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- 50 architects you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- 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
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the things we never knew
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An unconventional wife : the life of Julia Sorell Arnold
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : Holocaust diarist
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artists : their lives and works
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Franklin
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond the beats : Rock & roll's greatest drummers speak!
- Beyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Marriott : success is never final : his life and the decisions that built a hotel empire
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Cancer crossings : a brother, his doctors, and the quest for a cure to childhood leukemia
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco and the little black dress
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire--a biography
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Dadland
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous Jane
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exupéry's lost child
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Edison
- Edison
- Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Family history : a memoir
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- For Audrey with love : Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- 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
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francis I : the maker of modern France
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From the farm to Arlington : memoirs of an American patriot
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Washington
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Going the distance : the life and works of W.P. Kinsella
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grant
- Grant
- Grant
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer--America's deadliest serial murderer
- Greetings from Utopia Park : surviving a transcendent childhood
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Handel in London : the making of a genius
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Haydée SantamarÃa, Cuban revolutionary : she led by transgression
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hillary Clinton : groundbreaking politician
- His Holiness : the fourteenth Dalai Lama
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- How to become an accidental genius
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- How to forget : a daughter's memoir
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- I am a promise
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the darkroom
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Into the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- Irving Berlin : New York genius
- Irving Berlin : the immigrant boy who made America sing
- Is that Kafka? : 99 finds
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackie Robinson : an integrated life
- 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 Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane Goodall
- Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Janis : her life and music
- Janis : her life and music
- Jean Cocteau : a life
- Jeff Kinney
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Jimmy Carter
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joan of Arc : a history
- Joe, the slave who became an Alamo legend
- John Adams
- John Hughes : a life in film
- John Madden : a Pro Football Hall of Fame biography
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Johnny Cash : the redemption of an American icon
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Josephine Baker
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Judas : how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- Judy Blume
- Just being Jackie
- Kate Warne : Pinkerton detective
- Keep it fake : inventing an authentic life
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kid activists : true tales of childhood from champions of change
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- King John : treachery and tyranny in Medieval England : the road to Magna Carta
- King John and the road to Magna Carta
- Kissinger, v. 1, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- Labyrinths : Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lady in red
- Lafayette
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Last man standing : Mort Sahl and the birth of modern comedy
- Last royal rebel : the life and death of James, Duke of Monmouth
- Last things : a graphic memoir of loss and love
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Lenore Tawney : mirror of the universe
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life is short (no pun intended) : love, laughter, and learning to enjoy every moment
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lights! Camera! Alice! : the thrilling true adventures of the first woman filmmaker
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's pathfinder : John C. Frémont and the violent election of 1856
- Lion in the White House : a life of Theodore Roosevelt
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little weirds
- Living with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- Lizzie demands a seat : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry