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- 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
- 60 from the '60s : 60 Players Who Made the 1960s baseball's real golden age
- A boy named Beckoning : : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A farewell to arms, legs, and jockstraps : : a sportswriter's memoir
- A house in the sky : : a memoir
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A life in parts
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A loss : the story of a dead soldier told by his sister
- A midwife's tale : : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A place in the country
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A speck in the sea : : a story of survival and rescue
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agent Josephine : : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Ali : an American champion
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- All Blood Runs Red : The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All the beauty in the world : : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- 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, Jackie
- America's pastor : Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation
- America, a redemption story
- 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 predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American rhapsody : writers, musicians, millionaires, movie stars, and one great building
- American spy : : wry reflections on my life in the CIA
- An impeccable spy : : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An invisible thread
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And finally : : matters of life and death
- 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
- Angler : : the Cheney vice presidency
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a daughter of the American Revolution
- Ariana Grande
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Astro legends : pivotal moments, players, and personalities
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autumn in Venice : : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- 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
- Bad Mormon
- Bad Mormon : a memoir
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Barack Obama : conservative, pragmatist, progressive
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barely functional adult : : it'll all make sense eventually
- Battle of brothers : : William and Harry - the inside story of a family in tumult
- Beat breast cancer like a boss : : 30 powerful stories
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Lincoln : plunges and recoveries during an epic pre-Civil War climb
- Becoming RBG : : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Bellow's people : how Saul Bellow made life into art
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- 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
- 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
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Bismarck : a life
- Black, white, and Jewish : : autobiography of a shifting self
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery
- 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
- Bobby Kennedy : : the making of a liberal icon
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- 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
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bouton : : the life of a baseball original
- Brave companions : : portraits in history
- Breaking history : : a White House memoir
- Breaking through : how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brothers on three : a true story of family, resistance, and hope on a reservation in Montana
- Brutally honest
- Bush
- Bush
- Busted : the rise and fall of Art Schlichter
- Buster keaton : : a filmmaker's life
- By the grace of the game : : the Holocaust, a basketball legacy, and the American dream
- C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity" : a biography
- Call me Burroughs : a life
- Cam Newton : football star
- Camp girls : fireside lessons on friendship, courage, and loyalty
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Carry on : reflections for a new generation
- Catch and kill : : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
- Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- China{u2019}s Russian Princess: the Silent Wife of Chiang Ching-kuo
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the 90's dynasty
- Churchill and Orwell : : the fight for freedom
- Claudette Colvin
- Cleopatra : a Life
- Cleopatra : her history, her myth
- Coco Chanel : pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- Code name Madeleine : : a Sufi spy in Nazi occupied Paris
- Come back in September : a literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Commander in cheat : how golf explains Trump
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Confidence man : : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constellations : reflections from life
- Cosmogenesis : an unveiling of the expanding universe
- Crazy for the storm : : a memoir of survival
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman keeper
- Cézanne : a life
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln
- Danica Patrick
- Dante : a life
- Daughter of the heartland : : my ode to the country that raised me
- David Niven : : the man behind the balloon
- Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss
- Dear reader : : the comfort and joy of books
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- Didn't we almost have it all : in defense of Whitney Houston
- Dolly Dudman - A Lady of Quality : : Anglo Indian Lives
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Dr. Strangeglove : the life and times of all-star slugger Dick Stuart
- Drawing on walls : a story of Keith Haring
- Drinking : a love story
- Dutch girl : : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dwayne Johnson The Rock : through the lens : his life, his movies, his world
- E.R. nurses : : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones
- Edith Piaf : : ode to the child of a vagrant
- Eleanor : : a life
- Eleanor and Hick : : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elton John : : the biography
- Embers of childhood : growing up a Whitney
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants and places that inspired the iconic poet
- Endurance : my year in space and how I got there
- Enemy of all mankind : : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Eruption : conversations with Eddie Van Halen
- Eva and Eve : : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Every little step : my story
- Everything I know about love : : a memoir
- Everything in its place : first loves and last tales
- Everything is under control : a memoir with recipes
- Everything she touched : the life of Ruth Asawa
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Extreme ownership : : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Extreme ownership : : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Famous people in history
- Fauja Singh keeps going : the true story of the oldest person to ever run a marathon
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fierce patriot : the tangled lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
- Finding Chika : : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding freedom : : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : : a cook's story ; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
- Floating in a most peculiar way
- Florence Foster Jenkins : : the inspiring true story of the world's worst singer
- Florence Foster Jenkins : : the inspiring true story of the world's worst singer
- Florence Nightingale
- Florine Stettheimer : a biography
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- For spacious skies : Katharine Lee Bates and "America the beautiful"
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line
- Forward : notes on the future of our democracy
- Four friends : promising lives cut short
- Foxcatcher : the true story of my brother's murder, John du Pont's madness, and the quest for Olympic gold
- Foxcatcher: : the true story of my brother's murder, John du Pont's madness, and the quest for olympic gold
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Free : : coming of age at the end of 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
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From bouncing bombs to Concorde : the authorised biography of aviation pioneer Sir George Edwards OM
- From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes : : the autobiography of Robert Clary
- From the hood to the holler : a story of separate worlds, shared dreams, and the fight for America's future
- Fryderyk Chopin : : a life and times
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Gabby Douglas
- Galloway : life in a vanishing landscape
- Game changers : : Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Game of crowns : Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the throne
- Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- Genius makers : the mavericks who brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the world
- George Harrison : behind the locked door
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- George Washington--the first president
- Ghost of the Hardy boys : : a memoir
- Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
- Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American
- God, if you're not up there, I'm f*cked : : tales of stand-up, Saturday Night Live, and other mind-altering mayhem
- Gods of the upper air : : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goebbels : a biography
- Golden boy : : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Golden boy : : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good lovin' : My life as a Rascal
- Good neighbor : : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Grace Hopper : computer pioneer
- Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen
- Growing up Getty : the story of America's most unconventional dynasty
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Half life : the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy
- Harpo speaks!
- Harriet Tubman
- Head on : a memoir
- Heart of fire : an immigrant daughter's story
- Heavy : : an American memoir
- Hedy and her amazing invention
- Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- Helen Keller : meet a woman of courage
- Hell and other destinations : a 21st-century memoir/
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men
- Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person
- Henry VIII : the king and his court
- Henry VIII and the men who made him
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Here's the catch : a memoir of the miracle Mets and more
- Hereafter : the telling life of Ellen O'Hara
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Hi, I'm Norman : the story of American illustrator Norman Rockwell
- Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- History's people : : personalities and the past
- Hitler's art thief : Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the looting of Europe's treasures
- Hollywood Park : a memoir
- Holocaust fighters : boxers, resisters, and avengers
- Homesick : a memoir
- How Ben Franklin stole the lightning
- How do I un-remember this? : : unfortunately true stories
- How it all works : : all scientific laws and phenomena illustrated & demonstrated
- How to be a family : the year I dragged my kids around the world to find a new way to be together
- Howard Cosell : the man, the myth, and the transformation of American sports
- I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
- I can't make this up : : life lessons
- I know what I'm doing, and other lies I tell myself : dispatches from a life under construction
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I take my coffee black : : reflections on Tupac, musical theater, faith, and being black in America
- I will never see the world again : the memoir of an imprisoned writer
- I'd like to play alone, please : essays
- I'll be back right after this : my memoir
- I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon
- I'll scream later
- I'm glad my mom died
- I'm your huckleberry
- Ida B. Wells, voice of truth : educator, feminist, and anti-lynching civil rights leader
- If all the seas were ink : :
- Immigrant architect : Rafael Guastavino and the American dream
- Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
- In days to come : a new hope for Israel
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In on the joke : : the original queens of standup comedy
- In search of a kingdom : Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
- Inge's war : a German woman's story of family, secrets, and survival under Hitler
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Instructions not included : how a team of women coded the future
- Into the deep : a memoir from the man who found Titanic
- Into the lion's mouth : : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- Invisible child : : poverty, survival & hope in an american city
- Invisible child : poverty, survival & hope in an American city
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irving Berlin : New York genius
- Isabella : the warrior queen
- It's up to you, Abe Lincoln
- Jack Sanford : from Blightville to the big leagues
- James Dean : The Mutant King: : a biography
- Jerome Kern
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John Wayne : the life and legend
- Jonas Salk : a life
- Jordan Spieth : golf star
- Joseph Smith and the Mormons
- Judas : : how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- June Almeida, virus detective! : the woman who discovered the first human coronavirus
- Just as I Am
- Just like Rube Goldberg : the incredible true story of the man behind the machines
- Just pursuit : a black prosecutor's fight for fairness in an unfair system
- KG A to Z : an uncensored encyclopedia of life, basketball, and everything in between
- Kick Kennedy : the charmed life and tragic death of the favorite Kennedy daughter
- Kid athletes : true tales of childhood from sports legends
- Killing the mob : : the fight against organized crime in America
- Killing the mob : : the fight against organized crime in America
- King of ragtime : the story of Scott Joplin
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- Lady Bird Johnson: : hiding in plain sight
- Lady Diana Spencer : Princess of Wales
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lady in red : : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- Last chance Texaco : chronicles of an American troubadour
- Last girl before freeway : : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- LeBron, Inc. : : the making of a billion-dollar athlete
- Leading the way : women in power
- Leaving the witness : exiting a religion and finding a life
- Led Zeppelin : the biography
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Legends of drag : queens of a certain age
- Lessons from the edge : : a memoir
- Lessons from the edge : : a memoir
- Lessons life taught me, unknowingly : an autobiography
- Let's play two : the legend of Mr. Cub, the life of Ernie Banks
- Letterman : : the last giant of late night
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Life and laughing : : my autobiography
- Life in a day
- Life to the Extreme : How a Chaotic Kid Became America's Favorite Carpenter
- Life undercover : : coming of age in the CIA
- Lillian Hellman : an imperious life
- Lincoln and Kennedy : a pair to compare
- Linda Ronstadt : : a life in music
- Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
- Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi
- Live your life : : my story of loving and losing Nick Cordero
- Lives of the explorers : discoveries, disasters (and what the neighbors thought)
- Living a life that matters : : from Nazi nightmare to American dream
- Lizzie demands a seat! : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- Long shot : the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
- Long walk to freedom : : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Looking for Lorraine : a life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Lost girls : : love & literature in wartime London
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Louisa on the front lines : Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
- Love is the way : holding onto hope in troubling times
- Love that boy
- Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Luck or something like it
- MBS : : the rise to power of Mohammed Bin Salman
- Mad at the world : : a life of John Steinbeck
- Made in china: : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of america's cheap goods
- Madman in the woods : life next door to the Unabomber
- Mae Jemison : first female African American astronaut
- Make trouble : : standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
- Manderley forever : : a biography of Daphne du Maurier
- Manstein : Hitler's greatest general
- Mantle : the best there ever was
- Many lives, many masters
- Margaret Thatcher : a life and legacy
- Mario and the hole in the sky : how a chemist saved our planet
- Martha Washington
- Martin Luther King Jr. : : walking in the light
- Mary Boleyn : the mistress of kings
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Melania and me : : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Melania and me : : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Memories : from Moscow to the Black Sea
- Memories of a catholic girlhood
- Michael Jordan : flying high
- Michael Jordan : the life
- Mickey Mantle : the Commerce Comet
- Midnight return : : escaping midnight express
- Mike Nichols: : a life
- Missing man : : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Mobituaries : : great lives worth reliving
- Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving
- Model citizen : a memoir
- Money rock : a family's story of cocaine, race, and ambition in the new South
- More than love : : an intimate portrait of my mother, Natalie Wood
- Mortimer's : moments in time
- Moses : a human life
- Motherhood so white: : a memoir of race, gender, and parenting in america
- Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing
- Mr. McCloskey's marvelous mallards : the making of Make way for ducklings
- Mr. Met : how a sports-mad kid from Jersey became like family to generations of big leaguers
- Ms. Gloria Steinem : a life
- Muhammad Ali : : the greatest
- Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
- Music was it : young Leonard Bernstein
- My adventures with god
- My broken language : a memoir
- My broken language: : a memoir
- My friend Leonard
- My grandfather's gallery : : [a family memoir of art and war]
- My life on the line : how the NFL damn near killed me, and ended up saving my life
- My life with Bob : flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
- My mother's war : : the incredible true story of how a resistance member survived three concentration camps
- My mother's war : the incredible true story of how a resistance member survived three concentration camps
- My own words
- My own words
- My own words
- My soul is filled with joy : a holocaust story
- Nadia : the girl who couldn't sit still
- Napoleon : a life