Biographies
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Biographies
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- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 13 architects children should know
- A field guide to happiness : what I learned in Bhutan about living, loving, and waking up
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guided tour of hell : a graphic memoir
- A life in parts
- A matter of honor : Pearl Harbor : betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice
- A surgeon's war : my year in Vietnam
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Amazing love : true stories of the power of forgiveness
- An American quilt : unfolding a story of family and slavery
- Anthony Davis
- Are you an echo? : the lost poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
- Awesome achievers in technology : super and strange facts about 12 almost famous history makers
- Barack Obama : groundbreaking president
- Be unstoppable : the art of never giving up
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Before they were authors : famous writers as kids
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Black girls rock! : owning our magic, rocking our truth
- Black power salute : how a photograph captured a political protest
- Black women who dared
- Blame this on the boogie
- Books for all : Monterey County's first librarian
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Box of butterflies : discovering the unexpected blessings all around us
- Breaking the barriers
- Bronco Charlie y el Pony Express
- CLANG! : Ernst Chladni's sound experiments
- Carleton Watkins : making the West American
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Combat ready : lessons learned in the journey to fighter pilot
- Coming of age in Mississippi
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes 2
- Danica Patrick
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Dead feminists : historic heroines in living color
- Deadly voices : the true story of serial killer Herbert Mullin
- Doctor Esperanto and the language of hope
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dokuoya sabaibaru
- Don't stop believin'
- Dorothy, "an amoral and dangerous woman" : the murder of E. Howard Hunt's wife : Watergate's darkest secret
- Dumpling dreams : how Joyce Chen brought the dumpling from Beijing to Cambridge
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Engineers
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Father, Son & Co. : my life at IBM and beyond
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Finding the speed of light : the 1676 discovery that dazzled the world
- Flying couch : a graphic memoir
- Flying machines : how the Wright brothers soared
- For Audrey with love : Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Galápagos girl
- Galápagos girl : Galapagueña
- Game of crowns : Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the throne
- Gentleman Jack : the real Anne Lister
- George Carlin : 40 years of comedy
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Grandpa stops a war : a Paul Robeson story
- Granuaile
- Gray day : my undercover mission to expose America's first cyber spy
- Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen
- Guru Nanak : the first Sikh guru
- Hawking
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hieronymus Bosch : visions and nightmares
- High school
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homelands : four friends, two countries, and the fate of the great Mexican-American migration
- Homemade : Finnish rye, feed sack fashion, and other simple ingredients from my life in food
- How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child
- How sweet the sound : the story of Amazing Grace
- I am George Washington
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I loved her in the movies : memories of Hollywood's legendary actresses
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- In gratitude
- James Harden
- Japanese destroyer captain : Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway -- the great naval battles as seen through Japanese eyes
- Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John Deere, that's who!
- Joy enough : a memoir
- Just Jessie : my guide to love, life, family, and food
- Katie Ledecky
- Kevin Durant
- Kid artists : true tales of childhood from creative legends
- Kirk and Anne : letters of love, laughter, and a lifetime in Hollywood
- Kyrie Irving
- Leadership in turbulent times
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
- Lindsey Vonn
- Lines, bars and circles : how William Playfair invented graphs
- Little dancer aged fourteen : the true story behind Degas's masterpiece
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Make a wish for me : a family's recovery from autism
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Mama's boy : a story from our Americas
- Mary Blair's unique flair : the girl who became one of the Disney legends
- Mary, Queen of Scots : the true life of Mary Stuart
- Michael Phelps
- Miedo : Trump en la Casa Blanca
- Minority leader : how to lead from the outside and make real change
- Miró's magic animals
- Miss D & me : life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Mississippi witness : the photographs of Florence Mars
- Murder in Matera : a true story of passion, family, and forgiveness in Southern Italy
- My soul looks back : a memoir
- NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Napoleon : a life
- Nelson Cruz
- Never come back
- Nevertheless, we persisted : 48 voices of defiance, strength, and courage
- No happy endings : a memoir
- Of fortunes and war : Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
- On being human : a memoir of waking up, living real, and listening hard
- On to the next dream
- Once you go in : a memoir of radical faith
- Only in Naples : lessons in food and famiglia from my Italian mother-in-law
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- P.K. Subban : making his mark on the hockey world
- Parental discretion is advised : the rise of N.W.A and the dawn of gangsta rap
- Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler
- Pokémon designer : Satoshi Tajiri
- Pop! : a novel ; a memoir ; a fictional memoir ; a nonfictional novel ; a fabulist memoir ; a book
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Presenting Buffalo Bill : the man who invented the Wild West
- President Donald Trump
- Priest of nature : the religious worlds of Isaac Newton
- RFK : his words for our times
- Regina persisted : an untold story
- Relentless : a memoir
- Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis
- Rhino in the house : the true story of saving Samia
- Robert Bateman : the boy who painted nature
- Russell Westbrook
- Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
- Seeing into tomorrow : haiku
- Serving the servant : remembering Kurt Cobain
- She made a monster : how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
- Shula : the coach of the NFL's greatest generation
- Simone Biles
- Smile : how young Charlie Chaplin taught the world to laugh (and cry)
- So here's the thing... : notes on growing up, getting older, and trusting your gut
- Soccerwomen : the icons, rebels, stars, and trailblazers who transformed the beautiful game
- Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide
- Stand up and sing! : Pete Seeger, folk music, and the path to justice
- Stephen Curry
- Sticky fingers : the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine
- Strays : a lost cat, a homeless man, and their journey across America
- Sunny's nights : lost and found at a bar on the edge of the world
- Survival math : notes on an all-American family
- Taking action for civil and political rights
- Taking action to help the environment
- Taking action to improve people's health
- Tamba Hali
- The Borgias : power and fortune
- The Chief : the life and turbulent times of Chief Justice John Roberts
- The Kennedy wives : triumph and tragedy in America's most public family
- The League of Wives : the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home
- The Queen and the first Christmas tree : Queen Charlotte's gift to England
- The Sakura obsession : the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms
- The awakened woman : remembering & reigniting our sacred dreams
- The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
- The case for loving : the fight for interracial marriage
- The face : a time code
- The faith of Dolly Parton : lessons from her life to lift your heart
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The great Antonio
- The impossible : the miraculous story of a mother's faith and her child's resurrection
- The killer across the table : unlocking the secrets of serial killers and predators with the FBI's original mindhunter
- The kingdom
- The language of angels : a story about the reinvention of Hebrew
- The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin
- The light years : a memoir
- The lost founding father : John Quincy Adams and the transformation of American politics
- The man who walked backward : an American dreamer's search for meaning in the Great Depression
- The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal
- The red bandanna
- The royal art of poison : filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul
- The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando
- The seminarian : Martin Luther King, Jr. comes of age
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The storm on our shores : one island, two soldiers, and the forgotten battle of World War II
- The superlative A. Lincoln : poems about our 16th president
- The true tale of a giantess : the story of Anna Swan
- The world according to Fannie Davis : my mother's life in the Detroit numbers
- Theft by finding : diaries (1977-2002)
- Then they came for me : Martin Niemöller, the pastor who defied the Nazis
- Things my son needs to know about the world
- This kid can fly : it's about ability (not disability)
- This life I live : one man's extraordinary, ordinary life and the woman who changed it forever
- Thomas Jefferson
- Three days in Moscow : Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Soviet empire
- Through my eyes : the autobiography of Ruby Bridges
- Tim Cook : the genius who took Apple to the next level
- Tolkien : maker of Middle-Earth
- Upstairs at the White House : my life with the first ladies
- Vincent
- Walking with Ramona : exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
- What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
- When the world stopped to listen : Van Cliburn's Cold War triumph, and its aftermath
- Where the light enters : building a family, discovering myself
- Who are Venus and Serena Williams?
- Who is Barack Obama?
- Who is J.K. Rowling?
- Who is Stan Lee?
- Who was Dr. Seuss?
- Who was Jacqueline Kennedy?
- Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
- Who was Maya Angelou?
- Who was Napoleon?
- Who was Neil Armstrong?
- Who was Nikola Tesla?
- Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
- Who were the Beatles?
- Women athletes who rule!
- Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal
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