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- The women of the 116th Congress : portraits of power
- The world according to Fannie Davis : my mother's life in the Detroit numbers
- The world according to Tom Hanks : the life, the obsessions, the good deeds of America's most decent guy
- The world's fastest man : the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first black sports hero
- The year of fear : Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation
- Thomas Berry : a biography
- Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life
- Thomas Jefferson grows a nation
- Thurgood
- Ticker : the quest to create an artificial heart
- Tiger Woods
- Together : a memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap
- Touched by the sun : my friendship with Jackie
- Travel light, move fast
- Two brothers, four hands : the artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti
- Two men and a car : Franklin Roosevelt, Al Capone, and a Cadillac V-8
- Unbelievable : my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history
- Unbreakable : the woman who defied the Nazis in the world's most dangerous horse race
- Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
- Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
- Uncommon people : the rise and fall of the rock stars
- Undaunted : the wild life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and her fearless quest to save orangutans
- Unfaithful music & disappearing ink
- Unpresidented : a biography of Donald Trump
- Up jumped the devil : the real life of Robert Johnson
- Vincent can't sleep : Van Gogh paints the night sky
- Virginia Woolf : and the women who shaped her world
- Voice of rebellion : how Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought hope to Afghanistan
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- War in the ring : Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the fight between America and Hitler
- Washington's end : the final years and forgotten struggle
- Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole
- 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 Miss Mitchell saw
- What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen
- What's the big idea, Ben Franklin?
- When Marian sang : the true recital of Marian Anderson, the voice of a century
- When Sue found Sue : Sue Hendrickson discovers her T. rex
- When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains
- Where the light enters : building a family, discovering myself
- Who is Aretha Franklin?
- Who is Bono?
- Who is Jackie Chan?
- Who is Judy Blume?
- Who is Michael Jordan?
- Who is Oprah Winfrey?
- Who is R. L. Stine?
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- Who is Stevie Wonder?
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who was Alexander Hamilton?
- Who was Amelia Earhart?
- Who was Ben Franklin?
- Who was Che Guevara?
- Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
- Who was Fidel Castro?
- Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
- Who was H. J. Heinz?
- Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
- Who was Jules Verne?
- Who was Lewis Carroll?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was Milton Bradley?
- Who was Mister Rogers?
- Who was Nikola Tesla?
- Who was Norman Rockwell?
- Who was P. T. Barnum?
- Who was Paul Revere?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Rosa Parks?
- Who was Sam Walton?
- Who was Selena?
- Who was Sojourner Truth?
- Who was Stephen Hawking?
- Who were the Brothers Grimm?
- Wild and crazy guys : how the comedy mavericks of the '80s changed Hollywood forever
- Will you sign here, John Hancock?
- 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
- Women warriors : an unexpected history
- Wondering who you are : a memoir
- Wounded shepherd : Pope Francis and his struggle to convert the Catholic Church
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Yayoi Kusama : from here to infinity
- Yogi : the life, loves, and language of baseball legend Yogi Berra
- You are my friend : the story of Mister Rogers and his neighborhood
- You never forget your first : a biography of George Washington
- You will not have my hate
- Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
- Young Castro : the making of a revolutionary
- 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
- Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal
- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A voice named Aretha
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Pope : a life
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All the powers of earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- 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
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- 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 home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- 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
- Bad girls of fashion : style rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum : an American life
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- BeastieBoysbook
- Becoming C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- 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 : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32 : To the future, Ben Franklin!
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Bette & Joan : the divine feud
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- 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
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood, sweat, & tears : Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the history of Black college football
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buried lives : the enslaved people of George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By and by : Charles Tindley, the father of gospel music
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- 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
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chaucer's Tale : 1386 and the road to Canterbury
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90s dynasty
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Crisis of character :
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- D-Day girls : the untold story of the female spies who helped win World War II
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- 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
- Dolly Madison : famous first lady
- Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dream boogie : the triumph of Sam Cooke
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edison
- 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
- Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis is king!
- 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
- Everest : the remarkable story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- 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
- Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Fight of the century : Alice Paul battles Woodrow Wilson for the vote
- 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
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Fly high, John Glenn : the story of an American hero
- For spacious skies : Katharine Lee Bates and the inspiration for "America the beautiful"
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Francis : Pope of good promise
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida in America : the creative awakening of a great artist
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Full of beans : Henry Ford grows a car
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love
- 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 Clinton : master builder of the Empire State
- George Lucas : a life
- George Sand
- George Washington's secret six : the spy ring that saved the American Revolution
- Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
- Gloria takes a stand : how Gloria Steinem listened, wrote, and changed the world
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- 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
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Grant
- Grant
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Her fearless run : Kathrine Switzer's historic Boston Marathon
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Hi, I'm Norman : the story of American illustrator Norman Rockwell
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- Hitler : a biography
- Hitler's art thief : Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the looting of Europe's treasures
- House of dreams: : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How Emily saved the bridge : the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- How to become an accidental genius
- I am farmer : growing an environmental movement in Cameroon
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I heard you paint houses : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- 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
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- JAY-Z : made in America
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jane Austen at home
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's White House : Monticello on the Potomac
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- John Deere, that's who!
- John Le Carre : the biography
- John McCain : American maverick
- Johnny Cash : the life
- Julia Child : an extraordinary life in words and pictures
- Jump back, Paul : the life and poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Just like Beverly : a biography of Beverly Cleary
- Just like Rube Goldberg : the incredible true story of the man behind the machines
- KD : Kevin Durant's relentless pursuit to be the greatest
- Kanye West : god & monster
- Kepler and the universe : how one man revolutionized astronomy
- Kid activists : true tales of childhood from champions of change
- 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
- Laurie Hernandez
- LeBron, Inc. : the making of a billion-dollar athlete
- Leading the way : women in power
- Leave it to Abigail! : the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography
- 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
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Lizzie demands a seat! : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy, Jr., and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Louis XIV : the power and the glory
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the world
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Magic ramen : the story of Momofuku Ando
- Malala Yousafzai : warrior with words
- Mamie on the mound : a woman in baseball's Negro Leagues
- Manderley forever
- Mantle : the best there ever was
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Margaret and the moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie
- Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mary : the Mary Tyler Moore story
- Mary Ball Washington : the untold story of George Washington's mother
- Mary on horseback : three mountain stories
- 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, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Mengele : unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- Miss D & me : life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Monument maker : Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial
- Mornings on horseback
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mother Jones and her army of Mill Children
- Movie star Anna May Wong
- Mozart's starling
- Mr. Straight Arrow : the career of John Hersey, author of Hiroshima
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- My dad, Yogi : a memoir of family and baseball
- My father and Atticus Finch : a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama
- My friend Anna : the true story of a fake heiress
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My own words
- My parents : an introduction ; This does not belong to you
- My patients and other animals : a veterinarian's stories of love, loss, and hope
- Nadia : the girl who couldn't sit still
- Never a lovely so real : the life and work of Nelson Algren
- 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
- Numbers in motion : Sofia Kowalevski, queen of mathematics
- 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
- Otis and Will discover the deep : the record-setting dive of the Bathysphere
- Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet
- Out of this world : the surreal art of Leonora Carrington
- Over the top and back : the autobiography
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Pass the pandowdy, please : chewing on history with famous folks and their fabulous foods
- Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peace and me
- Pencils, pens & brushes : a great girls' guide to Disney animation
- Pirate women : the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the Seven Seas
- Plagued by fire : the dreams and furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Princess power
- Pudge : the biography of Carlton Fisk
- Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life
- Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Queen of the mountaineers : the trailblazing life of Fanny Bullock Workman
- Queen of the world
- Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
- Quit pulling my leg! : a story of Davy Crockett
- Railway Jack : the true story of an amazing baboon
- Ready to fly : how Sylvia Townsend became the bookmobile ballerina
- Reagan : the life
- Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Red Holzman : the life and legacy of a Hall of Fame basketball coach
- Relentless spirit : the unconventional raising of a champion
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Ringo : with a little help
- Rise! : from caged bird to poet of the people, Maya Angelou
- Rising above : inspiring women in sports
- Roaring back : the fall and rise of Tiger Woods
- Robert Graves : from Great War poet to Good-bye to all that (1895-1929)
- Robin
- Robin
- Ronda Rousey
- Running to the edge : a band of misfits and the guru who unlocked the secrets of speed
- Running with Raven : the amazing story of one man, his passion, and the community he inspired
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruth objects : the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Sacred duty : a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery
- Sailor and fiddler : reflections of a 100-year-old author
- Samuel Morse, that's who! : the story of the telegraph and Morse code
- Sargent : the masterworks
- Sargent's women : four lives behind the canvas
- Saturday's child : a daughter's memoir
- Saving the countryside : the story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Scientists who changed history
- Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
- She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Sisters : the lives of America's suffragists
- Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America
- Smacked : a story of white-collar ambition, addiction, and tragedy
- Smile : how young Charlie Chaplin taught the world to laugh (and cry)
- Soldier for equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War
- Solid seasons : the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- Sonny's bridge : jazz legend Sonny Rollins finds his groove
- Sontag : her life and work
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Sports legends / by Caryn Jenner
- Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide
- Stalin : the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives
- Stalin's scribe : literature, ambition, and survival : the life of Mikhail Sholokhov
- Stanwyck
- Starstruck : the cosmic journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Stephen Curry
- Stephen Hawking : his science in a nutshell
- Steve McQueen : the salvation of an American icon
- Still here : the madcap, nervy, singular life of Elaine Stritch
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Stories for kids who dare to be different : true tales of amazing people who stood up and stood out
- Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim
- Stubby : a true story of friendship
- Summertime : George Gershwin's life in music
- Superpower : one man's quest to transform American energy
- 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 Cartiers : the untold story of the family behind the jewelry empire
- The Duchess : Camilla Parker Bowles and the love affair that rocked the crown
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Mercury 13 : the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight
- The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth
- The Washington war : FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II
- The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The Wright Brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The Yellow House
- The adventurer's son : a memoir
- 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 best cook in the world : tales from my momma's table
- 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 blink of an eye : a memoir of dying--and learning how to live again
- The book of Joe : the life, wit, and (sometimes accidental) wisdom of Joe Biden
- The book of gutsy women
- The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world
- The book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come
- The boy on Fairfield Street : how Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seuss
- The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon
- The brave cyclist : the true story of a Holocaust hero
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs
- The contender : the story of Marlon Brando
- The cost of these dreams : sports stories and other serious business
- The crayon man : the true story of the invention of Crayola crayons
- The dead duke, his secret wife, and the missing corpse : an extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and intrigue
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