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- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women who changed history
- 14 cows for America
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 21, bringing down the house movie tie-in : the inside story of six M.I.T. students who took Vegas for millions
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 700 Sundays
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A French affair
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Tuscan childhood
- A Visual dictionary of art.
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A body, undone : living on after great pain
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- 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 chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chef's life, Season 4,
- A chef's life., Season 5
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A delayed life : the true story of the librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A dog called hope : the Special Forces wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A farewell to arms, legs, and jockstraps : a sportswriter's memoir
- A fighting chance
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house with four rooms
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A knight without a castle : a story of resilence and hope
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life of Picasso, V. 1: the prodigy, 1881-1906
- A life of Picasso, v. 3: Triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A life on the road
- A little tiger in the Chinese night : an autobiography in art
- A long strange trip : the inside history of the Grateful Dead
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of death and life
- A million little pieces
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- A passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of Paul Revere
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A quick guide to Ben Franklin.
- A rebel in Gaza : behind the lines of the Arab Spring : one woman's story
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A seal called Andre
- A secret gift : how an act of kindness revealed hidden lives of the Great Depression
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sentimental education
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stranger at home : a true story
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A studio of her own : women artists in Boston, 1870-1940
- A sucky love story : overcoming unhappily ever after
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A synthesizing mind : a memoir from the creator of multiple intelligences theory
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A truck full of money
- A very punchable face
- A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement
- A voyager out : the life of Mary Kingsley
- A waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city
- A walk across America
- A wedding in Haiti : the story of a friendship
- A welcoming life : the MFK Fisher scrapbook
- A wild idea
- A window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert
- A woman makes a plan : advice for a lifetime of adventure, beauty, and success
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman's wit & whimsy : the 1833 diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy
- A world of her own : 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers
- A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- AC/DC : maximum rock & roll
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Copland : the life and work of an uncommon man
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron and Alexander : [the most famous duel in American history]
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams : a biography
- Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Joshua Heschel : mind, heart, soul
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Acid test : LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Admiral "Bull" Halsey : the life and wars of America's most controversial commander
- Adventurer : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova
- Afghan dreams : young voices of Afghanistan
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Afropessimism
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the 1969 Mets
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : my life of hardship, fast breaks, and second chances
- Against the wind
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie A to Z : the essential reference to her life and writings
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Albert O. Hirschman : an intellectual biography
- Alexander : the boy soldier who conquered the world
- Alexander Graham Bell : the life and times of the man who invented the telephone
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a character sketch
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton.
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- Alfred Stieglitz : the eloquent eye
- Ali : a life
- Alias Shakespeare : solving the greatest literary mystery of all time
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- All I ever wanted : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- All Lara's wars
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All down darkness wide : a memoir
- All in : an autobiography
- All ships follow me : a family memoir of war across three continents
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that jazz.
- All that moves us : life lessons from a pediatric neurosurgeon
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- 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 money in the world.
- All the oceans : b designing by the seat of my pants
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the way to America : the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel
- All the way to the tigers : a memoir
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost nothing: the 20th century art and life of Józef Czapski
- Alone on the wall
- Alone on the wall
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always pack a party dress : and other lessons learned from a (half) life in fashion
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- Amelia Earhart : this broad ocean
- Amelia Earhart, the final story
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America's great comic-strip artists : from the Yellow Kid to Peanuts
- America's secret aristocracy
- America's vice presidency : from irrelevance to power
- America, a redemption story : choosing hope, creating unity
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American English, Italian chocolate : small subjects of great importance
- American Experience., Rachel Carson
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American caliph : The true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC
- American daughter : a memoir
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American original : the life and constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
- American political leaders, 1789-2005
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American presidents, v. 1
- American presidents, v. 2
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American queen : the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American refuge : true stories of the refugee experience
- American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American writers : a collection of literary biographies, vol. 2, 1974
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Among the islands
- Amy
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us
- An accidental athlete : a funny thing happened on the way to middle age
- An astronaut's guide to life on Earth
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An island no more : [a memoir : the Gloucester I knew]
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- An unplanned life : a memoir
- Ana's story : a journey of hope
- Ancient civilizations: Biographies
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- 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 no birds sang
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- And so it goes : Kurt Vonnegut, a life
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Wyeth
- Andrew Wyeth : a secret life
- André : the famous harbor seal
- Angela Davis : an autobiography
- Angela Davis--an autobiography
- Angela's ashes
- Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
- Anne Frank : the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Anne Hutchinson : religious reformer
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : a gift for life
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : her life
- Annie and Helen
- Another good dog : one family and fifty foster dogs
- Ansel Adams : a documentary film
- Ansel Adams, an autobiography
- Anything but ordinary Addie : the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, queen of magic
- Anyway, anyhow, anywhere : the complete chronicle of the who, 1958-1978
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Appalachian Zen : journeys in search of true home, from the American heartland to the Buddha dharma
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Appel is forever : a child's memoir
- Apple, tree : writers on their parents
- April blood : Florence and the plot against the Medici
- Apropos of nothing : autobiography
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of Americas public and private spaces
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Around the world in 72 days
- Arshile Gorky : his life and work
- Art 21 : art in the twenty-first century : seasons one and two
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Art lover : a biography of Peggy Guggenheim
- Arthur Miller : American witness
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- As you were : a memoir
- Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield
- Assignment Russia : becoming a foreign correspondent in the crucible of the Cold War
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Astronauts : women on the final frontier
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- At home with Beatrix Potter : the creator of Peter Rabbit
- Atlantic fever : Lindbergh, his competitors, and the race to cross the Atlantic
- Atlantis : a journey in search of beauty
- Audrey Hepburn : an elegant spirit
- Aurelia, Aurélia : a memoir
- Auschwitz and after
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Autobiography of Mark Twain : complete and authoritative edition, v. 2
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, v. 1
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, v. 3
- Ava : a life in movies
- Ava : my story
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Avi
- Bad fat black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall
- Bad sister
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ballerina dreams : a true story
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balto and the great race
- Band of sisters : American women at war in Iraq
- Banned book club
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barbara Jordan : American hero
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Battlegrounds : the fight to defend the free world
- Bear of the sea : giant Jim Pattillo and the roaring years of the Gloucester-Nova Scotia fishery
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter & the unfortunate tale of a borrowed guinea pig
- Beatrix Potter : a life in nature
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Beautiful useful things : what William Morris made
- Because Claudette
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Babe Ruth
- Becoming Ben Franklin : how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty
- Becoming C.S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Coach Jake : a story of overcoming the odds, on the soccer field and beyond
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Jane.
- Becoming Madison : the extraordinary origins of the least likely founding father
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes
- Becoming a dangerous woman : embracing risk to change the world
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Becoming story : a journey among seasons, places, trees, and ancestors
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Before Columbus : the Leif Eriksson expedition
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before she was Harriet.
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Believe it : how to go from underestimated to unstoppable
- Bella figura : how to live, love, and eat the Italian way
- Belonging : a German reckons with history and home
- Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" <