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- "Mean" Joe Greene : built by football
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 12 immigrants who made American arts great
- 12 immigrants who made American politics great
- 12 immigrants who made American science great
- 12 immigrants who made American sports great
- 12 immigrants who made the American military great
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A band with built-in hate : The Who from pop art to punk
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A picture book of George Washington
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abigail Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Ada Blackjack : castaway
- Ada Lovelace and computer algorithms
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- Aly Raisman
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Girl entrepreneur : Pleasant Rowland
- American Olympians who changed the game
- American daughter : a memoir
- American philosophy : a love story
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An invisible thread
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anne Frank : witness to history!
- Annie Easley
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Antonio Brown
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Ariana Grande
- Aron Ralston : trapped in the desert
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ayah Bdeir
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barbara Bush
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black like me
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Booker T. Washington
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to run
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Brief history of oversharing : one gingers anthology of humiliation
- Bright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Mars
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Byron's women
- Calvin Coolidge
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Cardi B
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Cesar Chavez : Latino American civil rights activist
- Chance the Rapper
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Schulz
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Cherish : David Cassidy--a legacy of love
- Chester Arthur
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude Monet : founder of French impressionism
- Claudette Colvin
- 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
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cuz : the life and times of Michael A.
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- DJ Khaled
- Dadland
- Dalai Lama
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie : a life
- Davy Crockett
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dirty sexy money : the unauthorized biography of Kris Jenner
- Disney
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Drake
- Drew Brees
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Dylan : the biography
- ER nurses : ten stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Einstein on the run : how Britain saved the world's greatest scientist
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Einstein's wife : the story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : founding mother
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Arden : beauty empire builder
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Elon Musk : space entrepreneur
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Ernest Shackleton : survival in the Antarctic
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Everybody is awful (except you!)
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore with James Cook
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Famous immigrant artists
- Famous immigrant athletes
- Famous immigrant computer scientists
- Famous immigrant entrepreneurs
- Famous immigrant politicians
- Famous immigrant scientists
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan, and the making of a modern royal family
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First friends : the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents
- Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Football superstar Tom Brady
- For spacious skies : Katharine Lee Bates and the inspiration for "America the beautiful"
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Fred Rogers
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederic Chopin
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : voice for justice, voice for freedom
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Galileo : conqueror of the stars
- Galileo and the science deniers
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George H.W. Bush
- George H.W. Bush
- George Lucas : filmmaker & creator of Star Wars
- George W. Bush
- George Washington
- George Washington : the first president
- George Washington : the wonder of the age
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Georgia O'Keeffe : an eternal spirit
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Geronimo
- Gertrude B. Elion and pharmacology
- Ghetto Klown : a graphic novel
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girls can! : smash stereotypes, defy expectations, and make history!
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Glenn Miller declassified
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Go slow : the life of Julie London
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good girl : a memoir
- Good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Grace Hopper : advancing computer science
- Grandma Moses : an American original
- Grant
- Grant
- Grant
- Greatest female athletes of all time
- Greta Thunberg
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Growing up Pedro
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Guys like me : five wars, five veterans for peace
- Gwen Frostic
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Harry S. Truman
- Haunted Door County
- Hawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Hedy Lamarr : reimagining radio
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her epic adventure : 25 daring women who inspire a life less ordinary
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military
- 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
- Hillary Clinton
- Hillary Clinton : former first lady and secretary of state
- Hillary Clinton : groundbreaking politician
- Hillary Clinton : historic politician
- Hillary Clinton : remarkable American politician
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How I saved the world
- I am Anne Frank
- I am Benjamin Franklin
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Frida Kahlo
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Leonardo da Vinci
- I am Marie Curie
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Sacagawea
- I am Walt Disney
- I am not a label
- I have been buried under years of dust : a memoir of autism and hope
- I have something to say : mastering the art of public speaking in an age of disconnection
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House
- I've got this round : more tales of debauchery
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- Ida and the world beyond Mount Kaiserzipf : the life of Ida Pfeiffer, globe-trotter
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- Imagine that! : how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- Indelible Ann : the larger-than-life story of Governor Ann Richards
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irving Berlin : the immigrant boy who made America sing
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way