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- African American musicians
- trueAfrican samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African-American history makers collection : readers that grow with you
- trueAgatha Christie
- trueAgent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- trueAlabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- trueAlbert Einstein : ingenious physicist and father of relativity
- Alexander Hamilton
- trueAlexanderMcQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alfred Stieglitz and the photo-secession
- trueAlgren : a life
- trueAlice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All about Julia Morgan
- trueAll about Winston Churchill
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- trueAll the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- trueAlmighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- trueAlthea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- trueAlways been there : Rosanne Cash, the List, and the spirit of southern music
- trueAmazing women
- American Oz
- American dharma
- American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert Southwest
- trueAmerican warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- trueAmiable scoundrel : Simon Cameron, Lincoln's scandalous Secretary of War
- Among the Afghans
- trueAn improbable friendship : the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission
- Andrew McCutchen
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Ann N. Cooper collection, 1922-1956
- trueAnna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna Pavlova, her life and art
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- trueApproaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- trueApril 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and how it changed America
- Aron ralston : pinned in a canyon
- Arts and letters
- trueAs time goes by : the life of Ingrid Bergman
- trueAshley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield
- Asian American actors : oral histories from stage, screen, and television
- trueAssholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- trueAttucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- trueAugustine : conversions to confessions
- trueAusten years : a memoir in five novels
- Ava Duvernay : movie director
- trueAviation : cool women who fly
- trueAway with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- trueBaby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Balanchine's ballerinas : conversations with the Muses
- Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams : The Power of the Ballot
- trueBamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- trueBarbara McClintock : genius of genetics
- trueBarbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- trueBartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- trueBattleground Berlin : diaries, 1945-1948
- trueBe like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- trueBe not far from me : the oldest love story : legends from the Bible
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- trueBeing Nixon : a man divided
- trueBeing Ram Dass
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- Belles on their toes
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- trueBessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- trueBetsey. : a memoir
- trueBetter days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- trueBetter git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Betty Davis : they say I'm different
- trueBetween the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- trueBeyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- trueBeyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- trueBillie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billy Graham
- Billy Graham : an extraordinary journey
- trueBilly the Kid : a notorious gunfighter of the Wild West
- Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007
- trueBlack and white on Wall Street : the untold story of the man wrongly accused of bringing down Kidder Peabody
- Black firsts : 500 years of trailblazing achievements and ground-breaking events
- Black like me
- Black like me : the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts
- trueBlackbeard : a notorious pirate in the Caribbean
- trueBloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- trueBlues legacy : tradition and innovation in Chicago
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- trueBonaparte : 1769-1802
- trueBorn to be king : Prince Charles on planet Windsor
- trueBorn to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Both sides of the line : my coach, the Boston mob enforcer, my mentor, the murderer : the true story of Clyde Dempsey and the 1974 Don Bosco Bears
- trueBoys in the trees : a memoir
- trueBrave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- trueBrave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- trueBraxton Bragg : the most hated man of the Confederacy
- trueBreaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking the ice : the racial integration of Southwest Conference football
- trueBruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Springsteen : in performance
- Bruno Mars
- trueBuckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- trueBullies : a friendship
- trueBundini : don't believe the hype
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- trueBut this is my mother! : the plight of our elders in American nursing homes
- trueBut what I really want to do is direct : lessons from a life behind the camera
- trueButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid : notorious outlaws of the West
- C.P.E. Bach
- trueCan I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- trueCanada year by year
- trueCaptain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- trueCasey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- trueCenter center : a funny, sexy, sad almost-memoir of a boy in ballet
- Cesar Chavez
- Cesar Chavez : Latino American civil rights activist
- Charles Schulz
- Chasing light : Michelle Obama through the lens of a White House photographer
- trueChris Evans
- Chris Kyle : American sniper
- Christina Aguilera : pop singer
- Christopher Columbus : controversial explorer of the Americas
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Clayton Kershaw
- Cleopatra
- trueComputer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- trueConsider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constantino Brumidi : artist of the Capitol
- trueCrane : sex, celebrity, and my father's unsolved murder
- trueCristiano Ronaldo
- Critical companion to John Steinbeck : a literary reference to his life and work
- trueCross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- trueDangerous Jane
- trueDante : the story of his life
- Day by day with Serena Williams
- Day by day with Shakira
- trueDean Smith : a basketball life
- Death blossoms : reflections from a prisoner of conscience
- Derrick Rose
- Dian Fossey : animal rights activist and protector of mountain gorillas
- trueDietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
- trueDifferent strokes : the lives and teachings of the game's wisest women
- trueDigging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- trueDirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century
- trueDodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- trueDolce vita confidential : Fellini, Loren, Pucci, paparazzi, and the swinging high life of 1950s Rome
- Dolley Madison
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- trueDorothea Lange : the photographer who found the faces of the depression
- trueDouglas MacArthur : American warrior
- trueDr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dr. Seuss : imaginative children's book writer and illustrator
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Driving with the devil : southern moonshine, Detroit wheels, and the birth of NASCAR
- Drum roll : a professional adventure from the circus to the concert hall
- Duty, Honor, Vietnam : Twelve Men of West Point
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- trueEarth squad
- Edith Wilson
- trueEinstein : his space and times
- trueEinstein at home : recollections of his housekeeper, 1927 to 1933
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew
- Elizabeth
- trueElizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth and Michael : the Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop : a love story
- trueElon Musk : a mission to save the world
- trueElon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- trueElvis : the story of the rock and roll King
- trueEmpire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- trueEmpress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- En el paÃs que amamos : mi familia dividida
- trueEnemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Entrepreneurs who changed history
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- trueErnest Hemingway : a biography
- trueEscape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West
- trueEscaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
- trueEsquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Evan Macdonald : a painter's life
- trueEvelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everything man : the form and function of Paul Robeson
- trueExpect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore with John Cabot
- trueFDR and the American crisis
- trueFab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- trueFalse choices : the faux feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- trueFamous lawmen
- Fanny Kemble : leading lady of the nineteenth-century stage : a biography
- trueFascinating : the life of Leonard Nimoy
- trueFather Lincoln : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and his boys--Robert, Eddy, Willie, and Tad
- trueFaustian bargains : Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas
- trueFear : Trump in the White House
- Fight Owens fight : the Kevin Owens story
- trueFinding Narnia : the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
- trueFlower hunters
- trueFly high, John Glenn : the story of an American hero
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- trueForgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- trueFranklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Frederick Barbarossa
- Frederick Douglass : a biography
- trueFrederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- trueFree as a bird : the story of Malala
- trueFrenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- trueFrom a small seed : the story of Eliza Hamilton
- trueFrom an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- trueFurious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- trueGalileo : conqueror of the stars
- trueGame changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi
- trueGenius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Eastman
- trueGeorge Washington Carver : a life
- Georges de La Tour
- trueGeronimo
- Get to know Georgia O'Keeffe
- Get to know Norman Rockwell
- Giancarlo Stanton
- trueGiannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- trueGirls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
- trueGo ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- trueGoPro inventor Nick Woodman
- God Almighty hisself : the life and legacy of Dick Allen
- trueGod save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- trueGoethe : life as a work of art
- trueGolem girl : a memoir
- trueGood girl : a memoir
- trueGood night stories for rebel girls : 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- trueGood night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Grant
- trueGrant Wood : a life
- Gratitude in low voices : a memoir
- trueGreatness in the shadows : Larry Doby and the integration of the American League
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer--America's deadliest serial murderer
- trueGroucho Marx : the comedy of existence
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) : the writer everybody reads and loves, and nobody knows : the real-life fairy tale of the shoemaker's son from Odense who conquered the world with his magical stories
- trueHard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- trueHarriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman : hero of the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman and my grandmother's quilts
- trueHaydée SantamarÃa, Cuban revolutionary : she led by transgression
- trueHe's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- trueHelen Thayer's Arctic adventure : a woman and a dog walk to the North Pole
- Hemingway : a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
- trueHenry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- trueHenry Ford and the assembly line
- trueHerbert Hoover : a life
- Heroes for my daughter
- trueHidden Gold : a true story of the Holocaust
- trueHidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hieronymus Bosch
- trueHigh school
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- trueHit the target : eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe
- trueHitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- trueHitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- trueHold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- trueHome game : big-league stories from my life in baseball's first family
- trueHome made : a story of grief, groceries, showing up--and what we make when we make dinner
- trueHome sweet road : finding love, making music, and building a life one city at a time
- trueHomeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- trueHomicide in the house
- trueHoneypot : black Southern women who love women
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How it feels to be free
- trueHunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- trueI am Gandhi
- trueI am Jim Henson
- trueI am Neil Armstrong
- trueI am Sacagawea
- trueI am not a label : 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present
- trueI have something to tell you : a memoir
- trueI'm not holding your coat : my bruises-and-all memoir of punk rock rebellion
- Ida B. Wells
- Imperial intimacies : a tale of two islands
- trueImpressionism : 13 artists children should know
- trueIn Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In her footsteps : where trailblazing women changed the world
- In my basement : from secrets to salvation by Jade
- trueIn praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- trueIn search of Pharrell Williams
- trueIn search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In spite of myself : a memoir
- trueIn the midnight hour : the life & soul of Wilson Pickett
- trueIn the shadow of the moon : America, Russia, and the hidden history of the space race
- trueIndelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- trueInfinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Inspiring innovation
- Inspiring innovation : examining the operational, policy, and technical contributions made by Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. and his successors
- Interesting people : Black American history makers
- trueInto the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- trueInvisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- trueIra's Shakespeare dream
- trueIrrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- trueIsaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- trueIt began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- trueIt never ends : a memoir with nice memories!
- trueIt's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- trueIt's Up to You, ABE Lincoln
- trueJ. R. R. Tolkien for kids : his life and writings, with 21 activities
- J.J. Watt
- J.J. Watt
- J.J. Watt
- J.K. Rowling
- J.K. Rowling : author of the Harry Potter series
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- trueJack London and the Klondike gold rush
- trueJackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- James Barbour, a Jeffersonian Republican
- trueJames Merrill : life and art
- trueJane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- trueJane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- trueJane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage
- trueJean Cocteau : a life
- Jeff Bezos : founder of Amazon.com
- Jeff Kinney
- trueJefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jerry Pinkney
- trueJihadi John
- trueJimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- trueJimmy Fallon
- Joan MirÃ3
- trueJoan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- trueJoan of Arc : a history
- JoaquÃn El Chapo Guzmán : el varÃ3n de la droga
- trueJoe Biden : 46th US President
- trueJoe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
- trueJohannes Gutenberg and the printing press
- trueJohn "Danny" Olivas
- trueJohn Deere, that's who!
- trueJohn F. Kennedy the brave
- trueJohn Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- John Wall
- trueJonas Hanway's scurrilous, scandalous, shockingly sensational umbrella
- trueJonas Salk : a life
- trueJonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- trueJonathan Toews
- Josef Mengele
- Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham : dances in literature and cinema
- trueJosé Antonio Navarro
- trueJudy Blume
- trueJulius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights
- trueJust pretend
- trueKD : Kevin Durant's relentless pursuit to be the greatest
- trueKamala Harris : history-making US Vice President
- Kate DiCamillo
- Kate DiCamillo : newbery medal-winning author
- trueKepler and the universe : how one man revolutionized astronomy
- trueKick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- trueKill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- trueKing Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest imposter
- trueKing John : Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England : The Road to Magna Carta
- trueKing John : and the road to Magna Carta
- trueKing Peggy : an American secretary, her royal destiny, and the inspiring story of how she changed an African village
- trueKissinger
- trueKlandestine : how a Klan lawyer and a checkbook journalist helped James Earl Ray cover up his crime
- Kyrie Irving
- trueLadysitting : my year with nana at the end of her century
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- trueLance Armstrong's war : one man's battle against fate, fame, love, death, scandal, and a few other rivals on the road to the Tour de France
- trueLatinitas : celebrating 40 big dreamers
- Laughter in the second act
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- trueLeap of faith : finding love the modern way
- trueLegends : the best players, games, and teams in baseball
- trueLeo Durocher : baseball's prodigal son
- trueLeontyne Price
- Lessons from Tara : life advice from the world's most brilliant dog
- trueLet 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- trueLet my people vote : my battle to restore the civil rights of returning citizens
- trueLet your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letters of a Portuguese nun : uncovering the mystery behind a seventeenth-century forbidden love, a historical mystery
- trueLetters to Véra
- trueLewis Latimer : engineering wizard
- trueLife and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life and public services of Martin R. Delany, : sub-assistant commissioner Bureau relief of refugees, freedmen, and of abandoned lands, and late Major 104th U.S. colored troops.
- trueLionel Messi
- trueLionel Messi
- trueListen: how Pete Seeger got America singing
- trueLittle dreamers : visionary women around the world
- trueLittle failure : a memoir
- trueLittle girl blue : the life of Karen Carpenter
- trueLiving with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- trueLizzie demands a seat : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- trueLong walk out of the woods : a physician's story of addiction, depression, hope, and recovery
- Lonnie Johnson
- trueLooking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
- trueLord Fear : a memoir
- trueLosing Helen : an essay
- Louis Pasteur : germ destroyer
- trueLove from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- trueLucie Aubrac : the French resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo
- trueLucky 666 : the impossible mission
- trueLuna and me : the true story of a girl who lived in a tree to save a forest
- Mad Bear : spirit, healing, and the sacred in the life of Native American medicine man
- trueMad and bad : real heroines of the Regency
- trueMadame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Madison Bumgarner
- Mae Jemison
- Mae West : dirty blonde
- trueMaggie Smith : a biography
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- trueMaiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them
- trueMalala
- trueMalala Yousafzai : Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist
- trueMalala Yousafzai : education activist
- trueMama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- trueMamaskatch : a Cree coming of age
- trueMan of destiny : FDR and the making of the American century
- trueManderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Manet
- Marching with Martin
- trueMarconi : the man who networked the world
- trueMargaret Thatcher : the authorized biography
- trueMargaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- trueMarian Anderson
- trueMarie Curie
- trueMark Rothko : toward the light in the chapel
- Martin Luther King Jr. : civil rights leader
- Martin Luther King Jr. : civil rights leader and American hero
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueMartina & Chrissie : the greatest rivalry in the history of sports
- trueMary Anning, fossil hunter
- trueMary Engelbreit : the art and the artist
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Max Brand, western giant : the life and times of Frederick Schiller Faust
- trueMayor Harold Washington : champion of race and reform in Chicago
- trueMeet Cindy Sherman : artist, photographer, chameleon
- Memoir of Rev. S. Osgood Wright, late missionary to Liberia.
- Michael Jackson : never surrender
- trueMickey Mantle : the Commerce Comet
- trueMighty Moe : the true story of a thirteen-year-old women's running revolutionary
- trueMike Trout
- Miranda Lambert
- trueMission : Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe
- trueMisty Copeland
- trueModern HERstory : stories of women and nonbinary people rewriting history
- trueMolina : the story of the father who raised an unlikely baseball dynasty
- Monet, nature into art
- trueMoney, murder, and Dominick Dunne : a life in several acts