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- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 20 fun facts about Aaron Burr
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 50 rappers who changed the world : a celebration of rap legends
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A.J. Styles : the phenomenal one
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abigail Adams
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adele : singing sensation
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Aim for the skies : Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith's race to complete Amelia Earhart's quest
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alex Ovechkin
- Alexa Bliss : five feet of fury
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All creatures great and small
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe : breaking down tennis's color barrier
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- American Olympians who changed the game
- American Pharoah
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- An aristocracy of critics : Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the committee that redefined freedom of the press
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And if I perish : frontline U.S. Army nurses in World War II
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Angela Merkel : Chancellor of Germany
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Annie Easley
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antonio Brown
- Antonio Brown
- Apostle of Union : a political biography of Edward Everett
- Ariana Grande
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe
- Artist biographies
- Asian Americans who inspire us
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Auston Matthews
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava Duvernay : movie director
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Ayanna Howard
- BTS : the ultimate fan book
- Badge 387 : the story of Jim Simone, America's most decorated cop
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbara McClintock, cytogeneticist and discoverer of mobile genetic elements
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball superstar Aaron Judge
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Basketball's G.O.A.T. : Michael Jordan, Lebron James, and more
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Ben Simmons
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billie Jean King
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Black like me
- Blackpink : queens of K-pop
- Blake Shelton
- Blake Shelton : famous entertainer
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Booker T. Washington : leader and educator
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Braun Strowman : monster among men
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breakaway : beyond the goal
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Breanna Stewart
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brooklyn in love : a delicious memoir of food, family, and finding yourself
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- Calvin Spann : daring fighter pilot
- Cam Newton : trying to win them all
- Camila Cabello
- Camila Cabello : pop and R&B singer
- Captain Cook : the great ocean explorer
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Cardi B
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carla Hayden : Librarian of Congress
- Carli Lloyd
- Carol Moseley Braun : politician and leader
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Underwood
- Carrie Underwood : famous entertainer
- Carson Wentz
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Catherine of Aragon : an intimate life of Henry VIII's true wife
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Chance the Rapper
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charlie Puth
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Flair : bow to your queen
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chien-shiung Wu : nuclear physicist
- Chloe Kim
- Chris Pratt
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clean sweep! : Frank Zamboni's ice machine
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra
- Coco Gauff
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Connor McDavid : hockey superstar
- Conor Mcgregor
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Cristiano Ronaldo : World-Beater
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Cuthbert Grant : leader of the Métis people
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- DJ Khaled
- Dadland
- Dak Prescott
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie : a life
- David Pastrnak : hockey superstar
- Dean Ambrose : The Lunatic Fringe
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Demi Lovato : singing sensation
- Derek Carr
- Derek Carr
- Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees
- Deshaun Watson
- Deshaun Watson : superstar quarterback
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dian Fossey : animal rights activist and protector of mountain gorillas
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dolly Parton : country music star
- Dolores Huerta : advocate for women and workers
- Dolores Huerta : get to know the voice of migrant workers
- Dolores Huerta : labor activist
- Dolores Huerta stands strong : the woman who demanded justice
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Drake : famous music star
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Drew Brees
- Drew Brees : superstar quarterback
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dwayne Johnson : famous entertainer
- EXO : K-pop superstars
- Edison
- Einstein : his space and times
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : get to know the persistent politician
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Ellen Ochoa : dynamic space director
- Ellison Onizuka
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair : inside the 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the ghost children of his revenge
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life/
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Dove : Britain's black cabaret queen
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Explore with James Cook
- Ezekiel Elliott
- Ezekiel Elliott : superstar running back
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Fannie Lou Hamer : civil rights activist
- Fatal glamour : the life of Rupert Brooke
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Fifth Harmony : famous girl group
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Figures in film and television : Lucille Ball, Walt Disney, Jim Henson, Alfred Hitchcock, Bruce Lee, George Lucas
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding a way home : Mildred and Richard Loving and the fight for marriage equality
- Finn Wolfhard : famous actor
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First friends : the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- Football superstar Tom Brady
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Fortune's many houses : a Victorian visionary, a noble Scottish family, and a lost inheritance
- Francesco Tirelli's ice cream shop
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frankie liked to sing
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederick Douglass : abolitionist hero
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Freud in his time and ours
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- From an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Gal Gadot : soldier, model, Wonder Woman
- Gal Gadot : soldier, model, Wonder Woman
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Lucas : a life
- George Lucas : filmmaker & creator of Star Wars
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- George Springer
- Gertrude B. Elion and pharmacology
- Giancarlo Stanton
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Giovanni da Verrazzano : explorer of the Atlantic Coast of North America
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goebbels : a biography
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- Google cybersecurity expert Parisa Tabriz
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grace Hopper : advancing computer science
- Grace Hopper : computer scientist and navy admiral
- Grandad Mandela
- Grant
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Guru Nanak : first of the Sikhs
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles
- Handel in London : the making of a genius
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Harriet Robinson Scott : from the frontier to freedom
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry Houdini : illusionist & stunt performer
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr : reimagining radio
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Heroes of 9/11
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hillary Clinton
- Hillary Clinton : remarkable American politician
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Honor Bound : an American story of dreams and service
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- Hunting LeRoux : the inside story of the DEA takedown of a criminal genius and his empire
- I am Anne Frank
- I am Benjamin Franklin
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Frida Kahlo
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Leonardo da Vinci
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Marie Curie
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Sacagawea
- I am Walt Disney
- I am a promise
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- Ichiro Suzuki : a league of his own
- Ida Wells : journalist and activist
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Immigrant architect : Rafael Guastavino and the American dream
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Indra Nooyi : CEO of PepsiCo
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible heroes of World War II : extraordinary wartime stories of ordinary people
- Invisible men : the trailblazing Black artists of comic books
- Irena Sendler : get to know the World War II rescuer