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- "Co. Aytch" : a confederate memoir of the Civil War
- A Homesteader's Year on Deer Isle
- A biographical encyclopedia of contemporary genocide portraits of evil and good
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A history of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co. : with a bibliography of their publications, 1893-1905
- A house with four rooms
- A killing art : the untold history of Tae kwon do
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A mother's courage : talking back to autism
- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison ...
- A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author
- A sense of place : great travel writers talk about their craft, lives, and inspiration
- A short history of Portland
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A studio of her own : women artists in Boston, 1870-1940
- A time to dance, no time to weep
- A traveled first lady : writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
- Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
- Addison Verrill's Greenwood
- Adieux : a farewell to Sartre
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Albrecht Dürer
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature
- Alice Paul : claiming power
- All people are famous : (instead of an autobiography)
- All things bright and beautiful
- Along the Cherry Lane : tales from the life of music industry legend Milton Okun
- American eagle : the bold art & Brash life of John Haley Bellamy
- An Eames primer
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An impossible woman : the memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri
- An improvised life : a memoir
- An unfinished marriage
- Andres Guardado
- Angela's ashes
- Annie Leibovitz
- Antoine Frédéric Ozanam
- Antonio Gaudí
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Art: 21 : art in the twenty-first century
- Augustine : a voice for all generations
- Autobiography of a yogi
- Battle ready
- Beastie Boys book
- Before there was Mozart : the story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Ben Jonson : a life
- Beneath the underdog : his world as composed by Mingus
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Bernard of Clairvaux, the times, the man, and his work : an historical study in eight lectures
- Bess W. Truman
- Bess W. Truman
- Best of the original six
- Bigger than the game : restitching a major league life
- Bill Veeck : baseball's greatest maverick
- Billie Holiday : the genius of Lady Day
- Black Beauty
- Blake
- Bon : the last highway : the untold story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in black
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Boy : tales of childhood
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard
- Breaking tradition : the story of Louise Nevelson
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Butter at the old price : the autobiography of Marguerite de Angeli
- Called out but safe : a baseball umpire's journey
- Caveat emptor : the secret life of an American art forger
- Chance the Rapper : independent innovator
- Chris & Don : a love story--
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
- Clearing land : legacies of the American farm
- Coal miner's daughter
- Come Reza ama: El Viaje de una Mujer Por Italia, India E Indonesia en Busca del Equilibrio Entre el Cuerpo y Espiritu : Eat Pray Love
- Confessions, Books IX-XIII
- Confessions.
- Congressional pictorial directory
- Cosima Wagner : the lady of Bayreuth
- Creeping death from Neptune : the life and comics of Basil Wolverton, Volume one, 1909-1941
- Crumb
- Cutty, one rock : low characters and strange places, gently explained
- Dali
- Dancing through it : my life in the ballet
- Dangerous curves atop Hollywood heels : the lives, careers, and misfortunes of 14 hard-luck girls of the silent screen
- David Hockney : the biography
- Dead River rough cut : a woods movie
- Death for five voices : the composer Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613)
- Derrida
- Dewey the library cat : a true story
- Divided minds : twin sisters and their journey through schizophrenia
- Donn Fendler, lost on a mountain in Maine : a brave boy's true story of his nine-day adventure alone in the Mount Katahdin wilderness
- Doughty Falls : the history of the town of North Berwick, Maine, 1831-2006
- Down came the rain
- Duchamp
- Dylan Thomas
- Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood
- Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
- Edgeplay : a film about The Runaways
- Edvard Grieg,
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Edwin Arlington Robinson : the life of poetry
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Elizabeth Seton : American saint
- Elle s'appelle Sabine : Her name is Sabine
- Elvis Presley : unseen archives
- Elvis by the Presleys
- Encyclopedia of an ordinary life : volume one
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- Ernest Shackleton : to the end of the Earth
- Escape! : the story of the great Houdini
- Escape! : the story of the great Houdini
- Escaping the delta : Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues
- Ett annat liv
- Every little step
- Fair weather
- Faith of my fathers
- Faith of my fathers
- Fantasy man : a former NFL player's descent into the brutality of fantasy football
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Finding Iris Chang : friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind
- Findings
- First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929-1994 : memorial tributes in the One Hundred Third Congress of the United States
- First encounters : native voices on the coming of the Europeans
- First ladies
- Flynn
- For my people : the life and writing of Margaret Walker
- For self and country : for the wounded in Vietnam the journey home took more courage than going into battle : a true story
- Francona : the Red Sox years
- Fredy Guarín
- Front of the class : how Tourette syndrome made me the teacher I never had
- Full bloom : the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- Gauguin : a retrospective
- Gendernauts
- George Gershwin : an intimate portrait
- George H.W. Bush
- George Washington : anguish and farewell (1793-1799)
- Giant steps : bebop and the creators of modern jazz 1945-65
- Glory, passion, and principle : the story of eight remarkable women at the core of the American Revolution
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- God and Starbucks : an NBA superstar's journey through addiction and recovery
- God's hostage : a true story of persecution, imprisonment, and perseverance
- Good grief! : life in a tiny Vermont village
- Good stuff : a reminiscence of my father, Cary Grant
- Great lives : medicine
- Great women of the Christian faith
- Grey Gardens
- Growing up Amish : [a memoir]
- Growing up Shaker
- Half past autumn : the life and works of Gordon Parks
- Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, Lincoln's first Vice-President
- Harry Dean Stanton : partly fiction
- Harry S. Truman
- Hated : GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
- Hey is Dee Dee home
- High exposure : an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places
- Hildegard of Bingen : the woman of her age
- Hillbilly heart
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
- History of the town of Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine, from its settlement, June 10, 1780
- Hitler, 1936-45 : nemesis
- Hollywood death and scandal sites : seventeen driving tours with directions and the full story
- Homage to Catalonia ; : Down and out in Paris and London
- House stories : the meanings of home in a New England town
- How I got this way
- I am Albert Einstein
- I am Scout : the biography of Harper Lee
- I am a sex addict
- I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
- I'm still here
- Impossible man
- In love with art : Françoise Mouly's adventures in comics with Art Spiegelman
- In my skin : my life on and off the basketball court
- In search of the great Beast 666 : Aleister Crowley : the wickedest man in the world
- In the realms of the unreal
- In the shadow of the pulpit : an anecdotal autobiography
- Inside out, Warren Zevon: keep me in your heart
- Into the storm : a study in command
- Irish women artists, 1800-2009 : familiar but unknown
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- Istanbul : memories and the city
- Istanbul : memories and the city
- It's good to be the Gronk
- J. Cole : chart-topping rapper
- J. Edgar Hoover : the man and the secrets
- JFK : the private President
- James A. Michener, a biography
- Javier "Chicharito" Hernández
- Jeannie out of the bottle
- Jeremiah Dummer, colonial craftsman & merchant, 1645-1718
- Jimmy Stewart : the truth behind the legend
- Joe Strummer : the future is unwritten
- John Marshall : the chief justice who saved the nation
- John Paul Jones : America's first sea warrior
- Johnny Appleseed
- Joni Mitchell : woman of heart and mind
- Joshua Tree, 1951 : a portrait of James Dean
- Joy Division
- Julia Margaret Cameron : a critical biography
- July
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Kennebunkport : the evolution of an American town
- Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
- Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
- Kyrie Irving : Uncle Drew, Little Mountain, and enigmatic NBA superstar
- Landscapes for the people : George Alexander Grant, first chief photographer of the National Park Service
- Larry Bird
- Last Civil War veteran in fifty states ...
- Le sang d'un poète : The blood of a poet
- Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust
- Lemmy
- LennoNYC
- Leo Durocher : baseball's prodigal son
- Let my people go surfing : the education of a reluctant businessman
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Life on the Mississippi
- Lincoln's secretary, a biography of John G. Nicolay
- Listen up : the lives of Quincy Jones
- Listening for Madeleine : a portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in many voices
- Living Oprah : my one-year experiment to walk the walk of the queen of talk
- Lombardi and Landry : how two of pro football's greatest coaches launched their legends and changed the game forever
- Lord Rochester's monkey : being the life of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester
- Lost on a mountain in Maine
- Lost! on a mountain in Maine
- Love in the elephant tent : how running away with the circus brought me home
- Love is the devil : a study for a portrait of Francis Bacon
- Luis Suárez
- Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
- Lynn Margulis : the life and legacy of a scientific rebel
- Man of the trees : Richard St. Barbe Baker, the first global conservationist
- Maria Callas, the woman behind the legend
- Marilyn & me : a photographer's memories
- Marilyn : the passion and the paradox
- Marilyn Monroe : the final days
- Marilyn Monroe : the final years
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain in eruption : hitherto unpublished pages about men and events
- Marlene : Marlene Dietrich, a personal biography
- Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Matter of heart : the extraordinary journey of C.G. Jung into the soul of man
- Mauve : how one man invented a color that changed the world
- May, Lou & Cass : Jane Austen's nieces in Ireland
- Medium raw : a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook
- Meet me in Atlantis : my obsessive quest to find the sunken city
- Michelle Obama : an American story
- Million dollar American princesses : the complete series
- Mishima : a life in four chapters
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Modigliani : a life
- Mojo hand : the life and music of Lightnin' Hopkins
- Moses the kitten
- Murder of a president
- My best fiend : Klaus Kinski
- My own country : a doctor's story
- My turn : a life of total football
- Myrna Loy : the only good girl in Hollywood
- Myself among others
- Naked
- Naturalist
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Neymar : the new Pelé
- No woman no cry : my life with Bob Marley
- Noah Webster : the life and times of an American patriot
- Not at all what one is used to : the life and times of Isabella Gardner
- Nṛan guyně : The color of pomegranates
- Of moose and men : a wildlife vet's pursuit of the world's largest deer
- Of place and gender : women in Maine history
- Official congressional directory
- Official congressional directory
- Our Golda, the story of Golda Meir
- Patrick : he ignited a flame of faith in Ireland
- Patrick Leigh Fermor : an adventure
- Patriot pride : my life in the New England dynasty
- Patton : a genius for war
- Paula Modersohn-Becker : the first modern woman artist
- Pearl Buck, a woman in conflict
- Personal geography : almost an autobiography
- Pete Seeger : his life in his own words
- Phil Jackson : lord of the rings
- Picturing Wright : an album from Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer
- Piero's light : In search of Piero della Francesca : a Renaissance painter and the revolution in art, religion, and science
- Pinkerton's great detective : the amazing life and times of James McParland
- Point of view : a fresh look at work, faith, and freedom
- Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America
- Pollock
- Porn star : the legend of Ron Jeremy
- Powder : writing by women in the ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq
- Preachin' the blues : the life and times of Son House
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Proud : living my American dream
- Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music
- Rang shi jian lü xing de Yuehan, Halisun
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
- Recollections of a lifetime : or men and things I have seen ; in a series of familiar letters to a friend ; historical, biographical, anecdotical, and descriptive
- Red army
- Remembering Lubec : stories from the easternmost point
- Renoir, his life, art, and letters
- Richard Tucker : a biography
- Riding in cars with boys : confessions of a bad girl who makes good
- Rimbaud.
- Roar : Sulak Sivaraksa and the path of socially engaged Buddhism
- Robert Redford : the biography
- Ronald Reagan : an intellectual biography
- Ronaldinho Gaúcho
- Ronaldo
- Roughing it
- Rush : beyond the lighted stage
- Scenes of childhood
- Scott Walker : 30 century man
- Self-consciousness : memoirs
- Sex positive
- Shakespeare : his work and his world
- Shakespeare and Company
- Shaq uncut : my story
- Short films by Werner Herzog
- Show me all your scars : true stories of living with mental illness
- Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant
- Shrinkage : manhood, marriage, and the tumor that tried to kill me
- Shula : the coach of the NFL's greatest generation
- Sir Edwin Landseer
- Sketches of a few distinguished men of Newbury and Newburyport
- Smiley : a journey of love
- Solo : a memoir of hope
- Something fierce : memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
- Souvenir : Margaret Truman's own story
- Spettacolo
- Stan Lee's mutants, monsters, & marvels
- Stephen Curry
- Steve McQueen : a biography
- Straight shooter : the Brad Park story
- Stravinsky : a creative spring : Russia and France, 1882-1934
- Sybil
- TEEN ANGST? NAAAH
- Takeoff! : the story of America's first woman pilot for a major airline
- Taking flight: : from war orphan to star ballerina
- Testament of friendship; : the story of Winifred Holtby,
- That man, Peter Berlin
- The Beatles anthology
- The Billy Bob tapes : a cave full of ghosts
- The Black press : soldiers without swords
- The Blaine House : home of Maine's governors
- The Clash : westway to the world
- The Clash live : revolution rock
- The Cleveland Browns : power and glory
- The Fellowship : the untold story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship
- The Foxfire 45th anniversary book : singin', praisin', raisin'
- The Franciscan saints
- The Lobster Coast : rebels, rusticators, and the struggle for a forgotten frontier
- The Los Angeles diaries : a memoir
- The Narnian : the life and imagination of C.S. Lewis
- The Nomi song
- The Pilgrim migration : immigrants to Plymouth Colony, 1620-1633
- The Wright sister : Katharine Wright and her famous brothers
- The adventures of Errol Flynn : the signature collection
- The age of de Valera
- The art of scandal : the life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- The astronaut wives club : a true story
- The astronaut wives club : a true story
- The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini,
- The autobiography of Samuel Smiles
- The ballad of Blind Tom, slave pianist : America's lost musical genius
- The beautiful struggle : a memoir
- The best of G.G. Allin & the Murder Junkies
- The black and the blue : a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
- The book of Joan : tales of mirth, mischief, and manipulation
- The bravest dog ever : the true story of Balto
- The cake and the rain
- The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
- The contender : the story of Marlon Brando
- The cooked seed : a memoir
- The curse of the Bambino
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The diving bell and the butterfly : a memoir of life in death
- The doctor
- The earth knows my name : food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans
- The embrace : a true vampire story
- The emperor of sound : a memoir
- The end of your life book club
- The eyes of Tammy Faye
- The family Mark Twain
- The filth and the fury
- The flight of the Grand Eagle : Charles G. Bryant, Maine architect and adventurer
- The girl factory : a memoir
- The gospel according to Philip K. Dick
- The great medieval heretics : five centuries of religious dissent
- The happy hooker : my own story
- The haunted world of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
- The hockey book
- The honor of your company : the life and music of one of America's modern folk music legends as told in his own words and more than 85 songs
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- The journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757
- The legend of Leigh Bowery
- The life and times of Allen Ginsberg
- The life and times of Cotton Mather
- The life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself
- The look : Charlotte Rampling : a self-portrait through others
- The man who saw a ghost : the life and work of Henry Fonda
- The man who skied down Everest
- The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright
- The murder of Emmett Till
- The mysterious rays of Dr. Röntgen
- The natural : the misunderstood presidency of Bill Clinton
- The one : the life and music of James Brown
- The one : the life and music of James Brown
- The orphan seal
- The poor bastard
- The potty mouth at the table
- The president's house : a first daughter shares the history and secrets of the world's most famous home
- The principles of uncertainty
- The road to Brown
- The search for Robert Johnson : the real story of the greatest folk blues guitar player that ever lived
- The source
- The strongest man in the world : Louis Cyr
- The true story of Christopher Columbus, : called the Great Admiral;
- The tycoons : how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy
- The visitor : André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia
- The way I am
- The wild and wonderful Whites of West Virginia
- Then they came for me : Martin Niemöller, the pastor who defied the Nazis
- Theremin : an electronic odyssey
- Thomas Jefferson grows a nation
- Three years in the Sixth Corps
- To the heart of the storm
- Tom Dowd & the language of music
- Tosca's kiss
- Tough without a gun : the life and extraordinary afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
- Tributes delivered in Congress : Joseph R. Biden, Jr., United States Senator, 1973-2009
- Trident K9 warriors : my tales from the training ground to the battlefield with elite Navy Seal canines
- Trouble the water
- Truman
- Trumbo
- Ty Cobb
- U.S. Women's Team : soccer champions!
- Unbowed : a memoir
- Undiluted hocus-pocus : the autobiography of Martin Gardner
- Unzipped
- Vincent can't sleep : Van Gogh paints the night sky
- Walden ; : On the duty of civil disobedience
- Walden, or, Life in the woods
- Warriors don't cry : the searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
- Ways of escape
- We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir
- We jam econo : the story of the Minutemen
- What we do is secret
- What's the big deal about first ladies?
- When broken glass floats : Growing up under the Khmer Rouge
- When variety was king : memoir of a tv pioneer : featuring Jackie Gleason, Sonny and Cher, Hee Haw, and more
- When you're strange
- Whispering pines : the northern roots of American music from Hank Snow to the Band
- White House kids : the perks, pleasures, problems, and pratfalls of the Presidents' children
- Who is Barack Obama?
- Who is Barack Obama?
- Who was Daniel Boone?
- Who was Elvis Presley?
- Who was Genghis Khan?
- Who was Jim Henson?
- Who was King Tut?
- Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
- Who was Marco Polo?
- Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
- Who was Pablo Picasso?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Thomas Alva Edison?
- Who was who in the Civil War
- Wild mind : living the writer's life
- Wildflower
- Willa Cather : the road is all
- Winnebago man
- Wired : the short life and fast times of John Belushi
- With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
- Without a map : a memoir
- Women in Congress, 1917-2006
- Wooden : a coach's life
- Worth the fighting for : a memoir
- Wrangler : anatomy of an icon
- Wspomnienia polskie : wędrówki po Argentynie
- Yoni, hero of Entebbe
- You're gonna miss me
- Zap! : Nikola Tesla takes charge
- Žižek!
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