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- --if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
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- 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 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 Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- 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 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
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Abraham Lincoln, the writer : a treasury of his greatest speeches and letters
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- 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
- 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 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 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-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 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
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- Anna Pavlova
- 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
- 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
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- 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
- 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 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brat : an '80s story
- 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
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Mars
- Bubba Wallace : stock car racing star
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- 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 Dickens and the street children of London
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Discovering Wes Moore
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- 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 love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- 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.
- 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 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 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
- 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
- Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George H.W. Bush
- George Washington : his legacy of faith, character, and courage
- 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
- 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 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
- Greta's story : the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet
- 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
- 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, 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
- Heroes for my son
- 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
- 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 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
- I am Helen Keller
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Jane Goodall
- I am Malala Yousafzai
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I am an American : the Wong Kim Ark story
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I guess I haven't learned that yet : discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I will protect you : a true story of twins who survived Auschwitz
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- 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
- 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 father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
- In the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- Influence
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : a true story of courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Iris Apfel
- Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jack Knight's brave flight : how one gutsy pilot saved the U.S. Air Mail Service
- Jackie Robinson : an intimate portrait
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- 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
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joan of Arc
- Joel Embiid
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press
- John Adams
- John Deere's powerful idea : the perfect plow
- John Tyler
- Joseph Biden : our 46th president / by Ann Gaines Rodriguez
- Josephine
- José Altuve
- Just being Dalí : the story of artist Salvador Dalí
- Just like Beverly
- Just like Rube Goldberg : the incredible true story of the man behind the machines
- 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
- Kevin Durant
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- 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
- Knut : how one little polar bear captivated the world
- Koko's kitten
- Kris Bryant
- Kushner, Inc. : greed, ambition, corruption : the extraordinary story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
- Lady Bird Johnson : an oral history
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Laura's album : a remembrance scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- LeBron James
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Leonard : my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let's take the long way home : a memoir of friendship
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- 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 isn't everything : Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
- Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lincoln : a photobiography
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lionel Messi
- Lionel Messi
- Listening is an act of love : a celebration of American life from the StoryCorps Project
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little libraries, big heroes
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Live your life : my story of loving and losing Nick Cordero
- Living history
- Lizzie demands a seat! : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- Look Up! : Henrietta Leavitt, pioneering woman astronomer
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams