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- true"All-American monster" : the unauthorized biography of Timothy McVeigh
- "And I was there" : Pearl Harbor and Midway--breaking the secrets
- true"Co. Aytch" : a confederate memoir of the Civil War
- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- "Good morning, Mr. President" : a story about Carl Sandburg
- "Have you seen Tom Thumb?"
- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- "In the habit of acting together" : the emergence of the Whig Party in Louisiana, 1828-1840
- "Just a gigolo" : the life and times of Louis Prima
- "Last of the titans" : the life and times of Congressman F. Edward HeÌbert of Louisiana
- "Mo" : a woman's view of Watergate
- "Mr. Cub,"
- true"Negro president" : Jefferson and the slave power
- "Nothing is impossible," said Nellie Bly
- true"One smart cookie" : how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies
- true"Ready for the people" : my most chilling cases as a prosecutor
- true"Scribbling women" : true tales from astonishing lives
- true"Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- true"Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- true"Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- true"Strong Medicine speaks" : a Native American elder has her say : an oral history
- true"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" : adventures of a curious character
- true"There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- true"To everything there is a season" : Pete Seeger and the power of song
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "Unsinkable" Molly Brown
- "Wanted dead or alive" : the true story of Harriet Tubman
- true"We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- "What happened to you?" : writing by disabled women
- "When you read this, they will have killed me" : the life and redemption of Caryl Chessman, whose execution shook America
- "Whip the rebellion" : Ulysses S. Grant's rise to command
- "Why should white guys have all the fun?" : how Reginald Lewis created a billion-dollar business empire
- true#DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- true#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- 'Til the butcher cuts him down
- true'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- true(Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- --And Jerry Mathers as "the Beaver"
- --And the lurid glare of the comet
- true08 : a graphic diary of the campaign trail
- 1
- true1 dead in attic : after Katrina
- true1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire ; [what I learned creating and building University Computing, Sterling Software, Maverick Capital, Bonanza Steakhouse, Michaels Stores, and Green Mountain Energy]
- 1,001 facts about pitchers
- true10 kings & queens who changed the world
- true10 leaders who changed the world
- true100 African-Americans who shaped American history
- 100 Pioneers : African-Americans who broke color barriers in sport
- 100 artists who changed the world
- 100 great Africans
- 100 scientists who shaped world history
- 100 trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
- true100 voices : an oral history of Ayn Rand
- 100 women who shaped world history
- 100 years of Negro freedom
- true100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- true100,000 Hearts : a surgeon's memoir
- true100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- true1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- true101 Changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- 101 things that piss me off
- true108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- true109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
- 11 African-American doctors
- true112 Mercer Street : Einstein, Russell, GoÌdel, Pauli, and the end of innocence in science
- 12 American women
- 12 artists with disabilities
- 12 astounding athletic feats
- 12 impossible daredevil stunts
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave
- 128 of the greatest stories from the Bible : amazing and true tales of the men, women, and children who shaped history
- true13 American artists children should know
- 13 against the odds
- true13 artists children should know
- true13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- true13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- true13 women : parables from prison
- true13 women artists children should know
- true14 cows for America
- 14 cows for America
- 15 to life : Kenneth's story
- true150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 150 glimpses of the beatles
- true18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 180° south : conquerors of the useless
- true1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the war they failed to see
- true1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 1896 in le Petit Paris : turning the century in southwest Louisiana
- 190 years of the U.S. Western District of Louisiana : [United States District Court], 1823-2013
- true1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- true1915, the death of innocence
- true1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- true1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 20 feet from stardom
- 20 feet from stardom
- true20 soccer legends
- true20 soccer superstars
- 20 years in the Secret Service : my life with five Presidents
- 20,000 days on Earth
- true2015 basketball superstars
- true20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 20th century journey : a memoir of a life and the times
- true21
- 21 years : Richard Linklater
- true24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- true25 months : a memoir
- true26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 Fairmount Avenue, Books 1-4
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- true26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- true27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- true28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 2nd Louisiana cavalry : a short illustrated history of their action in Louisiana during the Civil War with roster and portraits
- true3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar revolution
- 30 for 30, No. 10, No crossover : the trial of Allen Iverson
- 30 for 30, No. 10, Season 3, Doc & Darryl
- 30 for 30, No. 11, Season 2, No maÌs
- 30 for 30, No. 17, Birth of big air
- 30 for 30, No. 2, Season 3, The prince of Pennsylvania
- 30 for 30, No. 20, One night in Vegas : Tyson and Tupac
- 30 for 30, No. 20, Season 2, Playing for the mob
- 30 for 30, No. 21, Unmatched
- 30 for 30, No. 23, Into the wind
- 30 for 30, No. 23, Season 2, Brian and the Boz
- 30 for 30, No. 25, Once brothers
- 30 for 30, No. 26, Tim Richmond to the limit
- 30 for 30, No. 4, Season 2, Benji
- 30 for 30, No. 5, Without Bias
- 30 for 30, No. 6, The legend of Jimmy the Greek
- 30 for 30, No. 9, Guru of go
- 30 for 30, No.12, Run Ricky run
- 30 for 30, No.14, Season 2, Bernie and Ernie
- 30 for 30, No.15, June 17th, 1994
- 30 for 30, No.19, Season 2, Slaying the Badger
- 30 for 30, No.22, Season 3, Nature boy
- 30 for 30, No.25, Season 2, Rand University
- 30 for 30, No.28, Marion Jones, press pause
- 30 for 30, No.28, Season 2, I hate Christian Laettner
- 30 for 30, No.29, The best that never was
- 30 illegal years to the Strip : the untold stories of the gangsters who built the early Las Vegas Strip
- true300 pounds of attitude : the wildest stories and craziest characters the NFL has ever seen
- true300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story ... with recipes
- true32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- true33 days : a memoir
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 39 pounds of love
- 4,000 years of uppity women : rebellious belles, daring dames, and headstrong heroines through the ages
- 40 years of Queen
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- true41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : his family, his triumphs, his legacy : inside the life of George H.W. Bush, an American leader
- 41-Love : a memoir.
- true41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 4192 : the crowning of the hit king
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- true42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- true438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- true491 days : prisoner number 1323/69
- true4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- true5 elephants
- true5 giraffes
- true5,000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 50 Cent
- 50 impressive kids and their amazing (and true!) stories
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 trailblazers of the 50 states
- 50 unbelievable women and their fascinating (and true!) stories
- 501 great artists
- 501 great writers
- 501 movie stars
- 51 Birch Street
- 52 McGs. : the best obituaries from legendary New York Times writer Robert McG. Thomas, Jr.
- true56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 56th Evac. Hospital : letters of a WWII army doctor
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 7 African-American scientists
- true7 miles a second
- 7-10 Split : My Journey as America's Whitest Black Kid
- true700 Sundays
- 703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- true703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- 740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- true747 : creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in action
- true8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- true81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- true82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- true83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- 8647 Candy Street : my Lord, my shepherd, his evil
- true88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 African-American inventors
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- true98% funky stuff : my life in music
- true99 : stories of the game
- A "strange sapience" : the creative imagination of D.H. Lawrence
- trueA $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- trueA Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Bishop's confession
- A Black communist in the freedom struggle : the life of Harry Haywood
- A Black explorer at the North Pole : an autobiographical report by the Negro who conquered the top of the world with Admiral Robert E. Peary
- A Black patriot and a white priest : AndreÌ Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans
- A Blue Dog Christmas
- A Bookshop in Berlin : A Memoir.
- A British eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans : the memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827
- A Caldecott celebration : seven artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- trueA Caldecott celebration : six artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- A Cambodian odyssey
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- trueA Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- trueA Charlie Brown religion : exploring the spiritual life and work of Charles M. Schulz
- trueA Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- trueA Chinese life
- trueA Christian and a Democrat : a religious biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- A Confederate girl : the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
- A Connecticut Yankee at war : the life and letters of George Lee Gaskell
- A Conrad companion
- A D.H. Lawrence companion : life, thought, and works
- A Faulkner chronology
- trueA French affair
- A French tragedy : scenes of civil war, summer 1944
- A Huey P. Newton story
- trueA Jane Austen education : how six novels taught me about love, friendship, and the things that really matter
- trueA Jesuit off-Broadway : center stage with Jesus, Judas, and life's big questions
- trueA Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- trueA Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Langston Hughes encyclopedia
- A Little House sampler
- A Louisiana soldier : Willis A. Fontenot, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, WWII
- A Maryland bride in the Deep South : the Civil War diary of Priscilla Bond
- A Miles Davis reader
- A Modern southern reader : major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South
- A More Noble Cause : A.P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
- trueA Negro league scrapbook
- A New Orleans voudou priestess : the legend and reality of Marie Laveau
- trueA Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- trueA Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world
- A Passion to know : 20 profiles in science
- trueA Pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- trueA Romanov fantasy : life at the court of Anna Anderson
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A Tale of Two Omars : A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring
- A Texas cow boy
- trueA Thousand Forests in One Acorn : An Anthology of Spanish Language Fiction
- trueA Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Tolkien treasury : stories, poems, and illustrations celebrating the author and his world
- A Venetian affair
- trueA Venetian affair
- A Virginia family and its plantation houses
- A Warsaw diary : 1978-1981
- A Week in the life of the royal family
- A Wisconsin Yankee in confederate Bayou country : the Civil War reminiscences of a Union general
- A World War II flight surgeon's story
- A World unsuspected : portraits of Southern childhood
- A Yank in Bomber Command
- A Zora Neale Hurston companion
- trueA bad woman feeling good : blues and the women who sing them
- A ballerina's tale
- A ballerina's tale : the incredible rise of Misty Copeland
- A band called Death
- A bar on every corner : sobering up in a tempting world
- A basket in the reeds
- trueA battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : [a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994]
- trueA beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel laureate John Nash
- trueA beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- trueA beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, diaper a baby monkey, build a bungalow, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- trueA being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- trueA bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A biographical dictionary of artists
- A biographical dictionary of women artists in Europe and America since 1850
- A biographical guide to the great jazz and pop singers
- trueA bird or two : a story about Henri Matisse
- A bittersweet life in the Sudan & beyond
- A black gambler's world of liquor, vice, and presidential politics : William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 1839-1917
- A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- trueA block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
- trueA body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- trueA body, undone : living on after great pain
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- trueA bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bold fresh piece of humanity : [a memoir]
- A bold fresh piece of humanity : a memoir
- trueA bomb in the brain : a heroic tale of science, surgery, and survival
- trueA book of Americans
- A book of famous black Americans : complete units for teachers of children ages 4-8
- A book of remembrances : Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997
- A book of saints : an evocative celebration in prose and paintings
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- trueA bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bookworm who hatched
- A border bairn
- A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- trueA bowl full of peace : a true story
- trueA boy and a jaguar
- trueA boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy from Tupelo : the complete 1953-1955 recordings
- trueA boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- trueA boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- trueA boy named Phyllis : a suburban memoir
- trueA boy named Shel : the life and times of Shel Silverstein
- trueA boy's war
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- trueA braid of lives : Native American childhood
- trueA brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- A bridge of childhood : Truman Capote's southern years
- A brief guide to J.R.R. Tolkien : The unauthorized guide to the author of "The hobbit" and "The lord of the rings"
- A brief history of Cleopatra
- A brief history of time
- A brief history of time
- trueA brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- trueA brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
- trueA broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A broken regiment : the 16th Connecticut's Civil War
- trueA broom of one's own : words on writing, housecleaning, and life
- trueA brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A burst of light : and other essays
- trueA burst of light : essays
- A butterfly journey : Maria Sibylla Merian, artist and scientist
- A calendar of saints : the lives of the principal saints of the Christian Year
- trueA call to assembly : the autobiography of a musical storyteller
- A call to surrender
- trueA captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- trueA case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- trueA cast of friends
- trueA castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- trueA cat named Darwin : how a stray cat changed a man into a human being
- A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War
- trueA cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- trueA century and some change : my life before the president called my name
- A century of car design
- trueA century of dance
- A century of great African-Americans
- trueA chainless soul : a life of Emily BronteÌ
- A champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- trueA chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- trueA chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A chance to die : the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael
- trueA change of heart
- A charge to keep
- trueA charmed life : growing up in Macbeth's castle
- A chef's life, Season five
- A chef's life, Season four
- A chef's life, Season three
- A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi
- trueA child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A child shall lead them : stories of transformed young lives at Medjugorje
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- trueA child's Christmas in Wales
- trueA child's christmas in wales and five poems
- trueA child's journey out of autism : one family's story of living in hope and finding a cure
- A child's story of saints : past and present
- trueA childhood : the biography of a place
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- trueA chimp in the family
- A choice of days : essays from happy days, newspaper days, and heathen days
- A choice of weapon
- trueA chosen few : the resurrection of European Jewry
- trueA clashing of the soul : John Hope and the dilemma of African American leadership and Black higher education in the early twentieth century
- trueA clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A closer walk : the Pete Fountain story
- A coach's life
- trueA code to keep : the true story of America's longest-held civilian prisoner of war in Vietnam
- A colored man round the world
- A combat artist in World War II
- trueA comedy & a tragedy : a memoir of learning how to read and write
- A coming of roses
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- trueA common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A companion to first ladies
- A company man : the remarkable French-Atlantic voyage of a clerk for the Company of the Indies : a memoir
- trueA complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- trueA computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A concise history of Christian thought
- trueA consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- trueA conspiratorial life : Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism
- A constant forge : a film
- trueA cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in occupied France
- A costly rush
- trueA country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- trueA country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A course of their own : a history of African American golfers
- trueA covered wagon girl : the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
- trueA covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- trueA cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- trueA curator's quest : building the collection of painting and sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art, 1967-1988
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- trueA cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- trueA curious madness : an American combat psychiatrist, a Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from World War II
- trueA curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- trueA damned serious business
- trueA dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- trueA daring life : a biography of Eudora Welty
- trueA dark and bloody ground
- trueA dash of daring : Carmel Snow and her life in fashion, art, and letters
- trueA daughter of the middle border
- trueA daughter's love : Thomas More and his dearest Meg
- trueA daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A day at the beach : recollections
- trueA day in the life : one family, the beautiful people, and the end of the sixties