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- 125 true stories of amazing animals
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- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
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- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
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- Artcurious : stories of the unexpected, slightly odd, and strangely wonderful in art history
- Bad dog : a love story
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- Barn Club : a tale of forgotten elm trees, traditional craft and community spirit
- Basketball (and other things) : a collection of questions asked, answered, illustrated
- Beast : blood, struggle and dreams at the heart of mixed martial arts
- Because I was a girl : true stories for girls of all ages
- Beethoven's skull : dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
- Being me with OCD : how I learned to obsess less and live my life
- Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction
- Bennett Cerf's The sound of laughter
- Betty & friends : my life at the zoo
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Birds of a feather : a true story of hope and the healing power of animals
- Black boy smile : a memoir in moments
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- Braude's source book for speakers and writers
- Cabin fever : a suburban father's search for the wild
- Callings : the purpose and passion of work
- Calypso
- Can you die of a broken heart? : a heart surgeon's insight into what makes us tick
- Care free Black girls : a celebration of Black women in popular culture
- Carry on : reflections for a new generation
- Cat calls : wonderful stories and practical advice from a veteran cat sitter
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- Channel kindness : stories of kindness and community
- Chicken soup for the soul : living with Alzheimer's & other dementias : 101 stories of caregiving, coping, and compassion
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- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Dear Los Angeles : the city in diaries and letters 1542 to 2018
- Death : an oral history
- Demon fish : travels through the hidden world of sharks
- Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
- Different ... not less : inspiring stories of achievement and successful employment from adults with autism, Asperger's, and ADHD
- Dinner with the Smileys : one military family, one year of heroes, and lessons for a lifetime
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Documents that changed the way we live
- Don't be a victim : fighting back against America's crime wave
- Drama high : the incredible true story of a brilliant teacher, a struggling town, and the magic of theater
- Dumb luck and the kindness of strangers
- Earth keeper : reflections on the American land
- Eat pray love made me do it : life journeys : inspired by the bestselling memoir
- Edible economics : a hungry economist explains the world
- Educated : a memoir
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- Every deep-drawn breath : a critical care doctor on healing, recovery, and transforming medicine in the ICU
- Every minute is a day : a doctor, an emergency room, and a city under siege
- Exoneree diaries : the fight for innocence, independence, and identity
- Face : one square foot of skin
- Failing up : how to take risks, aim higher, and never stop learning
- Fasting for Ramadan
- Fit2 fat 2fit : the unexpected lessons from gaining and losing 75 lbs on purpose
- Following Atticus : forty-eight high peaks, one little dog, and an extraordinary friendship
- Food : a love story
- Food and the city : New York's professional chefs, restaurateurs, line cooks, street vendors, and purveyors talk about what they do and why they do it
- Football : great writing about the national sport
- France : an adventure history
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Gastro obscura : a food adventurer's guide
- Ghost boy : the miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped inside his own body
- Go see the principal : true tales from the school trenches
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Good dirt : confessions of a conservationist
- Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery
- Good things happen to people you hate : essays
- Got warrants? : dispatches from the dooryard
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Growing up Biden : a memoir
- Growing up trans : in our own words
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Half empty
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- Happily ever Esther : two men, a wonder pig, and their life-changing mission to give animals a home
- Happily ever Esther : two men, a wonder pig, and their life-changing missions to give animals a home
- Happy-go-lucky
- Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
- Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America: essays
- Hoosh : roast penguin, scurvy day, and other stories of Antarctic cuisine
- Horse girls : recovering, aspiring, and devoted riders redefine the iconic bond
- Hospice voices : lessons for living at the end of life
- How do I un-remember this? : unfortunately true stories
- How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon
- How may I offend you today? : rants and revelations from a not-so-proper southern lady
- How they choked : failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous
- How to be a good creature : a memoir in thirteen animals
- How to be a good creature : a memoir in thirteen animals
- How to be a good creature : a memoir in thirteen animals
- How to be a woman
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- I'd like to apologize to every teacher I ever had : my year as a rookie teacher at Northeast High
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- Ice war diplomat : hockey meets Cold War politics at the 1972 Summit Series
- If you lived here you'd be famous by now : true stories from Calabasas
- If you lived here you'd be home by now : why we traded the commuting life for a little house on the prairie
- In praise of retreat : finding sanctuary in the modern world
- In search of monster fish : angling for a more sustainable planet
- In the eye of the wild
- In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying
- Indigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Inside comedy : the soul, wit, and bite of comedy and comedians of the last five decades
- Internal medicine : a doctor's stories
- Is this anything?
- Is this anything?
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- Lambeth and the Vatican: : or, Anecdotes of the church of Rome, of the Reformed churches, and of sects and sectaries
- Let the elephants run : unlock your creativity and change everything
- Librarian tales : funny, strange, and inspiring dispatches from the stacks
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- Living the confidence code
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- Never give up : my life in the wild
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- No beast so fierce : the terrifying true story of the Champawat Tiger, the deadliest animal in history
- Normal sucks : how to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines
- Olive, Mabel & me : life and adventures with two very good dogs
- On animals
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- On the house : a Washington memoir
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- One day you'll thank me : lessons from an unexpected fatherhood
- One doctor : close calls, cold cases, and the mysteries of medicine
- One green thing : discover your hidden power to help save the planet
- One long river of song : notes on wonder
- One wild bird at a time : portraits of individual lives
- One with the tiger : sublime and violent encounters between humans and animals
- Open heart : a cardiac surgeon's stories of life and death on the operating table
- Our Maker Life : knit and crochet patterns, inspiration, and tales from the creative community
- Our better angels : seven simple virtues that will change your life and the world
- Out of order : stories from the history of the Supreme Court
- Out there : the wildest stories from Outside magazine
- Pageant of life
- Paradise lot : two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre, and the making of an edible garden oasis in the city
- Pearls of wisdom : little pieces of advice (that go a long way)
- Penguin the magpie : the odd little bird who saved a family
- Personal effects : what recovering the dead teaches me about caring for the living
- Please scream inside your heart : breaking news and nervous breakdowns in the year that wouldn't end
- Pukka's promise : the quest for longer-lived dogs
- Raccoon rescue
- Radical acts of love : twenty conversations to inspire hope at the end of life
- Raising hell : backstage tales from the lives of metal legends : into the fiery pits of chaos ...
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- Record collecting for girls : unleashing your inner music nerd, one album at a time
- Rescuing Penny Jane : one shelter volunteer, countless dogs, and the quest to find them all homes
- Resurrection science : conservation, de-extinction and the precarious future of wild things
- Right place, right time : the life of a rock & roll photographer
- Roadmap : the get-it-together guide for figuring out what to do with your life
- Rough ideas : reflections on music and more
- Rude : stop being nice and start being bold
- Running with Sherman : the donkey with the heart of a hero
- Rust : the longest war
- Saving Audie : a pit bull puppy gets a second chance
- School lunch : unpacking our shared stories
- Secrets from the black vault : the Army's plan for a military base on the Moon and other declassified documents that rewrote history
- Secrets of the force : the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Star Wars
- Self-inflicted wounds : heartwarming tales of epic humiliation
- Sewing happiness : a year of simple projects for living well
- Slaughterhouse 90210
- Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematory
- So help me golf : why we love the game
- Soldaten : on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs
- South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation
- Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, and anecdotes
- Speakers and toastmasters handbook
- Spirit run : a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land
- Stay sexy & don't get murdered : the definitive how-to guide
- Strange tales of world travel : bizarre, mysterious, horrible, hilarious
- Substitute : going to school with a thousand kids
- Sweet senior pups
- Taking Berlin : the bloody race to defeat the Third Reich
- Talking pictures : how to watch movies
- Taste : my life through food
- Taste : my life through food
- The 2000s made me gay : essays on pop culture
- The ABC's of LGBT+
- The Black friend : on being a better white person
- The Mayo Clinic breast cancer book
- The Office BFFs : tales of The Office from two best friends who were there
- The Residence : Inside the Private World of the White House
- The Serengeti rules : the quest to discover how life works and why it matters
- The Titanic's first-class passengers and their world
- The answer is ... : reflections on my life
- The art of taking it easy : how to cope with bears, traffic, and the rest of life's stressors
- The art of the wasted day
- The artisans : a vanishing Chinese village
- The best American travel writing 2017
- The best of me
- The best of me
- The best of me
- The big New Yorker book of dogs
- The black friend : on being a better white person
- The bluebird effect : uncommon bonds with common birds
- The complete toastmaster : a new treasury for speakers
- The conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse
- The doctor will see you now : essays on the changing practice of medicine
- The domestic revolution : how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything
- The elegant warrior : how to win life's trials without losing yourself
- The end : the human experience of death
- The end of trauma : how the new science of resilience is changing how we think about PTSD
- The fabyoulist : list it, live it, love your life
- The farmer's son : calving season on a family farm
- The first cell : and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last
- The game before the money : voices of the men who built the NFL
- The gift of pets : stories only a vet could tell
- The hardmen : legends and lessons from the cycling gods
- The hilarious world of depression
- The hunt for history : on the trail of the world's lost treasures-- from the letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the secret recordings onboard JFK's Air Force One
- The incomplete book of running
- The language of kindness : a nurse's story
- The layered garden : design lessons for year-round beauty from Brandywine Cottage
- The lost dogs : Michael Vick's dogs and their tale of rescue and redemption
- The lounger's common-place book; : or Miscellaneous collections, in history, criticism, biography, poetry, & romance
- The man who couldn't stop : OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought
- The moth
- The mother of all jobs : how to have children and a career and stay sane(ish)
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The public speaker's treasure chest : a compendium of source material to make your speech sparkle
- The road to San Giovanni
- The rocket man : and other extraordinary characters in the history of flight
- The secret loves of geeks
- The shores of Bohemia : a Cape Cod story, 1910-1960
- The sound of a wild snail eating
- The suppressed memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan : sex, syphilis, and psychoanalysis in the making of modern American culture
- The tao of travel : enlightenments from lives on the road
- The turtle's beating heart : one family's story of Lenape survival
- The way I heard it
- The way west : true stories of the American frontier
- The wisdom of Sundays : life-changing insights from Super Soul conversations
- The wreckage of my presence : essays
- The year of learning dangerously : adventures in homeschooling
- There was love : (The divorce songs)
- They lost their heads! : Washington's teeth, Einstein's brain, and other famous body parts
- Things my son needs to know about the world
- This is the day : reclaim your dream. Ignite your passion. Live your purpose.
- This just speaks to me : words to live by every day
- Tooth and nail : the making of a female fight doctor
- Total Olympics : every obscure, hilarious, dramatic, and inspiring tale worth knowing
- Treating people well : the extraordinary power of civility at work and in life
- Trust no aunty
- Turn here sweet corn : organic farming works
- Unlikely friendships : 47 remarkable stories from the animal kingdom
- Untold : defining moments of the uprooted
- Victoria Findlay Wolfe's playing with purpose : a quilt retrospective
- Voices from the pandemic : Americans tell their stories of crisis, courage and resilience
- Vulture : the private life of an unloved bird
- Wake up happy : the dream big, win big guide to transforming your life
- Walk the blue line
- Walk the blue line
- Walking toward peace : veterans healing on America's trails
- Welcome to subirdia : sharing our neighborhoods with wrens, robins, woodpeckers, and other wildlife
- What makes a marriage last : 40 celebrated couples share with us the secrets to a happy life
- What the dog knows : the science and wonder of working dogs
- What we didn't expect : personal stories about premature birth
- When animals rescue : amazing true stories about heroic and helpful creatures
- When the Garden was Eden : Clyde, the captain, dollar bill, and the glory days of the old Knicks
- Where the deer and the antelope play : the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside
- Wherever the sound takes you : heroics and heartbreak in music making
- Wherever you go : a guide to mindful, sustainable, and life-changing travel
- Who built that : awe-inspiring stories of American tinkerpreneurs
- Will's red coat : the story of one old dog who chose to live again
- Windswept : walking the paths of trailblazing women
- Works well with others : an outsider's guide to shaking hands, shutting up, handling jerks, and other crucial skills in business that no one ever teaches you
- World of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments
- World travel : an irreverent guide
- World travel : an irreverent guide
- World wild vet : encounters in the animal kingdom
- Writer, M.D. : the best contemporary fiction and nonfiction by doctors
- Yes we (still) can : politics in the age of Obama, twitter, and Trump
- Yin, yang, yogini : a woman's quest for balance, strength and inner peace : a memoir
- You are more than magic : the black and brown girls' guide to finding your voice
- You can stop humming now : a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between
- You don't look your age ... and other fairy tales
- You look so much better in person : true stories of absurdity and success
- You too?
- You'll never believe what happened to Lacey : crazy stories about racism
- Your second act : inspiring stories of reinvention
- Zero to maker : learn (just enough) to make (just about) anything
- ¡Hola Papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons
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