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- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- A being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A chef's life, Season five
- A chef's life, Season four
- A chef's life, Season three
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A famous dog's life : the story of Gidget, America's most beloved Chihuahua
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A higher call
- A life well played : my stories
- A long way home
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A simple path
- A special education : one family's journey through the maze of learning disabilities
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- 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
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adolf Hitler
- Affairs of state : the untold history of presidential love, sex, and scandal, 1789-1900
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Agatha Christie, an autobiography
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Ali : a life
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- Amelia Earhart : more than a flier
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American queen : the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American women spies of World War II
- Amy
- Amy Carmichael : rescuing the children
- Anne Frank's chestnut tree
- Ansel Adams : the spirit of wild places
- Appetite for America : how visionary businessman Fred Harvey built a railroad hospitality empire that civilized the Wild West
- Ariana Grande
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- At home with Jane Austen
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
- Avid reader : a life
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Babe Ruth and the baseball curse
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Barack Obama
- Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before she was Harriet
- Behind enemy lines
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Believer : my forty years in politics
- Bella figura : how to live, love, and eat the Italian way
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Betty Greene : flying high
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Beyoncé
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Blake Shelton
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born to run
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now
- Breath : a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung: a memoir
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Mars
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Burnt toast makes you sing good : a memoir with recipes from an American family
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cash : an American man
- Catch me if you can : the true story of a real fake
- Cesar Chavez in his own words
- Charlie Chaplin : a brief life
- Christmas from heaven : the true story of the Berlin candy bomber
- Christopher Columbus
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- CinderGirl : my journey out of the ashes to a life of hope, a memoir
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code talker
- Coming back stronger
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Corrie Ten Boom : shining in the darkness
- Courageous women of the Civil War : soldiers, spies, medics, and more
- Crossing the borders of time : a true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed
- Curveball : how i discovered true fulfillment after chasing fortune and fame
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dangerous Jane
- Darwin
- David Bowie is the subject
- Dear Mr. You
- Death in a prairie house : Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin murders
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
- Diary of a player : how my musical heroes made a guitar man out of me
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't stop believin'
- Don't stop believin'
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : real estate mogul and president
- Donner dinner party
- Double play : faith and family first
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Early saints of God
- Edgar Allen Poe : the strange man standing deep in the shadows
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated: a memoir
- Edward Hopper : an American master
- Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
- Elizabeth leads the way : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the right to vote
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Elon Musk and Tesla
- Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
- Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
- Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Escape
- Escaping the racism of low expectations
- Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history
- Every little step : my story
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Every tool's a hammer : life is what you make it
- Face it
- Face of freedom : how the photos of Frederick Douglass celebrated racial equality
- Falling into place : a memoir of overcoming
- Fierce patriot : the tangled lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Grace : a true story about losing your way in life-- and finding it again
- Finding Peter : a true story of the hand of providence and evidence of life after death
- Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Finding the bright side : the art of chasing what matters
- 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
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- 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
- Flyover lives : a memoir
- For the love of the game : my story
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten angel : the story of Lydia Moss Bradley
- Fortunate son : my life, my music
- Forward : a memoir
- Founding fathers
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Francis Asbury : circuit rider
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frank : the voice
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Lloyd Wright : force of nature
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freedom : my book of firsts
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From the outside : my journey through life and the game I love
- Furiously happy : [a funny book about horrible things]
- Garth Brooks : the anthology, Part one, the first five years
- George Washington Carver : an uncommon way
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- George and Barbara Bush : a great American love story
- George and Barbara Bush : a great American love story
- Georgia O'Keeffe : an eternal spirit
- Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
- Glitter and glue : a memoir
- Goebbels : a biography
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good day! : the Paul Harvey story
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good-enough mother : the perfectly imperfect book of parenting
- Google it : a history of Google
- Grandma Moses : an American original
- Grant
- Gratitude
- Guest of honor : Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House dinner that shocked a nation
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Hammering for freedom : the William Lewis story
- Handel, who knew what he liked
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Happy accidents
- Happy, happy, happy : my life and legacy as the Duck Commander
- Hard choices
- Harriet Tubman and the freedom train
- Harry Truman's excellent adventure : the true story of a great American road trip
- He will be the preacher : the story of God's providence in my life
- Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world
- Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Heroes for civil rights
- Heroes for my son
- Heroes of World War II
- 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...
- Hiding in the light : why I risked everything to leave Islam and follow Jesus
- Highest duty : my search for what really matters
- Hillary
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : some girls are born to lead
- Hissing cousins : the untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- Historical encyclopedia of Illinois
- History of Illinois and her people,
- Hitch-22 : a memoir
- Hitman : the untold story of Johnny Martorano : Whitey Bulger's enforcer and the most feared gangster in the underworld
- Hold still : a memoir with photographs
- Holocaust : the events and their impact on real people
- Home : a memoir of my early years
- Home work : a memoir of my Hollywood years
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How George Washington fought the Revolutionary War
- How I got this way
- How the Beatles changed the world
- How the states got their shapes too : the people behind the bordelines
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- Humans of New York : Stories
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- I am
- I am Abraham Lincoln
- I am Albert Einstein
- I am Amelia Earhart
- I am Gandhi
- I am Gandhi : a graphic biography of a hero
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Helen Keller
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Jane Goodall
- I am Jim Henson
- I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
- I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Patrick Swayze
- I am a secret service agent : my life spent protecting the President
- I beat the odds : from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond
- I can't make this up : life lessons
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- Ida B. Wells
- Ida B. Wells : let the truth be told
- If I am missing or dead
- If you ask me : (and of course you won't)
- If you lived here you'd be home by now : why we traded the commuting life for a little house on the prairie
- Imperfect courage : live a life of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared
- In pieces
- In pieces : a memoir
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
- In this together : my story
- Irena's children : a true story of courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
- It's good to remember : Manito, 1858-1983
- James Lovell : the rescue of Apollo 13
- James Madison
- Jars of hope : how one woman helped save 2,500 children during the Holocaust
- Jerry Lee Lewis : his own story
- Joan of Arc : a life transfigured
- Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press
- John Lennon : the life
- Johnny Appleseed plants trees across the land
- Jonas Salk : a life
- Joni Mitchell : in her own words
- Josephine
- Josiah's fire : autism stole his words, God gave him a voice
- Joy enough : a memoir
- Julie & Julia
- Julius Caesar : great dictator of Rome
- Just like Rube Goldberg : the incredible true story of the man behind the machines
- Katie up and down the hall : the true story of how one dog turned five neighbors into a family
- Kevin Durant
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Killing it : an education
- Knight : my story
- Know my name : a memoir
- Knut : how one little polar bear captivated the world
- Kris Bryant
- Lab girl
- Lady Bird Johnson : an oral history
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady blue eyes : my life with Frank
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lafayette and the American Revolution
- Laura Ingalls Wilder in her own words
- Leading : learning from life and my years at Manchester United
- Leonard : my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Lights out : a Cuban memoir of betrayal and survival
- Lion
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Look Up! : Henrietta Leavitt, pioneering woman astronomer
- Lost boy : the story of the man who created Peter Pan
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love warrior
- Luke Bryan
- M train
- MWF seeking BFF : my yearlong search for a new best friend
- Mademoiselle : Coco Chanel and the pulse of history
- Magellan : over the edge of the world : the true story of the terrifying first circumnavigation of the globe
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Making masterpiece : 25 years behind the scenes at Masterpiece theatre and Mystery! on PBS
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Mark Twain's America : a celebration in words and images
- Mary Cassatt : an American impressionist
- Mary Shelley : the strange, true tale of Frankenstein's creator
- Mary Slessor : courage in Africa
- Maya Lin : thinking with her hands
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Megan Rapinoe
- Meghan Markle
- Mess : one man's struggle to clean up his house and his act
- Michael Phelps
- Michelle Obama : a life
- Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War
- Might as well laugh about it now
- Milton Hershey's sweet idea : a chocolate kingdom
- Miranda Lambert
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Molly Pitcher : the woman who fought the war
- Mona Lisa : a life discovered
- Monsieur Mediocre : one American learns the high art of being everyday French
- Monument maker : Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial
- More than enough : claiming space for who you are (no matter what they say)
- Morningstar : growing up with books
- Morningstar : growing up with books
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Muhammad Ali
- My Southern journey : true stories from the heart of the South
- My corner of the ring : a memoir from a champ
- My dyslexia
- My family divided : one girl's journey of home, loss, and hope
- My glory was I had such friends : a memoir
- My life on the road
- My own words
- My share of the task : a memoir
- Nanaville : adventures in grandparenting
- Napoleon : soldier, emperor, lover, statesman
- Nate Saint : heavenbound
- Neil Armstrong : the first man on the moon
- Neil Patrick Harris : choose your own autobiography
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
- Never caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Never quit : how I became a special ops Pararescue Jumper
- Never turn your back on an Angus cow : my life as a country vet
- Night
- Night flight : Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic
- Nixon
- Nixon's White House wars : the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
- No one tells you this : a memoir
- No small potatoes : Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas
- No walls and the recurring dream : a memoir
- Noah Webster : weaver of words
- Not my father's son : a memoir
- Not my girl
- Nothing daunted : the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- O captain, my captain : Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
- Of all the gin joints : stumbling through Hollywood history
- Oink : my life with mini-pigs
- Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku
- On being 40(ish)
- Once upon a farm : lessons on growing love, life, and hope on a new frontier
- One dead spy : the life, times, and last words of Nathan Hale, America's most famous spy
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- One on one : behind the scenes with the greats in the game
- Onward : how Starbucks fought for its life without losing its soul
- Open : an autobiography
- Oprah : a biography
- Our Abe Lincoln : an old tune with new lyrics
- Outpost : life on the frontlines of American diplomacy, a memoir
- Paper son : the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, immigrant and artist
- Papi : my story
- Paris in love : a memoir
- Part swan, part goose : an uncommon memoir of womanhood, work and family
- Patriots and redcoats : stories of American revolutionary war leaders
- Paul McCartney : a life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Pelé : birth of a legend
- Phenomenal : a hesitant adventurer's search for wonder in the natural world
- Photographic : the life of Graciela Iturbide
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Playing with purpose : inside the lives and faith of Albert Pujols, Mariano Rivera, Josh Hamilton and today's top MLB stars
- Portraits of Hispanic American heroes
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President Carter : the White House years
- President Donald Trump
- President Lincoln : from log cabin to White House
- Presto! : how I made over 100 pounds magically disappear and other magical tales
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Proud : living my American dream
- Queen Meryl : the iconic roles, heroic deeds, and legendary life of Meryl Streep
- Queen Victoria : born to succeed,
- RBG
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Reading and interpreting the works of Jane Austen
- Reagan : American icon
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : the life
- Rebel yell : the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson
- Recovery : freedom from our addictions
- Reporter : a memoir
- Resilience : reflections on the burdens and gifts of facing life's adversities
- Rick Riordan
- Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey
- Rise : from caged bird to poet of the people, Maya Angelou
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Rivers : Unknown trails, Book three,
- Roald Dahl
- Robin
- Rocket man : astronaut Pete Conrad's incredible ride to the moon and beyond
- Room to dream
- Rosa Parks : freedom rider
- Russian tattoo : a memoir
- Sacred duty : a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery
- Saint Augustine
- Saint Valentine
- Sally Ride : America's first woman in space
- Sally Ride : a photo biography of America's pioneering woman in space
- Sally Ride : the first American woman in space
- Sam Houston : standing firm
- Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers : the Texas victory that changed American history
- Same kind of different as me
- Samuel Morse, that's who! : the story of the telegraph and Morse code
- Satchel : the life and times of an American legend
- Save me the plums : my gourmet memoir
- Saving Central Park : a history and a memoir
- Sea stories : my life in special operations
- Sea stories : my life in special operations
- Secrets of the Koran
- Seeking Allah, finding Jesus : a devout Muslim encounters Christianity
- Seeking bipartisanship : my life in politics
- Serena Williams : Setting New Standards
- Seriously--I'm kidding
- Seven women : and the secret of their greatness
- Shatner
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- Shel Silverstein
- Shoe dog : a memoir by the creator of Nike
- Shoe dog : a memoir by the creator of Nike
- Shooting for the moon : the amazing life and times of Annie Oakley
- Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
- Shotguns and stagecoaches : the brave men who rode for Wells Fargo in the wild west
- Simone Biles
- Sinatra : the chairman
- Sisters
- Sisters in law : how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world
- Small fry
- Small fry
- Small victories : spotting improbable moments of grace
- Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematory
- So tall within : Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom
- So tall within : Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom
- Soccerwomen : the icons, rebels, stars, and trailblazers who transformed the beautiful game
- Soldier girls : the battles of three women at home and at war
- Solving the puzzle under the sea : Marie Tharp maps the ocean floor
- Some make it and some do not : the story of a baseball player
- Sounds like me : my life (so far) in song
- Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Spencer Tracy : a biography
- Spoken from the heart
- Stalin : new biography of a dictator
- Stalin, Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
- Stan Musial : an American life
- Standing up against hate : how black women in the Army helped change the course of WWII
- Stephen Curry
- Stephen Hawking
- Steve Jobs : insanely great
- Stolen lives : twenty years in a desert jail
- Struttin' with some barbecue : Lil Hardin Armstrong becomes the first lady of jazz