Biography
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Biography
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- "Pass it on" : the story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world
- "War stories" : false atrocity tales, swift boaters, and winter soldiers--what really happened in Vietnam
- 12 : Tom Brady and his battle for redemption
- 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 woman surgeon : the life and work of Rosalie Slaughter Morton
- 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
- 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
- Allagash summers : the Philip Calvin Hughey Sr. photographs
- American furniture and its makers
- Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America
- An American childhood
- An American doctor's odyssey : adventures in forty-five countries
- 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
- Appetite for destruction : the days of Guns n' Roses
- 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
- Bayna al-arḍ wa-al-samāʼ
- Becoming Charlemagne : Europe, Baghdad, and the empires of A.D. 800
- 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 maestro : the epic life of an American legend
- Blue Monday : Fats Domino and the lost dawn of rock 'n' roll
- Born on the wrong planet
- Casanova : actor, lover, priest, spy
- Charles Lyell
- Chasin' the Bird : the life and legacy of Charlie Parker
- Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Cockeyed : a memoir
- Corvus : a life with birds
- Critical survey of poetry, Contemporary poets
- Definitive country : the ultimate encyclopedia of country music and its performers
- Degas : impressions of a great master
- Diana : the last word
- Digging for dirt : the life and death of ODB
- Dillinger's wild ride : the year that made America's public enemy number one
- Dorothy Parker : what fresh hell is this?
- 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
- El olvido que seremos
- Eureka man : the life and legacy of Archimedes
- Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- Fortas : the rise and ruin of a Supreme Court Justice
- 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
- Freud : inventor of the modern mind
- 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 Washington : the making of an American symbol
- Georges Braque : a life
- Girls who rocked the world 2 : heroines from Harriet Tubman to Mia Hamm
- God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history
- Grant Wood : a life
- Growing, older : a chronicle of death, life, and vegetables
- Hamada, potter
- Hand me my travelin' shoes : in search of Blind Willie McTell
- Her way : the hopes and ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- How to lose friends and alienate people
- Hurry down sunshine
- I shock myself : the autobiography of Beatrice Wood
- Idiot : beating "The Curse" and enjoying the game of life
- In an instant : a family's journey of love and healing
- Invisible : how young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships, and the pressure to seem just fine
- J.M.W. Turner
- 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
- 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 Milton : a hero of our time
- John Tyler
- Jules Verne : the definitive biography
- Just as I am : Americans with disabilities
- Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
- 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
- Lewis and Clark
- Lighting the way : nine women who changed modern America
- Lion of Hollywood : the life and legend of Louis B. Mayer
- Lives of mothers & daughters : growing up with Alice Munro
- Locke : a biography
- 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
- Masters of sex : the life and times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the couple who taught America how to love
- Melville : his world and work
- Men of science in America : the story of American science told through the lives and achievements of twenty outstanding men from earliest colonial times to the present day
- Mencken : the American iconoclast
- Molly Spotted Elk : 1903-1977
- Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity
- Mother of the blues : a study of Ma Rainey
- 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 travels with Clara
- My voice betrays me
- Ninth book of junior authors and illustrators
- Of permanent value : the story of Warren Buffett
- 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)
- Percy Julian:Forgotten genius
- Perdurabo : the life of Aleister Crowley
- Praying for sheetrock : a work of nonfiction
- Present at the creation : my years in the State Department
- Race to the pole : tragedy, heroism, and Scott's Antarctic quest
- Reaching the summit : Sir Edmund Hillary's life of adventure
- Remarkable Americans : the Washburn family
- Rembrandt ; his life, his work, his time
- Revolutionary mothers : women in the struggle for America's independence
- 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
- Rodin : the hands of genius
- Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians : biography of an image
- Safe harbor : a murder in Nantucket
- Savage beauty : the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Schumann : the inner voices of a musical genius
- Shakespeare : the biography
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Susan B. Anthony : fighter for women's rights
- Sword and blossom : a British officer's enduring love for a Japanese woman
- Tadaima! I am home : a transnational family history
- Ten thousand joys & ten thousand sorrows : a couple's journey through Alzheimer's
- The American Leonardo; : a life of Samuel F.B. Morse.
- The Beatles White album and the launch of Apple
- The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury
- The Civil War almanac
- 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 alchemy of air : a Jewish genius, a doomed tycoon, and the scientific discovery that fed the world but fueled the rise of Hitler
- 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 big book of women saints
- The desire of ages : the conflict of the ages illustrated in the life of Christ
- The elephant man
- 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 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 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 life and times of William Shakespeare
- The life and work of Vincent van Gogh
- The life and works of Winslow Homer
- The life of Clara Barton
- The lighthouse Stevensons : the extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
- The lives and liberation of Princess Mandarava : the Indian consort of Padmasambhava
- The middle place
- The professor of secrets : mystery, medicine, and alchemy in Renaissance Italy
- The quest for Shakespeare
- The real Wizard of Oz : the life and times of L. Frank Baum
- 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 three lives of Charles de Gaulle
- The way west : true stories of the American frontier
- The world of Christopher Marlowe
- The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968
- Thirteen ways of looking at the novel
- Thomas Hart Benton
- 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
- Turner : the life and masterworks
- Uma Thurman : the biography
- Universal Father : a life of John Paul II
- Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers
- Victory on Praise Mountain
- Water from the well : Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
- What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England
- William Morris and his world
- William Shakespeare
- 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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