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- "Harold" : the people's mayor : an authorized biography of Mayor Harold Washington
- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- "It's only a movie, Ingrid" : encounters on and off screen
- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- "Posmotrim, kto kogo pereupr?iamit..." : Nadezhda ?IAkovlevna Mandelʹshtam v pisʹmakh, vospominani?iakh, svidetelʹstvakh
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "Son" : a psychopath and his victims
- "The sex side of life" : Mary Ware Dennett's pioneering battle for birth control and sex education
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- 'Paramav?racakra' vijet?on? ?auryag?th?o
- 'They say' : Ida B. Wells and the reconstruction of race
- (Nie) odjazdowe życie Baci Collins
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- --If you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
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- 10 at 10 : the surprising childhoods of ten remarkable people
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 Christian women who changed the twentieth century
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- 1000 years of famous people
- 101 things you didn't know about Einstein : sex, science, and the secrets of the universe
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 12 women who shaped America : 1619 to 1920
- 13 women artists children should know
- 131 Christians everyone should know
- 15 stars : Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall : three generals who saved the American century
- 15 to life : Kenneth's story
- 15 zhenshchin Leonida Mlechina
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 extraordinary American women
- 16 extraordinary Asian Americans
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 180° south
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 2 Chainz
- 20 fun facts about Aaron Burr
- 20 fun facts about Alexander Hamilton
- 20 fun facts about Benjamin Franklin
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 20 fun facts about James Madison
- 20 fun facts about Thomas Jefferson
- 25 women who dared to create
- 25 women who thought of it first
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 303 Squadron : the legendary Battle of Britain fighter squadron
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 4192 : the crowning of the hit king
- 42 is not just a number
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5,000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 50 Cent
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 artists you should know
- 50 paintings you should know
- 50 years of photography
- 51 vyakti vi?esha
- 69 ?t?iudov o russkikh pisatel?iakh
- 715 : reflections on hammerin' Hank and the home run that made history
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- 99 : stories of the game
- ?TSinkovye malʹchiki
- ?iv?j?n? ?auryag?th?
- ?je pa?a e y?da che : mah?nubh?von? smr̥tima?j?sh? : mul?k?ta ?dh?rita lekho
- ?r?kr̥sh?ane anusaro-- Mah?na bano!
- ?r?mad-Bh?gavatam : with a short life sketch of Lord ?r? Caitanya Mah?prabhu, the ideal preacher of Bh?gavata-dharma, and the original Sanskrit text, its roman transliteration, synonyms, translation and elaborate purports
- ?ric Rohmer : a biography
- ?t?iudy o vremeni : iz zabytogo, nezamechenogo, nenapechatanogo
- ?wi?ty Jan Paweł II
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Chorus line and the musicals of Michael Bennett
- A Farley Mowat reader
- A Lenape among the Quakers : the life of Hannah Freeman
- A New Orleans voudou priestess : the legend and reality of Marie Laveau
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Thousand Sparks of Light
- A ValueTales treasury : stories for growing good people
- A bad woman feeling good : blues and the women who sing them
- A band with built-in hate : The Who from pop art to punk
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A braid of lives : Native American childhood
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A brief history of Cleopatra
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A brotherhood betrayed
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A burning in my bones : the authorized biography of Eugene H. Peterson
- A calendar of saints : the lives of the principal saints of the Christian Year
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A crime in the family
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : [the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not!" Ripley]
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not!" Ripley
- A dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter of the samurai
- A daughter's love : Thomas More and his dearest Meg
- A deserving brother : George Washington and freemasonry
- A different drummer : my thirty years with Ronald Reagan
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A doctor in the great war
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long trip home
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A dream within a dream : the life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir [of] Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fatal friendship : Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- A father's story
- A fighting chance
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A football life, Season 2
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A free man : [a true story of life and death in Delhi]
- A freewheelin' time : a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
- A funny thing happened on the way
- A gallery of rogues : portraits in true crime
- A gambling man : Charles II's Restoration game
- A general history of the robberies & murders of the most notorious pirates
- A girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno : actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good man in evil times : the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the man who saved the lives of countless refugees in World War II
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A greater love : Prince Charles's twenty-year affair with Camilla Parker Bowles
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- A history of African-American artists, 1792-1988 : from 1792 to the present
- A history of women photographers
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A horn for Louis
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A hundred or more hidden things : the life and films of Vincente Minnelli
- A just cause : the impeachment and removal of Governor Rod Blagojevich
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A legacy of faith : things I learned from my father, Billy Graham
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in letters
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck
- A life of Picasso
- A life of Picasso
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A light that never goes out : the enduring saga of the Smiths
- A little more Les : conversations, photos and memories from a treasured friendship with the legendary Les Paul
- A long way home
- A love that multiplies : an up-close view of how they make it work
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man named Thoreau
- A man of good hope
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change
- A man of salt and trees : the life of Joy Morton
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A match made in Hell : the Jewish boy and the Polish outlaw who defied the Nazis
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- A moveable feast
- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A past in hiding : memory and survival in Nazi Germany
- A perfect union : Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation
- A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
- A picture book of Anne Frank
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A picture book of Paul Revere
- A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- A private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A promise fulfilled : Theodor Hertzl, Chaim Weitzmann, and David Ben-Gurion, and the creation of the state of Israel
- A quick guide to Ben Franklin
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A raven named Grip : how a bird inspired two famous writers, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
- A remarkable mother
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A romance on three legs : Glenn Gould's obsessive quest for the perfect piano
- A rose for Mrs. Miniver : the life of Greer Garson
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times
- A saint a day : 365 true stories of faith and heroism
- A saint on death row : the story of Dominique Green
- A satisfied mind : the country music life of Porter Wagoner
- A secret history
- A secret life : the Polish officer, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sense of place : great travel writers talk about their craft, lives, and inspiration
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- A ship without a sail : the life of Lorenz Hart
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A simple monk : writings on His Holiness the Dalai Laman
- A slant of sun : one child's courage
- A slave in the White House
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy at the heart of the Third Reich : the extraordinary story of Fritz Kolbe, America's most important spy in World War II
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A super sticky mistake
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A tale of two murders : guilt, innocence, and the execution of Edith Thompson
- A thousand Sundays : the story of the Ed Sullivan show
- A thousand hills : Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A to Z great modern artists
- A to Z of American women in sports
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans : pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history
- A treasury of great American scandals : tantalizing true tales of historic misbehavior by the founding fathers and others who let freedom swing
- A treasury of royal scandals : the shocking true stories of history's wickedest, weirdest, most wanton kings, queens, tsars, popes, and emperors
- A true history of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865
- A twist of Lemmon : a tribute to my father
- A useful woman : the early life of Jane Addams
- A venom in the blood
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very private woman : the life and unsolved murder of presidential mistress Mary Meyer
- A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- A victor, not a butcher : Ulysses S. Grant's overlooked military genius
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A voice from the wildernesss : the story of Anna Howard Shaw
- A voice named Aretha
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A walk through Paris
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A way of living : the art of Willem De Kooning
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A well-paid slave : Curt Flood's fight for free agency in professional sports
- A window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman's place : the inventors, rumrunners, lawbreakers, scientists & single moms who changed the world with food
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A world elsewhere : an American woman in wartime Germany
- A worthy piece of work : the untold story of Madeline Morgan and the fight for Black history in schools
- A year in the South : four lives in 1865
- A'ja Wilson
- A. A. Milne
- A. A. Milne
- A. A. Milne
- A. C. Wharton Jr
- A. Philip Randolph
- ABBA
- AC/DC (Music group)
- AC/DC : high-voltage rock 'n' roll : the ultimate illustrated history
- AC/DC : maximum rock & roll
- AC/DC : the world's heaviest rock
- AGI : graphic design since 1950
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aage Bohr
- Aaliyah
- Aaron Burr
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron Copland : the life and work of an uncommon man
- Aaron Copland's America : a cultural perspective
- Aaron Eckhart
- Aaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator
- Aaron Judge : baseball star
- Aaron McGruder
- Aaron Neville
- Aaron Paul
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Rodgers : Super Bowl MVP
- Aaron Rodgers : superstar quarterback
- Aaron Sorkin
- Aaronsohn's maps : the untold story of the man who might have created peace in the Middle East
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abbie Cornish
- Abby Wambach
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Abdul Hamid (Bangladeshi president)
- Abdullah Abdullah (Afghan politician)
- Abdullah Ensour
- Abdullah Gul
- Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani
- Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A-Z
- Abe Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abe Lincoln grows up
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abhisit Vejjajiva
- Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Breslin
- About Grace : an intimate notebook
- Above the clouds : how I carved my own path to the top of the world
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham : the first historical biography
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : President
- Abraham Lincoln : our 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln : our sixteenth president
- Abraham Lincoln : redeemer President
- Abraham Lincoln : the 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abraham Lincoln for kids : his life and times with 21 activities
- Abraham Lincoln, the man behind the myths
- Abraham Lincoln; : the prairie years and the war years
- Abraham Maslow
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln
- Absolutely Alfie and the worst best sleepover
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental genius : how John Cassavetes invented American independent film
- Accidental presidents
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- According to the Rolling Stones
- Aces high : the heroic saga of the two top-scoring American aces of World War II
- Achille Claude Debussy
- 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
- Actresses of a certain character : forty familiar Hollywood faces from the thirties to the fifties
- Ada Byron Lovelace,Countess of Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace : first computer programmer
- Ada Lovelace and computer algorithms
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Adam Carolla
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
- Adam Driver
- Adam Lambert
- Adam Levine
- Adam Levine
- Adam McKay
- Adam Oates
- Adam Sandler
- Adam Scott
- Adam Smith
- Adam Smith : an enlightened life
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele
- Adele : Grammy-winning singer & songwriter
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Adele : singing sensation
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
- Admiral "Bull" Halsey : the life and wars of the Navy's most controversial commander
- Adnan's story : [the search for truth and justice after Serial]
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Eichmann
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
- Adrian Peterson
- Adrianne Palicki
- Adrien Brody
- Adrienne Rich
- Advancing technology : women who led the way
- Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS
- Aerosmith
- Aerosmith : what it takes
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- African American faces of the Civil War : an album
- African American healers