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- --if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
- 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- 14 cows for America
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A famous dog's life : the story of Gidget, America's most beloved Chihuahua
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Helen Keller
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Benjamin Franklin
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
- A remarkable mother
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abe Lincoln loved animals
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : lawyer, leader, legend
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Abraham Lincoln, the writer : a treasury of his greatest speeches and letters
- Abuela, don't forget me
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adventures of the horse doctor's husband
- After all
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alex Morgan : soccer champion
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Ali : a life
- Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All at sea : a memoir
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- 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 way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All things bright and beautiful
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on Murderers' Row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart : more than a flier
- America's quarterback : Bart Starr and the rise of the National Football League
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And the good news is ... : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- Anna Pavlova
- Anne Frank remembered : [the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family]
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Anne Frank's chestnut tree
- Ansel Adams : the spirit of wild places
- Antonio Brown
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audition : a memoir
- Ava's man
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : multisport superstar
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : a life of leadership
- Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beacon to freedom : the story of a conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Becoming
- Becoming Beatrix : the life of Beatrix Potter and the world of Peter Rabbit
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Becoming sister wives : the story of an unconventional marriage
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Being Kendra : cribs, cocktails, & getting my sexy back
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Between the world and me
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Beyoncé
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Blake Shelton
- Blood, bones, & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Boardwalk babies
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Book of honor : covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Bossypants
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Brat
- Brat : an '80s story
- Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) lifetime
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Mars
- Bubba Wallace : stock car racing star
- Buck
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Called out of darkness : a spiritual confession
- Calvin Coolidge
- Carli Lloyd
- Carrie Underwood
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Catch me if you can : the true story of a real fake
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace : the pen pals who imagined the first computer
- Charles Dickens and the street children of London
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- 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
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude Monet, 1840-1926
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Coco Gauff : tennis champion
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Colors of awesome! : 24 bold women who inspired the world
- Columbine
- Come look with me : exploring landscape art with children
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Cora Frear : a true story
- Countee Cullen : poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Courtiers : intrigue, ambition, and the power players behind the house of Windsor
- Crash override : how Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dangerous Jane
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daring dogs : 30 true tales of heroic hounds
- Dark was the night
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- DeAndre Hopkins
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Andrew
- Decision points
- Defying Hitler : Jesse Owens' Olympic triumph
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dirt : growing strong roots in what makes the broken beautiful
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Discovering Wes Moore
- Do you mind if I cancel? : (things that still annoy me)
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Does the noise in my head bother you? : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy the brave
- Double play : faith and family first
- Downton Shabby : one American's ultimate DIY adventure restoring his family's English castle
- Dr. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Drew Brees
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dying of politeness
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Edgar Allen Poe : the strange man standing deep in the shadows
- Edward Hopper : an American master
- Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
- Eisenhower : in war and peace
- Eleanor
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Elizabeth leads the way : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the right to vote
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk and Tesla
- Elvis Presley
- Elvis is King!
- Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- Endurance : my year in space and how I got there
- Ernest Shackleton
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history
- Every day in Tuscany : seasons of an Italian life
- Every day is extra
- Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Fastest woman on Earth : the story of Tatyana McFadden
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear gone wild : a story of mental illness, suicide, and hope through loss.
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fight of the century : Alice Paul battles Woodrow Wilson for the vote
- Figure skating's greatest stars
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding me
- Finding me
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Flapper : a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forest fighter : the story of Chico Mendes
- Forged in crisis : the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times
- Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the science of prehistoric life
- Four wars, five presidents : a reporter's journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frank : the voice
- Frank Lloyd Wright : force of nature
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt : World War II president
- Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
- Free lunch
- Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
- Freezing order : a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Gabby : a story of courage and hope
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gatecrasher : how I helped the rich become famous and ruin the world
- George H.W. Bush
- George Washington : his legacy of faith, character, and courage
- George Washington Carver : an innovative life
- George Washington's first victory
- George and Barbara Bush : a great American love story
- Georgia O'Keeffe : an eternal spirit
- Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Girl on a motorcycle
- Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
- Gloria Steinem
- Goebbels : a biography
- Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief
- Going rogue : an American life
- Going there
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good apple : tales of a Southern evangelical in New York
- Good day! : the Paul Harvey story
- Good for a girl : a woman running in a man's world
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grandma Moses : an American original
- Grant
- Grant
- Greenlights
- Greenlights
- Greta's story : the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet
- Growing pangs
- Growing up Amish : a memoir
- Growing up Getty : the story of America's most unconventional dynasty
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gutenberg
- HRH : so many thoughts on royal style
- Hana's suitcase : a true story
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harlem speaks : a living history of the Harlem Renaissance
- Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad
- Harry Houdini
- Harry Truman's excellent adventure : the true story of a great American road trip
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter
- He changed our great nation : Abraham Lincoln
- Hedy Lamarr
- Helen Keller
- Helen's eyes : a photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher
- Hello, Molly! : a memoir
- Hello, neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Herbert Hoover
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America : essays
- Heroes for my son
- Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hiding from the Nazis
- High calling : the courageous life and faith of space shuttle Columbia commander Rick Husband
- Highlights of the Seattle Seahawks
- Hillary
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- History of Illinois and her people,
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How George Washington fought the Revolutionary War
- How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child
- How to be human : an autistic man's guide to life
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- How to hear the universe : Gaby González and the search for Einstein's ripples in space-time
- Hunting Eichmann : how a band of survivors and a young spy agency chased down the world's most notorious Nazi
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- Hyperbole and a half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened
- I am Amelia Earhart
- I am Frida Kahlo
- I am Gandhi