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- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 12 authors who changed the world
- 12 scientists who changed the world
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 30 people who changed the world : fascinating bite-sized essays from award-winning writers
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 50 contemporary photographers you should know
- 50 queers who changed the world : a celebration of LGBTQ+ icons
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- A Jewish guide in the Holy Land : how Christian pilgrims made me Israeli
- A Newfoundlander in Canada
- A Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world
- A beautiful work in progress : a memoir
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy from Botwood : Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919
- A brief history of oversharing : one ginger's anthology of humiliation
- A brief history of the House of Windsor : the making of a modern monarchy
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A childhood adrift
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter of two mothers : a true story of separation and reunion, loyalty and love
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from Taliban in plain sight
- A disappearance in Damascus : a story of friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A game plan for life : the power of mentoring
- A guy like me : fighting to make the cut
- A history of the world in 21 women : a personal selection
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A life in parts
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A long strange trip : the inside history of the Grateful Dead
- A long way home
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A million little pieces
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A name unbroken
- A new America : how music reshaped the culture and future of a nation and redefined my life
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A part of me
- A pedigreed Jew : between there and here - Kovno and Israel
- A quiet roar : living with multiple sclerosis
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A rose for her grave : and other true cases
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A sick life : TLC 'n me : stories from on and off the stage
- A speck in the sea : a story of survival and rescue
- A tale of love and darkness
- A to Z great film directors
- A train through time : a life, real and imagined
- A truck full of money : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A year and six seconds : a love story
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Accent on composers : the music and lives of 22 great composers, with listening CD, review/tests, and supplemental materials, Volume 1
- Accidental soldier : a memoir of service and sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces
- Across the rivers of memory
- Ada Lovelace and computer algorithms
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- Adopting hope
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic--and the one who lived to tell about it
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Adventures of a young naturalist : the zoo quest expeditions
- After the Holocaust the bells still ring
- After the ball is over : a book for old people
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Aftershock : the quake on Everest and one man's quest
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie's complete secret notebooks : stories and secrets of murder in the making
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions : with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander's journey : dum spiro spero
- Ali : a life
- Ali : a life
- Alien at home : divine intervention : the life of Elie Sutton, as told to Bahia Abrams
- All about Anne
- All ball : basketball's greatest players
- All better now : a memoir
- All in my head : how a hypochondriac beat brain cancer
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the clean ones are married : and other everyday calamities in Moscow
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Aloha Wanderwell : the border-smashing, record-setting life of the world's youngest explorer
- Alone in the storm
- Alou : my baseball journey
- Always a bridesmaid (for hire) : stories on growing up, looking for love, and walking down the aisle for complete strangers
- Amazing women
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American entrepreneur : how 400 years of risk-takers, innovators, and business visionaries built the U.S.A.
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- Among the walking wounded : soldiers, survival, and PTSD
- Amy Poehler
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An act of love
- An engineer imagines
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- An odyssey
- An outlaw and a lady : a memoir of music, life with Waylon, and the faith that brought me home
- An unseen angel : a mother's story of faith, hope and healing after Sandy Hook
- An unsuitable boy
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anne Boleyn : the queen of controversy, a biographical essay
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : a life in hiding
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Another kind of madness : a journey through the stigma and hope of mental illness
- Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Anxiety for beginners : how it feels to live with anxiety and how to make the best of it
- Anything but simple : my life as a Mennonite
- Anything for a hit : an A&R woman's story of surviving the music industry
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Ana?s Nin
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Ariana Grande : pop star
- Arik : the life of Ariel Sharon
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art of freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Artists : their lives and works
- As the lilacs bloomed
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Assignment to Hell : the war against Nazi Germany with correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
- Asylum : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At any cost : overcoming every obstacle to bring our children home
- At home in nature : a life of unknown mountains and deep wilderness
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Audacity : how Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail
- Audacity : how Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail
- Audrey Hepburn
- Ava : a life in movies
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Avid reader : a life
- Ayesha's gift : a daughter's search for the truth about her father
- Babe : the legend comes to life
- Back to beer ... and hockey : the story of Eric Molson
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Balancing acts : behind the scenes at London's National Theatre
- Ballplayer
- Balto and the great race
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball superstars, 2016
- Baseball's record breakers
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Basketball stars
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be the change : a Grandfather Gandhi story
- BeastieBoysbook
- BeastieBoysbook
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful scars : Steeltown secrets, Mohawk skywalkers and the road home
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist / Edward M. Hallowell
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A Wrinkle in Time by her granddaughters
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Beer drinkers and hell raisers : the rise of Mot?rhead
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before I go
- Before I go
- Before all memory is lost : women's voices from the Holocaust
- Befriend and betray : Part II
- Behind the camera : the greatest photojournalists of our time
- Behind the red curtain : my mother's two victories
- Being Elvis
- Being Kurdish in a hostile world
- Being a dad is weird : lessons in fatherhood from my family to yours
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Believing in Magic
- Ben-Gurion : father of modern Israel
- Beneath the surface : my story
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Bent : how yoga saved my ass
- Bernie
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Best seat in the house : my life in the Jeff Healey Band
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big Book of Who
- Big Papi : the legend and legacy of David Ortiz
- Big league babble on : the misadventures of a rabble-rousing sportscaster and why he should be dead by now
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Reid collected
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billy Bishop : top Canadian flying ace
- Binge crazy : a psychotherapist's memoir of food addiction, mental illness, obesity and recovery
- Birds, beasts and relatives
- Birth of a new brain : healing from postpartum bipolar disorder
- Bite me : how lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me
- Bitwise : a life in code
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- Black prophetic fire : in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf
- Black women who dared
- Blame this on the boogie
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Blessed life : my surprising journey of joy, tears, and tales from Harlem to Hollywood
- Blood & volume : inside New York's Israeli mafia
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon : the last highway : the untold story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in black
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born again : my journey from fundamentalism to freedom
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Born trump : Inside America’s First Family
- Bought & sold : a 14-year-old British girl trafficked for sex by the man she loved
- Bower : a legendary life
- Boy : and, Going solo
- Boy : tales of childhood
- Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave
- Brave
- Bravo! : poems about amazing Hispanics
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking through : heroes in Canadian women's sport
- Bright particular stars : Canadian performers
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond--the story of rock's greatest manager
- Brown : what being brown in the world today means (for everyone)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buffering : unshared tales of a life fully loaded
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bunny tales : behind closed doors at the Playboy Mansion
- Burnley "Rocky" Jones : revolutionary : an autobiography
- But seriously
- But seriously
- But seriously
- Butler's lives of the saints
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian, my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- CEO, China : the rise of Xi Jinping
- Caged eyes : an Air Force cadet's story of rape and resilience
- Cagney by Cagney
- Caitlyn Jenner
- Call me American : a memoir
- Calling the shots : ups, downs and rebounds - my life in the great game of hockey
- Cam Newton
- Campaign confessions : tales from the war rooms of politics
- Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger
- Canada
- Canada 150 women : conversations with leaders, champions, and luminaries
- Cancerland : a medical memoir
- Captain : my life and career
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Capturing Jonathan Pollard : how one of the most notorious spies in American history was brought to justice
- Carey Price
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Casa Loma : Canada's fairy-tale castle and its owner, Sir Henry Pellatt
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Champion for health : how Clara Hughes fought depression to win Olympic gold
- Chance the Rapper : hip-hop artist
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
- Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
- Chaos to canvas
- Charlie Parker played be bop
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing a Croatian girl : a survivor's tale
- Chasing hillary : Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
- Chasing kites : a memoir about growing up with ADHD
- Chasing the cup : my America's Cup journey
- Che, my brother
- Cheaper by the dozen
- Cheech is not my real name : but don't call me Chong!
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Chris Evans
- Chris Hadfield : inspiring new generations to explore space
- Chris Hadfield and the International Space Station
- Christopher Hitchens : the last interview and other conversations
- Chronicles of a fashion buyer : the mostly true adventures of an international fashion buyer
- Churchill : a biography
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare : the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat
- Churchill's legacy : two speeches to save the world
- Citizen Trudeau : an intellectual biography, 1944-1965
- City of devils : the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai
- City of devils : the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai
- Classic style : hand it down, dress it up, wear it out
- Claude Debussy : first discovery music
- Clean sweep! : Frank Zamboni's ice machine
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Cloth lullaby : the woven life of Louise Bourgeois
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Comics confidential : thirteen graphic novelists talk story, craft, and life outside the box
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Company confessions : secrets, memoirs, and the CIA
- Conbody : the revolutionary bodyweight prison boot camp, born from an extraordinary story of hope
- Concentrated investing : strategies of the world's greatest concentrated value investors
- Confessions of a cartel hit man
- Connor McDavid
- Connor McDavid
- Connor McDavid : hockey star
- Connor McDavid : hockey superstar
- Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt : the story of a mother and daughter in the Gilded Age
- Counterfeit dreams : one man's journey into and out of the world of Scientology
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Courage to soar : a body in motion, a life in balance
- Court justice : the inside story of my battle against the NCAA
- Craig & Fred : a Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
- Craig & Fred : a Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Cravings : how I conquered food
- Crazy is my superpower : how I triumphed by breaking bones, breaking hearts, and breaking the rules
- Crazy me : how I lost reality and found myself
- Cristiano Ronaldo : soccer star
- Crocodiles and ice : a journey into deep wild
- Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Crush cancer : personal enlightenment from a cancer survivor
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Cured : the tale of two imaginary boys
- Cut the crap and close the gap : the urgency of delivering desired results
- Damaged goods : the inside story of Sir Philip Green, the collapse of BHS and the death of the High Street
- Dancing barefoot : the Patti Smith story
- Dancing light : the spiritual side of being : through the eyes of a modern yoga master
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dangerous boobies : breaking up with my time-bomb breasts
- Dare to do : taking on the planet by bike and boat
- Daring Amelia
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Daring to hope : finding God's goodness in the broken and the beautiful
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darling Days : a memoir
- Dav Pilkey
- David Attenborough : naturalist visionary
- David Bowie : a life
- David Bowie : the golden years
- Dawn of the new everything : encounters with reality and virtual reality
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear fatty
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death be not proud : a memoir
- Death need not be fatal
- Death need not be fatal
- Deaths of the poets
- Deep undercover : my secret life and tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Demon in my blood : my fight with hep C -- and a miracle cure
- Dennis Lee
- Dennis Maruk : the unforgettable story of hockey's forgotten 60-goal man
- Depression : the comedy