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- 13 American women who changed the world
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A truck full of money
- A.J. Styles : the phenomenal one
- Abigail Adams
- Abraham
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : ingenious physicist and father of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- 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-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Aly Raisman
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Anders Celsius
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angela Merkel : Chancellor of Germany
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Autumn
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Beep : inside the unseen world of baseball for the blind
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benjamin Banneker : brilliant surveyor, mathematician, and astronomer
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bessie Coleman
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Big Papi : the legend and legacy of David Ortiz
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Jean King
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Clara Barton
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carli Lloyd
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights
- Charlotte Flair : bow to your queen
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clean sweep! : Frank Zamboni's ice machine
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Colin Kaepernick
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Connor McDavid : hockey superstar
- Connor McDavid : hockey superstar
- Conor Mcgregor
- Coolidge : an American enigma
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crispus Attucks and African American Patriots of the American Revolution
- Cuz : the life and times of Michael A.
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- David Pastrnak : hockey superstar
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dian Fossey : animal rights activist and protector of mountain gorillas
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolley Madison
- Donald Trump
- Dr. Seuss
- Edison
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Ellen Ochoa : dynamic space director
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : American hero
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- From an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Eastman
- George H.W. Bush
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Grant
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Hank Aaron : home run hammer
- Harriet Tubman
- Helen Keller : educator, activist & author
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry Ford : automotive innovator
- Henry Ford and the assembly line
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hillary Clinton : American woman of the world
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Impressionism : 13 artists children should know
- In the darkroom
- Intimate warfare : the true story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward boxing trilogy
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- J.K. Rowling
- J.K. Rowling : author of the Harry Potter series
- Jackie Robinson
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- James Harden
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Janis : her life and music
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Joe Biden : our 46th president
- Johannes Gutenberg : inventor and craftsman
- Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press
- John F. Kennedy : our 35th president
- John Quincy Adams
- Jonn Cena : hustle. loyalty. respect.
- June Almeida, virus detective! : the woman who discovered the first human coronavirus
- Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Katherine Johnson : guiding spacecraft
- Kawhi Leonard : basketball star
- Killing Crazy Horse : the merciless Indian wars in America
- Kim Jong Un: : supreme leader of North Korea
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- Kyrie Irving
- Lafayette and the American Revolution
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Latinitas : celebrating big dreamers in history!
- Leonardo and the pen that drew the future
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little weirds
- Little weirds
- Lizzie demands a seat : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- Louis Pasteur advances microbiology
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Malala's magic pencil
- Malcolm X : by any means necessary
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Manny Pacquiao
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Martha Washington
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King Jr. : civil rights leader and American hero
- Mary Anderson and windshield wipers
- Mathematician and computer scientist Grace Hopper
- Maya Angelou
- Me
- Me
- Meet the champions
- Megan Rapinoe
- Meghan Markle
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Mia Hamm : striking gold
- Michael Jordan : flying high
- Michael Phelps
- Michelle Wie
- Mikaela Shiffrin
- Milton Hershey and the chocolate industry
- Mookie Betts
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali
- My journey to the stars
- My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
- NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Nathan Mackinnon : hockey superstar
- Neil Armstrong : first man on the Moon
- Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Neymar
- Nikita Kucherov : hockey superstar
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Notes on grief
- Nothing personal : my secret life in the dating app inferno
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Nuestra América : 30 inspiring latinas/latinos who have shaped the United States
- Nyjah Huston : skateboard superstar
- Odell Beckham Jr.
