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- true"Damage them all you can" : Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- "Light Horse Harry" Lee in the War for Independence
- true"Negro president" : Jefferson and the slave power
- true"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
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- true"The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- true"There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "Those who labor for my happiness" : slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- true#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'I was transformed' Frederick Douglass : an American slave in victorian Britain
- true'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- true'Twas the day before Christmas : the story of Clement Clarke Moore's beloved poem
- ...but few are chosen : a different path to coming of age
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- 10 inventors who changed the world
- true10 women who changed science and the world
- true100 Native Americans who changed American history
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 most infamous criminals
- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- true100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100% offical Justin Bieber : just getting started
- 1000 yard stare : a Marine's eye view of the Vietnam War
- 1001 people who made America
- 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
- 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 American artists children should know
- true13 artists children should know
- true13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 soldiers : a personal history of Americans at war
- true14 cows for America
- true14 minutes : a running legend's life and death and life
- true150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 1536 : the year that changed Henry VIII
- true16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- true1666 : plague, war, and hellfire
- true18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 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
- true1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- true1924 : the year that made Hitler
- true200 years with Abraham Lincoln : one man's life and legacy
- true24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- true25 to life : the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
- 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
- true3 : the Dale Earnhardt story
- true3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise
- true300 pounds of attitude : the wildest stories and craziest characters the NFL has ever seen
- true32 third graders and one class bunny : life lessons from teaching
- true32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 4,000 years of uppity women : rebellious belles, daring dames, and headstrong heroines through the ages
- 400 Miles to Freedom
- true41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : 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
- true438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- true4th and goal : one man's quest to recapture his dream
- true5 elephants
- true5 giraffes
- true50 American heroes every kid should meet!
- 50 contemporary artists you should know
- 50 fashion designers you should know
- 50 fearless women who made American history : an American history book for kids
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- true50 paintings you should know
- 50 women every Christian should know : learning from heroines of the faith
- true5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 501 great artists
- 501 great writers
- 501 movie stars
- 7 leadership lessons of the American Revolution : the Founding Fathers, liberty, and the struggle for independence
- 715 : reflections on hammerin' Hank and the home run that made history
- 740 Park : the story of the world's richest apartment building
- true81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 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
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- true88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- true90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- true99 : stories of the game
- A "topping people" : the rise and decline of Virginia's old political elite, 1680-1790
- trueA Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Biographical dictionary of artists
- trueA 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 Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- trueA Charlie Brown religion : exploring the spiritual life and work of Charles M. Schulz
- A Civil War drummer boy : the diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
- A Compassionate Rage
- trueA G-man's life : the FBI, being "Deep Throat," and the struggle for honor in Washington
- A German tale : a girl surviving Hitler's legacy
- trueA Jane Austen education : how six novels taught me about love, friendship, and the things that really matter
- A Kitchen in France : a year of cooking in my farmhouse
- trueA Negro league scrapbook
- 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
- trueA Royal Ride : Catherine the Great's Great Invention
- A Son of Africa
- trueA Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Williamsburg galaxy
- trueA backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A ballerina's tale
- trueA battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- trueA beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- trueA being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- trueA big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A biographical guide to the great jazz and pop singers
- trueA body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- trueA bowl full of peace : a true story
- trueA box of darkness : the story of a marriage
- trueA boy and a jaguar
- trueA boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- trueA boy named Phyllis : a suburban memoir
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brief history of Henry VIII : reformer and tyrant
- trueA brief history of the Private Life of Elizabeth II
- A brief history of time
- trueA brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- trueA bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brilliant madness
- trueA broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- trueA brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- trueA brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A call to the sea : Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A capital collection : Virginia's artistic inheritance
- trueA captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- trueA castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- trueA century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- 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
- trueA change of heart
- A chef's life, Season 1
- A chef's life, Season 2
- A chef's life, Season 3
- A chef's life, Season 4
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- trueA child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- trueA child's Christmas in Wales
- trueA child's Christmas in Wales
- A circle of quiet
- trueA circle of sisters : Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- trueA clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- trueA colonial Quaker girl : the diary of Sally Wister, 1777-1778
- A common struggle
- trueA common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- trueA commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- trueA complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- trueA computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A concise history of Christian thought
- trueA cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- trueA cottage in Portugal
- 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
- trueA covered wagon girl : the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
- trueA covert affair : the adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A covert affair : the adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A covert affair : the adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- trueA curious madness : an American combat psychiatrist, a Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from World War II
- 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
- trueA daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A day in the life of a colonial doctor
- A day with Marie Antoinette
- trueA delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- trueA demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A diary from Dixie
- trueA different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- trueA difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- trueA disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- trueA disease in the public mind : a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War
- trueA distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- trueA doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- trueA dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- trueA dog in a hat : an American bike racer's story of mud, drugs, blood, betrayal, and beauty in Belgium
- trueA dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dog named Boo : the underdog with a heart of gold
- trueA dream called home : a memoir
- trueA dream too big : the story of an improbable journey from Compton to Oxford
- trueA drifting life
- A false spring
- 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 field guide to awkward silences
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- trueA fighting chance
- trueA fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- trueA first-class temperament : the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- trueA flyfisher's world
- trueA force for good : the Dalai Lama's vision for our world
- trueA forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A forger's tale : confessions of the Bolton forger
- trueA fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- trueA friend called Anne : one girl's story of war, peace, and a unique friendship with Anne Frank
- A friend like Henry : the remarkable true story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world
- trueA friend like Iggy
- trueA friend of the flock : tales of a country veterinarian
- trueA full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- trueA full life : reflections at ninety
- trueA funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- trueA futile and stupid gesture : how Doug Kenney and National lampoon changed comedy forever
- trueA game of character : a family journey from Chicago's southside to the Ivy League and beyond
- A gift from Bob
- 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!
