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- "The American nightmare" Cody
- 12 adventurers with disabilites
- 12 business leaders with disabilities
- 12 journalists and media personalities with disabilities
- 12 political leaders with disabilities
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing and manhood in Appalachia
- 12 scientists with disabilities
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A chosen destiny
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- 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 Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- 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 hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A walk through Paris
- A worthy piece of work : the untold story of Madeline Morgan and the fight for Black history in schools
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Acne : a memoir
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace : first computer programmer
- Adolf Hitler
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- 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
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : [the outsider]
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : vida, época y ascenso de AOC
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in : an autobiography
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- 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 lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Allowed to grow old : portraits of elderly animals from farm sanctuaries
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amanda Gorman
- 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
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Indian stories
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- 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 extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- 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
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol : fighting to revolutionize art
- Anna : the biography
- Anna : the biography
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Ariana Grande : break free
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Artist biographies
- Artistas
- Artists : their lives and works
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad fat black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad motherfucker : the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barack Obama
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barkley : a biography
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Battle of brothers : William & Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Bayard Rustin
- 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
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- 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
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming a citizen activist : stories, strategies, & advice for changing our world
- Before George Washington was president
- Before Lawrence v. Texas : the making of a queer social movement
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Ted Williams : growing up with a baseball idol
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- Benedict XVI : a life, V. I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benito Juárez : el hombre y el símbolo
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Harrison
- Bessie Coleman
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Bibi : my story
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black like me
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood, fire & gold : the story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Booker T. Washington
- Bookish broads : women who wrote themselves into history
- Booth girls : pregnancy, adoption, and the secrets we kept
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to coach : the story of Bill Squires the legendary coach of the greatest generation of American distance runners
- Born to run
- Both sides of the line : my coach, the Boston mob enforcer, my mentor, the murderer : the true story of Clyde Dempsey and the 1974 Don Bosco Bears
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- 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
- Brie Larson is Captain Marvel
- 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
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Bryce Harper
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building an orchestra of hope : how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Camera girl : the coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
- Candace Parker
- Canta conmigo : la historia de Selena Quintanilla
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carli Lloyd
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Celia Cruz
- Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights
- Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Champions of women's soccer
- Chance the Rapper : independent innovator
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the Bear : how Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chekhov becomes Chekhov : the emergence of a literary genius, 1886-1887
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Choices : to the Hills and back again
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Chris Pratt is Star-Lord®
- Chuck Berry : an American life
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Científicos
- Citizen Cash : the political life and times of Johnny Cash
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Claudette Colvin refuses to move : courageous kid of the Civil Rights Movement
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Close up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- 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 Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Con ganas de vivir
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire--a biography
- Confessions : a new translation
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Cost of living : essays
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- 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
- Cristiano Ronaldo : international soccer star
- 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
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cy Young : an American baseball hero
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- Dadland
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- 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
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark hearts : the world's most famous horror writers
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Pastrnak : hockey superstar
- Davy Crockett
- De Gaulle
- Dear Sophie, Love Sophie : a graphic memoir in diaries, letters, & lists
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism and friendship
- Diamonds and deadlines : a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Diana : her true story in her own words
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius
- Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- 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
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Don't tell anybody the secrets I told you
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dorothy Vaughan : NASA's leading human computer
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- 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. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Dream crazy big! : the JoJo Siwa story
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dude Perfect 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dwayne Johnson : actor and pro wrestler
- Dwyane
- E.R. nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Earthbound : David Bowie and The man who fell to Earth
- Easy street : a story of redemption from myself
- Eat your mind : the radical life and work of Kathy Acker
- Edison
- Eight survived : the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt, with love : a centenary remembrance
- Eleanor in the village : Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village
- 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 & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters