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- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Angel in aisle 3 : a mysterious vagrant, a convicted bank executive, and the unlikely friendship that saved both their lives
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- BeastieBoysbook
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Bing Crosby : a pocketful of dreams, the early years, 1903-1940
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing the demon : a secret history of the quest for the sound barrier, and the band of American aces who conquered it
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Crisis of character :
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life/
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Exile, writer, soldier, spy : Jorge Semprún
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Francis : Pope of good promise
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Game change : the life and death of Steve Montador and the future of hockey
- Genghis Khan and the quest for God : how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
- George Lucas : a life
- George Sand
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Grant
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hitler's art thief : Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the looting of Europe's treasures
- I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir
- In search of Mary Shelley : the girl who wrote Frankenstein
- In search of Pharrell Williams
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Ira's Shakespeare dream
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jane Austen at home
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- John Le Carre : the biography
- John McCain : American maverick
- Julia Child : an extraordinary life in words and pictures
- Jump back, Paul : the life and poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Kanye West : god & monster
- Kepler and the universe : how one man revolutionized astronomy
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Edward VIII : an American life
- Kissinger : the idealist, 1923-1968
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady in red : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- Last act : the final years and emerging legacy of Ronald Reagan
- Late-life love : a memoir
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- 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 spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Listen: how Pete Seeger got America singing
- Little dancer aged fourteen : the true story behind Degas's masterpiece
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy, Jr., and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Manderley forever
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Marie Curie
- Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
- Master of thin air : life and death on the world's highest peaks
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Miss D & me : life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Mornings on horseback
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mozart's starling
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- My father and Atticus Finch : a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My own words
- My patients and other animals : a veterinarian's stories of love, loss, and hope
- Nadia : the girl who couldn't sit still
- Never enough : Donald Trump and the pursuit of success
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- No barriers : a blind man's journey to kayak the Grand Canyon
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Off the radar : a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
- Orchestra of exiles : the story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the one thousand Jews he saved from Nazi horrors
- Over the top and back : the autobiography
- Pass the pandowdy, please : chewing on history with famous folks and their fabulous foods
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peace and me
- Pirate women : the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the Seven Seas
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Pudge : the biography of Carlton Fisk
- Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Queen of the world : Elizabeth II, sovereign and stateswoman
- Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
- Reagan : the life
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Relentless spirit : the unconventional raising of a champion
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Ringo : with a little help
- Robert Graves : from Great War poet to Good-bye to all that (1895-1929)
- Robin
- Robin
- Running with Raven : the amazing story of one man, his passion, and the community he inspired
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Sargent's women : four lives behind the canvas
- Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Someone to watch over me : a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt and the tortured father who shaped her life
- Something in the blood : the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula
- Something wonderful : Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway revolution
- Steve McQueen : the salvation of an American icon
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim
- Suzanne's children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris
- Swimming with sharks : the daring discoveries of Eugenie Clark
- Tell me more : stories about the 12 hardest things I'm learning to say
- Temple Grandin : voice for the voiceless/
- Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America
- Tesla : inventor of the modern
- The Beach Boys : America's band
- The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the House of Magic
- The Duchess : Camilla Parker Bowles and the love affair that rocked the crown
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The Wright Brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The art of the affair : an illustrated history of love, sex, and artistic influence
- The awkward thoughts of W. Kamau Bell : tales of a 6' 4", African American, heterosexual, cisgender, left-leaning, asthmatic, Black and proud blerd, mama's boy, dad, and stand-up comedian
- The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal
- The black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
- The book of Joe : the life, wit, and (sometimes accidental) wisdom of Joe Biden
- The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs
- The dead duke, his secret wife, and the missing corpse : an extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and intrigue
- The death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there
- The disruptors : 50 people who changed the world
- The education of a coroner : lessons in investigating death
- The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War
- The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
- The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire
- The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
- The last of the tsars : Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
- The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border
- The lives of the surrealists
- The lost founding father : John Quincy Adams and the transformation of American politics
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The man who knew : the life and times of Alan Greenspan
- The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women
- The mistress of Paris : the 19th-century courtesan who built an empire on a secret
- The monk of Mokha
- The music in George's head : George Gershwin creates Rhapsody in Blue
- The new tsar : the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time
- The promise of Francis : the man, the pope, and the challenge of change
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- The rival queens : Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the betrayal that ignited a kingdom
- The shadow in the garden : a biographer's tale
- The three lives of James Madison : genius, partisan, president
- The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's sugar ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
- The trials of a scold : the incredible true story of writer Anne Royall
- The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
- The witch of Lime Street : seance, seduction, and Houdini in the spirit world
- The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world
- The world according to Tom Hanks : the life, the obsessions, the good deeds of America's most decent guy
- The year of fear : Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation
- Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life
- Thomas Jefferson grows a nation
- Ticker : the quest to create an artificial heart
- Tiger Woods
- Unbelievable : my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history
- Uncommon people : the rise and fall of the rock stars
- Unfaithful music & disappearing ink
- Unpresidented : a biography of Donald Trump
- Vincent can't sleep : Van Gogh paints the night sky
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- Waves passing in the night : Walter Murch in the land of the astrophysicists
- We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program
- What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen
- When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
- Where the bodies were buried : Whitey Bulger and the world that made him
- Who is Aretha Franklin?
- Who is Bono?
- Who is Judy Blume?
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who was Alexander Hamilton?
- Who was Fidel Castro?
- Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was Selena?
- Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
- Women in the world of Frederick Douglass
- Women of the blue and gray : true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies
- Wondering who you are : a memoir
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Yayoi Kusama : from here to infinity
- You will not have my hate
- Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
- Young Elizabeth : the making of the Queen
- Young Hitler : the making of the Führer
- Young Washington : how wilderness and war forged America's founding father
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