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- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- 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 farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García 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 Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A life of one's own : nine women writers begin again
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- 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 street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A wild idea
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the miracle : the political crusades of Helen Keller
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : the man, the genius, and the theory of relativity
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : explorer, naturalist & environmental pioneer
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : vida, época y ascenso de AOC
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- 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
- Amanda Gorman
- Amazing : Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who inspire us all
- Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians : inspiring stories of courage and achievement
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American ramble : a walk of memory and renewal
- An Amerikan family : the Shakurs and the nation they created
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An aristocracy of critics : Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the committee that redefined freedom of the press
- 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
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Annette feels free : the true story of Annette Kellerman, world-class swimmer, fashion pioneer, and real-life mermaid
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Artistas
- As gold in the furnace : the life of Blessed Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
- Ashoka the fierce : how an angry prince became India's emperor of peace
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad fat black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad gays : a homosexual history
- 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
- Basketball greats
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Because Claudette
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Being Ram Dass
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benito Juárez : el hombre y el símbolo
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- 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 girls unbossed : young world changers leading the way
- Black heroes : 51 inspiring people from ancient Africa to modern-day U.S.A. : a black history book for kids
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- 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
- Bob Ross
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bookish broads : women who wrote themselves into history
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Brave the wild river : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Braver than I thought : real people, real courage, real hope
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruno Schulz : an artist, a murder, and the hijacking of history
- Building : a carpenter's notes on life and the art of good work
- Built from the fire : the epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street : one hundred years in the neighborhood that refused to be erased
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Camera girl : the coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
- Canta conmigo : la historia de Selena Quintanilla
- Capablanca: : Leyenda y realidad, Tomo I. El rey coronado
- Carlos Slim : the power, money, and morality of one of the world's richest men
- Carol Burnett
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Caza de brujas : vida de las brujas de la historia, de los cuentos y de hoy
- Celia Cruz
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasin' the bird : Charlie Parker in California
- Checking in : how getting real about depression saved my life-and can save yours
- Chemistry
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chris Rock
- Chunky goes to camp
- Científicos
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Climate warriors : fourteen scientists and fourteen ways we can save our planet
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel : pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- 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
- Corazón de mexicanos como yo: : 50 historias de personajes que rompieron fronteras
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Courageous world changers
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes : 100 mexicanas extraordinarias
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes : 100 mujeres migrantes que cambiaron al mundo
- Cuentos por el clima : gente pequeña, haciendo cosas pequeñas, puede salvar el planeta
- Curve & flow : the elegant vision of L.A. architect Paul R. Williams
- Cut! : how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dare to be different : inspirational words from people who changed the world
- Darryl's dream
- David Hockney
- Dazzlin' Dolly: : the songwriting, hit-singing, guitar-picking Dolly Parton
- De Gaulle
- De niñas, disfraces y un soneto : la infancia de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism and friendship
- Diana Taurasi
- 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
- Door by door : how Sarah McBride became America's first openly transgender senator
- Douglas Hyde : a maker of modern Ireland
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Fauci
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dressing up the stars : the story of movie costume designer Edith Head
- El imperio del dolor : la historia secreta de la dinastía que reinó en la industria farmacéutica
- El olvido que seremos
- El pequeño libro de las grandes feministas : un santoral laico
- El salto largo: : la historia de Jean-Baptiste Alaize
- Eleanor Roosevelt : her path to kindness
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eli and the octopus : the CEO who tried to reform one of the world's most notorious corporations
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- 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
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella persistio en la ciencia : mujeres brillantes que marcaron la diferencia
- 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
- Elvis Presley
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- 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
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everybody thought we were crazy : Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Fabulously feisty queens : 15 bright, bold and brilliant women who have ruled the world
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Faith Ringgold : narrating the world in pattern and color
- Faith of my fathers
- Fall down seven times, stand up eight : Patsy Takemoto Mink and the fight for Title IX
- Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fearless women : feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
- Female, gifted, and Black : awesome art and literary pioneers who changed the world
- Fierce love : a memoir of family, faith, and purpose
- 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 home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- Finding my dance
- Finding refuge : real-life immigration stories from young people
- 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
- First impressions : off-screen conversations with a Bachelor on race, family, and forgiveness
- First lady of World War II : Eleanor Roosevelt's daring journey to the frontlines and back
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Flashes of creation : George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big bang debate
- Florence Nightingale
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- Follow me to hell : McNelly's Texas Rangers and the rise of frontier justice
- Food stars : 15 women stirring up the food industry
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Fortune's many houses : a Victorian visionary, a noble Scottish family, and a lost inheritance
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Freddie Mercury
- 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 : una biografía
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Fue idea de Elizabeth/
- 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
- Garbo
- Gentleman bandit : the true story of Black Bart, the old West's most infamous stagecoach robber
- George V : never a dull moment
- George Washington
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- George Washington Carver : more than "the peanut man"
- Ginseng roots, V. 1
- Ginseng roots, V. 2
- Ginseng roots, V. 3
- Ginseng roots, V. 4
- Ginseng roots, V. 5
- Girl activist : winning strategies from women who've made a difference
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Goebbels : a biography
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 inspiring young changemakers
- Great Authors of Nonfiction
- Great authors of children's books
- Great authors of mystery, horror & thrillers
- Great poets & playwrights
- Gregor Mendel
- Greta : la lucha de una niña por salvar el planeta
- Greta Thunberg
- Gun barons : the weapons that transformed America and the men who invented them
- Había una vez mexicanas que hicieron historia, 2
- Había una vez mexicanas que hicieron historia, V. 3
- Hamid Karzai : president of Afghanistan
- Hamilton
- Hanged! : Mary Surratt & the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
- Hannibal
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harry Houdini
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Hawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her epic adventure : 25 daring women who inspire a life less ordinary
- Her name was Mary Katharine : the only woman whose name is on the Declaration of Independence
- 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
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- High flyers : 15 inspiring women aviators and astronauts
- High school
- Hijas de la historia : las mujeres que construyeron a México
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- Historias de chicos diferentes y valientes : se atrevieron y cumplieron sus sueños
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Hokusaí : he saw the world in a wave
- Holding her own : the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes
- Hometown victory : a coach's story of football, fate, and coming home
- Honey, baby, mine : a mother and daughter talk life, death, love (and banana pudding)
- How I saved the world
- How do you spell unfair? : MacNolia Cox and the national spelling bee
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- How to hear the universe : Gaby González and the search for Einstein's ripples in space-time
- How we can win : race, history and changing the money game that's rigged
- How we do family : from adoption to trans pregnancy, what we learned about love and LGBTQ parenthood
- How we go home : voices from indigenous North America
- I am John Lewis
- I am Malala Yousafzai
- I am Muhammad Ali
- I am Oprah Winfrey
- I am Rosa Parks
- I am Temple Grandin
- I am brave : a little book about Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am strong : a little book about Rosa Parks
- I begin with spring : the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau
- I could not do otherwise : the remarkable life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
- I guess I haven't learned that yet : discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
- I have been buried under years of dust : a memoir of autism and hope
- I keep trying to catch his eye : a memoir of loss, grief, and love
- I'm glad my mom died
- Ice cream man : how Augustus Jackson made a sweet treat better
- Icebound : shipwrecked at the edge of the world
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen
- Important Black Americans in arts and culture
- Important Black Americans in science and invention
- Important black Americans in sports
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the footsteps of the savior : following Jesus through the Holy Land
- In the garden of the righteous : the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
- In the nation's service : the life and times of George P. Shultz
- In the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- 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
- Irish lives; : biographies of fifty famous Irish men and women.
- Irma : the education of a mother's son
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It was all a dream : Biggie and the world that made him
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackie Robinson : he led the way
- James Madison's presidency
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall : una revolucionaria en la investigación del mundo animal
- Janis : her life and music
- Jean-Michel Basquiat : and the art of storytelling
- Jesse Owens
- Jill : a biography of the First Lady
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Biden : su vida, su carrera, y los temas relevantes
- Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
- John Lewis
- Juanes : 1.577.836.800 segundos
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Julio : la biografía
- Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights