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- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 4th & goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A second wind
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A truck full of money
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- African Samurai : the True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Isis : the life and art of Sylvia Plath
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's Most Influential Leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- Augustine : Conversions to Confessions
- Autumn
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of a wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being George Washington : the indispensable man, as you've never seen him
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Between everything and nothing : the journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the quest for asylum
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between the world and me
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black prophetic fire
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes, "the French Chef"
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Brother & sister
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Chance the Rapper : independent innovator
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dadland
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dare to fly : simple lessons in never giving up
- Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
- Dark star : a biography of Vivien Leigh
- Daughters of the Samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Doing justice : a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law
- Donner dinner party
- Drake : hip-hop superstar
- Dreams to remember : Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the transformation of Southern soul
- Edison
- Educated : a memoir
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- Empty mansions : the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
- Eruption : conversations with Eddie Van Halen
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything in its place : first loves and last tales
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Everything is under control : a memoir with recipes
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fairest : a memoir
- Fashion rebels : style icons who changed the world through fashion
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- Forged in crisis : the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times
- Fox and I : an uncommon friendship
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fur, fins, and feathers : Abraham Dee Bartlett and the invention of the modern zoo
- Future : rap rising star
- Gene Smith's sink : a wide-angle view
- Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
- God gave me you : a true story of love, loss, and a heaven-sent miracle
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Grant
- Grant
- Gratitude
- Gray day : my undercover mission to expose America's first cyber spy
- Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen
- Greetings from Utopia Park : surviving a transcendent childhood
- Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus
- Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
- Growing up Pedro
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- I am Anne Frank
- I am George Washington
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Jim Henson
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I live a life like yours : a memoir
- I want you to know we're still here : a post-Holocaust memoir
- I was better last night : a memoir
- Identity unknown : rediscovering seven American women artists
- Imagine that! : how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
- Immortal valor : the black Medal of Honor winners of World War II
- In a dark wood : what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In the shadow of the empress : the defiant lives of Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, and her daughters
- In the waves : my quest to solve the mystery of a Civil War submarine
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Information wars : how we lost the global battle against disinformation & what we can do about it
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Inside out : a memoir
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C.S. Lewis
- Joy enough : a memoir
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Just getting started
- Just like Rube Goldberg : the incredible true story of the man behind the machines
- Kanye West : music industry influencer
- Kendrick Lamar : rap titan
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV : The taking of power by louis xiv
- Lab girl
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Leadership in war : essential lessons from those who made history
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Lenin on the Train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
- Life in a day
- Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Little dancer aged fourteen : the true story behind Degas's masterpiece
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir
- Losing isn't everything : the untold stories and hidden lessons behind the toughest losses in sports history
- Lou Reed : a life
- Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- Love warrior : a memoir
- MBS : the rise to power of Mohammed Bin Salman
- Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Making darkness light : a life of John Milton
- Malcolm X
- Mama's boy : a story from our Americas
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first Lunar Landing
- Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mary Shelley : the strange true tale of Frankenstein's creator
- Maximilian and Carlota : Europe's last empire in Mexico
- Maya Lin : thinking with her hands
- Me
- Me & Patsy kickin' up dust : my friendship with Patsy Cline
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Mercy : the incredible story of Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA and friend to animals
- Minority leader : how to lead from the outside and make real change
- Morgue : a life in death
- Moses : a human life
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Motor girls : how women took the wheel and drove boldly into the twentieth century
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : the true story of New York City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation
- Mussolini's daughter : the most dangerous woman in Europe
- My dad's funnier than your dad : growing up with Tim Conway in the funniest house in America
- My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
- My story
- Napoleon : a life
- Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Never broken : songs are only half the story
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Never enough : Donald Trump and the pursuit of success
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Nicky & Vera : a quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he rescued
- No better friend : a man, a dog, and their incredible true story of friendship and survival in World War II
- No easy day : the autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden
- Notable native people : 50 indigenous leaders, dreamers, and changemakers from past and present
- Notes from a young Black chef
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Nuestra América : 30 inspiring Latinas/Latinos who have shaped the United States
- Obama : an intimate portrait
- On an Irish island : the lost world of the Great Blasket
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true story of the grandmother of Juneteenth
- Our country's presidents : a complete encyclopedia of the U.S. presidency
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Our year of war : two brothers, Vietnam, and a nation divided
- Out of many, one : portraits of America's immigrants
- Parental discretion is advised : the rise of N.W.A and the dawn of gangsta rap
- Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler
- Peace and me
- Plagued by fire : the dreams and furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Playing at the border : a story of Yo-Yo Ma
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Pope Francis : the story of the Holy Father
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President McKinley : architect of the American century
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
- Punching bag
- Putin
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Race to the bottom of the Earth : surviving Antarctica
- Rachel Carson
- Rad women worldwide : artists and athletes, pirates and punks, and other revolutionaries who shaped history
- Rasputin : faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs
- Ray and Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reagan : the life
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Relentless : a memoir
- Renoir : an intimate biography
- Reporter : a memoir
- Respect : the life of Aretha Franklin
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Revolutionary brothers : Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
- Rhett & Link's book of mythicality : a field guide to curiosity, creativity, & tomfoolery
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey
- Rise : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Ritchie Boy secrets : how a force of immigrants and refugees helped win World War II
- Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter
- Runnin' with the devil : a backstage pass to the wild times, loud rock, and the down and dirty truth behind the making of Van Halen
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Ruthless : scientology, my son David Miscavige, and me
- Sanctuary : Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the nation's first shelter for women
- Sea state : a memoir
- Send a runner : a Navajo honors the long walk
- Serving the servant : remembering Kurt Cobain
- Set the night on fire : living, dying, and playing guitar with The Doors
- Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
- She Persisted : 13 American Women Who Changed the World
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- She persisted around the world : 13 women who changed history
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
- Sissy : a coming-of-gender story
- Slowhand : the life and music of Eric Clapton
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Sonny : the last of the old-time mafia bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese
- Sparring with Smokin' Joe : Joe Frazier's epic battles and rivalry with Ali
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Sprouting wings : the true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States
- Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel
- Stand up and sing! : Pete Seeger, folk music, and the path to justice
- Step right up : how Doc and Jim Key taught the world about kindness
- Sticky fingers : the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine
- Still just a geek : an annotated memoir
- Sting Like a Bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stray : a memoir
- Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim
- Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
- Survival math : notes on an all-American family
- Sylvia Pankhurst : natural born rebel
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Tesla vs. Edison : the life-long feud that electrified the world
- Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- The Chief : the life and turbulent times of Chief Justice John Roberts
- The Compton cowboys : the new generation of cowboys in America's urban heartland
- The Cubans : ordinary lives in extraordinary times
- The Duchess : Camilla Parker Bowles and the love affair that rocked the crown
- The Golden Lad : the Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
- The Hag : the life, times, and music of Merle Haggard
- The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Kings of Big Spring : God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream
- The Lincoln conspiracy : the secret plot to kill America's 16th president--and why it failed
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
- The Residence : Inside the Private World of the White House
- The Streak : Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
- The Water Lady : how Darlene Arviso helps a thirsty Navajo Nation
- The Wright brothers
- The almost legendary Morris sisters : a true story of family fiction
- The amazing age of John Roy Lynch
- The amazing book is not on fire : the world of Dan and Phil
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The awkward thoughts of W. Kamau Bell : tales of a 6'4", African American, heterosexual, cisgender, left-leaning, asthmatic, Black and proud blerd, mama's boy, dad, and stand-up comedian
- The beauty in breaking : a memoir
- The boy who dreamed of infinity : a tale of the genius Ramanujan
- The boys in the boat : the true story of an American team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 Olympics
- The boys in the boat : the true story of an American team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 olympics
- The case for Trump
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
- The contender : the story of Marlon Brando
- The cookie cure : a mother/daughter memoir of cookies and cancer
- The dangerous animals club
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The death and life of Aida Hernandez : a border story
- The dream lover : a novel
- The extraordinary Suzy Wright : a colonial woman on the frontier
- The fabulous Bouvier sisters : the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee
- The faithful spy : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler
- The fantastic jungles of Henri Rousseau
- The fellowship : the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- The fight of our lives : my time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's battle for democracy, and what it means for the world
- The first 21 : how I became Nikki Sixx
- The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- The forgotten first : Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the breaking of the NFL color barrier
- The genius of women : from overlooked to changing the world
- The goddess pose : the audacious life of Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The grand tour : the life and music of George Jones
- The great quake : how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
- The great reformer : Francis and the making of a radical pope
- The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance
- The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks
- The hundred-year walk : an Armenian odyssey
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- The indispensable composers : a personal guide
- The inheritance : a family on the front lines of the battle against Alzheimer's disease
- The inventor's secret : what Thomas Edison told Henry Ford
- The killer across the table : unlocking the secrets of serial killers and predators with the FBI's original Mindhunter
- The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire
- The last 100 days : FDR at war and at peace
- The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home
- The last emperor of Mexico : the dramatic story of the Habsburg Archduke who created a kingdom in the new world
- The last kings of Shanghai : the rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China
- The last queen : Elizabeth II's seventy year battle to save the House of Windsor
- The leaf detective : how Margaret Lowman uncovered secrets in the rainforest
- The league of wives : the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home
- The life of Frederick Douglass : a graphic narrative of a slave's journey from bondage to freedom
- The light years : a memoir
- The little book of feminist saints
- The lost detective : becoming Dashiell Hammett
- The lost founding father : John Quincy Adams and the transformation of American politics
- The magician and the spirits : Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
- The maid and the queen : the secret history of Joan of Arc
- The man in the Glass House : Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century
- The man who knew everything : the strange life of Athanasius Kircher
- The man who walked backward : an American dreamer's search for meaning in the Great Depression
- The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal
- The mistresses of Cliveden : three centuries of scandal, power, and intrigue in an English stately home
- The mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The monk of Mokha
- The monk of Mokha
- The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II
- The music in George's head : George Gershwin creates Rhapsody in blue
- The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world
- The operator : firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior
- The oracle of oil : a maverick geologist's quest for a sustainable future
- The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time
- The president will see you now : my stories and lessons from Ronald Reagan's final years
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The queens of animation : the untold story of the women who transformed the world of Disney and made cinematic history
- The real Anthony Fauci : Bill Gates, big pharma, and the global war on democracy and public health
- The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- The red bandanna
- The red bandanna
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The revolution of Robert Kennedy : from power to protest after JFK
- The ride of a lifetime : lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
- The royal art of poison : filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul
- The ruler's guide : China's greatest emperor and his timeless secrets of success
- The shadow president : the truth about Mike Pence
- The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
- The speckled beauty : a dog and his people
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The strange case of Dr. Couney : how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- The sun does shine : an innocent man, a wrongful conviction, and the long path to justice
- The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time
- The third rainbow girl : the long life of a double murder in Appalachia
- The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson : a battle for racial justice at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era
- The three lives of James Madison : genius, partisan, president
- The trials of Harry S. Truman : the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953
- The truths we hold : an American journey
- The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
- The valedictorian of being dead : the true story of dying ten times to live
- The white darkness
- The women who flew for Hitler : a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry
- The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist
- Their promised land : my grandparents in love and war
- Then they came for me : Martin Niemöller, the pastor who defied the Nazis
- Things my son needs to know about the world
- Thirst : a story of redemption, compassion, and a mission to bring clean water to the world
- This long thread : women of color on craft, community, and connection
- Thomas Jefferson grows a nation
- Time out of mind : the lives of Bob Dylan
- To risk it all : nine conflicts and the crucible of decision
- To the greatest heights : facing danger, finding humility, and climbing a mountain of truth : a memoir
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- Toscanini : musician of conscience
- Trillion dollar coach : the leadership playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
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