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- "Frankly, we did win this election" : the inside story of how Trump lost
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 12 : Tom Brady and his battle for redemption
- 12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1941 : the year Germany lost the war
- 30/30 : landscape architecture
- 350 days
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 4th & goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 5 elephants
- 5 giraffes
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Black women's history of the United States
- A Homesteader's Year on Deer Isle
- A Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Lenape among the Quakers : the life of Hannah Freeman
- A Man Apart : Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living
- A Not-so-savage Land : the Art and Times of Frederick Whymper, 1838-1901
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A band called Death
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A book of secrets : illegitimate daughters, absent fathers
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A bridge in Babylon : stories of a military chaplain in Iraq
- A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A crisis wasted : Barack Obama's defining decisions
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A different kind of life
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
- A fighting chance
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A gift of hope : helping the homeless
- A girl named Faithful Plum : the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A history of me
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
- A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction - a memoir
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A killing art : the untold history of Tae kwon do
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A letter to Jo
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life observed : a spiritual biography of C.S. Lewis
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck
- A light that never goes out : the enduring saga of the Smiths
- A little me
- A long way home
- A long way home
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new world to be won : John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the tumultuous year of 1960
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A promised land
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A raven named Grip : how a bird inspired two famous writers, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A ship without a sail : the life of Lorenz Hart
- A short life of Martin Luther
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen--America's most damaging Russian spy
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A star is born : the moment an actress becomes an icon
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A tale of two lives : the Susan Lefevre fugitive story
- A tender struggle : story of a marriage
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity & his surprising thoughts on God
- A thousand deer : four generations of hunting and the hill country
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A to Z great modern artists
- A totem pole history : the work of Lummi carver Joe Hillaire
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of parliament
- A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- A very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A voice named Aretha
- A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement
- A warning
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A way of living : the art of Willem De Kooning
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wild idea
- A wilder life : journey of an adventuring doctor
- A window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age
- A year without a name : a memoir
- AOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers : Super Bowl XLV
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- Abba Eban : a biography
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
- Abortion : stories women tell
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- About women : conversations between a writer and a painter
- Above & beyond : John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House 47: Abe Lincoln at Last!
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it
- Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS
- African American faces of the Civil War : an album
- African American politicians & civil rights activists
- African American women chemists
- African Samurai : the True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Afropessimism
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After miscarriage : a journey to healing
- After the Titanic : a life of Derek Mahon
- After the eclipse
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world
- Against all odds : a miracle of Holocaust survival
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the grain : bombthrowing in the fine American tradition of political cartooning
- Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie, Inside the mind of Agatha Christie & Agatha Christie's England
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agnes Martin : her life and art
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Ain't it time we said goodbye : the Rolling Stones on the road to exile
- Al Capone : icon
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The imitation game
- Albert Einstein
- Aleister Crowley : the Beast in Berlin : art, sex, and magick in the Weimar Republic
- Aleister Crowley in America : art, espionage, and sex magick in the New World
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the graphic history of an American founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Stieglitz : a legacy of light
- Ali : a life
- Alibaba : the house that Jack Ma built
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
- Alice Waters and the trip to delicious
- Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All my dogs : a life
- All of me : how I learned to live with the many personalities sharing my body
- All ships follow me : a family memoir of war across three continents
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All the President's men
- All the answers
- 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 great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew
- All the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All things must pass away : Harrison, Clapton, and other assorted love songs
- All we know : three lives
- 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
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Alvin York : a new biography of the hero of the Argonne
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America daredevil : the extraordinary life of Richard Halliburton, the world's first celebrity travel writer
- America is immigrants
- America's quarterback : Bart Starr and the rise of the National Football League
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Isis : the life and art of Sylvia Plath
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : remembering a pioneer in scientific crime investigation
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American crisis
- American crucifixion : the murder of Joseph Smith and the fate of the Mormon church
- American daughter : a memoir
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American entrepreneur : how 400 years of risk-takers, innovators, and business visionaries built the U.S.A.
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert southwest
- American harvest : God, country, and farming in the heartland
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American prophets : seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice
- American queen : the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American saint : the life of Elizabeth Seton
- American socialist : the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs
- American story : a lifetime search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- American to the backbone : the life of James W.C. Pennington, the fugitive slave who became one of the first black abolitionists
- American triumvirate
- American urbanist : how William H. Whyte's unconventional wisdom reshaped public life
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amore : an American father's Roman holiday
- Amy, my daughter
- An American Cardinal : the biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan
- An American covenant : a story of women, mysticism, and the making of modern America
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden
- An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist : a memoir
- An atheist in the FOXhole : a liberal's eight-year odyssey inside the heart of the right-wing media
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An exclusive love
- An extravagant hunger : the passionate years of M.F.K. Fisher
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An improvised life : a memoir
- An uncomplicated life : a father's memoir of his exceptional daughter
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And bid him sing : a biography of Countée Cullen
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And nothing but the truthiness : the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- And so it goes : Kurt Vonnegut, a life
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andres Guardado
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's Most Influential Leader
- Angelic music : the story of Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel