BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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- A difficult woman, the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman, Alice Kessler-Harris
- Expect great things, the life and search of Henry David Thoreau, by Kevin Dann
- The great debate, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left, Yuval Levin
- George Whitefield, America's spiritual founding father, Thomas S. Kidd
- Speer, Hitler's architect, Martin Kitchen
- The good kings, absolute power in ancient Egypt and the modern world, Kara Cooney
- Elizabeth Bishop, a miracle for breakfast, Megan Marshall
- Joe, the slave who became an Alamo legend, Ron J. Jackson, Jr. and Lee Spencer White ; foreword by Phil Collins
- The Queen, her life, Andrew Morton
- The Caesar of Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the artistic obsession that shaped an empire, Susan Jaques
- Hannibal, Patrick N. Hunt
- We share the same sky, a memoir of memory & migration, Rachael Cerrotti
- Daughters of the Winter Queen, four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots, Nancy Goldstone
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books, Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library, Edward Wilson-Lee
- Sting-ray afternoons, a memoir, Steve Rushin
- Our man in Charleston, Britain's secret agent in the Civil War South, Christopher Dickey
- Ten Caesars, Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine, Barry Strauss
- Frederick Douglass, prophet of freedom, David W. Blight
- Mengele, unmasking the "Angel of Death", David G. Marwell
- The written world, the power of stories to shape people, history, civilization, Martin Puchner
- Wicked women, notorious, mischievous, and wayward ladies from the Old West, Chris Enss
- A delayed life, the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz, Dita Kraus
- The war that made the Roman Empire, Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium, Barry Strauss
- The World Remade, America in World War I, G.J. Meyer
- Caught in the revolution, Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge, Helen Rappaport
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- Sailing upwind, leadership, risk, and innovation from Topgun to the situation room, Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr
- Civil War barons, the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation, Jeffry D. Wert
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter, a biography of Princess Louise, Lucinda Hawksley
- Young and damned and fair, the life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII, Gareth Russell
- The captain and "the cannibal", an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage, James Fairhead
- Eichmann before Jerusalem, the unexamined life of a mass murderer, Bettina Stangneth ; translated from the German by Ruth Martin.Scott, Joanna
- Mobituaries, great lives worth reliving, Mo Rocca
- Ambition and desire, the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte, Kate Williams
- Kennedy and King, the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights, Steven Levingston
- Alexander Hamilton, the graphic history of an American founding father, Jonathan Hennessey; Art by Justin Greenwood; Colors by Brad Simpson; Inking/Background Assists by Matt Harding; Lettering by Patrick Brosseau
- The wars of the Roosevelts, the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family, William J. Mann
- Russian tattoo, a memoir, Elena Gorokhova
- Queens of the crusades, 1154-1291, Alison Weir
- Glorious war, the Civil War adventures of George Armstrong Custer, Thom Hatch
- Abducting a General, The Kreipe Operation in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor
- The dog who could fly, the incredible true story of a WWII airman and the four-legged hero who flew at his side, Damien Lewis
- Hero of two worlds, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution, Mike Duncan
- Wallis in love, the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy, Andrew Morton
- Be free or die, the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero, Cate Lineberry
- The tragedy of Benedict Arnold, an American life, Joyce Lee Malcolm
- The mirage factory, illusion, imagination, and the invention of Los Angeles, Gary Krist
- Villains, scoundrels, and rogues, incredible true tales of mischief and mayhem, Paul Martin
- Their promised land, my grandparents in love and war, Ian Buruma
- Goebbels, a biography, Peter Longerich ; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe