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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 12 artists with disabilities
- 12 children who changed the world
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 50 American heroes every kid should meet
- 50 trailblazers of the 50 states : celebrate the lives of inspiring people who paved the way from every state in America!
- 501 movie stars
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A company of heroes : personal memories about the real band of brothers and the legacy they left us
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dream too big : the story of an improbable journey from Compton to Oxford
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A friend like Henry : the remarkable true story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world
- A friendly life : the autobiography of S. Prestley Blake, co-founder of Friendly Ice Cream Corp.
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A golfer's life
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher purpose : profiles in presidential courage
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house with no roof : after my father's assassination : a memoir
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life well played : my stories
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A lion called Christian
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A man from another land : how finding my roots changed my life
- A midwife's tale
- A million little pieces
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A persistent peace : one man's struggle for a nonviolent world
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A reporter's life
- A requiem for Bobby Fischer
- A river could be a tree : a memoir
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A sporting chance : how Paralympics founder Ludwig Guttmann saved lives with sports
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A street cat named Bob.
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A to Z of women in science and math
- A truck full of money
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- A. Philip Randolph : union leader and civil rights crusader
- Aaron and Alexander : [the most famous duel in American history]
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : great American historians on our sixteenth president
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abraham Lincoln, the man behind the myths
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Adolf Hitler
- Against all odds : my life of hardship, fast breaks, and second chances
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Agatha Christie
- Agent Storm : my life inside Al Qaeda and the CIA
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Al Gore
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Turing
- Alex Ko : from Iowa to Broadway, my Billy Elliot story
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Fleming : the man who discovered penicillin
- Alexander Graham Bell : inventor of the telephone
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alia muhammad baker : saving a library from war
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice Ramsey's grand adventure
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
- All hail the queen : twenty women who ruled
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All my cats
- All my life : a memoir
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All strangers are kin : adventures in Arabic and the Arab world
- All things wise and wonderful
- All those moments : stories of heroes, villains, replicants, and Blade Runners
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Am I dead yet? : 71 countries, 36 war zones, one man's opinion
- Amazing fantastic incredible : a marvelous memoir
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart's shoes : is the mystery solved?
- America's bishop : the life and times of Fulton J. Sheen
- American Indian biographies
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American legacy : the story of John & Caroline Kennedy
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American women inventors
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Amish women : lives and stories
- Among the reeds : the true story of how a family survived the Holocaust
- Amos Fortune : free man
- An American caddie in St. Andrews : growing up, girls, and looping on the old course
- An affair to remember : the remarkable love story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
- An autobiography
- An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- And furthermore
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : frontier president
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- Andrew Jackson. : good, evil & the presidency
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela's ashes
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Ann M. Martin
- Anne Bailey : frontier scout
- Anne Bonny
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : a hidden life
- Anne Frank : the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Annie Oakley
- Another life : on memory, language, love, and the passage of time
- Anthony Horowitz
- Antoine Lavoisier : founder of modern chemistry
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek : first to see microscopic life
- Antonia Novello : fantastic physician
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Appetite for life : the biography of Julia Child
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Armstrong. DVD/Widescreen
- Art from her heart : folk artist Clementine Hunter
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- As they see'em : travels in the land of umpires
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Astrid Lindgren
- At home in the world : a memoir
- Audrey Hepburn
- Aunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Autobiography of a Yankee mariner : Christopher Prince and the American Revolution
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- B. Franklin, printer
- Baby whale rescue : the true story of J.J.
- Backstage with Julia : my years with Julia Child
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad girls of fashion : style rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Ballplayer
- Banned book club
- Barack Obama : first African-American president
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth President
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barbara Park
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball Italian style : great stories told by Italian American major leaguers from Crosetti to Piazza
- Basketball belles : how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map
- Basketball's greatest stars
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Bears in the streets : three journeys across a changing Russia
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter
- Beautiful child
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Bach
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Manny : inside the life of baseball's most enigmatic slugger
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believer : my forty years in politics
- Bella figura : how to live, love, and eat the Italian way
- Belle.
- Belonging : a German reckons with history and home
- Benedict Arnold : patriot or traitor?
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : a biography
- Benjamin Franklin : a photo-biography
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : creating a nation
- Benjamin Franklin : writer, inventor, statesman
- Benjamin Harrison
- Bethany Hamilton : shark attack survivor
- Betsy Ross and the making of America
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Betty Doll
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between the lines : Ernie Barnes's journey from the football field to legendary artist
- Between the world and me
- Beverly Cleary
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyond glory : Medal of Honor heroes in their own words : extraordinary stories of courage from World War II to Vietnam
- Beyond little women : a story about Louisa May Alcott
- Beyond the veil : the adventures of an American doctor in Saudi Arabia
- Bible characters : visual encyclopedia
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big Papi : my story of big dreams and big hits
- Bill Clinton : mastering the presidency
- Bill Gates
- Bill Marriott : success is never final : his life and the decisions that built a hotel empire
- Bill Pickett, rodeo ridin' cowboy
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billie Jean King
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billy the Kid : outlaw of the wild West
- Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women : notable women from Sappho to Helena
- Bird watching : on playing and coaching the game I love
- Black Hawk and the War of 1832 : removal in the North
- Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Black to blue
- Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
- Blackbird : a childhood lost and found
- Blind Boone : piano prodigy
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Blood, bones & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue nights
- Blue nights
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Marley
- Bob Ryan, Boston Globe Sportswriter and Bestselling Author.
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby and Jackie : a love story
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin
- Bootleggers, lobstermen & lumberjacks : fifty of the grittiest moments in the history of hardscrabble New England
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Bootstrapper : from broke to badass on a northern Michigan farm
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born criminal : Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical suffragist
- Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant : a memoir
- Born round : the secret history of a full-time eater
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to play : my life in baseball
- Born to run
- Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Boston : an extended family
- Boston ballerina : a dancer, a company, an era
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys of steel : the creators of Superman
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave face : a memoir
- Brave new medicine : a doctor's unconventional path to healing her autoimmune illness
- Bravo! : poems about amazing Hispanics
- Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now / Alan Rusbridger
- Breaking the Ruhls : a memoir
- Breaking through : how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties
- Bringing down the house : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions
- Brother & sister
- Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years
- Brothers at bat : the true story of an amazing all-brother baseball team
- Brothers in arms : the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's forgotten heroes
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Coville
- Bruce Lee
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Building on nature : the life of Antoni GaudÃ
- Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt!
- Buster. : the military dog who saved a thousand lives
- But I just grew out my bangs! : a cancer tale
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But enough about me : a memoir
- Butch Cassidy
- Bygone badass broads : 52 forgotten women who changed the world
- C.S. Lewis
- Cagney
- Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
- Calvin Coolidge
- Camelot's end : Kennedy vs. Carter and the fight that broke the democratic party
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums, drums, drums
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
- Can't you make them behave, King George?
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Capital dames : the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868
- Captive : my time as a prisoner of the Taliban
- Carl Sagan : in contact with the cosmos
- Carly's voice : breaking through autism
- Carry A. Nation : saloon smasher and prohibitionist
- Carter G. Woodson : father of African-American history
- Catherine of Aragon : the Spanish queen of Henry VIII
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Champlain's dream
- Chaplin : a life
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Dickens : a life
- Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War
- Charlie Chaplin : a brief life
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Forten : a Black teacher in the Civil War
- Chasing Lincoln's killer
- Che Guevara : a revolutionary life
- Cheaper by the dozen
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Cher : if you believe
- Chester A. Arthur
- Chien-Shiung Wu : phenomenal physicist
- Child P.O.W. : a memoir of survival
- Christopher Columbus : and the discovery of the Americas
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- CinderGirl : my journey out of the ashes to a life of hope, a memoir
- Civil War women : their quilts, their roles, activities for re-enactors
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clapton : the autobiography
- Clara Barton : I want to help!
- Cleopatra and the Egyptians
- Clover Adams : a gilded and heartbreaking life
- Coco Chanel
- Coco Chanel : pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- Coco and the little black dress
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Colorful dreamer : the story of artist Henri Matisse
- Comics confidential : thirteen graphic novelists talk story, craft, and life outside the box
- Coming clean
- Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage
- Company of heroes : a forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company's war in Vietnam
- Condoleezza Rice
- Confessions of a counterfeit farm girl
- Conscience : two soldiers, two pacifists, one family : a test of will and faith in World War I
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King : civil rights activist
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Crazy Horse : the strange man of the Oglalas : a biography
- Cronkite
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Curse of the Narrows
- Cutie and the boxer.
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America