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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 12 artists who changed the world
- 12 athletes who changed the world
- 12 chefs who changed the world
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 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
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A picture book of George Washington
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A super sticky mistake
- A truck full of money
- A win for women : Billie Jean King takes down Bobby Riggs
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Agatha Christie
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the things we never knew
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Aly Raisman
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An unlikely ballerina
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Avedon : something personal
- Ayrton Senna
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bayard Rustin
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Because Claudette
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean King
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy: : a raging spirit/
- Bookish broads : women who wrote themselves into history
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to run
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Bread for words : a Frederick Douglass story
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Charlotta Bass
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clara Lemlich
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- 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
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Coretta Scott King
- Cost of living : essays
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie : a life
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dian Fossey : animal rights activist and protector of mountain gorillas
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Educated : a memoir
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ella Fitzgerald
- 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
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of the air : the men who made radio
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair : inside the 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the ghost children of his revenge
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Explore with James Cook
- Fairly smooth operator : my life occasionally at the tip of the spear
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Fighting to survive in the American West : terrifying true stories
- 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 Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding refuge : real-life immigration stories from young people
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- For Audrey with love : Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom : wildlife conservation pioneers
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury, the great pretender : a life in pictures
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo and the bravest girl in the world
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- Geronimo
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Gizmos, gadgets, and guitars : the story of Leo Fender
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grace Hopper : advancing computer science
- Grant
- Grant
- Green Card STEM voices : stories from Minnesota immigrants working in science, technology, engineering, and math
- Greta Thunberg
- Greta Thunberg
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Growing up Pedro
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Hannibal
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman's escape
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr : reimagining radio
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
- Helen Keller
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- 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
- Hide your love away : an intimate story of Brian Epstein as told by Larry Stanton
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz
- How Kate Warne saved President Lincoln : a story about the nation's first woman detective
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- How we can win : race, history and changing the money game that's rigged
- I am Anne Frank
- I am Benjamin Franklin
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Frida Kahlo
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Leonardo da Vinci
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Malala Yousafzai
- I am Marie Curie
- I am Mary Shelley
- I am Muhammad Ali
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Oprah Winfrey
- I am Rosa Parks
- I am Sacagawea
- I am Walt Disney
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not a label
- I guess I haven't learned that yet : discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
- I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- Ida Wells : journalist and activist
- Imagine that! : how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Intimate warfare : the true story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward boxing trilogy
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible men : the trailblazing Black artists of comic books
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood " adapted for young readers
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- Jackie Ormes
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackson Pollock : splashed paint and wasn't sorry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Biden
- Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
- John Paul Jones and the birth of the American Navy
- John's secret dreams : the life of John Lennon
- Josephine Baker
- June Almeida, virus detective! : the woman who discovered the first human coronavirus
- Just being Dalí : the story of artist Salvador Dalí
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Katherine Johnson
- Katherine Johnson : guiding spacecraft
- Katie Ledecky
- 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 Crazy Horse : the merciless Indian wars in America
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- King Tutankhamun tells all!
- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King
- Kobe Bryant : a tribute to a basketball legend
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last call at the Hotel Imperial : reporters who took on a world at war
- Latinitas : celebrating big dreamers in history!
- LeBron James
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letter to a young female physician : notes from a medical life
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lightning down : a World War II story of survival
- Lights! Camera! Alice! : the thrilling true adventures of the first woman filmmaker
- Like brothers
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lion of the Senate : when Ted Kennedy rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress
- Little Frida : a story of Frida Kahlo
- Little weirds
- Locked in ice : Nansen's daring quest for the North Pole
- Lost in the valley of death : a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Louise Bourgeois
- Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Made in Hollywood : all access with the Go-Go's
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Major Taylor
- Making space for women : stories from trailblazing women of NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Malala Yousafzai
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Maria Montessori
- Maria Tallchief
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mary Seacole : bound for the battlefield