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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- 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 Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A mind in motion : the art of Charles Forrester
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A story is to share : how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale
- 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 thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A wild idea
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- 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
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- 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 Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- 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 frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the light here comes from above : the life and legacy of Edward Hitchcock
- 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
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- 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 daughter : a memoir
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Among the whales : Joseph Nye Clark, the adventures of a young cabin boy aboard the Newburyport Whaler, Merrimack, 1837-1839
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- 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
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Griffith's Manteo : his real Mayberry
- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol, 1928-1987 : commerce into art
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Annette feels free : the true story of Annette Kellerman, world-class swimmer, fashion pioneer, and real-life mermaid
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Artists : inspiring stories of the world's most creative minds
- Artists : their lives and works
- As it turns out : thinking about Edie and Andy
- Astrid Lindgren
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad fat black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad motherfucker : the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- 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
- Barack Obama : conservative, pragmatist, progressive
- Barkley : a biography
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Battle for the big top
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- 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
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Because Claudette
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- 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
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Franklin
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Bibi : my story
- Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia
- Big book of who : the 101 stars every fan needs to know, Basketball
- 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
- Billie Jean King
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blake Shelton : happy anywhere
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- 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
- Blood, fire & gold : the story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boy oh boy
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breaking through the clouds : the sometimes turbulent life of meteorologist Joanne Simpson
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Berigan : elusive legend of jazz
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Cancer crossings : a brother, his doctors, and the quest for a cure to childhood leukemia
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captain Tom Moore
- 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
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Celia planted a garden : the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Chunky goes to camp
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude McKay : the making of a Black Bolshevik
- Claude Monet
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra tells all!
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco and the little black dress
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code gray : death, life, and uncertainty in the ER
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Composers : their lives and works
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire--a biography
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Covered in color : Christo & Jeanne-Claude's fabrics of freedom
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- 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 Attenborough
- David Bowie : a life
- Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the golden age of Hollywood
- Dear Damage
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Devils, lusts and strange desires : the life of Patricia Highsmith
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, our mother. : her life and legacy
- Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius
- Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exupéry's lost child
- Divine Lola : a true story of scandal and celebrity
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- 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
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- 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
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- 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
- Drinking games : a memoir
- Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white
- Eden's outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
- Edgar Degas
- Edison
- Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art
- Edvard Munch : an inner life
- 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 & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth Warren : the life, times, and rise of Warren, aka the Boss
- Elizabeth Warren's big, bold plans
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- 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
- Elvis Presley
- Elvis and me
- 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 pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- 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
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- 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
- Everybody thought we were crazy : Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- Everything I never dreamed
- Evonne Goolagong
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fall down seven times, stand up eight : Patsy Takemoto Mink and the fight for Title IX
- 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
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Fierce love : a memoir of family, faith, and purpose
- Fighting for yes!: : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
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