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- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 women artists you should know
- A band with built-in hate : The Who from pop art to punk
- A brief history of geology
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism
- A rumor of war
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- Abe & Fido : Lincoln's love of animals and the touching story of his favorite canine companion
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Amanda Gorman
- American entrepreneur : how 400 years of risk-takers, innovators, and business visionaries built the U.S.A.
- And I'd do it again
- Anne Frank : una luz en la oscuridad
- Axis Sally : the American voice of Nazi Germany
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Baggage : confessions of a globe-trotting hypochondriac
- Baseball
- Battle of wills : Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and the last year of the Civil War
- Becoming a restaurateur
- Benjamin Franklin's wise words : how to work smart, play well, and make real friends
- Biblical porn : affect, labor, and pastor Mark Driscoll's evangelical empire
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies, The patriots
- Bismarck : a life
- Black Elk speaks
- Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers
- Bruno Mars : famous musician
- Butcher, baker : athe true account of an Alaskan serial killer
- Captain of her soul : the life of Marion Davies
- Cash on Cash : interviews and encounters with Johnny Cash
- Celeste Holm syndrome : on character actors from Hollywood's golden age
- Celia Cruz
- Christopher : the holy giant
- Cold case : Billy the Kid : investigating history's mysteries
- Conversations with McCartney
- Coolidge
- Cuentos para niños que se atreven a ser diferentes : historias verdaderas de chicos asombrosos que cambiaron el mindo sin matar dragones
- Cuthbert Grant : leader of the Métis people
- César Chávez
- Dance we do : a poet explores Black dance
- Death in ten minutes : the forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
- Drawing fire : the editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin
- Driving Miss Norma : one family's journey saying "yes" to living
- Driving Miss Norma : one family's journey saying "yes" to living
- Ella : Queen of jazz
- Ella persisti? alrededor del mundo : 13 mujeres que cambiaron la historia
- Eloquence of the sardine : extraordinary encounters beneath the sea
- Es mi turno : un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces
- Finding sanity : John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
- Flora Macdonald : "pretty young rebel" : her life and story
- God of sperm : Cappy Rothman's life in conception
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : freedom fighter
- Hello, crochet friends! : making art, being mindful, giving back : do what makes you happy
- Hi gorgeous! : transforming inner power into radiant beauty
- Hillary Clinton
- How to become an accidental genius
- How to raise an antiracist
- How to treat people : a nurse's notes
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- Hunting Whitey : the inside story of the capture & killing of America's most wanted crime boss
- I had a miscarriage : a memoir, a movement
- Ill feelings
- In the footsteps of Audubon
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jesus
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell : discovering pulsars
- Joe Maddon : we're gonna party like it's 1908
- John Berryman and Robert Giroux : a publishing friendship
- John Muir
- Julie Ertz
- Justice Leah Ward Sears : seizing serendipity
- Kate Middleton
- Kiki Man Ray : art, love, and rivalry in 1920s Paris
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America
- Knowledge is power : how magic, the government and an apocalyptic vision helped Francis Bacon to create modern science
- Kris Bryant : baseball superstar
- Kuan Yin : the princess who became the Goddess of Compassion
- Legendary authors and the clothes they wore
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letters to a young Muslim
- Lincoln's Jewish spy : the life and times of Issachar Zacharie
- Lincoln's notebooks : letters, speeches, journals, and poems
- Lincoln; a picture story of his life
- Lizzo : award-winning musician
- Lore of the Bambino : 100 great Babe Ruth stories
- Loyal sons : the story of the four horsemen and Notre Dame football's 1924 champions
- Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon
- Mario Cuomo : remembrances of a remarkable man
- Maris & Mantle : two Yankees, baseball immortality, and the age of Camelot
- Martina & Chrissie : the greatest rivalry in the history of sports
- Meghan Markle
- Michael Jordan : basketball superstar
- Michelle Obama
- Molly?s game : Apuesta maestra : la historia real de la mujer de 26 a?os detr?s del juego de p?quer clandestino m?s exclusivo y peligroso del mundo
- Murphy's law : my journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to investigative journalist
- My adventures as an illustrator : the definitive edition
- My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey
- Naomi Osaka : grand slam champ
- Not just evil : murder, Hollywood, and California's first insanity plea
- Nothing is true and everything is possible : the surreal heart of the new Russia
- Ocean speaks : how Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret
- Odyssey : young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world
- Off the rails : one family's journey through teen addiction/
- Opowieści dla dzieci, które chcą być wyjątkowe : 100 historii kobiet i mężczyzn, którzy wyrośli ponad przeciętność
- Our country's presidents : a complete encyclopedia of the U.S. presidency : featuring election 2016
- Our last season : a writer, a fan, a friendship
- Over the hills and far away : the life of Beatrix Potter
- Perfect is boring : 10 things my crazy, fierce mama taught me about beauty, booty, and being a boss
- Pessoa : a biography
- Prince Harry
- Private investigations : mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders in their lives
- Putting faces to names : the art of Raphael
- Ranger games : a story of soldiers, family and an inexplicable crime
- Riding the rails : inside the business of America's railroads
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks : a life in American history
- Rosalind Franklin : unlocking DNA
- Savage journey : Hunter S. Thompson and the weird road to Gonzo
- Secrets of a Marine's wife : a true story of marriage, obsession, and murder
- Sekrety ksiezniczki
- Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist
- She raised her voice! : 50 black women who sang their way into music history
- Shirley Hazzard : a writing life
- So much I want to tell you : letters to my little sister
- Spirit of the horse : a celebration in fact and fable
- Spirit of the horse : a celebration in fact and fable
- Stars of men's soccer
- Subdued fires : an intimate portrait of Pope Benedict XVI
- Terrific majesty : the powers of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention
- The Book of Lech Wałęsa
- The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
- The Kardashians : an American drama
- The Life of Celia : La Vida de Celia
- The Manson women and me : monsters, morality, and murder
- The Savvy Sphinx : how Garbo conquered Hollywood
- The abacus and the cross : the story of the Pope who brought the light of science to the Dark Ages
- The ascent of Jacob Bronowski : the life and ideas of a popular science icon
- The best presidential writing : from 1789 to the present
- The book of Joe : the life, wit, and (sometimes accidental) wisdom of Joe Biden
- The children of Willesden Lane : a true story of hope and survival during World War II
- The essential directors : the art and impact of cinema's most influential filmmakers
- The first black Archeaologist : a life of John Wesley Gilbert
- The general's niece : the little-known de Gaulle who fought to free occupied France
- The house that Madigan built : the record run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer
- The last Viking : the true story of King Harald Hardrada
- The last of NASA's original pilot astronauts : expanding the space frontier in the late sixties.
- The life and times of Martin Luther
- The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal
- The pirate queen
- The president and the freedom fighter : Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to save America's soul
- The ugly cry : a memoir
- The unreformed Martin Luther : a serious (and not so serious) look at the man behind the myths
- The verge : Reformation, Renaissance, and forty years that shook the world
- The world as it is : a memoir of the Obama White House
- This old man : all in pieces
- Transformed : a Navy SEAL's unlikely journey from the throne of Africa, to the streets of the Bronx, to defying all odds
- Turncoat : Benedict Arnold and the crisis of American liberty
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
- Untold stories of Polish heroes from World War II
- Valor : the astonishing World War II saga of one man's defiance and indomitable spirit
- Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
- Wasn't that a time : the Weavers, the blacklist, and the battle for the soul of America
- We gather together : a nation divided, a president in turmoil, and a historic campaign to embrace gratitude and grace
- Webster's American military biographies
- What I know for sure
- What are the paralympic games?
- What's your story, Helen Keller?
- When you find out the world is against you : and other funny memories about awful moments
- Wherever you go, there they are : stories about my family you might relate to
- Who I am
- Who was Louis Armstrong?
- Wilma Rudolph : track and field champion
- Witkacy i kobiety : harem metafizyczny
- Women's work : stories from pioneering women shaping our workforce
- You are worth it : building a life worth fighting for
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