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- "Mean" Joe Greene : built by football
- 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
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- 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 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 prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- 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
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abigail Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- 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
- 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 blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- 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-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
- Aly Raisman
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- 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 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
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Blake Shelton : country singer & TV personality
- 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
- 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
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brief history of oversharing : one gingers anthology of humiliation
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Mars
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Byron's women
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Cardi B
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Cesar Chavez : Latino American civil rights activist
- Chance the Rapper
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- 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 Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- 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
- 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
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cuz : the life and times of Michael A.
- César Chávez : fighting for migrant farmworkers
- DJ Khaled
- Dadland
- 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
- Disney
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Drake
- Drew Brees
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dylan : the biography
- 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 Arden : beauty empire builder
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk : space entrepreneur
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Ernest Shackleton : survival in the Antarctic
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everybody is awful (except you!)
- 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
- Fatal purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- 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 Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- 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
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederic Chopin
- 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
- 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 Lucas : filmmaker & creator of Star Wars
- George Washington
- George Washington : the first president
- George Washington : the wonder of the age
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Geronimo
- Gertrude B. Elion and pharmacology
- Ghetto Klown : a graphic novel
- 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
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- 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
- 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
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Haunted Door County
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I've got this round : more tales of debauchery
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- 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
- 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
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jack Hanna
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- James Bowie
- James Monroe : a life
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Janis : her life and music
- Janis : her life and music
- Jay-Z
- Jeff Kinney
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jennifer Lawrence : Academy Award-winning actress
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell : discovering pulsars
- John Adams
- John F. Kennedy the brave
- John Quincy Adams
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Juliane Koepcke : lost in Peru
- Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Kate DiCamillo
- Katherine Johnson : guiding spacecraft
- Keep it fake : inventing an authentic life
- Keith Urban : award-winning country star
- Kellogg's
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kepler and the universe : how one man revolutionized astronomy
- Kidnapped by a client : the incredible true story of an attorney's fight for justice/
- Kids who are changing the world
- Killer clown : the John Wayne Gacy murder
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Lana Wachowski
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- LeBron James : basketball's king
- LeBron, Inc. : the making of a billion-dollar athlete
- Leonard Bernstein
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let me not be mad : my story of unraveling minds
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letters to Vera
- Levi Strauss : blue jean genius
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Life is short (no pun intended) : love, laughter, and learning to enjoy every moment
- Life of the party : the remarkable story of how Brownie Wise built, and lost, a Tupperware party empire
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
- Lighter than air : Sophie Blanchard, the first woman pilot
- Lights! Camera! Alice! : the thrilling true adventures of the first woman filmmaker
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lin-Manuel Miranda : award-winning musical writer
- Lin-Manuel Miranda : composer, actor, and creator of Hamilton
- Little dancer aged fourteen
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little weirds
- Living with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- Lizzie demands a seat : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- Long, tall Lincoln
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy, Jr., and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Lost shepherd : how Pope Francis is misleading his flock
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Madeleine Albright
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mamie on the mound : a woman in baseball's Negro leagues
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Marconi : the man who networked the world
- Maria Beasley and life rafts
- Maria Sibylla Merian : artist, scientist, adventurer
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mary Anderson and windshield wipers
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Me
- Me & Patsy kickin' up dust : my friendship with Patsy Cline
- Meet the champions
- Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America
- Megan Smith
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Melania Trump
- Melinda Gates : philanthropist and education advocate
- Mendeleyev's dream : the quest for the elements
- Michael Jackson : on the wall
- Michelle Obama
- Michelle Obama : first lady, going higher
- Michelle Obama : former first lady & role model
- Midnight teacher : Lilly Ann Granderson and her secret school
- Miles & me
- Misty Copeland : ballerina
- Misty Copeland : principal ballerina
- Monet / Tamra B. Orr
- Monopoly mastermind : Charles B. Darrow
- Montaigne in barn boots : an amateur ambles through philosophy
- Mother Teresa
- Mr. Crum's potato predicament
- Mr. Mojo : a biography of Jim Morrison
- Mr. Potato Head inventor : George Lerner
- Muhammad Ali
- Murder, interrupted
- My fellow soldiers : General John Pershing and the Americans who helped win the Great War
- My fellow soldiers : General John Pershing and the Americans who helped win the great war
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My journey
- My journey to the stars
- My life in progressive politics : against the grain
- Nabokov in America : on the road to Lolita
- Nancy Reagan : drug crusader
- Nando Parrado : crash in the Andes
- Neil Armstrong : astronaut & first human to walk on the moon
- Nellie Bly
- Nemesis : one man and the battle for Rio
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Noisemakers : 25 women who raised their voices & changed the world
- Normal : a mother and her beautiful son
- Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Olivia de Havilland : lady triumphant
- One fun day with Lewis Carroll : a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Oprah Winfrey : media legend and inspiration to millions
- Osceola
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet
- Our story : a memoir of love and life in China
- Paradise lost : a life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler
- Patricia Bath and laser surgery
- Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
- Paul : a biography
- Paul McCartney : the life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern
- Pelosi
- Pelosi
- Petty : the biography
- Pharrell Williams
- Photographic : the life of Graciela Iturbide
- Phyllis Tickle : a life
- Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
- Pitbull
- Play-Doh pioneer : Joseph McVicker
- Pokémon designer : Satoshi Tajiri
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President Carter : the White House years
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince : musical icon
- Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
- Princes at war : the bitter battle inside Britain's royal family in the darkest days of WWII
- Princess power
- Queen Elizabeth II : the world's longest reigning monarch
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise
- Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Raging bull : my story
- Raising a rare girl : a memoir
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Red Cloud
- Relentless : a memoir
- Relentless spirit : the unconventional raising of a champion
- Reshma Saujani
- Rihanna
- Ringo : with a little help
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- River of fire : my spiritual journey
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Fulton
- Roberta Gibb
- Robin
- Robin
- Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley
- Ronda Rousey
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks : activist for equality
- Rosalind Franklin : unlocking DNA
- Rubik's Cube creator : Erno Rubik
- Russell Wilson
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg