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- 25 women who dared to go
- 25 women who fought back
- 25 women who ruled
- 25 women who thought of it first
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A truck full of money
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Ali
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- Amazing women
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew McCutchen
- Angel of Bataan : the life of a World War II Army nurse in the war zone and at home
- Ariana Grande
- Around America to win the vote : two suffragists, a kitten, and 10,000 miles
- Astronauts and cosmonauts
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Beyoncé
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Blake Shelton
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood in the soil : a true tale of racism, sex, and murder in the South
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called 'Alien'
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bryce Harper
- Bush
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carlota : falsa emperatriz de México
- Carrie Underwood
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Cazando a El Chapo : la historia contada desde adentro por el agente de la ley estadounidense que capturó al narcotraficante más buscado del mundo
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Clean sweep! : Frank Zamboni's ice machine
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated woman
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- David Bowie : changes
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Donald Trump
- Dr. Seuss : imaginative children's book writer and illustrator
- Dust Bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Einstein : his space and times
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ellen Ochoa : dynamic space director
- Elvis
- Emma Stone
- Eva Longoria : actress and businesswoman
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Getting gritty with Mike Rowe
- Giancarlo Stanton
- Grant
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- Guy Burgess : the spy who knew everyone
- Hammering for freedom : the William Lewis story
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- Helen's big world : the life of Helen Keller
- Heroes under pressure
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden women : the African-American mathematicians of NASA who helped America win the space race
- Hillary : the other woman : a political memoir
- His father's son : the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hot pink : the life & fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- Jackie Robinson : breaking the color line in baseball
- Jane Goodall
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jim Bowie : legendary hero of the Alamo
- John Deere, that's who!
- John McCain : the courage of conviction
- Juniper : the girl who was born too soon
- Kate : the future queen
- Kate Warne : Pinkerton detective
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Killing Pablo : the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
- Kirby : king of comics
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- La luz entre nosotros : historias desde el cielo, lecciones para la vida
- Lady Gaga
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Lift your light a little higher : the story of Stephen Bishop : slave-explorer
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Louis Pasteur advances microbiology
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- Madison Bumgarner
- Mallko and dad
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first Lunar Landing
- Marie Curie advances the study of radioactivity
- Mars science lab engineer Diana Trujillo
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martina & Chrissie : the greatest rivalry in the history of sports
- MartÃ's song for freedom : Martà y sus versos por la libertad
- Mary Todd Lincoln : Civil War's first lady
- Matt Groening and the Simpsons
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Mercies in disguise : a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them
- Michael Jackson
- Mickey Mantle : the Commerce Comet
- Miss Paul and the president : the creative campaign for women's right to vote
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Modern HERstory : stories of women and nonbinary people rewriting history
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- Nelson Mandela : from prisoner to president
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Nixon, a life
- No small potatoes : Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Original gangstas : Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the birth of West Coast rap
- Original gangstas : the untold story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the birth of West Coast rap
- Our country's presidents : a complete encyclopedia of the U.S. presidency
- Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor : the forging of American independence, 1774-1776
- Pat Garrett : the man behind the badge
- Peyton Manning : a quarterback for the ages
- Peyton Manning : the last rodeo
- Pontius Pilate : deciphering a memory
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Prince Harry & Meghan : royals for a new era
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens, Book one
- Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
- Question of sanity : the true story of female serial killers in 19th century New York
- Rachel Carson : environmental crusader
- Rachel Carson sparks the environmental movement
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : the inside story
- Reagan : the life
- Real love, no drama : the music of Mary J. Blige
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Renoir
- Reset : my fight for inclusion and lasting change
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
- Robin
- Ronald Reagan
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Sally Ride : trailblazing astronaut
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Scott Kelly : remarkable space resident
- Seeing the real you at last : life and love on the road with Bob Dylan
- Serena Williams
- Sergeant Reckless : the true story of the little horse who became a hero
- Seth MacFarlane and Family guy
- Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant
- Six degrees of Sidney Crosby : connecting hockey stars
- Six dots : a story of young Louis Braille
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- So tall within : Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom
- Some enchanted evenings : the glittering life and times of Mary Martin
- Stalin, Volume II, Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Stephen Hillenburg and SpongeBob SquarePants
- Strong as Sandow : how Eugen Sandow became the strongest man on earth
- Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
- Summer
- Super Bowl heroes
- Suárez : the remarkable story behind football's most explosive talent
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Tall tales and half truths of Billy the Kid
- Texas blood : seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands
- Texas women first : leading ladies of Lone Star history
- The 100 most influential religious leaders of all time
- The Beatles : life with the band
- The Great White shark scientist
- The Kennedy brothers : the rise and fall of Jack and Bobby
- The Wright brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The big book of presidents : from George Washington to Barack Obama
- The big break : the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told
- The big fella : Babe Ruth and the world he created
- The book of Joan : tales of mirth, mischief, and manipulation
- The boy who played with fusion : extreme science, extreme parenting, and how to make a star
- The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon
- The children of Willesden Lane : a true story of hope and survival during World War II
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War
- 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 eye that never sleeps : how Detective Pinkerton saved President Lincoln
- The fighters : Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The hole story of the doughnut
- The last Republicans : inside the extraordinary relationship between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
- The life & music of Randy Newman : maybe I'm doing it wrong
- The life of George Washington
- The little book of feminist saints
- The magician and the spirits : Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
- The man who loved libraries : the story of Andrew Carnegie
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The music in George's head : George Gershwin creates Rhapsody in blue
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt : leading from the bully pulpit
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American revolution, 1783-1789
- The quest for Z : the true story of explorer Percy Fawcett and a lost city in the Amazon
- The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- The ultimate Peter Rabbit : a visual guide to the world of Beatrix Potter
- The witch of Lime Street : séance, seduction, and Houdini in the spirit world
- The world is not a rectangle : a portrait of architect Zaha Hadid
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
- Thomas Paine and the dangerous word
- Through my father's eyes
- Ties that bound : founding first ladies and slaves
- To the stars! : the first American woman to walk in space
- Tony Bennett
- Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and South Park
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Trump and me
- Trump is f*cking crazy : (this is not a joke)
- Trump revealed : an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power
- Tupac, Resurrection
- Ugly
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team
- Unstrung heroes : fifty guitar greats you should know
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Valor : unsung heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the home front
- We were brothers : a memoir
- Wernher von Braun : revolutionary rocket engineer
- What's wrong with US? : a coach's blunt take on the state of American soccer after a lifetime on the touchline
- When breath becomes air
- Where Bernie went wrong : and why his remedies will just make crony capitalism worse
- Who Was Marie Antoinette?
- Who is Bruce Springsteen?
- Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House
- Who was Galileo?
- Winter is coming : why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped
- Young Elizabeth : the making of the Queen
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