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- "Pass it on" : the story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "War stories" : false atrocity tales, swift boaters, and winter soldiers--what really happened in Vietnam
- 12 : Tom Brady and his battle for redemption
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
- A full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- A guard within
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A life of Picasso, The cubist rebel, 1907-1916
- A life of Picasso, Volume III, The triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A military journal during the American revolutionary war, : from 1775 to 1783;
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A secret life : the Polish colonel, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country
- A son of the forest and other writings
- A spy's journey : a CIA memoir
- Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- Above & beyond : John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission
- Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus
- African princess : the amazing lives of Africa's royal women
- African rhythms : the autobiography of Randy Weston
- Against the grain : bombthrowing in the fine American tradition of political cartooning
- Agatha Christie, woman of mystery
- Ahmad's war, Ahmad's peace : surviving under Saddam, dying in the new Iraq
- Aké : the years of childhood
- Aleister Crowley in America : art, espionage, and sex magick in the New World
- Alexis de Tocqueville : a life
- Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution
- All music guide to country : the experts' guide to the best recordings in country music
- Allagash summers : the Philip Calvin Hughey Sr. photographs
- Alpha dogs : how your small business can become a leader of the pack
- Am I too loud? : a musical autobiography
- American furniture and its makers
- American naval prints : from the Beverly R. Robinson Collection, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland
- American writers : a collection of literary biographies, Supplement XV, Woody Allen to C.D. Wright
- American writers : a collection of literary biographies, Supplement XVI, John James Audubon to Gustaf Sobin
- Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America
- An American childhood
- An unquiet mind
- An unquiet mind
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- Anna of all the Russias : the life of Anna Akhmatova
- Anthony Blunt : his lives
- Appetite for destruction : the days of Guns n' Roses
- Arctic adventures : tales from the lives of Inuit artists
- Art nouveau furniture
- Artemisia
- Artist-life : or, Sketches of American painters
- As we remember her : Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the words of her family and friends
- As you were : to war and back with the Black Hawk battalion of the Virginia National Guard
- Autobiographies
- Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty
- Baseball's most notorious personalities : a gallery of rogues
- Bayna al-arḍ wa-al-samāʼ
- Beautiful shadow : a life of Patricia Highsmith
- Because Claudette
- Becoming Charlemagne : Europe, Baghdad, and the empires of A.D. 800
- Becoming Shakespeare : the unlikely afterlife that turned a provincial playwright into the bard
- Begin again : a biography of John Cage
- Bessie
- Beyond the narrow gate : the journey of four Chinese women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America
- Beyond the outer shores : the untold odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the pioneering ecologist who inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
- Billy Joel : the life & times of an angry young man
- Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Eightieth Congress, March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949, inclusive.
- Bitter spring : a life of Ignazio Silone
- Black bull, ancestors and me : my life as a lesbian sangoma
- Black maestro : the epic life of an American legend
- Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history
- Blue Monday : Fats Domino and the lost dawn of rock 'n' roll
- Bob Marley : a life
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Born on the wrong planet
- Caravaggio
- Carpaccio: : biographical and critical study
- Casanova : actor, lover, priest, spy
- Chasin' the Bird : the life and legacy of Charlie Parker
- Chief Bender's burden : the silent struggle of a baseball star
- Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy
- Cixi : evil empress of China?
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Cockeyed : a memoir
- Collected letters, 1944-1967
- Comrade J : the untold secrets of Russia's master spy in America after the end of the Cold War
- Condoleezza Rice : an American life : a biography
- Corvus : a life with birds
- Critical survey of poetry, Contemporary poets
- D.H. Lawrence : the life of an outsider
- Daisy Bates in the desert
- Definitive country : the ultimate encyclopedia of country music and its performers
- Degas : impressions of a great master
- Diana : the last word
- Diana Ross : an unauthorized biography
- Digging for dirt : the life and death of ODB
- Dillinger's wild ride : the year that made America's public enemy number one
- Django : the life and music of a Gypsy legend
- Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America
- Dorothy Parker : what fresh hell is this?
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dream lucky : when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat--
- Dynasties : the 10 G.O.A.T. teams that changed the NBA forever
- E. Munch
- EXO : K-pop superstars
- Early American portrait painters : the fourteen principal earliest native-born painters
- Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll generation saved Hollywood
- Eddie Rickenbacker,
- Edge of midnight : the life of John Schlesinger
- Edmund Wilson : a life in literature
- Edvard Munch : 1863-1944
- Edward Hopper : an intimate biography
- El olvido que seremos
- Eric Gill, man of flesh and spirit
- Eureka man : the life and legacy of Archimedes
- Fade : my journeys in multiracial America
- Fates worse than death : an autobiographical collage
- Fifteen men: Canada's prime ministers from Macdonald to Trudeau;
- Fighting for America : black soldiers, the unsung heroes of World War II
- Finding me
- First among friends : George Fox and the creation of Quakerism
- First in peace : how George Washington set the course for America
- Fortas : the rise and ruin of a Supreme Court Justice
- Four killings : land hunger, murder and family in the Irish Revolution
- Fragile innocence : a father's memoir of his daughter's courageous journey
- Francis Crick : discoverer of the genetic code
- Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. : founder of landscape architecture in America
- French lessons : a memoir
- Freud : inventor of the modern mind
- Frida Kahlo : the artist who painted herself, by Frieda Fry
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- From the Sahara to Samarkand : selected travel writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937
- From the corner of the Oval : a memoir
- Gabriel García Márquez : a life
- George Kennan : a study of character
- George Washington : the making of an American symbol
- Georges Braque : a life
- Georges Seurat
- Giambattista Tiepolo
- Girls who rocked the world 2 : heroines from Harriet Tubman to Mia Hamm
- God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Goya
- Grace like a river
- Grant Wood : a life
- Grant Wood : a study in American art and culture
- Great balls of fire : the uncensored story of Jerry Lee Lewis
- Great women leaders
- Groucho : the life and times of Julius Henry Marx
- Growing up Bank Street : a Greenwich Village memoir
- Growing, older : a chronicle of death, life, and vegetables
- Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 : the world in female form
- Hamada, potter
- Hand me my travelin' shoes : in search of Blind Willie McTell
- Hank : the life of Charles Bukowski
- Hans Hofmann
- Henry James : the mature master
- Her way : the hopes and ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Herding cats : a life in politics
- High tea in Mosul : the true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq
- Hiroshima in the morning
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- Home town
- How to lose friends and alienate people
- Hurry down sunshine
- I knew a phoenix : sketches for an autobiography
- I shock myself : the autobiography of Beatrice Wood
- Idiot : beating "The Curse" and enjoying the game of life
- If trouble don't kill me : a family's story of brotherhood, war, and bluegrass
- If you lived here, I'd know your name : news from small-town Alaska
- Imagination and innovation : the story of Weston Woods
- Impresario : the life and times of Ed Sullivan
- In an instant : a family's journey of love and healing
- In love with movies : from New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
- In search of Willie Morris : the mercurial life of a legendary writer and editor
- In search of greatness
- In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
- In the footsteps of the Band of Brothers : a return to Easy Company's battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth
- In the fullness of time; : the memoirs of Paul H. Douglas
- In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
- Invisible : how young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships, and the pressure to seem just fine
- J.M.W. Turner
- JFK & Jackie : unseen archives
- Jack Kerouac's American journey : the real-life odyssey of On the road
- Jackson Pollock; : energy made visible,
- Jacques-Louis David
- James Buchanan
- James Garfield
- James K. Polk
- James Naismith : the man who invented basketball
- Jeff Buckley : from Hallelujah to the last goodbye
- Jefferson's secrets : death and desire at Monticello
- Jesus : a biography from a believer
- Joan : the mysterious life of the heretic who became a saint
- John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights
- John Lewis
- John Milton : a hero of our time
- John Sloan
- John Tyler
- Jules Verne : the definitive biography
- Just as I am : Americans with disabilities
- K-pop : the ultimate fan book : your essential guide to all the hottest K-pop bands
- Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
- Kamala Harris
- Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor
- La nuit
- Langston Hughes : poet, social activist, novelist, playwright & literary giant
- Latino voices in New England
- Leading ladies : the 50 most unforgettable actresses of the studio era
- Leading men : the 50 most unforgettable actors of the studio era
- Lee Miller, Roland Penrose : the green memories of desire
- Letters to a young athlete
- Lewis and Clark
- Lighting the way : nine women who changed modern America
- Lion of Hollywood : the life and legend of Louis B. Mayer
- List of officers of the army of the United States from 1779 to 1900, embracing a register of all appointments by the President of the United States in the volunteer service during the civil war, and of volunteer officers in the service of the United States. : June 1, 1900.
- Listen : how Evelyn Glennie, a deaf girl, changed percussion
- Little girl blue : the life of Karen Carpenter
- Lives of mothers & daughters : growing up with Alice Munro
- Locke : a biography
- Lost & found : a memoir
- Louisa May : a modern biography of Louisa May Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott
- Lucy Maud Montgomery : the author of Anne of Green Gables
- Machiavelli : philosopher of power
- Madame de Staël : the first modern woman
- Madness : a bipolar life
- Maeve Brennan : homesick at The New Yorker
- Maine street : faces and stories from a small town
- Mark Twain : a life
- Martha Hill and the making of American dance
- Martin Bormann, Nazi in exile
- Masters of sex : the life and times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the couple who taught America how to love
- Matisse the master : a life of Henri Matisse, the conquest of colour, 1909-1954
- McCartney
- Melville : his world and work
- Memoirs of Montparnasse
- Mencken : the American iconoclast
- Mistress of the Vatican : the true story of Olimpia Maidalchini, the secret female pope
- Modern American painting
- Modigliani
- Molly Spotted Elk : 1903-1977
- Mon village et moi
- Monument eternal : the music of Alice Coltrane
- Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity
- Mother Ireland
- Mother of the blues : a study of Ma Rainey
- Mr. Lincoln : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- My alcoholic escape from reality
- My body politic : a memoir
- My father is a book : a memoir of Bernard Malamud
- My father, my president : a personal account of the life of George H.W. Bush
- My father, my president : a personal account of the life of George H.W. Bush
- My lives
- My solo exchange diary, 1
- My travels with Clara
- My voice betrays me
- Myself and the other fellow : a life of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Niki Nakayama : a chef's tale in 13 bites
- Ninth book of junior authors and illustrators
- Nostradamus : the man behind the prophecies
- Of permanent value : the story of Warren Buffett
- On the line : a story of class, solidarity, and two women's epic fight to build a union
- On their own : women journalists and the American experience in Vietnam
- Once upon a farm : stories about the farm on Thompson Hill in Mexico, Maine, volume II
- One magical Sunday : (but winning isn't everything)
- Oscar Micheaux, the great and only : the life of America's first Black filmmaker
- Pascal's wager : the man who played dice with God
- Pauli Murray : the life of a pioneering feminist and civil rights activist
- Perdurabo : the life of Aleister Crowley
- Photography after Frank
- Posthumous Keats : a personal biography
- Praying for sheetrock : a work of nonfiction
- Present at the creation : my years in the State Department
- Princess Sultana's daughters
- Printmaking : a primary form of expression
- Queen Mary, 1867-1953
- Quentin Reynolds' Officially dead : the story of Commander C.D. Smith
- Race to the pole : tragedy, heroism, and Scott's Antarctic quest
- Raised by wolves : the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino
- Rauschenberg, art and life
- Reaching the summit : Sir Edmund Hillary's life of adventure
- Red notice : a true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice
- Remarkable Americans : the Washburn family
- Rembrandt ; his life, his work, his time
- Revolutionary mothers : women in the struggle for America's independence
- Reynolds
- Richard Burton : prince of players
- Rigged : the true story of an Ivy League kid who changed the world of oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
- Robert Henri : his life and art
- Robert McCloskey
- Robert Motherwell
- Rodin : the hands of genius
- Rube Goldberg : inventions
- Rubens
- Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians : biography of an image
- Safe harbor : a murder in Nantucket
- Sal Mineo : a biography
- Savage beauty : the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Schumann : the inner voices of a musical genius
- Scientists and their discoveries
- Shakespeare : the biography
- She got up off the couch : and other heroic acts from Mooreland, Indiana
- Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop
- Sikh religion
- Sisters of fortune : being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England and raised their younger brother while their father went fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush
- Soldier : the life of Colin Powell
- Solomon Northup : the complete story of the author of Twelve years a slave
- Soul picnic : the music and passion of Laura Nyro
- Speak, so you can speak again : the life of Zora Neale Hurston
- Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio
- Spoiling for a fight : the rise of Eliot Spitzer
- Stacey Abrams
- Standing in the light : my life as a pantheist
- Stanley Spencer, visions from a Berkshire village
- Stephen Hawking : a life in science
- Stevie Ray Vaughan : caught in the crossfire
- Strength and honor : the life of Dolley Madison
- Strength in what remains
- Suits me : the double life of Billy Tipton
- Summer of deliverance : a memoir of father and son
- Susan B. Anthony : fighter for women's rights
- Sweet justice : Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Sword and blossom : a British officer's enduring love for a Japanese woman
- Tadaima! I am home : a transnational family history
- Taking heat : the president, the press, and my years in the White House
- Teacher, preacher, soldier, spy : the civil wars of John R. Kelso
- Temple Stream : a rural odyssey
- Ten thousand joys & ten thousand sorrows : a couple's journey through Alzheimer's
- The American Leonardo; : a life of Samuel F.B. Morse.
- The Audubon folio
- The Beatles White album and the launch of Apple
- The Boston painters, 1900-1930
- The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury
- The Churchill sisters : the extraordinary lives of Winston and Clementine's daughters
- The Civil War almanac
- The Continuum encyclopedia of children's literature
- The First Franco-Americans : New England life histories from the Federal Writers' Project, 1938-1939
- The Heisman : great American stories of the men who won
- The Jefferson Bible : the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth
- The Open door : when writers first learned to read
- The Oxford companion to chess
- The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism
- The President's counselor : the rise to power of Alberto Gonzales
- The Wright Brothers legacy : Orville and Wilbur Wright and their aeroplanes
- The age of Caravaggio
- The age of astonishment : John Morris in the miracle century : from the Civil War to the Cold War
- The alchemy of air : a Jewish genius, a doomed tycoon, and the scientific discovery that fed the world but fueled the rise of Hitler
- The art and passion of Guido Nincheri
- The art of Emily Carr
- The atomic times : my H-bomb year at the Pacific Proving Ground : a memoir
- The autobiography of William Carlos Williams
- The best cat ever
- The better angels : five women who changed Civil War America
- The big book of women saints
- The chosen game : a Jewish basketball history
- The cultural toolbox : traditional Ojibwe living in the modern world
- The desire of ages : the conflict of the ages illustrated in the life of Christ
- The first Jihad : the battle for Khartoum, and the dawn of militant Islam
- The founders : the 39 stories behind the U.S. Constitution
- The fox and the flies : the secret life of a grotesque master criminal
- The geography of love : a memoir
- The girl from Chimel
- The girl who walked home alone : Bette Davis, a personal biography
- The golden age of science : thirty portraits of the giants of 19th-century science
- The good son : JFK Jr. and the mother he loved
- The great Nadar : the man behind the camera
- The great bird illustrators and their art, 1730-1930
- The hidden life of Otto Frank
- The hungry years : confessions of a food addict
- The intimate world of Abraham Lincoln
- The kingdom is always but coming : a life of Walter Rauschenbusch
- The last man on the mountain : the death of an American adventurer on K2
- The letters of the British spy.
- The life and times of William Shakespeare
- The life and work of Vincent van Gogh
- The life and works of Winslow Homer
- The life of Emily Carr
- The lighthouse Stevensons : the extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
- The little book of economics
- The lives and liberation of Princess Mandarava : the Indian consort of Padmasambhava
- The lives of Lee Miller
- The lost fortune of the tsars
- The lost world of James Smithson : science, revolution, and the birth of the Smithsonian
- The majestic twelve : the true story of the most feared combat escort unit in Baghdad
- The man behind the microchip : Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley
- The man who found time : James Hutton and the discovery of the earth's antiquity
- The man who pardoned Nixon
- The middle place
- The nine lives of Charlotte Taylor
- The professor of secrets : mystery, medicine, and alchemy in Renaissance Italy
- The quark and the jaguar : adventures in the simple and the complex
- The quest for Shakespeare
- The real Wizard of Oz : the life and times of L. Frank Baum
- The red book : Liber novus
- The shores of Bohemia : a Cape Cod story, 1910-1960
- The silent witness : a true story of the Civil War
- The story of Baháʼuʼlláh, promised one of all religions
- The tarnished Fed : behind closed doors : forty years of successes, failures, mystique, and humor
- The thing itself : on the search for authenticity
- The third rose : Gertrude Stein and her world
- The three lives of Charles de Gaulle
- The way we were : remembering Diana
- The way west : true stories of the American frontier
- The wild bunch
- The world of Christopher Marlowe
- The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968
- Them : a memoir of parents
- Thirteen ways of looking at the novel
- This here flesh : spirituality, liberation, and the stories that make us
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Tiny dancer
- To school through the fields
- To wake the dead : a Renaissance merchant and the birth of archaeology
- Tommy's honor : the story of old Tom Morris and young Tom Morris, golf's founding father and son
- Tony and me : a story of friendship
- Toussaint Louverture : a biography
- Truman Capote, enfant terrible
- Turner : the life and masterworks
- Twice : the story of k-pop's greatest girl group
- Uma Thurman : the biography
- United States Attorney, District of Maine 1789-1989
- Universal Father : a life of John Paul II
- Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers
- Victory on Praise Mountain
- Walking the big wild : from Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bears' Trail
- Water cooler diaries : women across America share their day at work
- Water from the well : Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
- What Isabella wanted
- What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England
- When the century was young
- Whistler : a retrospective
- Who is Chloe Kim?
- Who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?
- Who was Marie Curie?
- Wild science : amazing encounters between animals and the people who study them
- William Morris and his world
- William Shakespeare
- Winslow Homer : an American vision
- With Billie
- With their backs to the world : portraits from Serbia
- Wittgenstein, a life : young Ludwig, 1889-1921
- World War II writings
- Young Mr. Obama : Chicago and the making of a Black president
- Zigzag : the incredible wartime exploits of double-agent Eddie Chapman
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