All heart : my dedication and determination to become one of soccer's best
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the money in the world.
- All the things we never knew
- All the wrong moves : a memoir about chess, love, and ruining everything
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alone on the wall
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz / Andra & Tatian Bucci ; translated by Ann Goldstein ; with a foreword by Ruth Franklin
- Amazing artists
- Amelia Earhart
- America's founding fathers.
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American caliph : The true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daughter : a memoir
- American experience., The codebreaker
- American heroes : profiles of men and women who shaped early America
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- 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 queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Amoralman : a true story and other lies
- Amy Tan. : unintended memoir
- An eye for color : the story of Josef Albers
- An honest liar.
- An innocent, a broad
- An island no more : [a memoir : the Gloucester I knew]
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An ordinary marriage
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- And a voice to sing with
- And finally : matters of life and death
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson and the course of American empire, v. 2. The course of American freedom, 1822-1832
- Angela Davis : an autobiography
- Anna Pavlova
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anne Frank's chestnut tree
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Another bullshit night in Suck City : a memoir
- Another good dog : one family and fifty foster dogs
- Apologies, good friends ... an interim biography of Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of Americas public and private spaces
- Are you my mother? : a comic drama
- Aretha Franklin
- Art lover : a biography of Peggy Guggenheim
- Artists of the Renaissance : a selection from Lives of the artists
- As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Astrid Lindgren
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- At eternity's gate : the spiritual vision of Vincent Van Gogh
- Atomic skipper
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Audition : a memoir
- Audrey Hepburn
- Audubon : an intimate life of The American woodsman
- Audubon and his journals, 1
- Audubon and his journals, 2
- Autobiography of Mark Twain : complete and authoritative edition, v. 2
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, v. 1
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, v. 3
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Avid reader : a life
- Ayrton Senna
- Babe Ruth
- Babe Ruth saves baseball
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Band of giants : the amateur soldiers who won America's independence
- Banned book club
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Barkley : a biography
- Barnett Baff and the Everlasting Murder Case
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bastards' road.
- Bay View : a summer portrait
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Bear of the sea : giant Jim Pattillo and the roaring years of the Gloucester-Nova Scotia fishery
- Beatrix Farrand : private gardens, public landscapes
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Bach
- Becoming Ben Franklin : how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Jane.
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Maria : love and chaos in the South Bronx
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
- Beethoven for kids : his life and music with 21 activities
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before I had the words : on being a transgender young adult
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Ram Dass
- Believe it
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Belushi.
- Ben Franklin's almanac : being a true account of the good gentleman's life
- Benedict XVI : a life, V. I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin Butler : a noisy, fearless life
- Benjamin Franklin.
- Berryman's Shakespeare
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Bessie's story : watching the lights go out : a devoted dog's advancing blindness provides timeless life-lessons on the art of aging gracefully/
- Best shot in the West : the adventures of Nat Love
- Bethany Hamilton
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a nazi prison camp
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Beyond belief : my secret life inside scientology and my harrowing escape
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Bibi : my story
- Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia
- Big Sonia.
- Big girl : how I gave up dieting and got a life
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Cunningham New York.
- Bill Frisell, beautiful dreamer : the guitarist who changed the sound of American music
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean King
- Biographical and historical record of the class of 1835 in Yale College : for the fifty years from the admission of the class to college, 1831-1881
- Biography of a phantom : a Robert Johnson blues odyssey
- Birds, beasts and bedlam : turning my farm into an ark for lost species
- Birds, beasts, and relatives
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black folk could fly : selected writings
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black holes and baby universes and other essays
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Bleed for this.
- Blind Jack
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood, bones & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Blue nights
- Blue plate special : an autobiography of my appetites
- Blueberry god : the education of a Finnish-American
- Boardwalk empire : the birth, high times, and corruption of Atlantic City
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan : a biography
- Bobby : a story of Robert F. Kennedy
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born free, a lioness of two worlds
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Boston made : from revolution to robotics--innovations that changed the world
- Both/and : a life in many worlds
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves
- Boundless
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boy : tales of childhood
- Boy with the bullhorn : a memoir and history of ACT UP New York
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boyslut : a memoir and manifesto
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
- Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave hearted : the women of the American west
- Brave leaders and activists
- Braving it : a father, a daughter, and an unforgettable journey into the Alaskan wild
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard
- Breaking the ice
- Brian Wilson. : long promised road
- Bright
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history, in that order
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brother & sister
- Brother, Brother : A Memoir
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers at bat : the true story of an amazing all-brother baseball team
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian war
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buck.
- Buddy remembers-- then and now : a personal history of my parents' lives
- Buffalo Bird Girl : a Hidatsa story
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Building an orchestra of hope : how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
- Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change
- Burnt toast makes you sing good : a memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family
- Burroughs : the movie
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian - my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
- C. S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
- Call the midwife : farewell to the East End
- Callas, life & art