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- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A story is to share : how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- 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
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- America, a redemption story : choosing hope, creating unity
- American Conquistador : An action-adventure that is more Robin Hood than Robin Hood. And the story is TRUE!
- Anne Frank
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Biography is at university
- Black Water : family, legacy, and blood memory
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- Brave companions : portraits in history
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Celia Cruz
- Charles & Ray Eames, 1907-1978, 1912-1988 : pioneers of mid-century modernism
- Choices : to the Hills and back again
- Christopher Columbus and the Americas : separating fact from fiction
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Cold : three winters at the South Pole
- Commanders of the dining room : biographic sketches and portraits of successful head waiters
- Courage like Kate : the true story of a girl lighthouse keeper
- Covered in color : Christo & Jeanne-Claude's fabrics of freedom
- Crazy Horse and Custer : born enemies
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- Dazzlin' Dolly: : the songwriting, hit-singing, guitar-picking Dolly Parton
- Deb Haaland : first Native American cabinet secretary
- Did it! : from yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Disturbance
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Eliot after The waste land
- Elton John
- Elusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Espionage and enslavement in the Revolution : the true story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
- Experiencing Olmsted : the enduring legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American landscapes
- Faith, hope and carnage
- Fearless : Harriet Quimby, a life without limit
- Fighting for yes!: : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
- Finding freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Food-Related Stories
- Forest fighter : the story of Chico Mendes
- Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the science of prehistoric life
- Fourth & goal every day : inside the Alabama football dynasty
- Frederick Douglass
- Frida Kahlo : the painter and her work
- Gal Gadot : soldier, model, Wonder Woman
- George Michael : a life
- Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Helltown : the untold story of a serial killer on Cape Cod
- His masterly pen : a biography of Jefferson the writer
- Historian offers rare look at Pinckney
- Hitler's boy soldiers : how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany
- Hollywood ending : Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- I've got this round : more tales of debauchery
- If you were a princess
- Illegally yours : a memoir
- In search of Mary Seacole : the making of a black cultural icon and humanitarian
- Inheritance : an autobiography of whiteness
- Irena's children : a true story of courage
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Just wild enough : Mireya Mayor, primatologist
- Ketanji Brown Jackson : first Black woman on the US Supreme Court
- Kevin Durant
- Kid trailblazers : true tales of childhood from influencers and leaders/
- Kurt Vonnegut : the making of a writer
- La estudiante mayor : cómo Mary Walker aprendió a leer
- Library girl : how Nancy Pearl became America's most celebrated librarian
- Life of Sumter, Theme of work
- Life on delay : making peace with a stutter
- Lift every voice and change : a celebration of Black leaders and the words that inspire generations
- Listen, world! : how the intrepid Elsie Robinson became America's most-read woman
- Living history: Experiencing life's joy her best memory
- Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun
- Lowcountry agricultural and convivial societies : where planters came together in antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina
- Luke Kuechly
- Madame Alexander : the creator of the iconic American doll
- Magritte
- Make meatballs sing : the life & art of Corita Kent
- Making history : the storytellers who shaped the past
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manifesting justice : wrongly convicted women reclaim their rights
- Manos que bailan : cómo Teresa Carreño tocó el piano para el Presidente Lincoln
- Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom
- Maya Lin
- Memories and life lessons from the Magic tree house
- Miss Dior : a story of courage and couture
- Morgenthau : power, privilege, and the rise of an American dynasty
- Mozart : the reign of love
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Mr. McCloskey's marvelous mallards : the making of Make way for ducklings
- Muhammad Ali, Discs 1 & 2
- Muhammad Ali, Discs 3 & 4
- My place in the sun : life in the golden age of Hollywood and Washington
- Naomi Osaka : grand slam champ
- Native Americans in history : a history book for kids
- Neil Armstrong
- Nero : matricide, music, and murder in imperial Rome
- New book on Strom shows contradictory, complex man
- Nimitz at war : command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
- No ordinary man : the Billy Tipton documentary
- Nothing but the night : Leopold & Loeb and the truth behind the murder that rocked 1920s America
- One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
- Our country's presidents : a complete encyclopedia of the U.S. presidency
- Pain is weakness leaving the body : a marine's unbecoming
- Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
- Phenomenal AOC : the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Pinckney biographer says it's all about stories
- Please please tell me now : the Duran Duran story
- Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
- Pulisic : my journey so far
- Putin
- Reading up on your rock 'n' roll
- Retail gangster : the insane, real-life story of Crazy Eddie
- Return to Uluru : the hidden history of a murder in outback Australia
- Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis
- Revenge : Meghan, Harry, and the war between the Windsors
- Riding the lightning : a year in the life of a New York City paramedic
- Road trip! : camping with the four vagabonds ; Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs
- Roberto Clemente
- Science and sleuthing used to identify Hunley crew
- Secret daughter writes of Thurmond
- Shackleton : the biography
- She sang for India : how M.S. Subbulakshmi used her voice for change
- Sho-time : the inside story of Shohei Ohtani and the greatest baseball season ever played
- Sisters
- Somewhere sisters : a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family
- Sound within sound : radical composers of the twentieth century
- Spillane : king of pulp fiction : a biography
- Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
- Survival math : notes on an all-American family
- Swimming with the Blowfish : Hootie, healing, and the ride of a lifetime
- Sylvia Pankhurst : natural born rebel
- Tecumseh and the prophet : the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation
- The Crown in Vogue
- The King : the life of Charles III
- The Queen : her life
- The Woman Who Split the Atom : Lise Meitner
- The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym : a biography
- The authorized Roy Orbison
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The extraordinary Suzy Wright : a colonial woman on the frontier
- The flying man : Otto Lilienthal, the world's first pilot
- The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance
- The lady and the octopus : how Jeanne Villepreux-Power invented aquariums and revolutionized marine biology
- The last folk hero : the life and myth of Bo Jackson
- The liar : how a double agent in the CIA became the Cold War's last honest man
- The long alliance : the imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
- The man who started the Civil War : James Chesnut, honor, and emotion in the American South
- The new royals : Queen Elizabeth's legacy and the future of the crown
- The palace papers : inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil
- The puzzle solver : a scientist's desperate quest to cure the illness that stole his son
- The rebel and the kingdom : the true story of the secret mission to overthrow the North Korean regime
- The rise (and falls) of Jackie Chan
- The second in the world to invent the telephone : Elisha Gray
- The snail
- The tower of life : how Yaffa Eliach rebuilt her town in stories and photographs
- The true West : real stories about black cowboys, women sharpshooters, Native American rodeo stars, pioneering vaqueros, and the unsung explorers, builders, and heroes who shaped the American West
- The turning point : 1851--a year that changed Charles Dickens and the world
- This America of ours : Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the forgotten fight to save the wild
- Thomas Jefferson : a biography of spirit and flesh
- Three-martini afternoons at the Ritz : the rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
- Tim Cook : the genius who took Apple to the next level
- Tiny Tim : king for a day
- Travel light, move fast
- Twilight man : love and ruin in the shadows of Hollywood and the Clark empire
- Unstoppable : how Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School defeated Army
- Vacuuming in the nude : and other ways to get attention
- Violet and Daisy : the story of vaudeville's famous conjoined twins
- Warrior princess : the story of Khutulun
- Waxing on : The karate kid and me
- We are here : 30 inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have shaped the United States
- What would Frida do? : a guide to living boldly
- What's in your pocket? : collecting nature's treasures
- When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends
- Who is Colin Kaepernick?
- Who was Alexander the Great?
- Who was Andrew Jackson?
- Who was Blackbeard?
- Who was E.B. White?
- Who was Fidel Castro?
- Who was Galileo?
- Who was Michelangelo?
- Who was the greatest? : Muhammad Ali
- William Still : The Underground Railroad and the angel at Philadelphia
- Yellen : the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval
- Yusra swims
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