- trueA girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- trueA girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- trueA golfer's life
- A good day to die
- trueA good dog : the story of Orson, who changed my life
- 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 green place to be : the creation of Central Park
- trueA guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A half-century's rides : a bicyclist celebrates fifty years in the saddle
- trueA heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- trueA heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- trueA higher call
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies and leadership
- trueA higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of American Indian achievement
- A history of Shenandoah county, Virginia
- A history of black achievement in America
- trueA hobbit, a wardrobe, and a great war : how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis rediscovered faith, friendship, and heroism in the cataclysm of 1914-1918
- trueA home for Mr. Emerson
- trueA homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table
- trueA honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- trueA hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A horse named Seabiscuit
- trueA house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- trueA house in the sky : a memoir
- trueA house of my own : stories from my life
- trueA house unlocked
- A hungry heart : a memoir
- trueA is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- trueA is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- A journey with Christopher Columbus
- trueA keeper of bees : notes on hive and home
- trueA kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A king's story
- trueA knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- trueA labyrinth of kingdoms : 10,000 miles through Islamic Africa
- trueA lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- trueA land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- trueA lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A life : a memoir
- trueA life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- trueA life in letters
- trueA life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- trueA life in parts
- A life in pictures
- trueA life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- trueA life of Barbara Stanwyck
- A life of Picasso, Volume II, The cubist rebel, 1907-1916
- trueA life of Picasso, Volume III, The triumphant years, 1917-1932
- trueA life of my own
- A life on the lines : a railwayman's album
- A life well played : my stories
- A life wild and perilous : mountain men and the paths to the Pacific
- trueA lifetime of wisdom : essential writings by and about the Dalai Lama
- trueA light that never goes out : the enduring saga of the Smiths
- trueA likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- trueA link among the days : the life and times of the Reverend Doctor W. A. R. Goodwin, the father of Colonial Williamsburg
- trueA lion called Christian
- trueA lion's tale : around the world in spandex
- trueA little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- trueA loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- trueA long time ago in a cutting room far, far away ... : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A long way from Paris
- trueA long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- trueA long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- trueA lotus grows in the mud
- trueA lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- trueA lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- trueA magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- trueA man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- trueA man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the SS United States
- 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
- A man named Pearl
- trueA man without a country
- trueA man without a country
- A marked heart
- trueA marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- trueA marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- trueA matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the Civil Rights revolution
- trueA mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- A merchant seaman, 1945-1946
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- trueA million miles in a thousand years : what I learned while editing my life
- trueA mind unraveled : a memoir
- trueA moment in time : an American story of baseball, heartbreak, and grace
- trueA month in Siena
- trueA morning in June : defending Outpost Harry
- trueA most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- trueA most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- trueA mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
- A moveable feast
- trueA moveable feast
- trueA nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- trueA nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- trueA nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- trueA newer world : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the claiming of the American West
- trueA nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- trueA paper life
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- trueA passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- trueA passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A passion for plants : contemporary botanical masterworks from the Shirley Sherwood collection
- A passion for the past : the odyssey of a transatlantic archaeologist
- A passionate sisterhood : women of the Wordsworth circle
- trueA peculiar tribe of people : murder and madness in the heart of Georgia
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- 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 Cesar Chavez
- 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
- trueA picture book of Patrick Henry
- trueA picture book of Paul Revere
- A picture book of Robert E. Lee
- trueA picture book of Samuel Adams
- A picture book of Simon Bolivar
- trueA picture book of Thomas Jefferson
- trueA piece of cake : a memoir
- 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 place to stand : the making of a poet
- 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
- trueA politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- trueA portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- 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 promise fulfilled : Theodor Hertzl, Chaim Weitzmann, and David Ben-Gurion, and the creation of the state of Israel
- trueA promised land
- A promised land
- 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 rage for glory : the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
- trueA really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- trueA reporter's life
- 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 in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- trueA river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A romantic education
- trueA rose for Mrs. Miniver : the life of Greer Garson
- trueA royal affair : George III and his scandalous siblings
- trueA royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A rumor of war
- trueA schoolteacher in old Alaska : the story of Hannah Breece
- trueA season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- trueA season of splendor : the court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
- A secret gift
- trueA secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- trueA secret life : the sex, lies and scandals of President Grover Cleveland