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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 book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- 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 is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of George Washington
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A story is to share : how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A take-charge girl blazes a trail to Congress : the story of Jeannette Rankin
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abigail Adams
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Blackjack : castaway
- Ada Lovelace and computer algorithms
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- 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
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt
- 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 faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- Aly Raisman
- Amanda Gorman
- 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 daughter : a memoir
- American philosophy : a love story
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- 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
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Anna : the biography
- 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
- Anthony Davis
- Antonio Brown
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Ariana Grande
- Aron Ralston : trapped in the desert
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- 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
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barack Obama
- Barbara Bush
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barkley : a biography
- 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 my baby : a memoir
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- 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
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Bet on Black : the good news about being Black in America today
- 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 Clinton
- 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
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black women will save the world : an anthem
- Blake Shelton : happy anywhere
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- 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
- Blood, fire & gold : the story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- 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
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Booker T. Washington
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the south seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune
- 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
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Brief history of oversharing : one gingers anthology of humiliation
- Bright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers in arms : a true World War II story of Wojtek the bear and the soldiers who loved him
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By the grace of the game : the Holocaust, a basketball legacy, and an unprecedented American dream
- Byron's women
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- 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
- Celia planted a garden : the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- 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 Dickens
- Charles Schulz
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- 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
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Ching Shih : the world's most successful pirate
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Chunky goes to camp
- Clara Lemlich
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude Monet : founder of French impressionism
- Claudette Colvin
- Cleopatra tells all!
- 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
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Colors of awesome! : 24 bold women who inspired the world
- Comeback kids : three animals who overcame the impossible
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Composers : their lives and works
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Control freak : my epic adventures making video games
- Coretta Scott King
- Cost of living : essays
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Covered in color : Christo & Jeanne-Claude's fabrics of freedom
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crazy Horse
- 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 & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- 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
- Cultured donuts : take a bite out of art history
- Cut! : how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cuz : the life and times of Michael A.
- DJ Khaled
- Dadland
- Dalai Lama
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr./
- 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
- Danica Patrick
- 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
- Diana Taurasi
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Didn't we almost have it all : in defense of Whitney Houston
- Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- 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
- Dorothy Height
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Goebbels, his life and death
- Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dr. Seuss / : by Julie Murray
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Drake
- Dressing up the stars : the story of movie costume designer Edith Head
- Drew Brees
- Drinking games : a memoir
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Dylan : the biography
- E.R. nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Easy street : a story of redemption from myself
- Edison
- 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 Roosevelt : her path to kindness
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Electable : why America hasn't put a woman in the White House... yet
- 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 Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Elon Musk : space entrepreneur
- Elvis Presley
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- 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 I never dreamed
- Everything I never dreamed : my life surviving and standing up to domestic violence
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore with James Cook
- Explorers & discoverers : from Alexander the Great to Sally Ride
- Faith Ringgold : narrating the world in pattern and color
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Famous immigrant artists
- 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 : the story of Daphne Caruana Galizia, defender of free speech
- 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 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
- Finding home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- 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
- Flamethrower : Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War
- Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale
- 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"
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Forever boy : a mother's memoir of autism and finding joy
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Fred Rogers
- Freddie Mercury
- 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
- From Saturday night to Sunday night : my forty years of laughter, tears, and touchdowns in TV
- 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
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century