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- "An Honorable profession" : a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy
- 117 days : an account of confinement and interrogation under the South African 90-day detention law
- 20th-century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 50 contemporary photographers you should know
- A Jewish Jesuit in the eastern Mediterranean : early modern conversion, mission, and the construction of identity
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Kiowa's odyssey : a sketchbook from Fort Marion
- A Notorious Woman : Anne Royall in Jacksonian America
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A field of their own : women and American Indian history, 1830-1941
- A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guide to the United States Naval academy
- A hymn for Alvin Ailey
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A political companion to Frederick Douglass
- A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A triumph of genius : Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak patent war
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger
- ABCDuane : a Duane Michals primer
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abba Eban : a biography
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller : the woman in the family
- About women : conversations between a writer and a painter
- Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship and the limits of liberal democracy
- Abrégé des Histoires Philippiques de Trogue Pompée
- Access to higher education : refugees' stories from Malaysia
- Acts of forgiveness : faith journeys of a gay priest
- Adele : the biography
- Adio kerida : Goodbye dear love
- Adolf Hitler
- African American officers in Liberia : a pestiferous rotation, 1910-1942
- Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world
- Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Agnes Martin : pioneer, painter, icon
- Agricola
- Air Officer commanding : Hugh Dowding, architect of the Battle of Britain
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alan Cranston, senator from California : making a "dent in the world"
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander's marshals : a study of the Makedonian aristocracy and the politics of military leadership
- Alfred Stieglitz : taking pictures, making painters
- Alfred Wallis : Cornish primitive painter
- Alfred the Great
- Algren : a life
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- Alive, alive oh! : and other things that matter
- All the fine young eagles : in the cockpit with Canada's Second World War fighter pilots
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All things possible : setbacks and success in politics and life
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Alva and Gunnar Myrdal : social engineering in the modern world
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- America's National Gallery of Art
- America's corporal : James Tanner in war and peace
- America's political dynasties from Adams to Clinton
- American Burke : the uncommon liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American cultural rebels : avant-garde and bohemian artists, writers and musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s
- American queen : the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
- American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- American tragedian : the life of Edwin Booth
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- Amitabh Bachchan
- An Abolitionist Abroad : Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe
- An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anna May Wong : performing the modern
- Anneliese Landau's life in music : Nazi Germany to émigré California
- Antarctica's Lost Aviator : The epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Anything for a hit : an A & R woman's story of surviving the music industry
- Apostate Englishman : Grey Owl the writer and the myths
- Arshile Gorky : the plow and the song : a life in letters and documents
- Art, psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes : a biography
- Art21 : art in the twenty-first century, Season seven
- Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- As I remember it : a portrait of Dorothy West
- As time went on ..
- Ashoka in ancient India
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Aspects of Roman history, 31 BC-AD 117
- At ease : stories I tell to friends
- At home inside : a daughter's tribute to Ann Petry
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Attendant lords : Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim : courtiers & poets in Mughal India
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Auschwitz and after
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Autumn
- Autumn Gem
- Avec les tirailleurs Sénégalais 1917-1919 : lettres inédites du Front d'Orient
- BB King, The life of Riley
- Babur : Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor, 1483-1530
- Bad reputation : the unauthorized biography of Joan Jett
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balancing acts : behind the scenes at London's National Theatre
- Band of giants : the amateur soldiers who won America's independence
- Bandeira branca na terra roxa : catálogo de obras de arte da exposição em comemoração aos 100 anos da imigração japonesa, realizada pela Câmara dos Deputados em junho de 2008
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Barnum : an American life
- Bathed in lightning : John McLaughlin, the 60s, and the emerald beyond
- Beale Street dynasty : sex, song, and the struggle for the soul of Memphis
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming
- Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical
- Becoming Beyoncé : the untold story
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Lincoln
- Beethoven for a later age : living with the string quartets
- Before pictures
- Belle La Follette : Progressive Era Reformer
- Belonging : a German reckons with history and home
- Benjamin Franklin in London : the British life of America's founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bernard Bolzano : his life and work
- Beryl Bainbridge : love by all sorts of means : a biography
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bibliography of the Hillside Press, 1971-1980
- Big deal : Bob Fosse and dance in the American musical
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Biographies in the Global South : life stories embedded in figurations and discourses
- Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening
- Bismarck : a political history
- Bit player : my life with presidents and ideas
- Black Sabbath : symptom of the universe
- Black cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution
- Black cowboys in the American West : on the range, on the stage, behind the badge
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black frontiersman : the memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, first Black graduate of West Point
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blue-eyed boy : a memoir
- Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boots Riley : tell homeland security-we are the bomb : collected lyrics and writings
- Born to run
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now
- Breathe : a letter to my sons
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Broadway, Balanchine & beyond : a memoir
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian War
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
- Bucharest diary : Romania's journey from darkness to light : an American ambassador's memoir
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Building the nation : N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish national identity
- Bukowski in a sundress : confessions from a writing life
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bury my heart in a free land : Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history
- Butch heroes
- By the spear : Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the rise and fall of the Macedonian empire
- C. Suetoni Tranquilli De vita Caesarum libros VIII et De grammaticis et rhetoribus librum
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Called to rise : a life in faithful service to the community that made me
- Camelot's end : Kennedy vs. Carter, and the fight that broke the Democratic Party
- Camera Aloft : Edward Steichen in the Great War
- Cancer in two voices
- Carter
- Carter G. Woodson : history, the Black press, and public relations
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Cassius Dio : Greek intellectual and Roman politician
- Cast in deathless bronze : Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the origins of American empire
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Celia Alvarez Muñoz
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Chapter and verse : New Order, Joy Division and me
- Charles Dickens and his publishers
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Salomon : life? or theatre?
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Child : portraits by 40 great artists
- Children of hope : the odyssey of the Oromo slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa
- China in family photographs : a people's history of revolution and everyday life
- China's homeless generation : voices from the veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s
- Chris Hani
- Chrissie Hynde : a musical biography
- Chuck Close, photographer
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleone, un politico ateniese
- Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum
- Come on children
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Concerning Agnes : Thomas Hardy's "good little pupil"
- Confessions
- Confessions of the other mother : nonbiological lesbian moms tell all
- Conservative heroes : fourteen leaders who shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan
- Continental strangers : German exile cinema, 1933-1951
- Contraband : Louis Mandrin and the making of a global underground
- Conversations with McCartney
- Cop in the hood : my year policing Baltimore's eastern district
- Cornel West on Black prophetic fire
- Corps commanders in blue : Union major generals in the Civil War
- Criminals : my family's life on both sides of the law
- Crucible of commmand : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee -- the war they fought, the peace they forged
- Dance of death : the life of John Fahey, American guitarist
- Dancing with Merce Cunningham
- Danny Lyon : message to the future
- Dapper Dan : made in Harlem : a memoir
- Darius in the shadow of Alexander
- 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 Lynch : the art life
- David Syme : man of the Age
- De héroes olvidados : Santiago Imán, los huites y los antecedentes bélicos de la Guerra de Castas
- Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders
- Dear Mr. You
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Deathbed wisdom of the Hasidic masters : the book of departure and caring for people at the end of life
- Debating modern revolution : the evolution of revolutionary ideas
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep South : four seasons on back roads
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Denise Levertov in company : essays by her students, colleagues, and fellow writers
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dia-logos : Ramon Llull's method of thought and artistic practice
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- Die Fragmente der Historiker: Ephoros von Kyme (FGrHist 70) und Timaios von Tauromenion (FGrHist 566)
- Die, nigger, die!
- Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
- Dig if you will the picture : funk, sex, God, and genius in the music of Prince
- Dispatches from the Pacific : the World War II reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
- Disraeli : the novel politician
- Django Reinhardt and the illustrated history of gypsy jazz
- Dolores
- Don't blink : Robert Frank
- Dora Maar : Paris in the time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso
- Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University : building a legacy of Black history
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Douglass in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates
- Dr. Benjamin Rush : the founding father who healed a wounded nation
- Drawing the line : the early work of Agnes Martin
- Dreams to remember : Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the transformation of Southern soul
- Dying every day : Seneca at the court of Nero
- Eanger Irving Couse : the life and times of an American artist, 1866-1936
- Eddie Adams : bigger than the frame
- Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art
- Educated : a memoir
- Edward Seago
- Eichmann before Jerusalem : the unexamined life of a mass murderer
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf : a self-portrait
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth R
- Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
- Eminent Buddhist women
- Eminent Sikh women
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Enduring Truths : Sojourner's shadows and substance
- Engaging nature : environmentalism and the political theory canon
- Enter Helen : the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the rise of the modern single woman
- Eqbal Ahmad : critical outsider in a turbulent age
- Erdogan's empire : Turkey and the politics of the Middle East
- Erik Satie : a Parisian composer and his world
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernst Kantorowicz : a life
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake
- Etienne Decroux and his theatre laboratory
- Every day is extra
- Every little step : my story
- Every man a king : a short, colorful history of American populists
- Every second counts
- Evita : the life of Eva Perón
- Exemplary women of early China : the Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
- Existentialism and excess : the life and times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight : Indian views
- Facts and fears : hard truths from a life in intelligence
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fashion climbing
- Fasting and feasting : the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Faustina I and II : imperial women of the golden age
- Feast of excess : a cultural history of the New Sensibility
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Felipe Carrillo Puerto
- Fernando Botero : la búsqueda del estilo : 1949-1963
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First ladies and American women : in politics and at home
- Fit for the presidency? : winners, losers, what-ifs, and also-rans
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! : the life of the world's worst opera singer
- Folk art and aging : life-story objects and their makers
- For God or empire : Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean world
- Fortunate son : my life, my music
- Fortune's fool : the life of John Wilkes Booth
- Four last songs : aging and creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francis, Bishop of Rome : the gospel for the third millennium
- Frank Browne : a life through the lens
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury : his life in his own words
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Freedom journey : Black Civil War soldiers and The Hills community, Westchester County, New York
- Frege : a philosophical biography
- Frida Kahlo : making her self up
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From the corner of the oval
- Fruit of the orchard : reading Catherine of Siena in late medieval and early modern England
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- Gandhi in a Canadian context : relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada
- Gegen den Ball : wenn Autoren kicken
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948 : between dream and reality
- Gershom Scholem : from Berlin to Jerusalem and back : an intellectual biography
- Gilded suffragists : the New York socialites who fought for women's right to vote
- Girl in a band
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Good morning, Mr Mandela
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
- Green desert : the life and poetry of Olzhas Suleimenov
- Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus
- Group f.64 : Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the community of artists who revolutionized American photography
- Guillaume Du Fay : the life and works
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Hamlet lives in Hollywood : John Barrymore and the acting tradition onscreen
- Handbook for an unpredictable life : how I survived Sister Renata and my crazy mother, and still came out smiling (with great hair)
- Hannibal : a Hellenistic life
- Hans Richter
- Harriet Tubman : slavery, the Civil War, and civil rights in the nineteenth century
- Harry Reasoner : a life in the news
- Haya de la Torre and the pursuit of power in twentieth-century Peru and Latin America
- Haydée Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary : she led by transgression
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
- Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- Hell's traces : one murder, two families, thirty-three Holocaust memorials
- Hellenistic lives
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry Ossawa Tanner : art, faith, race, and legacy
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert of Bosham : a medieval polymath
- Here comes everybody : the story of the Pogues
- Hidden in plain sight : contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian identity and culture
- High Private : the Trans-Mississippi correspondence of humorist R.R. Gilbert, 1862-1865
- Highlife Giants : West African dance band pioneers
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
- Historical types : from Gutenberg to Ashendene
- Hitler
- Hitler : a career
- Hitler at war : meetings and conferences, 1939-1945
- Hold still : a memoir with photographs
- Holding the line : inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis
- Homesick : a memoir
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Honest bodies : revolutionary modernism in the dances of Anna Sokolow
- Hong Lei : Ying shi lü fei shou hong
- Hope : entertainer of the century
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- House of Nutter : the rebel tailor of Savile Row
- How to be alone : if you want to, and even if you don't
- How to forget : a daughter's memoir
- Hugh Lane : the art market and the art museum, 1893-1915
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
- Hypatia : the life and legend of an ancient philosopher
- Hôtel Terminus : Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps = Hotel Terminus : Klaus Barbie, his life and his time
- I am Brian Wilson : a memoir
- I am Charlie Wilson
- I am yours : a shared memoir
- I knew Hitler : the lost testimony by a survivor from the Night of the Long Knives
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I was a dancer : a memoir
- I will be complete : a memoir
- I will find you : a reporter investigates the life of the man who raped her
- I'll never write my memoirs
- I'm afraid of men
- Ibn Taymiyya's theological ethics
- Ida B. Wells : a passion for justice
- Ida McKinley : the turn-of-the-century first lady through war, assassination, and secret disability
- Ignacio Ramírez : el Nigromante : memorias prohibidas
- Imagining Xerxes : ancient perspectives on a Persian king
- Imber's left hand
- Impressionism : art, leisure, and Parisian society
- Improvisation on the edge : notes from on and off the stage
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Hoffa's shadow : a stepfather, a disappearance in Detroit, and my search for the truth
- In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
- In other words
- In pieces : a memoir
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In search of memory : the neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize
- In the company of rebels : a generational memoir of bohemians, deep heads, and history makers
- In the country of women : a memoir
- In this hour : Heschel's writings in Nazi Germany and London exile
- Inadvertent
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and Me
- Intimate geometries : the art and life of Louise Bourgeois
- Intimations : the cinema of Wojciech Has
- Into the arms of strangers : stories of the Kindertransport
- Intoxicated by my illness : and other writings on life and death
- Ira Aldridge : the early years, 1807-1833
- Ira Aldridge : the last years, 1855-1867
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto