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- 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- 14 cows for America
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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 rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All things bright and beautiful
- 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 Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- 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
- And the good news is ... : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- 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
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- 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
- 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
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming Beatrix : the life of Beatrix Potter and the world of Peter Rabbit
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming sister wives : the story of an unconventional marriage
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- 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
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Between the world and me
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Bill Clinton
- Billie Eilish
- Blood, bones, & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Book of honor : covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Bossypants
- 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
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Bruce Lee
- Bruno Mars
- Bubba Wallace : stock car racing star
- Buck
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- 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
- 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 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
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- 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
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Columbine
- Come look with me : exploring landscape art with children
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Cora Frear : a true story
- Countee Cullen : poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Dangerous Jane
- Dark was the night
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Andrew
- 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 of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
- 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
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dying of politeness
- 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
- 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 is King!
- 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
- 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
- Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- 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
- 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 me
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- 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 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
- 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
- Frank : the voice
- 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
- 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
- Gatecrasher : how I helped the rich become famous and ruin the world
- George H.W. Bush
- George Washington's first victory
- Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
- Gloria Steinem
- Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief
- Going rogue : an American life
- Going there
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- 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
- 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
- Gutenberg
- HRH : so many thoughts on royal style
- Hana's suitcase : a true story
- 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
- Hedy Lamarr
- Helen Keller
- Helen's eyes : a photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher
- Hello, Molly! : a memoir
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Herbert Hoover
- 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
- 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
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How to be human : an autistic man's guide to life
- Hunting Eichmann : how a band of survivors and a young spy agency chased down the world's most notorious Nazi
- 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
- I am Helen Keller
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Rosa Parks
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I am an American : the Wong Kim Ark story
- I came all this way to meet you : writing myself home
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I will protect you : a true story of twins who survived Auschwitz
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- I'm glad my mom died
- Ida B. Wells
- Ida B. Wells : let the truth be told
- If you can dream it, you can do it : how 25 inspiring individuals found their dream jobs
- Illinois courthouses : an illustrated history
- Immigrant architect : Rafael Guastavino and the American dream
- In an instant : a family's journey of love and healing
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In my time : a personal and political memoir
- In the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- Infinite hope : a black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Influence
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Inside out : a memoir
- Iris Apfel
- Jack Knight's brave flight : how one gutsy pilot saved the U.S. Air Mail Service
- Jackie Robinson : an intimate portrait
- Jacqueline Kennedy : historic conversations on life with John F. Kennedy, interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964
- Jane Addams : spirit in action
- Janis : her life and music
- Jars of hope : how one woman helped save 2,500 children during the Holocaust
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press
- John Adams
- John Deere's powerful idea : the perfect plow
- John Lennon
- John Tyler
- Joseph Anton : a memoir
- Joseph Biden : our 46th president / by Ann Gaines Rodriguez
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Just being Dalí : the story of artist Salvador Dalí
- Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice
- Just pursuit : a black prosecutor's fight for fairness
- Kamala Harris : rooted in justice
- Kate's Light : Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse
- Katie up and down the hall : the true story of how one dog turned five neighbors into a family
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Kid athletes : true tales of childhood from sports legends
- Killing Reagan : the violent assault that changed a presidency
- Killing the legends : the lethal danger of celebrity
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America
- Kitchen privileges : a memoir
- Known and unknown : a memoir
- Knut : how one little polar bear captivated the world
- Kobe Bryant : NBA champion
- Koko's kitten
- Kris Bryant
- Lake of the Ozarks : my surreal summers in a vanishing America
- Langston Hughes : jazz poet of the Harlem renaissance
- Laura's album : a remembrance scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lebron James
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust
- Let me tell you about Jasper ... : how my best friend became America's dog
- Let's pretend this never happened : (a mostly true memoir)
- Let's roll! : ordinary people, extraordinary courage
- Let's take the long way home : a memoir of friendship
- Levi Strauss and blue jeans
- Lewis Latimer : engineering wizard
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little House Books
- Life
- Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy
- Life on the Mississippi
- LifeLines : an inspirational journey from profound darkness to radiant light
- Lincoln : a photobiography
- Lionel Messi
- Listening is an act of love : a celebration of American life from the StoryCorps Project
- Listening well : bringing stories of hope to life
- Little house in the Ozarks : the rediscovered writings
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little libraries, big heroes
- Little matches : a memoir of grief and light
- Live your life : my story of loving and losing Nick Cordero
- Living history
- Look Up! : Henrietta Leavitt, pioneering woman astronomer
- Look what brown can do!
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Louisa May Alcott
- Love, life, and elephants : an African love story
- Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi calls the house to order
- Magellan : over the edge of the world : the true story of the terrifying first circumnavigation of the globe
- Make something good today : a memoir
- Making masterpiece : 25 years behind the scenes at Masterpiece theatre and Mystery! on PBS
- Malala : my story of standing up for girls' rights
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Marley & me : life and love with the world's worst dog
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mary Seacole : bound for the battlefield
- Master of his fate : Roosevelt's rise from polio to the presidency
- Maurice Sendak
- Maurice and his dictionary : a true story
- Maya Lin : thinking with her hands
- Maybe an artist
- Meghan Markle
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Michael Jackson FAQ : all that's left to know about the King of Pop
- Michael Jordan
- Michael Jordan : basketball superstar
- Michelangelo : the young artist who dreamed of perfection
- Mike Nichols : a life
- Milton Hershey's sweet idea : a chocolate kingdom
- Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Molly, by golly! : the legend of Molly Williams, America's first female firefighter
- Mom & me & mom
- More myself : a journey
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mother Jones and her army of Mill Children
- My cross to bear
- My dad's funnier than your dad : growing up with Tim Conway in the funniest house in America
- My descent into death : a second chance at life
- My dog Skip
- My life
- My life with blindness
- My lucky life in and out of show business : a memoir
- My remarkable journey : a memoir
- My wild life : adventures of a wildlife photographer
- Nacho's nachos : the story behind the world's favorite snack
- Nazi prison camp escape
- Nazi wives : the women at the top of Hitler's Germany
- Never caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Neymar
- Nicky & Vera : a quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he rescued
- Nikola Tesla
- Nina : a story of Nina Simone
- No cure for being human : (and other truths I need to hear)
- No map, great trip : a young writer's road to page one
- No time like the future
- No time like the future : an optimist considers mortality
- Noah Webster : weaver of words
- Not my girl
- Olympic GOATs : the greatest athletes of all time
- On Pluto : inside the mind of Alzheimer's
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- Once upon a secret : my affair with President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- One million trees : a true story
- Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth
- Open book
- Ordinary girls : a memoir
- Our Abe Lincoln : an old tune with new lyrics
- Overdue : reckoning with the public library
- Pablo Picasso
- Paper bullets : two artists who risked their lives to defy the Nazis
- Paris in love : a memoir
- Pascual and the kitchen angels
- Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
- Path to the stars : my journey from Girl Scout to rocket scientist
- Patriots and redcoats : stories of American revolutionary war leaders
- Paul George
- Paul McCartney : a life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Paula Deen : it ain't all about the cookin'
- Pearl Jam twenty
- Pelé
- Photographic : the life of Graciela Iturbide
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Pioneer girl : the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Playing for keeps : Michael Jordan and the world he made
- Playing to win : how Althea Gibson broke barriers and changed tennis forever
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prairie tale : a memoir
- President Carter : the White House years
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Queen Meryl : the iconic roles, heroic deeds, and legendary life of Meryl Streep
- Quiet fire : Emily Dickinson's life and poetry
- Quiet strength : a memoir
- Race to the bottom of the Earth : surviving Antarctica
- Rafa
- Raina Telgemeier
- Rainbow revolutionaries : 50 LGBTQ+ people who made history
- 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 : an American journey
- Reagan : an American journey
- Recovering racists : dismantling white supremacy and reclaiming our humanity
- Reflections : life after the White House
- Respect : the life of Aretha Franklin
- Return of the White Book : True stories of God at work in Southeast Asia
- Richard Nixon
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Robin
- Rockaway : surfing headlong into a new life
- Rolling warrior : the incredible, sometimes awkward, true story of a rebel girl on wheels who helped spark a revolution
- Rosalind Franklin
- SEAL Team Six : memoirs of an elite Navy SEAL sniper
- Sally Ride : America's first woman in space
- Sally Ride : a photo biography of America's pioneering woman in space
- Sam Walton, made in America : my story
- Sanctuary : a memoir
- Satchel : the life and times of an American legend
- Saving Lady Liberty : Joseph Pulitzer's fight for the Statue of Liberty
- Schulz and Peanuts : a biography
- Seabiscuit : an American legend