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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Light Horse Harry" Lee in the War for Independence
- true"Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- true"The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- true#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'I was transformed' Frederick Douglass : an American slave in victorian Britain
- true'Tis : a memoir
- true10 women who changed science and the world
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- true100 miles of baseball : fifty games, one summer
- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- true100 times : a memoir of sexism
- true100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 1001 people who made America
- true1185 Park Avenue : a memoir
- true12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- 12 immigrants who made American arts great
- 12 immigrants who made American entertainment great
- 12 immigrants who made American medicine great
- 12 immigrants who made American politics great
- 12 immigrants who made American science great
- 12 immigrants who made American sports great
- 12 immigrants who made American technology great
- 12 immigrants who made the American military great
- true13 artists children should know
- true150 glimpses of the Beatles
- true16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- true18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- true1924 : the year that made Hitler
- true200 years with Abraham Lincoln : one man's life and legacy
- 30 people who changed the world
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- true41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- true42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- true42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- true438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- true4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- true50 American heroes every kid should meet!
- 50 contemporary artists you should know
- 50 women every Christian should know : learning from heroines of the faith
- 715 : reflections on hammerin' Hank and the home run that made history
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- true90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- trueA Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- trueA Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- trueA Royal Ride : Catherine the Great's Great Invention
- trueA backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- trueA bowl full of peace : a true story
- trueA boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- trueA brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- trueA brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- trueA bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- trueA broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- trueA brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- trueA castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- trueA change of heart
- trueA child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- trueA child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- trueA circle of sisters : Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- A common bond : a veterans chapbook
- trueA common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- trueA complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- trueA computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- trueA country life : at home in the English countryside
- trueA cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : [the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley]
- trueA curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- trueA dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A day with Marie Antoinette
- trueA demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- trueA disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- trueA doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- trueA farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- trueA farm dies once a year : a memoir
- trueA fighting chance
- trueA fine romance
- trueA fortunate man : the story of a country doctor
- trueA full life : reflections at ninety
- trueA futile and stupid gesture : how Doug Kenney and National lampoon changed comedy forever
- trueA ghost in the throat
- trueA girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- trueA girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- trueA good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- trueA good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- trueA great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- trueA guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- trueA home for Mr. Emerson
- trueA house of my own : stories from my life
- trueA house unlocked
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- trueA kids' guide to America's first ladies
- trueA lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- trueA life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- trueA life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- trueA life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- trueA life of Barbara Stanwyck
- A life of Picasso, The prodigy, 1881-1906
- A life of Picasso, Volume II, The cubist rebel, 1907-1916
- trueA life of Picasso, Volume III, The triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A life wild and perilous : mountain men and the paths to the Pacific
- trueA likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A long way from Paris
- trueA long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- trueA lotus grows in the mud
- trueA lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- trueA man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man called Intrepid : the incredible WWII narrative of the hero whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history
- trueA man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- trueA man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- trueA man without a country
- trueA marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- trueA marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A merchant seaman, 1945-1946
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- trueA most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
- trueA moveable feast
- trueA nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- trueA night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- trueA nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- trueA passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- trueA perfect union : Dolly Madison and the creation of the American nation
- trueA picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- trueA picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- trueA picture book of Amelia Earhart
- trueA picture book of Benjamin Franklin
- trueA picture book of Christopher Columbus
- trueA picture book of Daniel Boone
- trueA picture book of Davy Crockett
- trueA picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of Florence Nightingale
- trueA picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington
- trueA picture book of Harry Houdini
- trueA picture book of Helen Keller
- trueA picture book of Jackie Robinson
- trueA picture book of Jesse Owens
- trueA picture book of John Hancock
- trueA picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueA picture book of Patrick Henry
- trueA picture book of Paul Revere
- A picture book of Robert E. Lee
- A picture book of Simon Bolivar
- trueA picture book of Thomas Jefferson
- trueA pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- trueA pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- trueA place in the country
- trueA plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- trueA plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- trueA poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A powerful mind : the self-education of George Washington
- trueA prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- trueA president from Hawaii
- trueA private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- trueA pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism
- trueA question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- trueA rare Titanic family : the Caldwells' story of survival
- trueA revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- trueA ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A right worthy grand mission : Maggie Lena Walker [sic] and the quest for Black economic empowerment
- trueA river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- trueA royal affair : George III and his scandalous siblings
- trueA royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- trueA season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- trueA secret life : the sex, lies and scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- trueA secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- trueA self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, 1809-1849
- A sense of where you are : a profile of Bill Bradley at Princeton
- trueA small town love story : Colonial Beach, Virginia
- A son of thunder : Patrick Henry and the American republic
- trueA song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- trueA song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh
- trueA splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- trueA sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- trueA spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- trueA spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- trueA story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- trueA stranger among saints : Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth
- A surgeon's story : the autobiography of Robert T. Morris
- A talent for genius : the life and times of Oscar Levant
- trueA teenager's journey : overcoming a childhood of abuse
- A tender struggle : story of a marriage
- trueA thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- trueA thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- trueA thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- trueA time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- trueA time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- trueA tragic honesty : the life and work of Richard Yates
- trueA traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- trueA treasury of royal scandals : the shocking true stories of history's wickedest, weirdest, most wanton kings, queens, tsars, popes, and emperors
- trueA truck full of money
- trueA very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- trueA very dangerous woman : the lives, loves and lies of Russia's most seductive spy
- trueA very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- trueA voice named Aretha
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A walk through Paris
- A who's who of your ancestral saints
- trueA window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- trueA woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- trueA woman of valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War
- trueA woman's education
- trueA woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world more bright : the life of Mary Baker Eddy
- trueA writer's life
- trueA year in the life of Bindi
- A young general and the fall of Richmond : the life and career of Godfrey Weitzel
- trueA-Rod : the many lives of Alex Rodriguez
- trueA. Lincoln : a biography
- trueAOC : fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller : the woman in the family
- trueAbe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln goes to Washington, 1837-1865
- Abe Lincoln grows up
- trueAbe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- trueAbigail & John : portrait of a marriage
- trueAbigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : courageous patriot and First Lady
- trueAbove the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- trueAbraham
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a presidential life
- trueAbraham Lincoln : the 16th President
- Abraham Lincoln ; : the prairie years and the war years
- trueAbraham Lincoln comes home
- trueAbraham Lincoln's dueling words
- trueAbraham Lincoln, a man of faith and courage : stories of our most admired president
- trueAccidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- trueAccidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- trueAccidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- trueAce of aces : the life of captain Eddie Rickenbacker
- trueAcross China
- Act one : an autobiography / Moss Hart ; foreword by Christopher Hart
- trueAction Jackson
- trueAda Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- trueAda Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- trueAda and the number-crunching machine
- trueAda's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- trueAda's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- trueAdam Smith : father of economics
- Admiral Arleigh Burke
- Admiral Bill Halsey : a naval life
- Admiral Bill Halsey : a naval life
- trueAdnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- trueAdolf Hitler
- trueAdolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- trueAdrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- trueAfrican samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African-American inventors
- After Elizabeth : the rise of James of Scotland and the struggle for the throne of England
- trueAfter long silence : a memoir
- trueAfter the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- trueAfter the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- After the stroke : a journal
- trueAgatha : the real life of Agatha Christie
- trueAgatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- trueAgent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- trueAgent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- trueAgent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- trueAgent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- trueAgrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Aguero : from the playground to the pitch
- trueAir Apaches : the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II
- trueAirborne : a photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Akenfield : portrait of an English village
- trueAl Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- trueAlabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- trueAlaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Camus : solitude and solidarity
- trueAlbert Einstein
- trueAlbert Einstein : genius of the twentieth century
- trueAlbert Einstein : the miracle mind
- trueAlbert Einstein was a dope?
- Albert Pujols
- Alec Guinness : the authorized biography
- trueAlex Ferguson : my autobiography
- trueAlex Morgan
- Alex Rodriguez
- trueAlexander Graham Bell
- trueAlexander Graham Bell : giving voice to the world
- trueAlexander Graham Bell answers the call
- trueAlexander Graham Bell invents
- Alexander Hamilton
- trueAlexander Hamilton
- trueAlexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- trueAlexander Hamilton : a life
- trueAlexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : the formative years
- trueAlexander Hamilton : the making of America
- trueAlexander Hamilton : the outsider
- trueAlexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox
- trueAlexander the Great
- trueAlexander the Great
- Alexander the Great
- trueAlexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- trueAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez : get to know the rising politician
- trueAlexis de Tocqueville : a life
- trueAlexis de Tocqueville : democracy's guide
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- trueAlfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Hitchcock : a life in darkness and light
- trueAlgeria is beautiful like America
- trueAli : a life
- trueAli : an American champion
- trueAlice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
- trueAlice : Princess Andrew of Greece
- trueAlice Paul : claiming power
- trueAlice Walker : a life
- trueAlice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- trueAlicia Alonso dances on
- trueAll blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All falling faiths : reflections on the promise and failure of the 1960s
- All hail the queen : twenty women who ruled
- trueAll heart : my dedication and determination to become one of soccer's best
- trueAll in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over but the shoutin'
- trueAll rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- trueAll that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- trueAll that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- trueAll the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- trueAll the fishes come home to roost : an American misfit in India
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- trueAll the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- trueAll the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- trueAll the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- trueAll the presidents' children : triumph and tragedy in the lives of America's first families
- trueAll the presidents' pastries : twenty-five years in the White House : a memoir
- trueAll the things we never knew : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- trueAll the way to the tigers : a memoir
- trueAll the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- trueAll things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- trueAll-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alleged pirate : the legend of Captain John Sinclair of Smithfield and Gloucester, Virginia
- trueAlmost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence
- trueAlone on the wall
- trueAlong came Coco : a story about Coco Chanel
- trueAlpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- trueAlphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- trueAlthea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- trueAlvin Ailey
- trueAlvin York : a new biography of the hero of the Argonne
- trueAlways by my side : life lessons from Millie and all the dogs I've loved
- trueAlways home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- trueAlways looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Amanda Gorman : poet & activist
- trueAmateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amateurs in Eden : the story of a Bohemian marriage : Nancy and Lawrence Durrell
- trueAmazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
- Amazing Olympic athlete Wilma Rudolph
- trueAmazing football : stars, stats and facts
- trueAmazing women
- trueAmazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- trueAmbition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia Earhart
- trueAmelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- trueAmelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- trueAmelia Earhart : beyond the grave
- trueAmelia Earhart : more than a flyer
- trueAmelia Earhart : the legend of the lost aviator
- trueAmelia Earhart : the thrill of it
- trueAmerica border culture dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- trueAmerica is immigrants
- America's Sherlock Holmes : the legacy of William Burns
- trueAmerica's first dynasty : the Adamses, 1735-1918
- trueAmerica's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- trueAmerican Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Girl entrepreneur : Pleasant Rowland
- trueAmerican Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Indian stories
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- trueAmerican Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- trueAmerican Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- trueAmerican Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- trueAmerican Sherlock : remembering a pioneer in scientific crime investigation
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- trueAmerican Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- trueAmerican animals : a true crime memoir
- trueAmerican aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- trueAmerican baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American badass : the true story of a modern day Spartan
- trueAmerican cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- trueAmerican daredevil : The extraordinary life of Richard Halliburton, the world's first celebrity travel writer
- trueAmerican disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American empress : the life and times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
- trueAmerican general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman </