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- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 101 Changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 715 : reflections on Hammerin' Hank & the home run that made history
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A memorial and biographical history of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas : containing a history of this important section of the great state of Texas, from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its future prospects ; also biographical mention of many of the pioneers and prominent citizens of the present time, and full-page portraits of some of the most eminent men of this section
- A mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A sniper in the Tower : the Charles Whitman murders
- A sniper in the Tower : the Charles Whitman murders
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- Aaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln : friend of the people
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world
- Agents of empire : knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Haley's roots : an author's odyssey
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alfred Nobel and the story of the Nobel Prize
- Ali : a life
- All or nothing at all : a life of Frank Sinatra
- All the things we never knew : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Always inventing : a photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- Amelia Earhart : beyond the grave
- Amelia to Zora : twenty-six women who changed the world
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American daredevil : the extraordinary life of Richard Halliburton, the world's first celebrity travel writer
- American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert Southwest
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy SEAL's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An improbable friendship : the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank : Holocaust diarist
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arthur Ashe
- Artistas : su vida y sus obras
- At Lincoln's side : John Hay's Civil War correspondence and selected writings
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Balthus : a biography
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barracoon : the story of the last "Black Cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bartleby ; and, Benito Cereno
- Bay of spirits : a love story
- Becoming Babe Ruth
- Beethoven : a documentary study
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind Nazi lines : my father's heroic quest to save 149 World War II POWs
- Behind palace doors : my years with the queen mother
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Behind the smile : a story of Carol Moseley Braun's historic senate campaign
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being a dad is weird : lessons in fatherhood from my family to yours
- Being a dad is weird : lessons in fatherhood from my family to yours
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Beneath my feet : the memoirs of George Mercer Dawson
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé
- Big Bill : the life and times of NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr.
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill Clinton : the American presidents
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bill Lancaster : the final verdict : the life and death of an aviation pioneer
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill Pickett : Wild West cowboy
- Bill Reid : the making of an Indian
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billie Jean King
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Björk : wow and flutter
- Black Loyalists : southern settlers of Nova Scotia's first free black communities
- Black Sabbath : symptom of the universe
- Black like me : the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts
- Black women of the Old West
- Blair Inc. : the man behind the mask
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bob Dylan : behind the shades : a biography
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
- Books and islands in Ojibwe country
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Borderlander : the life of James Kirker, 1793-1852
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born round : the secret history of a full-time eater
- Borzoi
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Bowie : the story of rock's enduring enigma
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brando unzipped
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Bruno Mars
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Buffalo song
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bullies : a friendship
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Cambridge and other memories, 1920-1953
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Capitol punishment : an Andy Hayes mystery
- Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger : a story of frontier reform
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Cesar Chavez : Latino American civil rights activist
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Charles Bukowski : bláznivý život Charlese Bukowského
- Charlie Mike : a true story of heroes who brought their mission home
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chart toppers : the great performers of popular music over the last 50 years
- Chasing down the dawn
- Chasing ghosts : a memoir of a father, gone to war
- Chasing the demon : a secret history of the quest for the sound barrier, and the band of American aces who conquered it
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester Arthur
- Chris Hadfield and the International Space Station
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Clean sweep! : Frank Zamboni's ice machine
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coco and the little black dress
- Columbine
- Columbine
- Compassion's thread
- Computer engineer, Ruchi Sanghvi
- Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual
- Connecticut Yankee in Texas : a biography of Elisha Marshall Pease : dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
- Conoce a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Conversations with uncommon women : insights from women who've risen above life's challenges to achieve extraordinary success
- Coretta Scott King
- Crane : sex, celebrity, and my father's unsolved murder
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crusoe, the celebrity dachshund : adventures of the wiener dog extraordinaire
- Curtain up : Agatha Christie : a life in the theatre
- Curveball : the remarkable story of Toni Stone the first woman to play professional baseball in the negro league
- Curveball : the remarkable story of Toni Stone, the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro League
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Deadball stars of the American League
- Degas
- Dennis Chávez : the first Hispanic US senator
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diane von Furstenberg : a life unwrapped
- Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse)
- Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Disney
- Disraeli : the novel politician
- Dizzy : dean of baseball & my podnah
- Dmitri Shostakovich, pianist
- Dolley Madison
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dream boogie : the triumph of Sam Cooke
- Dying, we live : the personal chronicle of a young freedom fighter in Warsaw, 1939-1945
- Earl Scruggs : banjo icon
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Eddie Redmayne : the biography
- Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore
- Edison : the inventor of the modern world
- Edwin Hubble : discoverer of galaxies
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eleanor Roosevelt in her own words
- Elgin Baylor : the man who changed basketball
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony : a friendship that changed the world
- Elvis : the story of the rock and roll King
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Explore the cosmos like Neil deGrasse Tyson : a space science journey
- 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
- Ezra Pound : poet : a portrait of the man and his work, III, The tragic years, 1939-1972
- FDR and the American crisis
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- False choices : the faux feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Famous phonies : legends, fakes, and frauds who changed history
- Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Father Goose : the story of Mack Sennett
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fifteen days : stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Finding Gobi : the true story of one little dog's big journey
- Finger Lakes wine and the legacy of Dr. Konstantin Frank
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Florence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Foreign correspondence
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Fortune's fool : the life of John Wilkes Booth
- Founders' son : a life of Abraham Lincoln
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Frankie liked to sing
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- From Cold War to hot peace : the inside story of Russia and America
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fun and food with Guy Fieri
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Funny composers! : caricatures in full color and black & white
- Fur, fins, and feathers : Abraham Dee Bartlett and the invention of the modern zoo
- Galileo Galilei : inventor, astronomer and rebel
- Genetics expert, Joanna L. Kelley
- Genius : a photobiography of Albert Einstein
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Georges Laraque : the story of the NHL's unlikeliest tough guy
- Ghetto Klown : a graphic novel
- Ghetto brother : warrior to peacemaker
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girl trouble : the true saga of superstar Gloria Trevi and the teenage sex cult that stunned the world
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- GoPro inventor Nick Woodman
- Goddess of love incarnate : the life of striptese Lili St. Cyr
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goldeneye : where Bond was born : Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 200 tales of extraordinary women, Books 1-2
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Grace of Monaco
- Grant
- Growing up Pedro
- Gypsy fires in America : a narrative of life among the Romanies of the United States and Canada
- Hail of fire : a man and his family face natural disaster
- Harriet Tubman in her own words
- Harry Bertoia : sculptor
- Harry Houdini : illusionist & stunt performer
- Harry T. Burleigh : from the spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
- Harvey Milk : pioneering gay politician
- Haydée Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary : she led by transgression
- Heaven's coast : a memoir
- Hell or high water : my life in and out of politics
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry Ford for kids : his life and ideas, with 21 activities
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Hero of Hacksaw Ridge : the gripping true story that inspired the movie
- Hidden Gold : a true story of the Holocaust
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Holding fast to dreams : empowering youth from the civil rights crusade to STEM achievement
- Home game : big-league stories from baseball's first family
- Homicide in the house
- Honi Coles : the class act of tap
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hope for a cool pillow
- Hot pink : the life & fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
- How Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz
- How Kate Warne saved President Lincoln : a story about the nation's first woman detective
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hustling Hitler : the Jewish vaudevillian who fooled the Fuhrer
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Jim Henson
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I'll tell you one damn thing, and that's all I know!
- Imagine that! : How Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- Impressionism : 13 artists children should know
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In a dark wood : what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Pharrell Williams
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
- In the bag! : Margaret Knight wraps it up
- In the darkroom
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Into the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- Into the wild
- Inventing the future : a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
- Ira's Shakespeare dream
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- Irving Berlin : American troubadour
- Is this seat taken? : it's never too late to find the right seat
- It starts with trouble : William Goyen and the life of writing
- It takes two : our story
- J.D. Salinger : the escape artist
- J.R.R. Tolkien : su vida, sus obras y su influencia
- Jack's life : a biography of Jack Nicholson
- Jackie Robinson : baseball legend
- Jake makes a world : Jacob Lawrence, a young artist in Harlem
- James Merrill : life and art
- Jane Goodall
- Jars of hope : how one woman helped save 2,500 children during the Holocaust
- Jay Z : rapper and businessman
- Jeff Bezos and Amazon
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jihadi John
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Joe Gould's teeth
- Joe, the slave who became an Alamo legend
- John Birch : a life
- John Deere's powerful idea : the perfect plow
- John Hancock : merchant king and American patriot
- John Henninger Reagan : thesis : presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
- John Hughes : a life in film
- John Lewis : courage in action
- John Lewis in the lead : a story of the civil rights movement
- John P. McGovern, MD : a lifetime of stories
- John Prine : in spite of himself
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Journey interrupted : a family without a country in a world at war
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Judy Blume
- Julia Child : an extraordinary life in words and pictures
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Kanye West : god & monster
- Kate Middleton
- Kate Middleton
- Kate Middleton : real-life princess
- Keep it fake : inventing an authentic life
- Keith Richards : a life in pictures
- Kepler and the universe : how one man revolutionized astronomy
- Keystone, the life and clowns of Mack Sennett
- Kian & JC : don't try this at home
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Killing Pablo : the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest imposter
- King John : and the road to Magna Carta
- King John : treachery and tyranny in Medieval England : the road to Magna Carta
- King of all balloons : the adventurous life of James Sadler, the first English aeronaut
- King of comedy
- King of kings : the triumph and tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Kirby : king of comics
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- Kissinger, Volume I, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
- Kobe Bryant : all-star shooting guard
- Kris Kristofferson : Country Highwayman
- Kristen Stewart
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- La búsqueda de Gobi : una maravillosa historia real, una perrita con un gran corazón
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady Byron & her daughters
- Lakewood : memoirs and spirit
- Larry H. Miller : behind the drive--99 inspiring stories from the life of an American entrepreneur
- Last act : the final years and emerging legacy of Ronald Reagan
- Laura M?ndez de Cuenca : Mexican feminist, 1853-1928
- LeBron James : NBA MVP and champion
- Legendary locals of Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Leonard : my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci : his life story and insights into a selection of his greatest works
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letters to Vera
- Levi Strauss : blue jean genius
- Life after darkness : finding healing and happiness after the Cleveland kidnappings
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life is short (no pun intended) : love, laughter, and learning to enjoy every moment
- Life of Ben McCulloch : thesis : presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts
- Life of the party : the remarkable story of how Brownie Wise built, and lost, a Tupperware party empire
- Lighter than air : Sophie Blanchard, the first woman pilot
- Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Lion
- Lion of the Senate : when Ted Kennedy rallied the democrats in a GOP Congress
- Lionel Messi
- Lionel Messi
- Listen: how Pete Seeger got America singing
- Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life
- Lord Fear : a memoir
- Loretta Lynch : first African American woman Attorney General
- Losing Susan : brain disease, the priest's wife, and the God who gives and takes away
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy Jr. and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Louis Réard : bikini designer
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors
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