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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- '74 and sunny
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows
- 108 stitches : : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 24 : : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 24 : : life stories and lessons from the say hey kid
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 60 from the '60s : 60 Players Who Made the 1960s baseball's real golden age
- A Ben of all trades : : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Saint a Day : : 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism
- A Sixers odyssey : exploring the forgotten players of 76ers yesteryear
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book of days
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A boy named Beckoning : : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A concise biographical sketch of William Penn
- A consequential president : : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator-- the life of Florence Gould
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A farewell to arms, legs, and jockstraps : : a sportswriter's memoir
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre and her dramatic captivity and daring escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : : a year of keeping bees
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A house in the sky : : a memoir
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in parts
- A life in parts
- A life of Picasso : the Minotaur Years, 1933-1943
- A life of Picasso : the triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A long way gone : : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A loss : the story of a dead soldier told by his sister
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A midwife's tale : : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A place in the country
- A promised land
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A sacred oath : : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A speck in the sea : : a story of survival and rescue
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A sporting chance : how Paralympics founder Ludwig Guttmann saved lives with sports
- A spy called James : : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy named Orphan : : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A tulip in winter : a story about folk artist Maud Lewis
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A visible man : a memoir
- A warning
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- 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 on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Rodgers : : Titletown MVP
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the 1969 Mets
- After the miracle : the political crusades of Helen Keller
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Josephine : : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the civil rights movement
- Alan Turing Decoded : The Man They Called Prof
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : explorer, naturalist & environmental pioneer
- AlexanderMcQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Ali : an American champion
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All Blood Runs Red : The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
- All Things Must Pass Away : Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs
- All about me : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All but my life
- All in : : an autobiography
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All rise : the story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
- All that heaven allows : : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that is wicked : a gilded-age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the beauty in the world : : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- 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 frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the president's women : : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the women in my brain : and other concerns
- All who go do not return : a memoir
- All-American murder : : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Allen Klein : the man who bailed out the Beatles, made the Stones, and transformed rock & roll
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy SEALS
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Alpha: : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy SEALS
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Always, Jackie
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- America's pastor : Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation
- America's reluctant prince : : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, a redemption story
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American daughter : : a memoir
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- American oligarchs : : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American oligarchs : : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American ramble : a walk of memory and renewal
- American rascal : : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rhapsody : writers, musicians, millionaires, movie stars, and one great building
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spy : : wry reflections on my life in the CIA
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Amy Winehouse
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An impeccable spy : : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An invisible thread
- An ordinary man : the surprising life and historic presidency of Gerald R. Ford
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And finally : : matters of life and death
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And then we danced
- And there was light : : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : : Abraham lincoln and the american struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angler : : the Cheney vice presidency
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Anna : : the biography
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a daughter of the American Revolution
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Annette feels free : the true story of Annette Kellerman, world-class swimmer, fashion pioneer, and real-life mermaid
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- Anthony Powell : : dancing to the music of time
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of Americas public and private spaces
- Architecture's odd couple : Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
- Ariana Grande
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur Miller : American witness
- As it turns out : thinking about Edie and Andy
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Astro legends : pivotal moments, players, and personalities
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- Atomic spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Atticus Finch: the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey and Bill : a romantic biography of Audrey Hepburn & William Holden
- Augustine : : conversions to confessions
- Australian Women Pilots : : Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autumn in Venice : : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Awesome achievers in technology : super and strange facts about 12 almost famous history makers
- BMF : : the rise and fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia family
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad Mormon
- Bad Mormon : a memoir
- Bad motherfucker : the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- Bad news for outlaws : : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Bandoola : the great elephant rescue
- Banks
- Barack Obama : conservative, pragmatist, progressive
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barely functional adult : : it'll all make sense eventually
- Barkley : a biography
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Bartleby and Benito Cereno
- Baseball's greatest hitters : from ty Cobb to Miguel Cabrera
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle of brothers : : William and Harry - the inside story of a family in tumult
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- Beastie Boys book
- Beat breast cancer like a boss : : 30 powerful stories
- Because Claudette
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Forrest : one man's epic run across America
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Lincoln : plunges and recoveries during an epic pre-Civil War climb
- Becoming RBG : : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Becoming myself : : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Before I forget
- Behind the Bench : : Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Ram Dass
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Bellow's people : how Saul Bellow made life into art
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Ben Hogan's Secret Fundamental : : What He Never Told the World
- Benjamin Banneker and us : eleven generations of an American family
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Betty Ford : First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
- Between Two Worlds : : The Art & Life of Amrita Sher-Gil
- Between breaths : : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between silk and cyanide : : a codemaker's war 1941-45
- Between the lines : stories from the underground
- Between the mountain and the sky : a mother's story of love, loss, healing, and hope
- Between the world and me
- Between the world and me
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond Valor : : A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrificial Love, and a Race against Time
- Beyond valor : a World War II story of extraordinary heroism, sacrificial love, and a race against time
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big Wonderful : : Notes From Wyoming
- Big apple gangsters : the rise and decline of the mob in New York
- Big friendship : how we keep each other close
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Clinton : the 42nd president, 1993-2001
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billy Joel : : the definitive biography
- Billy Joel : : the definitive biography
- Billy Joel : tales of an innocent fan
- Billy Joel : the definitive biography
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star - the war years, 1940-1946
- Birds, beasts and bedlam : turning my farm into an ark for lost species
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Bismarck : a life
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black Fortunes : : The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black, white, and Jewish : : autobiography of a shifting self
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery
- Blood orange night : : my journey to the edge of madness
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blowing the bloody doors off : : and other lessons in life
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue rage, black redemption : : a memoir
- Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
- Boardwalk babies
- Boats against the current : the honeymoon summer of Scott and Zelda, Westport, Connecticut, 1920
- Bobby Kennedy : : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy | / : a raging spirit
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bookends : a memoir of love, loss, and literature
- Border hacker : a tale of treachery, trafficking, and two friends on the run
- Born Trump : : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born survivors : : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be hanged : : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the south seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Both/and : : a life in many worlds
- Boundless : : the rise, fall, and escape of Carlos Ghosn
- Boundless : : the rise, fall, and escape of Carlos Ghosn
- Boundless : the rise, fall, and escape of Carlos Ghosn
- Bourdain : : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bouton : : the life of a baseball original
- Bowie : The Illustrated Story
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Braiding sweetgrass : : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
- Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Brave companions : : portraits in history
- Brave hearted : the women of the American West 1836-1880
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : : a White House memoir
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breaking the mold : changing the face of climate science
- Breaking through : how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond-- the story of rock's greatest manager
- Bringing down the house : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brothers and wives : : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers on three : a true story of family, resistance, and hope on a reservation in Montana
- Bruce Lee : : the life of a legend
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Brutally honest
- Bugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Bunny Mellon : the pursuit of perfection
- Burning boy : the life and work of Stephen Crane
- Burning man : the trials of D.H. Lawrence
- Bush
- Bush
- Busted : the rise and fall of Art Schlichter
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- Buster keaton : : a filmmaker's life
- But you did not come back
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Butcher of Poland : : Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner