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- 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 Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A black woman did that! : 42 boundary-breaking, bar-raising, world-changing women
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The Snowy Day
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- 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 World War II
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Ada Lovelace : first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Anders Celsius
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Anne Frank
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Blackbeard : a notorious pirate in the Caribbean
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bonnie and Clyde : notorious outlaws of the Great Depression
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born to run
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Clara Barton
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Claudette Colvin
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- David Bowie : a life
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, brotherhood, and sacrifice
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Edison
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Evonne Goolagong
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Ezekiel Elliott
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fighting to survive World War II : terrifying true stories
- Find me unafraid : love, loss, and hope in an African slum
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding a way home : Mildred and Richard Loving and the fight for marriage equality
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Game, set, sisters! : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grant
- Greatest female athletes of all time
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Harper Lee : Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Harriet Tubman
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- House of dreams : the life of L.M. Montgomery
- Hungry for wine : seeing the world through the lens of a wine glass
- Hustling Hitler : the Jewish vaudevillian who fooled the Führer
- I am Marie Curie
- Ida B. Wells
- If you want a friend in Washington : wacky, wild & wonderful presidential pets
- Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
- In search of Amos Clough
- In the darkroom
- In the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- Inventors : incredible stories of the world's most ingenious inventions
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isaac : the alchemist, secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- J.K. Rowling
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
- John Adams
- John Adams under fire : the founding father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
- John McCain : the courage of conviction
- Judy Blume
- Julius Caesar
- Jump at the sun : the true life tale of unstoppable storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
- June Almeida, virus detective! : the woman who discovered the first human coronavirus
- Just like Beverly
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Kate DiCamillo
- Kate Middleton
- Katherine Johnson
- Kick : the true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's forgotten sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Kid activists : true tales of childhood from champions of change
- King Arthur
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- Leave it to Abigail! : the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lindsey Vonn
- Lionel Messi
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little weirds
- Lost Airman
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Malala's magic pencil
- Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography, from Grantham to the Falklands
- Margaret and the moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
- Mary, who wrote Frankenstein
- Master of his fate : Roosevelt's rise from polio to the presidency
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Me
- Meet the champions
- Meghan Markle
- Melania Trump : champion for youth
- Michael Phelps
- Michelle Obama
- Michelle Obama : health advocate
- Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson
- Miss Mary reporting : the true story of sportswriter Mary Garber
- Mister Rogers
- Misty Copeland
- Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving
- Most dangerous
- Ms. Gloria Steinem : a life
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Normal : a mother and her beautiful son
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Our flag was still there : the true story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner
- Our story : a memoir of love and life in China
- Parkland : birth of a movement
- Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
- Paul : a biography
- Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
- Pirate queen : a story of Zheng Yi Sao
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie boy : Frank Lloyd Wright turns the heartland into a home
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Presidents of the United States
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Rachel Carson : environmentalist
- Rage
- Ready to fly : how Sylvia Townsend became the bookmobile ballerina
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : the life
- Relentless : a memoir
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Revolutionary brothers : Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
- Revolutionary brothers : Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
- Ringo : with a little help
- Rise : from caged bird to poet of the people, Maya Angelou
- Roald Dahl
- Rob Gronkowski
- Robin
- Robin
- Royal sisters : Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret
- Royal sisters : Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret
- Rush : revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Saint Pope John Paul ll : religious leader and humanitarian
- Sara Seager : planetary scientist
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She persisted around the world : 13 women who changed history
- She was the first! : the trailblazing life of Shirley Chisholm
- Shel Silverstein
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Soldier for equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War
- Solutions and other problems
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Sports legends
- Sprouting wings : the true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States
- Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel
- Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered : the definitive how-to guide
- Stay curious! : a brief history of Stephen Hawking
- Stay sexy & don't get murdered : the definitive how-to guide
- Stubby : a true story of friendship
- T. R. : the last romantic
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America
- The Berlin mission : the American who resisted Nazi Germany from within
- The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
- The Lincoln conspiracy : the secret plot to kill America's 16th president--and why it failed
- The Renaissance artists : with history projects for kids
- The United States of Trump : how the President really sees America
- The Wars of the Roses : the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors
- The Wright Brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The allies : Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the unlikely alliance that won World War II
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The art of her deal : the untold story of Melania Trump
- The bohemians
- The book of gutsy women
- The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival
- The brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The doctors Blackwell : how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
- The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight
- The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked Jazz-Age America
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The house of Kennedy
- The indomitable Florence Finch : the untold story of a war widow turned resistance fighter and savior of American POWs
- The key from Spain : Flory Jagoda and her music
- The lady from the Black Lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick
- The last cowboys : a pioneer family in the new West
- The last days of John Lennon
- The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- The life of Black Elk
- The life of Crazy Horse
- The life of Geronimo
- The life of Joseph Brant
- The life of Sacagawea
- The making of Donald Trump
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The man who ran Washington : the life and times of James A. Baker III
- The matriarch : Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
- The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets
- The monk of Mokha
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The most dangerous man in America : Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD
- The note through the wire : the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
- The other side : stories of Central American teen refugees who dream of crossing the border
- The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west
- The polio pioneer : Dr. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine
- The purple diaries : Mary Astor and the most sensational Hollywood scandal of the 1930s
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The residence : inside the private world of the White House
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
- The second most powerful man in the world : the life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's chief of staff
- The secret life of Dorothy Soames : a memoir
- The shameful life of Salvador DalÃ
- The ship of dreams : the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- The stuff between the stars : how Vera Rubin discovered most of the universe
- The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time
- The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time
- The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
- The true West : real stories about black cowboys, women sharpshooters, Native American rodeo stars, pioneering vaqueros, and the unsung explorers, builders, and heroes who shaped the American West
- The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz
- The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
- The zealot and the emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
- Think smart, be fearless : a biography of Bill Gates
- This time next year we'll be laughing : a memoir
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Thurgood
- Tiger Woods
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- Touched by the sun : my friendship with Jackie
- True believer : the rise and fall of Stan Lee
- 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
- Unpresidented : a biography of Donald Trump
- Unsinkable : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett
- Untamed : the wild life of Jane Goodall
- Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers/
- Virginia Apgar
- Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
- Walk in my combat boots
- Walk in my combat boots : true stories from America's bravest warriors
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- We are artists : women who made their mark on the world
- We are never meeting in real life : essays
- We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence
- Wham! George Michael & me
- What's the big deal about first ladies
- When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains
- When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains
- Where the bodies were buried : Whitey Bulger and the world that made him
- Who Is Kamala Harris?
- Who Was Nelson Mandela?
- Who is Oprah Winfrey?
- Who is Pope Francis?
- Who is R. L. Stine?
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House
- Who was Abraham Lincoln?
- Who was Alexander Hamilton?
- Who was Andrew Jackson?
- Who was Anne Frank?
- Who was Booker T. Washington?
- Who was Catherine the Great?
- Who was Confucius?
- Who was Duke Ellington?
- Who was Harriet Tubman?
- Who was Helen Keller?
- Who was Ida B. Wells?
- Who was Jesus?
- Who was Kobe Bryant?
- Who was Napoleon?
- Who was Nikola Tesla?
- Who was P. T. Barnum?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Richard Nixon?
- Who was Sam Walton?
- Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
- Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
- You are my friend : the story of Mister Rogers and his neighborhood
- You never heard of Casey Stengel?!
- You will not have my hate
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