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- "21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- "All governments lie" : the life and times of rebel journalist I.F. Stone
- "Co. Aytch" : a confederate memoir of the Civil War
- "Dear Friend Anna" : the Civil War letters of a common soldier from Maine
- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- "Elder of the Jews" : Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt
- "First with the most" Forrest
- "Frankly, we did win this election" : the inside story of how Trump lost
- "Good evening!" : A professional memoir
- "I am looking to the North for my life"--Sitting Bull, 1876-1881
- "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
- "In God we trust"; : the religious beliefs and ideas of the American founding fathers.
- "Is our children learning : the case against George W. Bush
- "Life is painful, nasty & short-- in my case it has only been painful and nasty" : Djuna Barnes, 1978-1981 : an informal memoir
- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Marse Henry" : an autobiography
- "Miss Dr. Lucy" and Maine's pioneering female physicians, 1850s-1920
- "My dear ones"
- "Pass it on" : the story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world
- "Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- "Shattered nerves" : doctors, patients, and depression in Victorian England
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "Take care of Josette" : a memoir in defense of occupied France
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "This is Judy Woodruff at the White House"
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "Uncle Dick" Wootton : the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region : an account of the adventures and thrilling experiences of the most noted American hunter, trapper, guide, scout, and Indian fighter now living
- "Upside-down" Pangborn : King of the Barnstormers
- "War stories" : false atrocity tales, swift boaters, and winter soldiers--what really happened in Vietnam
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- "We're going to see the Beatles!" : an oral history of Beatlemania as told by the fans who were there
- "What'd I say?" : the Atlantic story : 50 years of music
- "Where did you go?" "Out." "What did you do?" "Nothing."
- "Who stole the onions?" and other Hallowell stories
- "With bleeding footsteps" : Mary Baker Eddy's path to religious leadership
- "Young Bob" La Follette : a biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr., 1895-1953
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- --and the horse he rode in on : the people v. Kenneth Starr
- ...Roll of membership with ancestral records... : 1899
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- 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces
- 100 Native Americans who shaped American history
- 100 contemporary wood buildings : 100 zeitgenössische Holzbauten = 100 bâtiments contemporains en bois
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 years of Westbrook mayors, 1891-1991
- 100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- 112 Mercer Street : Einstein, Russell, Gödel, Pauli, and the end of innocence in science
- 1185 Park Avenue : a memoir
- 12 : Tom Brady and his battle for redemption
- 12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 14 cows for America
- 14 vacas para América
- 15 stars : Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall : three generals who saved the American century
- 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
- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1941 : the year Germany lost the war
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 2 turntables and a microphone : the life and death of Jam Master Jay
- 20,000 days on Earth
- 200 : the faces of Maine : a special bicentennial issue
- 20th century journey : a memoir of a life and the times
- 23 days in July : inside Lance Armstrong's record-breaking Tour de France victory
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 24 years of House work--and the place is still a mess : my life in politics
- 250 Bible biographies; : thumb-nail sketches of the men and women of the Bible,
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 3 Smiths in the wind: : Low man on a totem pole. Life in a putty knife factory. Lost in the horse latitudes.
- 300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story ... with recipes
- 32 third graders and one class bunny : life lessons from teaching
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 350 days
- 39 pounds of love
- 41
- 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 great Americans : their inspiring lives and achievements
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50th anniversary class history 1906
- 50th anniversary class history 1907
- 51 Birch Street
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 60 feet, 6 inches and other distances from home : the (baseball) life of Mose Yellowhorse
- 700 Sundays
- 700 sundays
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 900 days : myth and reality of the siege of Leningrad
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Belfast girl : a 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a childhood on "the singing streets" of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Biographical dictionary of architects in Maine
- A Bishop's confession
- A Caldecott celebration : six artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- A California Childhood
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Century of service, 1825-1925
- A Companion to Melville studies
- A Conrad companion
- A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-180
- A G-man's life : the FBI, being "Deep Throat," and the struggle for honor in Washington
- A Hitler youth in Poland : the Nazis' program for evacuating children during World War II
- A Homesteader's Year on Deer Isle
- A Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- A Jewish boyhood in Poland : remembering Kolbuszowa
- 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 Maine artist and his journal
- A Maine point of view
- A Malcolm X reader
- A Man Apart : Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living
- A Modern southern reader : major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South
- A New England girlhood : outlined from memory
- A New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A Newfoundlander in Canada
- A Not-so-savage Land : the Art and Times of Frederick Whymper, 1838-1901
- A Prince among Stones : that business with the Rolling Stones and other adventures
- A Sabbath life : a woman's search for wholeness
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Vietnam experience : ten years of reflection
- A Vision shared : a classic portrait of America and its people, 1935-1943
- A William Maxwell portrait : memories and appreciations
- A Yankee doctor in paradise,
- A ballerina's tale
- A band called Death
- A barn in New England : making a home on three acres
- A battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A better woman : a memoir
- 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 bigger sky : awakening a fierce feminine Buddhism
- A biographical dictionary, : containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New-England.
- A biographical encyclopedia of contemporary genocide portraits of evil and good
- A biographical guide to the great jazz and pop singers
- A body across two hemispheres : a memoir in essays
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A book about my mother
- A book of saints and wonders put down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and memory of the people of Ireland
- 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 border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy I once knew : what a teacher learned from her student
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy becomes a man at Wounded Knee
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy's war
- 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 brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A breach of privilege : Cilley family letters, 1820-1867
- A bride's passage : Susan Hathorn's year under sail
- A bridge in Babylon : stories of a military chaplain in Iraq
- A bridge of childhood : Truman Capote's southern years
- A brief history of Khubilai Khan
- A brief history of time
- A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A broken tree : how DNA exposed a family's secrets
- A brother's journey : Surviving a childhood of abuse
- 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 brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A bum deal : an unlikely journey from hopeless to humanitarian
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A calendar of saints : the lives of the principal saints of the Christian Year
- A call to service
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A castle in the clouds : Tom Plant and the American dream
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A celebration of Maine children's books
- A champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A chant to soothe wild elephants : a memoir
- A charge to keep
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales.
- A childhood : the biography of a place
- A choice of days : essays from Happy days, Newspaper days, and Heathen days
- A chronicle of Irish saints
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A client called Noah : a family journey continued
- A coach's life
- A code to keep : the true story of America's longest-held civilian prisoner of war in Vietnam
- A common heritage : Noah Webster's blue-back speller
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A communist odyssey : the life of József Pogány/John Pepper
- A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- A complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him
- A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A cottage in Portugal
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A covert affair : [Julia Child and Paul Child in the O.S.S.]
- A cowboy detective : a true story of twenty-two years with a world-famous detective agency
- A cowman's wife
- A crisis wasted : Barack Obama's defining decisions
- A crown of fire : the life and times of Girolamo Savonarola
- 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 dance against time
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter of Han : the autobiography of a Chinese working woman
- A day in the life : one family, the beautiful people, and the end of the sixties
- A day in the life of a mayor : featuring New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
- A day with the cow column
- A deaf artist in early America : the worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
- A death with dignity : when the Chinese came
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A desperate passion : an autobiography
- A devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- A dictionary of Irish biography
- A dictionary of Irish saints
- A dictionary of violin makers.
- A different kind of life
- A different life : growing up learning disabled and other adventures : a memoir
- A different person : a memoir
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A discourse delivered June 20, 1813, before the officers and students of Bowdoin College : occasioned by the death of Frederick Southgate, A.B., lately a tutor in said college
- A discourse on the the life and character of the Hon. François Xavier Martin, late Senior Judge of the Supreme Court, of the state of Louisiana
- A discourse, delivered in the church in Hollis Street, April 13, 1808, at the interment of the Rev. Samuel West, D.D., late pastor of said church
- 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 distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A doctor in the house ..
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog came, too : a true story
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A double life : discovering motherhood
- A drawing in the sand : the story of African American art
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream come true
- A dream of passion : the development of the method
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A eulogy on the life and character of John Quincy Adams, : delivered at the request of the legislature of Massachusetts, in Faneuil hall, April 15, 1848 ...
- A family
- A farewell to heroes
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A fascination for fish : adventures of an underwater pioneer
- A few selected exits; : an autobiography of sorts
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- A fighting chance
- A fine old conflict
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A finished life : the goodbye & no regrets tour
- A fire in the mind : the life of Joseph Campbell
- A fistful of Sugar
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A flick of sunshine : the remarkable shipwrecked, marooned, maritime adventures, and tragic fate of an American original
- A fool's gold : a story of ancient Spanish treasure, two pounds of pot, and the young lawyer almost left holding the bag
- A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A fortunate man : the story of a country doctor,
- A fractured mind : my life with multiple personality disorder
- A freedom within : the prison notes of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
- A friend called Anne : one girl's story of war, peace, and a unique friendship with Anne Frank
- A frozen woman
- A full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A gallery of Zionist profiles
- A gambling man : Charles II's Restoration game
- A general's life : an autobiography
- A genius for living : the life of Frieda Lawrence
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Faithful Plum : the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A golfer's life
- A good enough daughter : a memoir
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good man with a dog : a game warden's 25 years in the Maine woods
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A goodly heritage
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A great and glorious romance : the story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- A group of Scottish women,
- A guard within
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest in my own country : a Hungarian life
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guide to the Impressionist landscape : day trips from Paris to sites of great nineteenth-century paintings
- A hand in the darkness : the autobiography of a refusenik
- A harvest saved : Francis O'Neill and Irish music in Chicago
- A heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hero all his life
- A hidden life : a memoir of August 1969
- A higher kind of loyalty : a memoir by China's foremost journalist
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A historical address : delivered in Franklin, Connecticut, October 14th, 1868, on the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town, and the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its ecclesiastical organizations
- A historical sketch of Haverhill, in the county of Essex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts; : with biographical notices
- A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present
- A history of Jefferson county in the state of New York, from the earliest period to the present time
- A history of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co. : with a bibliography of their publications, 1893-1905
- A history of me
- A history of my brief body
- A history of physical education and sports in the U.S.A.
- A history of scars : a memoir
- A history of the law, the courts, and the lawyers of Maine : from its first colonization to the early part of the present century.
- A history of the town of Gorham, Maine.
- A history of women photographers
- A hole in the world : an American boyhood
- A home called New England : a celebration of hearth and history
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A horse named Funny Cide
- A horse named Seabiscuit
- A hostage to fortune
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- 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 in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction - a memoir
- A house with four rooms
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A journal for Christa : Christa McAuliffe, teacher in space
- A journal of occurrences in the tower of the Temple, during the confinement of Louis XVI, King of France
- A journey : my political life
- A journey : my political life