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- The hundred-year walk : an Armenian odyssey
- The lady is a spy : Virginia Hall, World War II hero of the French resistance
- The last Republicans : inside the extraordinary relationship between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
- The last days of John Lennon
- The last days of John Lennon
- The last pass : Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and what matters in the end
- The life of Selena : La vida de Selena
- The literature of Spain and Latin America
- The little book of feminist saints
- The lives of Increase Mather and Sir William Phipps
- The making of Donald Trump
- The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- The new tsar : the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin
- The night lake : a young priest maps the topography of grief
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The pioneers of Massachusetts : a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The rest I will kill : William Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a free black man refused to become a slave
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The revolution of Robert Kennedy : from power to protest after JFK
- The richest man who ever lived : the life and times of Jacob Fugger
- The royal art of poison : filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul
- The shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny
- The shadow president : the truth about Mike Pence
- The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
- The splendid and the vile
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- The three lives of James Madison : genius, partisan, president
- The triumph of William McKinley : why the election of 1896 still matters
- The truth about Tesla : the myth of the lone genius in the history of innovation
- The undocumented Americans
- The untold history of the Roman emperors
- The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's ten-year road trip
- The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz
- The wilderness of ruin : a tale of madness, Fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
- The wise king : a Christian prince, Muslim Spain, and the birth of the Renaissance
- The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world
- The wizard of lies.
- The wonders : the extraordinary performers who transformed the Victorian age
- The year of fear : Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation
- Thomas Edison
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life
- Trailblazer : the story of ballerina Raven Wilkinson
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Trump revealed : an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power
- Ty Cobb : a terrible beauty
- Una educación
- Una gloriosa libertad : vidas extraordinarias de mujeres de más de 40
- Una niña llamada Rosita : la historia de Rita Moreno: ¡actriz, cantante, bailarina, pionera!
- Una vez fui tú : mi vida entre el amor y el odio en los Estados Unidos
- Unbeaten : Rocky Marciano's fight for perfection in a crooked world
- Unnecessary roughness : inside the trial and final days of Aaron Hernandez
- Uno tan diferente como yo
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Victoria & Abdul : the true story of the queen's closest confidant
- Walden : life in the woods
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- When the world seemed new : George H.W. Bush and the end of the Cold War
- When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
- Where the bodies were buried : Whitey Bulger and the world that made him
- Who is Bruce Springsteen?
- Who is Elton John?
- Who is Greta Thunberg?
- Who is J.K. Rowling?
- Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
- Who was Cesar Chavez?
- Who was Duke Ellington?
- Who was Lucille Ball?
- Who was Maria Tallchief?
- Who was Marie Antoinette?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Woodrow Wilson?
- Wild Bill : the true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter
- Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman
- Women's art work : more than 30 female artists who changed the world
- Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
- Young radicals : in the war for American ideals
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A picture book of George Washington
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An improbable friendship : the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Artistas
- As gold in the furnace : the life of Blessed Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Franklin
- Between the world and me
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Biográfico Bowie
- Biográfico Kahlo
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Carlos Slim : the power, money, and morality of one of the world's richest men
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Cesar Chavez : Latino American civil rights activist
- Charles Darwin
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chemistry
- Chris Rock
- Científicos
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- De Gaulle
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diosas de Hollywood : las vidas de Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth y Elizabeth Taylor más allá del glamour
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- El pequeño libro de las grandes feministas : un santoral laico
- El show de Trump : el perfil de un vendedor de humo
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ella persistió : 13 mujeres Americanas que cambiaron el mundo
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk : a mission to save the world
- En el país que amamos : mi familia dividida
- En paris
- English literature from the 19th century through today
- English literature from the Old English period through the Renaissance
- English literature from the Restoration through the romantic period
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Freddie Mercury : una biografía
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida : una biografía de Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game of queens : the women who made sixteenth-century Europe
- George Washington
- Girl activist : winning strategies from women who've made a difference
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Goebbels : a biography
- Great Authors of Nonfiction
- Great authors of children's books
- Great authors of mystery, horror & thrillers
- Great poets & playwrights
- Gregor Mendel
- Hamid Karzai : president of Afghanistan
- Hannibal
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- 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
- High school
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- How we go home : voices from indigenous North America
- I am brave : a little book about Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am strong : a little book about Rosa Parks
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Into the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- James Madison's presidency
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Janis : her life and music
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Julio : la biografía
- Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights
- Kid activists : true tales of childhood from champions of change
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- Kissinger, v. 1, 1923-1968: the idealist
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- La vida de Stephen Hawking
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Last man standing : Mort Sahl and the birth of modern comedy
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let the trumpet sound : a life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Lift as you climb : the story of Ella Baker
- Limitless : 24 remarkable American women of vision, grit, and guts
- Lion of the Senate : when Ted Kennedy rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love in a time of hate : the story of Magda and André Trocmé and the village that said no to the Nazis
- Love warrior : a memoir
- MacArthur at war : World War II in the Pacific
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Magellan : over the edge of the world : the true story of the terrifying first circumnavigation of the globe
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Magnificent minds : sixteen pioneering women in science and medicine
- Malala's magic pencil
- Malala, la niña que quería ir a la escuela
- Malcolm X
- Maria Montessori : una vida para los ninos
- Marie Curie : chemist and physicist
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr. : fighting for civil rights
- Mayor James P. Meehan : a retrospective
- Me
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Mental traveler : a father, a son, and a journey through schizophrenia
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- More girls who rocked the world : heroines from Ada Lovelace to Misty Copeland
- Muhammad : prophet of peace amid the clash of empires
- My First Life : Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet
- My corner of the ring : a memoir from a champ
- My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
- My life in progressive politics : against the grain
- Mémoires du̕ne jeune fille rangée
- Neruda : the poet's calling
- Never broken : songs are only half the story
- Never too young! : 50 unstoppable kids who made a difference
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson
- Not a game : the incredible rise and unthinkable fall of Allen Iverson
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Nuestra America : 30 Latinas/Latinos inspiradores que han forjado la historia de los Estados Unidos
- On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein : my years with the exasperating genius
- Ona Judge outwits the Washingtons : an enslaved woman fights for freedom
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Our French-Canadian ancestors
- Pablo Escobar, my father
- Pablo Escobar, my father
- Patriot number one : American dreams in Chinatown
- Peace and me
- Pepitas de oro : Ana Frank
- Pope Francis
- Por el derecho a estudiar : la historia de Malala Yousafzai
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President Carter : the White House years
- President Donald Trump
- President Donald Trump
- President McKinley : architect of the American century
- Princess Diana : royal activist and fashion icon
- Profiles in courage
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Putin's wars : the rise of Russia's new imperialism
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
- RFK Jr. : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the dark side of the dream
- Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Red hot mama : the life of Sophie Tucker
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rising above, Inspiring women in sports
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- River of fire : my spiritual journey
- Robin
- Rosa Parks : activist for equality
- Rumi's secret : the life of the Sufi poet of love
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Selena : Reina de la música Tejana
- Sharp : the women who made an art of having an opinion
- Sharuko : el arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello = Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She persisted around the world : 13 women who changed history
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story
- Sisters and champions : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Slaves in the family
- Smokin' Joe : the life of Joe Frazier
- Sojourner Truth : women's rights activist and abolitionist
- Soldier for equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War
- Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Stalin : waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- Starstruck : the cosmic journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Stay curious! : a brief history of Stephen Hawking
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stories for boys who dare to be different : true tales of amazing boys who changed the world without killing dragons
- Su nombre era Dolores : la Jenn que yo conocí
- Taking my life back : my story of faith, determination, and surviving the Boston marathon bombing
- Tesla : inventor of the modern
- The Beatles anthology
- The Borgias : power and fortune
- The Chief : the life and turbulent times of Chief Justice John Roberts
- The Family Medici : the hidden history of the Medici dynasty
- The Lowells of Massachusetts : an American family
- The Netanyahu years
- The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age
- The President's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The Watergate : inside America's most infamous address
- The Wright brothers
- The Wright brothers : nose-diving into history
- The blueprint : Lebron James, Cleveland's deliverance, and the making of the modern NBA
- The boy who dreamed of infinity : a tale of the genius Ramanujan
- The boy who thought outside the box : the story of video game inventor Ralph Baer
- The boys in the boat : the true story of an American team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 olympics
- The butterfly effect : how Kendrick Lamar ignited the soul of black America
- The butterfly's burden : poems
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there
- The dictators : who they were and how they influenced our world
- The education of Brett Kavanaugh : an investigation
- The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War
- The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight
- The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The girl who rode a shark & other stories of daring women
- The girl who thought in pictures : the story of Dr. Temple Grandin
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The golden thread : a song for Pete Seeger
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The great and the terrible : the world's most glorious and notorious rulers and how they got their names
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