- Oprah Winfrey : an inspiration to millions
- Pablo Picasso
- Patrick Kane : hockey superstar
- Paul Simon : the life
- People of pride : 25 great LGBTQ Americans
- Petty : the biography
- Phillis Wheatley : colonial African-American poet
- Photographic : the life of Graciela Iturbide
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Pokémon designer : Satoshi Tajiri
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Princes at war : the bitter battle inside Britain's royal family in the darkest days of WWII
- Profiles in courage
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens, Book one
- Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
- Race to the bottom of the Earth : surviving Antarctica
- Rachel Carson sparks the environmental movement
- Rebel mother: : my childhood chasing the revolution
- Relentless : a memoir
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Goddard and the rocket
- Robin
- Ronda Rousey
- Rosalind Franklin : unlocking DNA
- Ruby Bridges : get to know the girl who took a stand for education
- Rush : revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Sacagawea
- Samuel Morse
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir
- Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago
- Scott Kelly : remarkable space resident
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- Shel Silverstein
- Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
- Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Simone Biles : America's greatest gymnast
- Sing and shout : the mighty voice of Paul Robeson
- Sing with me : the story of Selena Quintanilla
- Sing, don't cry
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Soccer's G.O.A.T. : Pele, Lionel Messi, and more
- Solutions and other problems
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Splat! : the most exciting artists of all time
- Squanto : Native American translator and guide
- Stars of the Super Bowl
- Stephen Curry
- Stephen Curry
- Stories for boys who dare to be different : true tales of amazing boys who changed the world without killing dragons
- Stories for kids who dare to be different : true tales of amazing people who stood up and stood out
- Strong as Sandow : how Eugen Sandow became the strongest man on earth
- Stubby : a true story of friendship
- Swish! : the slam-dunking, alley-ooping, high-flying Harlem Globetrotters
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America
- The Bettencourt affair : the world's richest woman and the scandal that rocked Paris
- The Bettencourt affair : the world's richest woman and the scandal that rocked Paris
- The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights, with one African American family
- The Duchess : Camilla Parker Bowles and the love affair that rocked the crown
- The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere : One if by Land, Two if by Sea
- The Stranger In The Woods : The Extraordinary Story Of The Last True Hermit
- The United States of Trump : how the President really sees America
- The United States of Trump : how the president really sees America
- The Wright Brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The Wright brothers : nose-diving into history
- The accidental president : Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world
- The age of exploration : totally getting lost
- The art of her deal : the untold story of Melania Trump
- The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust
- The beautiful struggle : a memoir
- The book of Joan : tales of mirth, mischief, and manipulation
- The book of gutsy women : favorite stories of courage and resilience
- The boys of St. Joe's '65 in the Vietnam War
- The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer
- The cat who lived with Anne Frank
- The contender : the story of Marlon Brando
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The fall of Richard Nixon : a reporter remembers Watergate
- The ghost : the secret life of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The girl who ran : Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The good fight : the feuds of the founding fathers (and how they shaped the nation)
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The great Nijinsky : god of dance
- The highest tribute : Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership, and legacy / written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and a climber's life
- The lady from the black lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick
- The last days of John Lennon
- The leaf detective : how Margaret Lowman uncovered secrets in the rainforest
- The magician and the spirits : Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
- The making of Donald Trump
- The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The polio pioneer : Dr. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The red bandanna
- The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
- The splendid and the vile
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The spy who couldn't spell : a dyslexic traitor, an unbreakable code, and the FBI's hunt for America's stolen secrets
- The story of civil rights hero John Lewis
- The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row
- The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
- The trial of Adolf Hitler : the Beer Hall Putsch and the rise of Nazi Germany
- The woman they could not silence : one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
- The woman they could not silence : one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
- The women of the Bible speak : the wisdom of 16 women and their lessons for today
- The zookeeper's wife
- This country : my life in politics and history
- This is major : notes on Diana Ross, dark girls, and being dope
- Thomas Paine and the dangerous word
- Ties that bound : founding first ladies and slaves
- Tiger Woods
- Tiger Woods : golf great & multi-major champion
- Tim Berners-Lee : inventor of the World Wide Web
- Tom Brady
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- Touched by the sun : my friendship with Jackie
- Touched by the sun : my friendship with Jackie
- Troublemaker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Undaunted : the wild life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and her fearless quest to save orangutans
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team
- Unpresidented : a biography of Donald Trump
- Unstoppable : how Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School defeated Army
- Untamed : the wild life of Jane Goodall
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Victoria : portrait of a queen
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers/
- Vincent can't sleep : Van Gogh paints the night sky
- Vladimir Putin : president of Russia
- We were brothers
- What Miss Mitchell saw
- What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen
- What's your story, Amelia Earhart?
- What's your story, Frederick Douglass?
- What's your story, Paul Revere?
- Where the light enters : building a family, discovering myself
- Who Is Kamala Harris?
- Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
- Who is Aretha Franklin?
- Who is Bruce Springsteen?
- Who is Michael Jordan?
- Who is Pelé?
- Who is Pope Francis?
- Who is R.L. Stine?
- Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who says women can't be computer programmers? : the story of Ada Lovelace
- Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House
- Who was Alexander Hamilton?
- Who was Andrew Jackson?
- Who was Booker T. Washington?
- Who was Cesar Chavez?
- Who was Chuck Jones?
- Who was Fidel Castro?
- Who was Henry VIII?
- Who was Kobe Bryant?
- Who was Leif Erikson?
- Who was Lewis Carroll?
- Who was Lucille Ball?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was P.T. Barnum?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Selena?
- Who was Stephen Hawking?
- Who were the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
- Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
- Why she wrote : a graphic history of the lives, inspiration, and influence behind the pens of classic women writers
- Wilma Rudolph : running for gold
- Winslow Homer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : musical prodigy and composer
- Women athletes who rule!
- Yogi : the life, loves, and language of baseball legend Yogi Berra
- You can stop humming now : a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between
- You'll never believe what happened to Lacey : crazy stories about racism
- Young, gifted and black : meet 52 black heroes from past and present
- Édouard Manet
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