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- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- (Don't) call me crazy : 33 voices start the conversation about mental health
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 1971
- 49 pulses
- 49 up
- 56 up
- A Good African story : how a small company built a global coffee brand
- A Good African story : how a small company built a global coffee brand
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A book sale how-to guide : more money, less stress
- A brief history of time
- A broken tree : how DNA exposed a family's secrets
- A brown girl's epiphany : reclaim your intuition and step into your power
- A call to action : women, religion, violence, and power
- A child of Christian blood : murder and conspiracy in Tsarist Russia : the Beilis blood libel
- A collective bargain : unions, organizing, and the fight for democracy
- A day in the life : one family, the beautiful people, and the end of the sixties
- A death in Belmont
- A death in the S_anchez family
- A dozen lessons for entrepreneurs
- A false report : a true story of rape in America
- A false report : a true story of rape in America
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A funny thing happened on the way to heaven : (or, how I made peace with the paranormal and stigmatized zealots and cynics in the process)
- A healing touch : true stories of life, death, and hospice
- A healing touch : true stories of life, death, and hospice
- A legacy of madness : recovering my family from generations of mental illness
- A lion in the house
- A lovely girl : the tragedy of Olga Duncan and the trial of one of California's most notorious killers
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A match to the heart
- A matter of support
- A murder in Music City : corruption, scandal, and the framing of an innocent man
- A murder over a girl : justice, gender, junior high
- A music I no longer heard : the early death of a parent
- A silence of mockingbirds : the memoir of a murder
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A time to learn : creating community in America's high schools
- A twisted faith : a minister's obsession and the murder that destroyed a church
- A twisted faith : a minister's obsession and the murder that destroyed a church
- A violent act
- A wilderness of error : the trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
- A woman's life : the story of an ordinary American and her extraordinary generation
- A year without "made in China" : one family's true life adventure in the global economy
- Abandoned : America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- Abortion : stories women tell
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Acquittal : an insider reveals the stories and strategies behind today's most infamous verdicts
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adult children of alcoholics remember : true stories of abuse and recovery by ACOAS
- Advancing a culture of creativity in libraries : programming and engagement
- Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search : a memoir
- After the gig : how the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back
- Alaska's place in the West : from the last frontier to the last great wilderness
- Alien boy : the life & death of James Chasse
- Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
- All girls : single-sex education and why it matters
- All that is wicked : a gilded-age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind
- 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
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost paradise : the East Hampton murder of Ted Ammon
- Alpha dogs : how your small business can become a leader of the pack
- Alternadad
- Always day one : how the tech titans plan to stay on top forever
- America's dumbest criminals : based on true stories from law enforcement officials across the country
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American arsenal : a century of waging war
- American demon : Eliot Ness and the hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
- American dream
- American harvest : God, country, and farming in the heartland
- American made : what happens to people when work disappears
- American mother : the true story of a troubled family, motherhood, and the cyanide murders that shook the world
- American steel : hot metal men and the resurrection of the Rust Belt
- Among schoolchildren
- Among schoolchildren
- An anatomy of pain : how the body and the mind experience and endure physical suffering
- An exclusive love
- An illuminated life : Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege
- An injury to one
- An unreal dream : the Michael Morton story
- Anatomy of innocence : testimonies of the wrongfully convicted
- Anesthesia : the Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Annie's ghosts : a journey into a family secret
- Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives
- Apollo's arrow : the profound and enduring impact of coronavirus on the way we live
- Archives alive : expanding engagement with public library archives and special collections
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl
- As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
- At any cost : a father's betrayal, a wife's murder, and a ten-year war for justice
- At home in the world : the Peace Corps story
- Audrey (cow) : an oral account of a most daring escape, based more or less on a true story
- August gale : a father and daughter's journey into the storm
- Autism : the musical
- Autism all-stars : how we use our autism and Asperger traits to shine in life
- Autism is a world
- Autism through a sister's eyes : a book for children about high-functioning autism and related disorders
- Awakenings
- Backcast : fatherhood, fly-fishing, and a river journey through the heart of Alaska
- Backwoods ethics : environmental issues for hikers and campers
- Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
- Badass habits : cultivate the awareness, boundaries, and daily upgrades you need to make them stick
- Barbarians at the gate : the fall of RJR Nabisco
- Barrio America : how Latino immigrants saved the American city
- Beautiful Jim Key : the lost history of a horse and a man who changed the world
- Becoming more visible
- Becoming parents : preparing for the emotional changes of first-time parenthood
- Bedlam : an intimate journey into America's mental health crisis
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before you know it
- Behind The planet of the apes
- Below the line : living poor in America
- Beneath the surface : a teen's guide to reaching out when you or your friend is in crisis
- Better and faster : the proven path to unstoppable ideas
- Better this world
- Betting the farm on a drought : stories from the front lines of climate change
- Beyond innocence : the life sentence of Darryl Hunt : a true story of race, wrongful conviction, and an American reckoning still to come
- Beyond the mushroom cloud : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima
- Bill Clinton : mastering the presidency
- Billion dollar loser : the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
- Binge : what your college student won't tell you : campus life in an age of disconnection and excess
- Birth : three mothers, nine months, and pregnancy in America
- Birthbond : reunions between birthparents and adoptees--what happens after--
- Black Dahlia avenger : a genius for murder
- Black Dahlia, Red Rose : the crime, corruption, and cover-up of America's greatest unsolved murder
- Black and white and red all over : the story of a friendship
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black ghost of empire : the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation
- Blackberry season : a time to mourn, a time to heal
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Blind eye : how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder
- Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
- Blood brother : 33 reasons my brother Scott Peterson is guilty
- Blood royal : a true tale of crime and detection in medieval Paris
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago
- Blood will out : the true story of a murder, a mystery, and a masquerade
- Bloodlines : the true story of a drug cartel, the FBI, and the battle for a horse-racing dynasty
- Bloody business : an anecdotal history of Scotland Yard
- Bloody crimes : the chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse
- Blowout : corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth
- Blue revolution : unmaking America's water crisis
- Bonded to the abuser : how victims make sense of childhood abuse
- Born round : a story of family, food, and a ferocious appetite
- Born to be
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brainstorm : detective stories from the world of neurology
- Breathless : an American girl in Paris
- Bringing Adam home : the abduction that changed America
- Broken fever : reflections of gay boyhood
- Brothers : George Howe Colt on his brothers and brothers in history
- Built to last : a handbook on recycling old buildings
- Buried memories
- Burned alive : a victim of the law of men
- Business adventures : twelve classic tales from the world of Wall Street
- Busted : a tale of corruption and betrayal in the city of brotherly love
- Button pusher
- Callings : the purpose and passion of work
- Camouflage : the hidden lives of autistic women
- Capturing grace
- Care & advocacy : narratives from a school for immigrant youth
- Carly's voice : breaking through autism
- Case studies
- Catch the sparrow : a search for a sister and the truth of her murder
- Catching Thunder : the true story of the world's longest sea chase
- Catwalk : tales from the cat show circuit
- Certain trumpets : the call of leaders
- Chaos : Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the sixties
- Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America
- Charmer : a ladies' man and his victims
- Chasing Cosby : the downfall of America's dad
- Chasing life
- Chasing the truth : a young journalist's guide to investigative reporting
- Checkerboard Square : culture and resistance in a homeless community
- Chicken soup for the surviving soul : 101 stories of courage and inspiration from those who have survived cancer
- Child spirit : children's experience with God in school
- Children of the state : stories of survival and hope in the juvenile justice system
- Children's services : partnerships for success
- Christian faith and public policy : no grounds for divorce
- Citadels of pride : sexual assault, accountability, and reconciliation
- Class clowns : how the smartest investors lost billions in education
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Closing time : a memoir
- Codependence and the power of detachment : how to set boundaries and make your life your own
- Coffeeland : one man's dark empire and the making of our favorite drug
- Cold case north : the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Coma
- Come on shore and we will kill and eat you all : a New Zealand story
- Coming of age : the story of our century by those who've lived it
- Coming out
- Commander in chief : FDR's battle with Churchill, 1943
- Community library programs that work : building youth and family literacy
- Companies we keep : employee ownership and the business of community and place
- Compulsion to kill
- Compulsive acts : a psychiatrist's tales of ritual and obsession
- Computers in the classroom : how teachers and students are using technology to transform learning
- Confession of a serial killer : the untold story of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer
- Control : Mkultra, chemtrails and the conspiracy to suppress the masses
- Conversations at midnight : coming to terms with dying and death
- Conviction : the untold story of putting Jodi Arias behind bars
- Core transformation : reaching the wellspring within
- Coroner
- Coroner at large
- Corporate comeback : the story of renewal and transformation at National Semiconductor
- Corporate dreams : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession
- Corvus : a life with birds
- Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon
- Country property dirt cheap : how I found my piece of inexpensive rural land...plus my adventures with a $300 junk/antique tractor
- Courage is contagious : ordinary people doing extraordinary things to change the face of America
- Crash into me : a survivor's search for justice
- Crashing through : [a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see]
- Crashing through : a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see
- Crazy : a father's search through America's mental health madness
- Creating innovators : the making of young people who will change the world
- Creatures of a day : and other tales of psychotherapy
- Crime beat : a decade of covering cops and killers
- Crisis in Watertown; : the polarization of an American community
- Crisis in candyland : melting the chocolate shell of the Mars family empire
- Crossed over : a murder, a memoir
- Crossing the line : a year in the land of apartheid
- Cruel doubt
- Cults : inside the world's most notorious groups and understanding the people who joined them
- Cultural humility : engaging diverse identities in therapy
- Current problems in reference service,
- Dangerous odds
- Dark horse
- Database-driven Web sites
- Dead cities, and other tales
- Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Deal with the devil : the FBI's secret thirty-year relationship with a Mafia killer
- Death in the air : the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city
- Decoding madness : a forensic psychologist explores the criminal mind
- Deep survival : who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
- Deer Creek Drive : a reckoning of memory and murder in the Mississippi Delta
- Democracy : a case study
- Demon camp : a soldier's exorcism
- Demonic foes : my twenty-five years as a psychiatrist investigating possessions, diabolic attacks, and the paranormal
- Desperate : an epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia
- Developing the rivers of East and West Africa : an environmental history
- Diagnosing giants : solving the medical mysteries of thirteen patients who changed the world
- Diamond Doris : the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- Diary of a baby
- Dictatorship in South America
- Did she kill him? : a torrid true story of adultery, arsenic, and murder in Victorian England
- Did you wonder who fired the gun?
- Difficult conversations : how to discuss what matters most
- Digging for Richard III : how archaeology found the king
- Dirt to soil : one family's journey into regenerative agriculture
- Dirty secret : a daughter comes clean about her mother's compulsive hoarding
- Dispatches from the war room : in the trenches with five extraordinary leaders
- Disrupted : my misadventure in the start-up bubble
- Dissecting death : secrets of a medical examiner
- Diving into darkness : a true story of death and survival
- Do not disturb : the story of a political murder and an African regime gone bad
- Doctor dealer : a doctor high on greed, a biker gang high on opioids, and the woman who paid the ultimate price
- Dogtown : tales of rescue, rehabilitation, and redemption
- Doing time for peace : resistance, family, and community
- Down East detective
- Dream interpretation ancient and modern : notes from the seminar given in 1936-1941 : reports by seminar members with discussions of dream series
- Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio
- Dying well : peace and possibilities at the end of life
- Dying well : the prospect for growth at the end of life
- Early : an intimate history of premature birth and what it teaches us about being human
- Ecological resilience : response to climate change and natural disasters
- Eliot Ness and the mad butcher : hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology
- Emotional inheritance : a therapist, her patients, and the legacy of trauma
- Empty promises : and other true cases
- Enrique's journey
- Entering Hades : the double life of a serial killer
- Entrepreneur magazine's success for less : 100 low-cost businesses you can start today
- Escape at 10,000 feet : D.B. Cooper and the missing money
- Ethical chic : the inside story of the companies we think we love
- Ethics on call : a medical ethicist shows how to take charge of life-and-death choices
- Every girl tells a story : a celebration of girls speaking their minds
- Everyday sacred : a woman's journey home
- Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
- Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
- Eyewitness to power : the essence of leadership : Nixon to Clinton
- Faith on the avenue : religion on a city street
- Fake : forgery, lies & eBay
- Falling into the fire : a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis
- Falling through the Earth : a memoir
- Family web : a story of India
- Farms with a future : creating and growing a sustainable farm business
- Fast, cheap & out of control
- Faster, higher, farther : the Volkswagen scandal
- Fattily ever after
- Female firebrands : stories and techniques to ignite change, take control, and succeed in the workplace
- Fierce attachments : a memoir
- Fighting for my life : how to thrive in the shadow of Alzheimer's
- Film about a father who
- Filthy rich
- Filthy rich
- Final gifts : understanding the special awareness, needs, and communications of the dying
- Finally out : letting go of living straight
- Finding Amy : a true story of murder in Maine
- Finding Amy : a true story of murder in Maine
- Finding me : a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed : a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
- Fire in the brain : clinical tales of hallucination
- Fire in the streets : America in the 1960s
- Fire lover : a true story
- Fire lover : a true story
- Fire your shrink! : do-it yourself strategies for changing your life and everyone in it
- First friends : the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents
- First position
- Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
- Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
- Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Five families : the rise, decline, and resurgence of America's most powerful Mafia empires
- Five families; Mexican case studies in the culture of poverty.
- Flag wars
- Flawless : inside the largest diamond heist in history
- Following Sean
- For love of insects
- For the color of his skin : the murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the trial of Bensonhurst
- For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago
- Forensics : what bugs, burns, prints, DNA, and more tell us about crime
- Fortune makers : the leaders creating China's great global companies
- Forty whacks : new evidence in the life and legend of Lizzie Borden
- Four centuries of quilts : the Colonial Williamsburg collection
- Fourteen : growing up alone in a crowd
- Foxcatcher
- Framing Agnes
- Framing a legend : exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- Franchising dreams: the lure of entrepreneurship in America
- Fray : art + textile politics
- Free spirit : growing up on the road and off the grid
- Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword
- Freeing yourself from the narcissist in your life
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Friend of a friend ... : understanding the hidden networks that can transform your life and your career
- From Microsoft to Malawi : learning on the front lines as a Peace Corps volunteer
- From clutter to clarity : clean up your mindset to clear out your clutter
- From fetus to child : an observational and psychoanalytic study
- From the periphery : real-life stories of disability
- Frontline, Dropout nation
- Frugal innovation : how to do more with less
- Fury : a memoir
- Future harvest : pesticide-free farming
- GIS for landscape architects
- GMO trilogy : why genetically modified organism threaten your health, the environment and future generations
- Gaspipe : confessions of a Mafia boss
- Geeks : how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho
- Genius unmasked
- Gentrification is inevitable and other lies
- George Kennan : a study of character
- George Marshall : defender of the republic
- Getting by on the minimum : the lives of working-class women
- Ghettoside : a true story of murder in America
- Ghost of the innocent man : a true story of trial and redemption
- Gifts : two hospice professionals reveal messages from those passing on
- Give me everything you have : on being stalked
- Give up tomorrow
- Gleason
- Glimpses of the Devil : a psychiatrist's personal accounts of possession, exorcism, and redemption
- Going virtual : programs and insights from a time of crisis
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Gone boy : a walkabout
- Good energy : renewable power and the design of everyday life
- Good morning, destroyer of men's souls : a memoir of women, addiction, and love
- Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery
- Good to great : why some companies make the leap ... and others don't
- Gotti's boys : the Mafia crew that killed for John Gotti
- Grand Central winter : stories from the street
- Grant and Twain : the story of an American friendship
- Grass, soil, hope : a journey through carbon country
- Great Dames : what I learned from older women
- Great by choice : uncertainty, chaos, and luck : why some thrive despite them all
- Great cases of Scotland Yard
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer, America's deadliest serial murderer
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer--America's deadliest serial murderer
- Green roof : a case study
- Groundswell : stories of saving places, finding community
- Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
- Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
- Growing up Coy
- Growing up trans
- Guilty until proven guilty
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Haldol and hyacinths : a bipolar life
- Half the sky
- Half the sky : [turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide]