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- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A message from God
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A truck full of money
- A truck full of money : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adele : singing sensation
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- Agent 110 : An American spymaster, and the German underground in World War II
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Ai Weiwei : never sorry
- Al Capone and the roaring twenties
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Alexander Graham Bell : giving voice to the world
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : framer of the Constitution
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Amos Fortune : free man
- And no birds sang
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Another bullshit night in Suck City : a memoir
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Autumn
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- 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
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beethoven : the universal composer
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Martha : the inside story of Martha Stewart and her amazing life
- Bette Midler : still divine
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the patriots
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Bottle houses : the creative world of Grandma Prisbrey
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Captured by Indians : the life of Mary Jemison
- Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Charlemagne : father of a continent
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil War : battles and leaders
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Colorful dreamer : the story of artist Henri Matisse
- Considering Doris Day
- 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
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cutting back : my apprenticeship in the gardens of Kyoto
- Danica Patrick
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin : discovering the tree of life
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- Dinner with Dimaggio : memories of an American Hero
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Disrupted : my misadventure in the start-up bubble
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dwyane Wade
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edgar Allan Poe : tales and poems
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Einstein's masterwork : 1915 and the general theory of relativity
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis Presley
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everybody behaves badly : the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
- Exit through the gift shop
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore with Samuel de Champlain
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Facing the music : and living to talk about it
- Failing up : how to take risks, aim higher, and never stop learning
- Famous lawmen
- Fasting and feasting : the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
- Fear
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year
- Flickr cofounder and web community creator Caterina Fake
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Four princes : Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the obsessions that forged modern Europe
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo : the artist who painted herself
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Fully alive : discovering what matters most
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Genghis Khan and the quest for God : how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
- George Lucas : a life
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Gosnell : the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer
- Grandma Moses
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- H. H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hair-care millionaire : Madam C.J. Walker and her amazing business
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Harriet Tubman : a woman of courage
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Helen Keller
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- HerStory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Here's Johnny!
- Heroes of the Revolution
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- His final battle : Franklin Roosevelt in the last months
- Hitler : ascent, 1889-1939
- Holding the net : caring for my mother on the tightrope of aging
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How I got this way
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Illustrated lives of the saints
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In the darkroom
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Inferno : a doctor's Ebola story
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It gets worse : a collection of essays
- J.J. Watt
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackson Pollock
- Jazz Age Josephine : dancer, singer--who's that, who? why that's Miss Josephine Baker, to you!
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Jo Malone : my story
- Joe Gould's teeth
- John F. Kennedy : the making of a leader
- John James Audubon : the making of an American
- John McCain : an American hero
- Johnny Carson
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Kafka, the early years
- Keith Richards : a life in pictures
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- Labyrinths : Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Life is so good
- Liftoff : a photobiography of John Glenn
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Linspired : the remarkable rise of Jeremy Lin
- Lives of the great gardeners
- Look at you now : my journey from shame to strength
- Lost in the Pacific, 1942 : not a drop to drink
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- MacArthur's spies : the soldier, the singer, and the spymaster who defied the Japanese in World War II
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Maeve Binchy : the biography
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manderley forever
- Margaret and the Moon : the computer scientist who saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie : mother of modern physics
- Marilyn in Manhattan : her year of joy
- Marine biology : cool women who dive
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King Jr. : civil rights leader
- Mary Tudor : princess, bastard, queen
- Master of ceremonies : a memoir
- Maya Moore
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Melania Trump : champion for youth
- Meteorology : cool women who weather storms
- Michael Jordan : the life
- Michelangelo
- Michelle Obama
- Michelle Obama : health advocate
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Morgue : a life in death
- Moses
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mozart's starling
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : the true story of New York's City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation
- Murdering McKinley : the making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
- My father and Atticus Finch : a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama
- My journey to the stars
- My life with Bob : flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
- My life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
- My lost poets : a life in poetry
- My own words
- My thirteenth winter : a memoir
- No better friend : one man, one dog, and their extraordinary story of courage and survival in WWII
- No limits : the will to succeed
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Notable Black American women
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Okay fine whatever : the year I went from being afraid of everything to only being afraid of most things
- Only in Naples : lessons in food and famiglia from my Italian mother-in-law
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Pablo Escobar, my father
- Pablo Picasso
- Patrick Henry : champion of liberty
- Pelé : his life and times
- Petty : the biography
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir : paintings that smile
- Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Presidents
- Prince : inside the music and the masks
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Promise me Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
- RFK Jr. : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the dark side of the dream
- Randolph Caldecott : the man who could not stop drawing
- Random family : love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx
- Rasputin : faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs
- Ray and Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Read about Johnny Appleseed
- Rejected princesses : tales of history's boldest heroines, hellions, and heretics
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Revolution
- Revolutionary science : transformation and turmoil in the age of the guillotine
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Riker Lynch
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Robert F. Kennedy : ripples of hope : Kerry Kennedy in conversation with heads of state, business leaders, influencers, and activists about her father's impact on their lives
- Robin
- Ronald Reagan
- Sacagawea : brave Shoshone girl
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Sargent's women : four lives behind the canvas
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Sequoyah
- Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war
- Sing for your life : a story of race, music, and family
- Sir Francis Drake
- Sitting Bull
- Soul survivor : a biography of Al Green
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Star stuff : Carl Sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos
- State of the onion
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Switched on : a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Temple Grandin : how the girl who loved cows embraced autism and changed the world
- Testimony
- The Baseball Whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped Big League dreams
- The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights, with one African American family
- The Book of Isaias : a child of Hispanic immigrants seeks his own America
- The Code of trust : an American counterintelligence expert's five rules to lead and succeed
- The Dangerous case of Donald Trump : 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
- The Duchess : Camilla Parker Bowles and the love affair that rocked the crown
- The Good Fight : the Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How they Shaped the Nation)
- The Great reformer : Francis and the making of a radical pope
- The Jersey brothers : a saga of war and family
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The King and queen of Malibu : the true story of the battle for paradise
- The Lowells of Massachusetts : an American family
- The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age
- The Red bandanna
- The Revolution remembered : eyewitness accounts of the war for independence
- The Rising : murder, heartbreak, and the power of human resilience in an American town
- The River Queen : a memoir
- The Riviera set : glitz, glamour, and the hidden world of high society
- The Wright brothers
- The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s
- The angel : the Egyptian spy who saved Israel
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The burn journals
- The children's blizzard
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs
- The clothes make the girl (look fat)? : adventures and agonies in fashion
- The commander : Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab independence, 1914-1948
- The cost of courage
- The education of a coroner : lessons in investigating death
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- The empress of art : Catherine the Great and the transformation of Russia
- The enlightened Mr. Parkinson : the pioneering life of a forgotten surgeon and the mysterious disease that bears his name
- The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight
- The far away brothers : two young migrants and the making of an American life
- The flight : Charles Lindbergh's daring and immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing
- The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- The gatekeeper : Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
- The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The hidden lives of Tudor women : a social history
- The hostage's daughter : a story of family, madness, and the Middle East
- The hundred-year walk : an Armenian odyssey
- The huntress : the adventures, escapades, and triumphs of Alicia Patterson: aviatrix, sportswoman, journalist, publisher
- The life and times of Mickey Rooney
- The lives of the surrealists
- The man in the monster : an intimate portrait of a serial killer
- The man who knew : the life and times of Alan Greenspan
- The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
- The presidential masters of prehistory
- The quark and the jaguar : adventures in the simple and the complex
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American revolution, 1783-1789
- The real Elizabeth : an intimate portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
- The real Romney
- The reporter who knew too much : the mysterious death of What's my line tv star and media icon Dorothy Kilgallen
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The right word : Roget and his thesaurus
- The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
- The road to Jonestown : Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright
- The speechwriter : a brief education in politics
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire
- The sun & the moon & the Rolling Stones
- The totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness
- The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
- The tunnels : escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired The Little House books
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt : the adventurous president
- They're playing our song : a memoir
- Thomas Edison : inventor
- Tiger Woods
- Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life
- True believer : Stalin's last American spy
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Trump is f*cking crazy : (this is not a joke)
- Trump revealed : an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power
- Try not to suck : the exceptional, extraordinary baseball life of Joe Maddon
- Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars : the Negro leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Van Gogh and Gauguin : the studio of the south
- Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers/
- Visiting Tom : a man, a highway, and the road to roughneck grace
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- What happened to Kerouac?
- What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen
- When breath becomes air
- Where Washington walked
- Who are the Rolling Stones?
- Who is Aretha Franklin?
- Who was Bob Marley?
- Who was Christopher Columbus?
- Who was Chuck Jones?
- Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
- Who was Jane Austen?
- Who was Julia Child?
- Who was Lewis Carroll?
- Who was Marie Antoinette?
- Who was Pete Seeger?
- Who were the Three Stooges?
- Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions
- Wrestling with his angel : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, 1849-1856
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- You must change your life : the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
- You wouldn't want to be Cleopatra! : an Egyptian ruler you'd rather not be
- You're better than me : a memoir
- Young Washington : how wilderness and war forged America's founding father
- Young and damned and fair : the life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII
- Zoe Saldana
- iPod and electronics visionary Tony Fadell
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