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- "How's business?" "Don't ask"; : tales from the garment center
- "War stories" : false atrocity tales, swift boaters, and winter soldiers--what really happened in Vietnam
- "Who stole the onions?" and other Hallowell stories
- 100 years, 100 stories
- 1001 ways to improve your conversation & speeches
- 1066 and all that : a memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember including one hundred and three good things, five bad kings and two genuine dates
- 125 true stories of amazing animals
- 1913 : the year before the storm
- 200 notable days : Senate stories, 1787 to 2002
- 30 for 30, Volume 1, Films 1-15
- 35 years of WrestleMania
- 350 days
- 52 loaves : one man's relentless pursuit of truth, meaning, and a perfect crust
- 99 : stories of the game
- A 2nd helping of chicken soup for the soul : 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit
- A Baptist among the Jews
- A Christmas panorama : the friendly beasts & a partridge in a pear tree
- A Civil War treasury of tales, legends, and folklore;
- A big little life : [memoir of a joyful dog]
- A big little life : a memoir of a joyful dog
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dog walks into a nursing home : lessons in the good life from an unlikely teacher
- A dog year : twelve months, four dogs, and me
- A fascination for fish : adventures of an underwater pioneer
- A fly rod of your own
- A fool's gold : a story of ancient Spanish treasure, two pounds of pot, and the young lawyer almost left holding the bag
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- 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 funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A garden of marvels : how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good dog : the story of Orson, who changed my life
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A horse in the house, and other strange but true animal stories
- A householder's guide to the universe : a calendar of basics for the home and beyond
- A keeper of bees : notes on hive and home
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A lot like me : a father and son's journey to reconciliation : a memoir
- A man & his car
- A measure of my days : the journal of a country doctor
- A moose and a lobster walk into a bar--
- A mother for all seasons
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation worth ranting about
- A passage in time : along the coast of Maine by schooner
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A people's history of the U.S. military : ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
- A positively final appearance : a journal 1996-98
- A primate's memoir
- A season on the Appalachian Trail
- A stash of one's own : knitters on loving, living with, and letting go of yarn : an anthology
- A supremely bad idea : three mad birders and their quest to see it all
- A thousand deer : four generations of hunting and the hill country
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A treasury of Civil War tales
- A treasury of great American scandals : tantalizing true tales of historic misbehavior by the founding fathers and others who let freedom swing
- A tribute to Muddy Waters : king of the blues
- Abe Lincoln laughing : humorous anecdotes from original sources by and about Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : the observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay
- Aces and kings : inside stories and million-dollar strategies from poker's greatest players
- Across the pond : an Englishman's view of America
- Act like a success, think like a success : discovering your gift and the way to life's riches
- Adventures in yarn farming : four seasons on a New England fiber farm
- Adventures with Ari : a puppy, a leash & our year outdoors
- Afternoons with Harper Lee
- Alan Parsons' art & science of sound recording : the book
- Alaska happens : amusing stories and observations from Alaska's outdoors
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alien nation : 36 true tales of immigration
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All fishermen are liars
- All fishermen are liars : true tales from the Dry Dock bar
- All my dogs : a life
- All my patients have tales : favorite stories from a vet's practice
- All my patients kick and bite : more favorite stories from a vet's practice
- All pigs are beautiful
- All that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- All the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- All there is : love stories from Storycorps
- All things aside : (absolutely correct opinions)
- All things reconsidered : my birding adventures
- All together now
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Altitude adjustment : a quest for love, home, and meaning in the tetons
- Always at The Carlyle
- Alzheimer's in America : the Shriver report on women and Alzheimer's : a study
- Amazing but true sports stories
- America's good news almanac : inspirational true stories to warm the heart
- America's great disasters / : by Martin Sandler
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- American buffalo : in search of a lost icon
- American courage
- American cuisine : and how it got this way
- American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020
- American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020
- American story : a lifetime search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things
- Among African apes : stories and photos from the field
- An Irish history of civilization
- An anecdotal history of Kings County, New Brunswick
- An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales
- An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales
- An atheist in the FOXhole : a liberal's eight-year odyssey inside the heart of the right-wing media
- An innocent abroad : life-changing trips from 35 great writers
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- Angels among us : extraordinary encounters with heavenly beings
- Animal ER : extraordinary stories of hope and healing from one of the world's leading veterinary hospitals
- Animal happiness
- Animal heroes : true rescue stories
- Animal rescue : the best job there is
- Animal spirits : a carnival of prose, poetry, and cartoons
- Animal stories for little people
- Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
- Answers in the form of questions : a definitive history and insider's guide to Jeopardy!
- Anteater adventure
- Anthony Bourdain : no reservations
- Anthony Bourdain, No reservations, Collection 3
- Anthony Bourdain, no reservations, Collection 2
- Anthony Bourdain, no reservations, Collection 4
- Anthony Bourdain, no reservations, Collection 5, part 1
- Anthony Bourdain, no reservations, Collection 6, part 1
- Anthony Bourdain, no reservations, Collection 6, part 2
- Anthony Bourdain, no reservations, Collection 7
- Antiqueman's diary : the memoirs of Fred Bishop Tuck
- Arabesques : a tale of double lives
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around America : a tour of our magnificent coastline
- Arrival stories : women share their experiences of becoming mothers
- Artcurious : stories of the unexpected, slightly odd, and strangely wonderful in art history
- Asian girls are going places : how to navigate the world as an Asian woman today
- Aspergirls : empowering females with Asperger Syndrome
- Assisted loving : true tales of double dating with my dad
- Augusta : the best little city in New England : seriously
- Away at a camp in Maine
- Backyard Maine : local essays
- Bad dog : a love story
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad girls from history : wicked or misunderstood?
- Bag balm and duct tape : tales of a Vermont doctor
- Banquet given by the Kennebec Bar Association to Chief Justice Leslie C. Cornish and Associate Justice Albert M. Spear : Augusta House, Friday evening, July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seventeen, Augusta, Maine
- Bar Harbor Babylon : murder, misfortune, and scandal on Mount Desert Island
- Bar Harbor in the roaring twenties : from village life to the high life on Mount Desert Island
- Barely functional adult : it'll all make sense eventually
- Bark if you love me : a woman-meets-dog story
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Barn Club : a tale of forgotten elm trees, traditional craft and community spirit
- Bart's fish tales : a fishing adventure in over 100 recipes
- Baseball eccentrics : the most entertaining, outrageous, and unforgettable characters in the game
- Baseball myths : debating, debunking, and disproving tales from the diamond
- Baseball's most notorious personalities : a gallery of rogues
- Basketball (and other things) : a collection of questions asked, answered, illustrated
- Battle at Best.
- Beast : blood, struggle and dreams at the heart of mixed martial arts
- Beatles stories
- Because I was a girl : true stories for girls of all ages
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the movies, memes, and meaning of Hollywood's most enigmatic actor
- Becoming a good creature
- Becoming un-Orthodox : stories of ex-Hasidic Jews
- Beethoven's skull : dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
- Being me with OCD : how I learned to obsess less and live my life
- Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction
- Bert and I, and other stories from Down East
- Bert and I, for kids of all ages : tales from Down East
- Betty & friends : my life at the zoo
- Between the strings : the secret lives of guitars
- Beyond the trees : a journey alone across Canada's Arctic
- Bigfoot in Maine
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bird box
- Birding without borders : an obsession, a quest, and the biggest year in the world
- Birds of a feather : a true story of hope and the healing power of animals
- Birds on the couch : the bird shrink's guide to keeping polly from going crackers and you out of the cuckoo's nest
- Bizarre tales from World War II
- Black American refugee : escaping the narcissism of the American dream
- Black boy smile : a memoir in moments
- Black eyed peas for the soul : tales to strengthen the African American spirit and encourage the heart
- Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- Blooms & dreams : cultivating wellness, generosity & a connection to the land
- Blue plate special : an autobiography of my appetites
- Bluebeard; : a musical fantasy,
- Bootleggers, lobstermen & lumberjacks : fifty of the grittiest moments in the history of hardscrabble New England
- Borrowing bunnies : the surprising true tale of fostering rabbits
- Bowdoin College off the record
- Brass-pounders: : young telegraphers of the Civil War
- Braude's source book for speakers and writers
- Brave Norman : a true story
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Bread pudding and other memories : a boyhood on the farm
- Breast cancer surgery and reconstruction : what's right for you n
- Bunts : Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, and other reflections on baseball
- Bury my heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
- Bush pilot angler : a memoir
- But I digress : a collection of short stories and tall tales
- But enough about me : a Jersey girl's unlikely adventures among the absurdly famous
- Butter & flower : cannabis-infused recipes and stories for the cannacurious
- Buttons the kitten
- Cabin fever : a suburban father's search for the wild
- Callings : the purpose and passion of work
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Can you die of a broken heart? : a heart surgeon's insight into what makes us tick
- Canada
- Care free Black girls : a celebration of Black women in popular culture
- Carry on : reflections for a new generation
- Cat calls : wonderful stories and practical advice from a veteran cat sitter
- Cats to the rescue : true tales of heroic felines
- Caught in fading light : mountain lions, zen masters, and wild nature
- Changing lives : Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the transformative power of music
- Channel kindness : stories of kindness and community
- Character is destiny : inspiring stories every young person should know and every adult should remember
- Character is destiny : true stories every young person should know and every adult should remember
- Charles Kuralt's American moments
- Charles Kuralt's American moments
- Chee-lin : a giraffe's journey
- Chicken soup for the Jewish soul : stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit
- Chicken soup for the cat lover's soul : stories of feline affection, mystery, and charm
- Chicken soup for the cat lover's soul : stories of feline affection, mystery, and charm
- Chicken soup for the gardener's soul : 101 stories to sow seeds of love, hope, and laughter
- Chicken soup for the pet lover's soul : stories about pets as teachers, healers, heroes, and friends
- Chicken soup for the soul : living with Alzheimer's & other dementias : 101 stories of caregiving, coping, and compassion
- Chicken soup for the teenage soul II : 101 more stories of life, love, and learning
- Chicken soup for the teenage soul's the real deal : challenges : stories about disses, losses, messes, stresses & more
- China in ten words
- Chosen by a horse : a memo
- Chosen tales : stories told by Jewish storytellers
- Christmas miracles
- City chickens
- Civil War stories
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Closer : major league players reveal the inside pitch on saving the game
- Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right : American life in columns
- Club George : the diary of a Central Park birdwatcher
- Coach : lessons on the game of life
- Cold spell : the view from the end of the peninsula
- Comet's tale : how the dog I rescued saved my life
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Compulsive acts : a psychiatrist's tales of ritual and obsession
- Confessions of a crappy Christian : real-life talk about all the things Christians aren't sure we're supposed to say--and why they matter to God
- Confessions of a public speaker
- Confessions of a serial entertainer
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Contact! : a book of encounters
- Cornered : 14 stories of bullying and defiance
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- CowParade New York
- Cross currents : a flyfisher's progress
- Crossing paths : uncommon encounters with animals in the wild
- Cruise confidential : a hit below the waterline
- Cut me loose : sin and salvation after my ultra-Orthodox girlhood
- Dear Los Angeles : the city in diaries and letters 1542 to 2018
- Death : an oral history
- Death in Acadia : and other misadventures in Maine's national park
- Death on Katahdin : and other misadventures in Maine's Baxter State Park
- Death, taxes, and leaky waders : a John Gierach fly-fishing treasury
- Deer camp : last light in the Northeast Kingdom
- Demon fish : travels through the hidden world of sharks
- Designing Broadway : how Derek McLane and other acclaimed set designers create the visual world of theatre
- Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
- Destiny : from Paul Harvey's The rest of the story
- Devoted : 38 extraordinary tales of love, loyalty, and life with dogs
- Dewey's nine lives : the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions
- Diamonds from the dugout : 115 baseball legends remember their greatest hits
- Diary of a foreigner in Paris
- Dick King-Smith's animal friends : thirty-one true life stories
- Didn't see that coming : putting life back together when your world falls apart
- Different ... not less : inspiring stories of achievement and successful employment from adults with autism, Asperger's, and ADHD
- Digging deep : unearthing your creative roots through gardening
- Dinner with the Smileys : one military family, one year of heroes, and lessons for a lifetime
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Discovering America's past : customs, legends, history & lore of our great nation
- Do I count? : stories from mathematics
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Do's and taboos of using English around the world
- Documents that changed the way we live
- Dog days : dispatches from Bedlam Farm
- Dog days of history : the incredible story of our best friends
- Dog talk : lessons learned from a life with dogs
- Dogs and their women
- Don't be a victim : fighting back against America's crime wave
- Don't put lipstick on the cat!
- Down to earth : garden secrets! garden stories! garden projects you can do!
- Dozer's run : a true story of a dog and his race
- Drama high : the incredible true story of a brilliant teacher, a struggling town, and the magic of theater
- Driving hungry : a memoir
- Dumb luck and the kindness of strangers
- Dying laughing
- Early Maine wildlife : historical accounts of Canada lynx, moose, mountain lion, white-tailed deer, wolverine, wolves, and woodland caribou, 1603-1930
- Eat cake. Be brave
- Eat pray love made me do it : life journeys : inspired by the bestselling memoir
- Eating aliens : one man's adventures hunting invasive animal species
- Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents
- Edgar Allen Beem : Backyard Maine : local essays
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Elderly parents with all their marbles : a survival guide for the kids
- Eleanor in the Village : Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village
- Enslaved by ducks
- Ether and me; : or, "Just relax",
- Even darkness sings : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima : finding hope in the saddest places on Earth
- Ever by my side : a memoir in eight [Acts] pets
- Evergreens : a collection of Maine outdoor stories
- Every deep-drawn breath : a critical care doctor on healing, recovery, and transforming medicine in the ICU
- Every gift matters : how your passion can change the world
- Every minute is a day : a doctor, an emergency room, and a city under siege
- Everything I know : basic life rules from a Jewish mother
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is awful : and other observations
- Excuse me while I disappear : tales of midlife mayhem
- Excuse my dust
- Exit 13 : a Maine guidebook in stories and poems
- Exoneree diaries : the fight for innocence, independence, and identity
- Face : one square foot of skin
- Faces and masks
- Failing up : how to take risks, aim higher, and never stop learning
- Fair shot : rethinking inequality and how we earn
- Falcon fever : a falconer in the twenty-first century
- Fall and rise : the story of 9/11
- Farmer Buckley's exploding trousers : and other odd events on the way to scientific discovery
- Fastball
- Fasting for Ramadan
- Fauci : expect the unexpected : ten lessons on truth, service, and the way forward
- Fearless felines : 30 true tales of courageous cats
- Featherhood : a memoir of two fathers and a magpie
- Featherhood : a memoir of two fathers and a magpie
- Finders keepers : a tale of archaeological plunder and obsession
- Finding Latinx : in search of the voices redefining Latino identity
- Finding home
- Fire in Paradise : an American tragedy
- First class fatherhood : advice & wisdom from high-profile dads
- First dogs : American presidents & their best friends
- First families : the impact of the White House on their lives
- First pooch : the Obamas pick a pet
- First rite
- Fit2 fat 2fit : the unexpected lessons from gaining and losing 75 lbs on purpose
- Fly-fishing in Maine lakes : or, camp-life in the wilderness
- Following Atticus : forty-eight high peaks, one little dog, and an extraordinary friendship
- Food : a love story
- Food and loathing : a lament
- Food and the city : New York's professional chefs, restaurateurs, line cooks, street vendors, and purveyors talk about what they do and why they do it
- Food journeys of a lifetime : 500 extraordinary places to eat around the globe
- Fool's paradise
- Football : great writing about the national sport
- For the beauty of the earth : birding, opera and other journeys
- For the love of Peaks : island portraits & stories : a collection
- Forgotten tales of Down East Maine
- Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation
- Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation
- Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation
- France : an adventure history
- Francis Bacon in your blood : a memoir
- From Baghdad to America : life lessons from a dog named Lava
- From the ground up : story of a first garden
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Garden wisdom
- Gardening on Main Street.
- Gastro obscura : a food adventurer's guide
- Gender euphoria : stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers
- George Washington's teeth
- Ghost boy : the miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped inside his own body
- Ghosts of the Boothbay region
- Give me 2 minutes of your time : let's have a conversation
- Go home!
- Go see the principal : true tales from the school trenches
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- God's vitamin "C" for the spirit
- Gods at play : an eyewitness account of great moments in American sports
- Gone fishin' : ruminations on fly fishing
- Good clean fun : misadventures in sawdust at Offerman Woodshop
- Good dirt : confessions of a conservationist
- Good dog : true stories of love, loss, and loyalty
- Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery
- Good things happen to people you hate : essays
- Got warrants? : dispatches from the dooryard
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Grayson
- Great tales from English history, Joan of Arc, the princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and more
- Growing up Biden : a memoir
- Growing up trans : in our own words
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Hail to the chin : further confessions of a B movie actor
- Half empty
- Half empty
- Hallelujah! the welcome table : a lifetime of memories with recipes
- Hammer head : the making of a carpenter