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- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- 101 changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- 101 tricks, tips, and cool stuff
- 13 women artists children should know
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 16th century superstar : Da Vinci
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 18th century superstar : Mozart
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 2 Chainz
- 20th century superstar : Curie
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 30 people who changed the world
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 50 Cent
- 50 women artists you should know
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- ?douard Manet
- ?douard Manet
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Thousand Sparks of Light
- A biography of J. K. Rowling
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A crime in the family
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir [of] Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- 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 history of women photographers
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Picasso
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A picture book of Christopher Columbus
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Thomas Alva Edison
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A rumor of war
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- A silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A tale of love and darkness
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A way of living : the art of Willem De Kooning
- 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 charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A. A. Milne
- A. C. Wharton Jr
- A. Philip Randolph
- ABBA
- AC/DC (Music group)
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- ARETHA FRANKLIN : legendary singer
- Aage Bohr
- Aaliyah
- Aaron Burr
- Aaron Burr : more than a villain
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron Eckhart
- Aaron McGruder
- Aaron Neville
- Aaron Paul
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Sorkin
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abbie Cornish
- Abby Wambach
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Abdul Hamid (Bangladeshi president)
- Abdullah Abdullah (Afghan politician)
- Abdullah Ensour
- Abdullah Gul
- Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani
- Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abhisit Vejjajiva
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams and other revolutionary women
- Abigail Breslin
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : addressing a nation
- Abraham Maslow
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Achille Claude Debussy
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Byron Lovelace,Countess of Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Adam Carolla
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
- Adam Driver
- Adam Lambert
- Adam Levine
- Adam McKay
- Adam Oates
- Adam Sandler
- Adam Scott
- Adam Smith
- Adele
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Eichmann
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
- Adrian Peterson
- Adrianne Palicki
- Adrien Brody
- Adrienne Rich
- Aerosmith
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- African Americans in Glencoe : the little migration
- After the miracle : the political crusades of Helen Keller
- Afua Cooper
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- Agnes Martin : her life and art
- Aharon Appelfeld
- Ahead of time : the extraordinary journey of Ruth Gruber
- Ai Weiwei
- Aime Cesaire
- Aisha N. Tyler
- Aishwarya Rai
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Akihito
- Akio Toyoda
- Akira Kurosawa
- Aksel Lund Svindal
- Al Capone
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Davis
- Al Franken
- Al Green
- Al Jolson
- Al Pacino
- Al Sharpton
- Al Smith
- Alan Arkin
- Alan C. Kay
- Alan Cumming
- Alan Dershowitz
- Alan Garcia
- Alan Greenspan
- Alan Jackson
- Alan Mulally
- Alan Paton
- Alan Rickman
- Alan Shepard
- Alan Turing
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Alana Nichols
- Alanis Morissette
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alassane Ouattara
- Albert Camus
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a life of genius
- Albert Einstein : gentle genius
- Albert Finney
- Albert Gore Jr.
- Albert John Luthuli
- Albert Kahn
- Albert Pujols
- Albert Schweitzer
- Albert, Prince of Monaco
- Albertina Sisulu
- Alberto Contador
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Albrecht Durer
- Alcee L. Hastings
- Aldo Leopold
- Aldous Huxley
- Alec Baldwin
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Aleksandr Borodin
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Alessandro Volta
- Alessia Cara
- Alex : The Fathering of a Preemie
- Alex Ferguson
- Alex Garland
- Alex Haley
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Pettyfer
- Alex Rodriguez
- Alex Salmond
- Alex Trebek
- Alexander Fleming
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell : called to invent
- Alexander Graham Bell : destinado para inventar
- Alexander Haig
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton's New York City
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Lukashenko
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Alexander McQueen
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Alexander Payne
- Alexander Pope
- Alexander Pushkin
- Alexander Skarsgard
- Alexander Twilight
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : the life, times, and rise of "AOC"
- Alexis Bledel
- Alexis Denisof
- Alexis Tsipras
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Alexis de Tocqueville : democracy's guide
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Alfonso Garcia Robles
- Alfre Woodard
- Alfred Adler
- Alfred Binet
- Alfred C. Kinsey
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Alfred Wegener : Uncovering Plate Tectonics
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Alger Hiss
- Algren : a life
- Ali
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
- Ali Krieger
- Ali Landry
- Alias Anna : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- Alice Coachman
- Alice Cooper
- Alice Hoffman
- Alice McDermott
- Alice Munro
- Alice Paul
- Alice Paul
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker : a life
- Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution
- Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- Alicia Keys
- Alicia Silverstone
- Alicia Vikander
- Alison Krauss
- Alison Sweeney
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- 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 powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- All the ways we kill and die : an elegy for a fallen comrade and the hunt for his killer
- All the wrong moves : a memoir about chess, love, and ruining everything
- All things must pass away : Harrison, Clapton, and other assorted love songs
- Allen Ginsburg
- Allison Janney
- Allison Williams (American actor)
- Allyson Felix
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Aloe Blacc
- Alone on the wall
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy SEALs
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- Althea Gibson
- Although of course you end up becoming yourself : a road trip with David Foster Wallace
- Alton Brown
- Alva Myrdal
- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
- Alvaro Uribe Velez
- Alvin Ailey
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Aly Raisman
- Alyson Hannigan
- Alyssa Milano
- Amadou Toumani Toure
- Amal Alamuddin Clooney
- Amanda Bynes
- Amanda Seyfried
- Amare Stoudemire
- Amazing Americans : Thurgood Marshall
- Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amber Riley
- Amber Tamblyn
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart (Spanish Version) : un vuelo hacia la aventura
- Amelia Earhart : Pionera en aviación
- Amelia Earhart : the legend of the lost aviator
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America Ferrera
- America's other Audubon
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American animals : a true crime memoir
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American pharaoh : Mayor Richard J. Daley : his battle for Chicago and the nation
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American ramble : a walk of memory and renewal
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Amiri Baraka
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy SEAL's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amos Lee
- Amy Adams
- Amy Chua
- Amy Clampitt
- Amy Coney Barrett : reshaping the Supreme Court
- Amy Grant
- Amy Lowell