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- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 30/30 : landscape architecture
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 5 elephants
- A Homesteader's Year on Deer Isle
- A Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Man Apart : Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living
- A band called Death
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A crisis wasted : Barack Obama's defining decisions
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- A gift of hope : helping the homeless
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A guard within
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A killing art : the untold history of Tae kwon do
- A letter to Jo
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life observed : a spiritual biography of C.S. Lewis
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck
- A light that never goes out : the enduring saga of the Smiths
- A man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the S.S. United States
- A military journal during the American revolutionary war, : from 1775 to 1783;
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new world to be won : John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the tumultuous year of 1960
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A secret life : the Polish colonel, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A son of the forest and other writings
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy's journey : a CIA memoir
- A star is born : the moment an actress becomes an icon
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A tender struggle : story of a marriage
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A totem pole history : the work of Lummi carver Joe Hillaire
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of parliament
- A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- A very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A way of living : the art of Willem De Kooning
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers : Super Bowl XLV
- Aaron and Alexander
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- Abba Eban : a biography
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
- Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- Above & beyond : John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission
- Abraham Lincoln : a Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House 47: Abe Lincoln at Last!
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus
- African princess : the amazing lives of Africa's royal women
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Ain't it time we said goodbye : the Rolling Stones on the road to exile
- Aké : the years of childhood
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Aleister Crowley : the Beast in Berlin : art, sex, and magick in the Weimar Republic
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All music guide to country : the experts' guide to the best recordings in country music
- All my dogs : a life
- All of me : how I learned to live with the many personalities sharing my body
- All ships follow me : a family memoir of war across three continents
- All the President's men
- All the great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alpha dogs : how your small business can become a leader of the pack
- Am I too loud? : a musical autobiography
- Amazing women
- Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : remembering a pioneer in scientific crime investigation
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daughter : a memoir
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American naval prints : from the Beverly R. Robinson Collection, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American to the backbone : the life of James W.C. Pennington, the fugitive slave who became one of the first black abolitionists
- 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
- Amore : an American father's Roman holiday
- An American Cardinal : the biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan
- An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist : a memoir
- An exclusive love
- An extravagant hunger : the passionate years of M.F.K. Fisher
- An improvised life : a memoir
- An uncomplicated life : a father's memoir of his exceptional daughter
- An unquiet mind
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And nothing but the truthiness : the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angelic music : the story of Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Another side of Bob Dylan : a personal history on the road and off the tracks
- Anselm Kiefer
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different
- Anthony Blunt : his lives
- Anti-communism in twentieth-century America : a critical history
- Antoine Frédéric Ozanam
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Architecture's odd couple : Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
- Arctic adventures : tales from the lives of Inuit artists
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Arrows of the night : Ahmad Chalabi's long journey to triumph in Iraq
- Art nouveau furniture
- Arthur Ashe : tennis and justice in the Civil Rights era
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At play in the lions' den : a biography and memoir of Daniel Berrigan
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire
- Augustine : Conversions to Confessions
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava Gardner : the secret conversations
- Avalanche : a love story
- Bach : music in the castle of heaven
- Backstage pass
- Bad girls : sirens, Jezebels, murderesses, thieves, & other female villains
- Bad girls : sirens, jezebels, murdereresses, thieves & other female villians
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balanchine and the lost muse : revolution and the making of a choreographer
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty
- Banksy : the man behind the wall
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barbra : a retrospective
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
- Battling Bella : the protest politics of Bella Abzug
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be the change : a grandfather Gandhi story
- Beale Street dynasty : sex, song, and the struggle for the soul of Memphis
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box
- Beautiful boy : a father's journey through his son's addiction
- Beautiful shadow : a life of Patricia Highsmith
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the movies, memes, and meaning of Hollywood's most enigmatic actor
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical
- Becoming Ben Franklin : how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty
- Becoming Charlemagne : Europe, Baghdad, and the empires of A.D. 800
- Becoming Dickens : the invention of a novelist
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Freud : the making of a psychoanalyst
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family
- Becoming Shakespeare : the unlikely afterlife that turned a provincial playwright into the bard
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- Before she was Harriet
- Before there was Mozart : the story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind the mirror : the story of a pioneer in autism treatment and her work with children on the spectrum
- Behind the smile : a story of Carol Moseley Braun's historic senate campaign
- Beijing welcomes you : unveiling the capital city of the future
- Being Berlusconi : the rise and fall from cosa nostra to bunga bunga
- Being Hindu : understanding a peaceful path in a violent world
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Being a beast : adventures across the species divide
- Belle
- Belonging : a German reckons with history and home
- Belzoni : the giant archaeologists love to hate
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Ben Jonson : a life
- Benedict XVI : a life, Volume I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32, To the future, Ben Franklin
- Bernard of Clairvaux : an inner life
- Bessie
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Betty White : 100 remarkable moments in an extraordinary life
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond the label : women, leadership, and success on our own terms
- Beyond the narrow gate : the journey of four Chinese women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Monroe : the life and music of the Blue Grass man
- Bill Veeck : baseball's greatest maverick
- Bill and Hillary : the politics of the personal
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black American history
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black bull, ancestors and me : my life as a lesbian sangoma
- Black history : more than just a month
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history
- Blackpink : queens of K-pop
- Blood and fire : the unbelievable real-life story of wrestling's Original Sheik
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Bloom : a memoir
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blue-eyed boy : a memoir
- Blues legacy : tradition and innovation in Chicago
- Bob Dylan : like a complete unknown
- Bob Marley : a life
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Body counts : a memoir of politics, sex, AIDS, and survival
- Bombing Hitler : the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer
- Bon Jovi : America's ultimate band
- Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born on the wrong planet
- Bound to the fire : how Virginia's enslaved cooks helped invent American cuisine
- Bowie : the biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boy on ice : the life and death of Derek Boogaard
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking in : the rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the politics of justice
- Breaking up with God : a love story
- Brice Marden
- Brigham Young, pioneer prophet
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Brother Robert : growing up with Robert Johnson
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce Springsteen and the promise of rock 'n' roll
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Buffalo Bird Girl : a Hidatsa story
- Bugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Building a business with a beat : leadership lessons from Jazzercise : an empire built on passion, purpose, and heart
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Call me Burroughs : a Life
- Callings : the purpose and passion of work
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Canada year by year
- Cancer warrior : where the mind goes
- Capturing the light : the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry
- Caravaggio
- Carpaccio: : biographical and critical study
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Catholic women confront their church : stories of hurt and hope
- Center center : a funny, sexy, sad almost-memoir of a boy in ballet
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Champions of women's soccer
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Dickens : a life
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Chopin : a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions
- Che : a revolutionary life
- Checking in : how getting real about depression saved my life-and can save yours
- Chicago's greatest year, 1893 : the White City and the birth of a modern metropolis
- Chief Bender's burden : the silent struggle of a baseball star
- Children of the stone : the power of music in a hard land
- Chinese comfort women : testimonies from imperial Japan's sex slaves
- Choosing courage : inspiring stories of what it means to be a hero
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Christy Mathewson, the Christian gentleman : how one man's faith and fastball forever changed baseball
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90s dynasty
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Citizen Keane : the big lies behind the big eyes
- Citizen Outlaw : one man's journey from gangleader to peacekeeper
- City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris
- Cixi : evil empress of China?
- Clarence Brown : Hollywood's forgotten master
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Cleopatra the Great : the woman behind the legend
- Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right : American life in columns
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Cocaine + surfing : a sordid history of surfing's greatest love affair
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Coco Chanel : an intimate life
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Collateral damage : Britain, America, and Europe in the age of Trump
- Collected letters, 1944-1967
- Collected nonfiction
- Colorful dreamer : the story of artist Henri Matisse
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Commander : the life and exploits of Britain's greatest frigate captain
- Commander in chief : FDR's battle with Churchill, 1943
- 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
- Confession of a serial killer : the untold story of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer
- Confessions of a bookseller
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Coolidge
- Counting on Katherine
- Country girl : a memoir
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Couture confessions : fashion legends in their own words
- Cracked, not broken : surviving and thriving after a suicide attempt
- Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration
- Creatures of the rock : a veterinarian's adventures in Newfoundland
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cronkite
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crucible of command : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee -- the war they fought, the peace they forged
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Cuba libre! : Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuthbert Grant : leader of the Métis people
- Cycle of lies : the fall of Lance Armstrong
- Cézanne : a life
- D.H. Lawrence : the life of an outsider
- Daisy Bates in the desert
- Dan and Phil go outside
- Dance of death : the life of John Fahey, American guitarist
- Dangerous ambition : Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West : new women in search of love and power
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare to make history : chasing a dream and fighting for equity
- Dark star : a biography of Vivien Leigh
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Copperfield's history of magic
- David Hockney : the biography
- David Lynch : the man from another place
- David Ortiz
- Days of knight : how the general changed my life
- De Niro : a life
- Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders
- Deal with the devil : the FBI's secret thirty-year relationship with a Mafia killer
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
- Death in the city of light : the serial killer of Nazi-occupied Paris
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Declaring his genius : Oscar Wilde in North America
- Deconstructing Gurdjieff : biography of a spiritual magician
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Denali's howl : the deadliest climbing disaster on America's wildest peak