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- "Alongside; " : being notes suggested by "A New England boyhood" of Doctor Edward Everett Hale ...
- "I'll plug you, mister" : It started out with a boy stealing a rifle, then it became armed robbery and, finally, murder
- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Scribbling women" : true tales from astonishing lives
- "Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "Winston Churchill was a Catholic priest" : memoirs from thirty-seven years as a public high school teacher
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 sculptors of tomorrow
- 100,000 Hearts : a surgeon's memoir
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 things you didn't know about Lincoln : loves and losses, political power plays, White House hauntings
- 109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women who changed history
- 15 journeys : Warsaw to London
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 1942 : Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour
- 20th century journey : a memoir of a life and the times, v. 2--The nightmare years, 1930-1940
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5 elephants
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 700 Sundays
- 703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 1/2 narrow : my life in shoes
- 99 : stories of the game
- 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 Change of heart : a memoir
- A Chinese life
- A Cornish childhood : autobiography of a Cornishman
- A French affair
- A Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- 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 girlhood : outlined from memory
- A New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, v. 10, 1901
- A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, v. 11, 1902
- A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, v. 12, 1903
- A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, v. 13, 1904
- A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, v. 19, 1910
- A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, v. 9, 1900
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Tuscan childhood
- A Venetian affair
- A Very Expensive Poison : The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
- A Woman named Jackie
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A barn in New England : making a home on three acres
- A beautiful mind.
- A being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A biographical dictionary of early American Jews : colonial times through 1800
- A body, undone : living on after great pain
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A boxing legacy : the life and works of writer and cartoonist Ted Carroll
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave and cunning prince : the great Chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A bus of my own
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A captive audience : voices of Japanese American youth in World War II Arkansas
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A circle of sisters : Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th century
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A common good : the friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A curious madness : an American combat psychiatrist, a Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from World War II
- 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 daring young man : a biography of William Saroyan
- A dash of daring : Carmel Snow and her life in fashion, art, and letters
- A daughter's love : Thomas More and his dearest Meg
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A deaf artist in early America : the worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A different drummer : my thirty years with Ronald Reagan
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A disease in the public mind : a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A door in the ocean : a memoir
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A feel for the game : to Brookline and back
- A fighter's heart : one man's journey through the world of fighting
- A fighting chance
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A fish in the water : a memoir
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A full house : a memoir
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A genealogical history of Freeman, Maine, 1796-1938, in three volumes
- A gift from Brittany : a memoir of love and loss in the French countryside
- 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 girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good country : my life in twelve towns and the ongoing battle for a white America
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A great feast of light : growing up Irish in the television age
- A grizzly in the mail and other adventures in American history
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hell of a war
- 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 higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of the grandparents I never had
- A history of the law : the courts, and the lawyers of Maine, from its first colonization to the early part of the present century
- A history of the town of Franklin, Mass. : from its settlement to the completion of its first century, 2d March, 1878
- A history of the town of Gorham, Maine
- A home called New England : a celebration of hearth and history
- A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house unlocked
- A journal for Christa : Christa McAuliffe, teacher in space
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A kingdom of tender colors : a memoir of comedy, survival, and love
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A life beyond reason : a father's memoir
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in movies : an autobiography
- A life in parts
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A life in the twentieth century : innocent beginnings, 1917-1950
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck, v. 1, Steel-true 1907-1940
- A life of Jung
- A life of Picasso, v. 2: The cubist rebel, 1907-1916
- A life of my own
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A life well played : my stories
- A life worth living : the adventures of a passionate sportsman
- A lifetime of riches : a biography of Napoleon Hill
- A light that never goes out : the enduring saga of the Smiths
- A lighthouse family
- A lion called Christian
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A long retreat : in search of a religious life
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home : a memoir
- A look over my shoulder : a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
- A lot to ask : a life of Barbara Pym
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the SS United States
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- 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 man without a country
- A man's life : dispatches from dangerous places
- A manner of being : writers on their mentors
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of character : inside the White House of George W. Bush
- A matter of death and life
- A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the civil rights revolution
- A measureless peril : America in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
- A mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million little pieces
- A mind in motion : the art of Charles Forrester
- A mind of her own : the life of Karen Horney
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A moment of war : a memoir of the Spanish Civil War
- A monk swimming
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A necessary end
- A paper life
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect union : Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation
- A pickle for the knowing ones
- A pickle for the knowing ones : or, Plain truths in a homespun dress
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place for us
- A portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- A prima donna's progress : the autobiography of Joan Sutherland
- A princess found : an American family, an African chiefdom, and the daughter who connected them all
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
- A rage to live : a biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
- A record of the services of the commissioned officers and enlisted men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine : who served in the American Revolution
- A relic of the Revolution : containing a full and particular account of the sufferings and privations of all the American prisoners captured on the high seas, and carried into Plymouth, England, during the Revolution of 1776 : with the names of the vessels taken, the names and residence of the several crews, and time of their commitment, the names of such as died in prison, and such as made their escape, or entered on board English men-of-war, until the exchange of prisoners, March 15, 1779 : also, an account of the several cruises of the squadron under the command of Commodore John Paul Jones, prizes taken, etc., etc.
- A remarkable curiosity : dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West
- A remarkable mother
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A righteous cause : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A rose for her grave : and other true cases
- A round-heeled woman : my late-life adventures in sex and romance
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A royal passion : the turbulent marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season in hell : a memoir
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A secret gift : how an act of kindness revealed hidden lives of the Great Depression
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- A shepherd's watch : through the season with one man and his dog
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit
- A simple path
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A sketch of the character of the late Chief Justice Parsons : exhibited in an address to the grand jury, delivered at the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston, on the twenty-third day of November, 1813, after the usual charge : published at the unanimous request of the grand jury and bar of Suffolk
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- A small town near Auschwitz : ordinary Nazis and the Holcaust
- A song for Mary : an Irish-American memory
- A song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy for all seasons : my life in the CIA
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous civil rights photographer to infiltrate the movement
- A stew or a story : an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
- A story is to share : how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale
- A strange eventful history : the dramatic lives of two remarkable families
- A stranger in the family : a true story of murder, madness, and unconditional love
- A stranger to myself : the inhumanity of war : Russia, 1941-1944
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A street cat named Bob.
- A strong west wind : a memoir
- A studio of her own : women artists in Boston, 1870-1940
- A surgeon in the village : an American doctor teaches brain surgery in Africa
- A tale of love and darkness
- A tale of two Omars : a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab Spring
- A taste for intrigue : the multiple lives of François Mitterrand
- A taste of the sweet apple : a memoir
- A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House
- 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 ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A ticket to the circus : a memoir
- A tiger's heart : the story of a modern Chinese woman
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A twist of Lemmon : a tribute to my father
- A vanished world : medieval Spain's golden age of enlightenment
- A very irregular head : the life of Syd Barrett
- A very punchable face
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A view of the ocean
- A visible man : a memoir
- A voice named Aretha
- A voice out of poverty : the power to achieve through adversity
- A waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city
- A walk across America
- A wedding in Haiti : the story of a friendship
- A whole new life
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wild idea
- A window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman like me
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman's education
- A world more bright : the life of Mary Baker Eddy
- A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age
- A writer's life
- A writer's people : ways of looking and feeling : an essay in five parts
- A year of the hunter
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- A. Philip Randolph and the struggle for civil rights
- A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Hernandez's killing fields : exposing untold murders, violence, cover-ups, and the NFL's shocking code of silence
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abducting a General : The Kreipe Operation in Crete
- Abe & Fido : Lincoln's love of animals and the touching story of his favorite canine companion
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams : [a life]
- About Alice
- About my sisters
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Abu Nidal : a gun for hire
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accepted : how the first gay superstar changed WWE
- Accidental czar : the life and lies of Vladimir Putin
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ace of spies : the true story of Sidney Reilly
- Acid test : LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal
- Acquainted with the night : excursions through the world after dark
- Across many mountains : a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action presidents, V. 1, George Washington!
- Action presidents, V. 2, Abraham Lincoln!
- Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Smith : an enlightened life
- Adam, God's beloved
- Admiral "Bull" Halsey : the life and wars of America's most controversial commander
- Admiral Bill Halsey : a naval life
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adventurer : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova
- Adventures with the Buddha : a personal Buddhism reader
- Advising Ike : the memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell
- Africa on six wheels : a semester on safari
- African American lives
- African Americans on Martha's Vineyard : from enslavement to presidential visit
- African art now : 50 pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century
- African lives : white lies, tropical truth, darkest gossip, and rumblings of rumor--from Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and beyond
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African silences
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Elizabeth : the rise of James of Scotland and the struggle for the throne of England
- After Fidel : the inside story of Castro's regime and Cuba's next leader
- After all
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After long silence