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- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 African Americans who shaped South Carolina
- A Jewish woman of distinction : the life & diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
- A Light That Never Goes Out
- A Van Beuren production : a history of the 619 cartoons, 875 live action shorts, four feature films and one serial of Amedee van Beuren
- 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 charmed couple : the art and life of Walter and Matilda Gay
- A concise guide to the life of Muhammad : answering thirty key questions
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A dutiful boy : a memoir of secrets, lies and family love
- A fulfilling journey through conflicts and contradictions
- A full life : James Connolly the Irish rebel : a graphic remembrance 100 years after his cruel murder during the Easter Rising
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A history of Islam in 21 women
- A horse at night : on writing
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A month in Siena
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A promised land
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A rebel's journey : Mustafa Sho'aiyan and revolutionary theory in Iran
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sojourn in paradise : Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A stumbling block : Bartolomé de Las Casas as defender of the Indians
- A very punchable face : a memoir
- A visible man : a memoir
- A wayfaring stranger : Ernst von Dohnányi's American years, 1949-1960
- A woman called Moses : a prophet for our time
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman's battles and transformations
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abraham Joshua Heschel : a life of radical amazement
- Absolute Africa! : an anthology of poems
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Account rendered : a dossier on my former self
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary Black warrior in feudal Japan
- Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agnes Martin : pioneer, painter, icon
- Ahead of the curve : women scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Aki-wayn-zih : a person as worthy as the Earth
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alfred the Great
- Algren : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Neel : the art of not sitting pretty
- All Lara's wars
- All for beauty : makeup and hairdressing in Hollywood's studio era
- All in : an autobiography
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the way to the tigers : a memoir
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire
- America's early women celebrities : the famous and scorned from Martha Washington to silent film star Mary Fuller
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American workman : the life and art of John Kane
- Amoralman : a true story and other lies
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An Indian among los Indígenas : a native travel memoir
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the art of place : how two Midwestern women used art to negotiate migration and dispossession
- Animal biographies : toward a history of individuals
- Anna : the biography
- Anni & Josef Albers : equal and unequal
- Antarctica's Lost Aviator : The epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Are you this? or are you this? : a story of identity and worth
- Art of the state : celebrating the visual art of North Carolina
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Assignment Russia : becoming a foreign correspondent in the crucible of the Cold War
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- At home in the world : a memoir
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Audre Lorde
- Audre Lorde : die Berliner Jahre 1984-1992
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Aural history
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Autumn
- Babur : Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor, 1483-1530
- Bach
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbara Hepworth : art & life
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Baseline shift : untold stories of women in graphic design history
- Bay View : a summer portrait
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beacons of dharma : spiritual exemplars for the modern age
- Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin : through the unusual door
- Becoming
- Becoming Lincoln
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Becoming a visible man
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Benjamin Franklin Butler : a noisy, fearless life
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Berg
- Beryl Bainbridge : love by all sorts of means : a biography
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Between dreams and realities : some milestones in Pakistan's history
- Between home and the front : Civil War letters of the Walters family
- Between the world and me
- Between worlds : a queer boy from the valleys
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Bill Cunningham was there : spring flings + summer soirées
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Binga : the rise and fall of Chicago's first Black banker
- Black Sabbath : symptom of the universe
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black man in the Netherlands : an Afro-Antillean anthropology
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black women directors
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blind spot
- Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Boarding school voices : Carlisle Indian School students speak
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Boots Riley : tell homeland security-we are the bomb : collected lyrics and writings
- Border crossings : my journey as a Western Muslim
- Borderlands curanderos : the worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
- Borges : postales de una biografía
- Borges and me : an encounter
- Born after : reckoning with the German past
- Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Both/and : a life in many worlds
- Boy with the bullhorn : a memoir and history of ACT UP New York
- Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Bugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Burn the place
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- C.L.R. James : the artist as revolutionary
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Calhoun : American heretic
- California soul : an American epic of cooking and survival
- Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first Treaty Indigenous player
- Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Caroline's dilemma : a colonial inheritance saga
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- 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
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Chaitanya : a life and legacy
- Charles C. Painter : the life of an Indian reform advocate
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chavela Vargas
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chief Thunderwater : an unexpected Indian in unexpected places
- Children of the land
- China in family photographs : a people's history of revolution and everyday life
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Clarence Thomas and the lost constitution
- Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum
- Come back in September : a literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
- Comeback evolution : selected works of Walter K. Delbridge
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confess : the autobiography
- Consent : a memoir
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Constellations : reflections from life
- Corrections in ink : a memoir
- Cost of living : essays
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Cyrus the Great
- Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Daughters of the flower fragrant garden : two sisters separated by China's Civil War
- David Bowie : a life
- David G. Berlanga : un profesor reformista en el proceso revolucionario de la educación en San Luis Potosí, 1911-1913
- Daybreak Woman : an Anglo-Dakota life
- Dear Damage
- Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Democratic justice : Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the making of the liberal establishment
- Desperado : an autobiography
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diary of a detour
- Diary of a misfit : a memoir and a mystery
- Diary of an Alzheimer's caregiver
- Didn't we almost have it all : in defense of Whitney Houston
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Distant melodies : music in search of home
- Djinn
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't hide the madness
- Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- E.J. Josey : transformational leader of the modern library profession
- Earl Scruggs : banjo icon
- Eco soma : pain and joy in speculative performance encounters
- Eighteenth-century women artists : their trials, tribulations & triumphs
- Einstein : the life and times
- El Jefe : the stalking of Chapo Guzmán
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elpaso : a punk story
- Elusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass
- Emiliano Zapata : Mexico's social revolutionary
- Emma Amos : color odyssey
- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the Anarchist Awakening
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empire's mistress, starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
- Empire, early photography and spectacle : the global career of showman daguerreotypist J.W. Newland
- Endpapers : a family story of books, war, escape, and home
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Enlightening encounters : the journeys of an anthropologist
- Enrique Alférez : sculptor
- Entry without inspection : a writer's life in El Norte
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Escape on the Pearl : the heroic bid for freedom on the Underground Railroad
- Etienne Decroux and his theatre laboratory
- Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu = I am a damn savage ; : Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? = What have you done to my country?
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Everybody else is perfect : how I survived hypocrisy, beauty, clicks, and likes
- Everything man : the form and function of Paul Robeson
- Excavation : A Memoir
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fairest : a memoir
- Family of origin, family of choice : stories of queer Christians
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Far from respectable : Dave Hickey and his art
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fearlessly different : an autistic actor's journey to Broadway's biggest stage
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Federico : one man's remarkable journey from Tututepec to L.A.
- Fierce and delicate : essays on dance and illness
- Fierce poise : Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- Finding a life of harmony and balance : a taoist master's path to wisdom
- Finding true north : firsthand stories of the booms that built modern Alaska
- Fire Island : a century in the life of an American paradise
- First woman : Joanne Simpson and the tropical atmosphere
- Floating in a most peculiar way
- Florence Marryat
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Following the good river : the life and times of Wa'xaid
- For brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts : a love letter to women of color
- Forced out : a Nikkei woman's search for a home in America
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- France : an adventure history
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Frank Ramsey : a sheer excess of powers
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free : a child and a country at the end of history
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida in America : the creative awakening of a great artist
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Sarah to Sydney : The Woman Behind All-Of-a-Kind Family
- From the streets of Shaolin : the Wu-Tang saga
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Full moon stages : personal notes from 50 years of The Living Theatre
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Garbo
- Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
- George Dixon : the short life of boxing's first Black world champion, 1870-1908
- George Meredith : a tribute
- George Michael : a life
- Georgia O'Keeffe : a life
- Gertrude Stein
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Glikl : memoirs 1691-1719
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Goya : a portrait of the artist
- Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
- Grant Wood's secrets / Sue Taylor
- Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen : reminiscences of the Civil War, with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi Valley
- Great generals of the ancient world : the personality, intellectual and leadership traits that made them great
- Great masters of Mexican folk art : Fomento Cultural Banamex Collection : 20 years
- Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus
- Groundwork : autobiographical writings, 1979-2012
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- Hack with a grenade : an editor's back stories of SA news
- Half in shadow : the life and legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Hannah Arendt and the history of thought
- Hannibal
- Harold Rosenberg : a critic's life
- Haste to rise : a remarkable experience of black education during Jim Crow
- Haydée Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary : she led by transgression
- He named me Malala
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Healing : when a nurse becomes a patient
- Hearing Homer's song : the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry
- Heaven below
- Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
- Hellenistic lives
- Hemingway
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Herbert Corey's Great War : a memoir of World War I by the American reporter who saw it all
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Here lies Hugh Glass : a mountain man, a bear, and the rise of the American nation
- Here, right matters : an American story
- High-risk homosexual : a memoir
- Hilma af Klint : a biography
- Hirschfeld : the biography
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- History of Alexander the Great
- History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
- History of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt
- History of Cyrus the Great
- History of Cyrus the Great
- History of Julius Caesar
- History of King Alfred of England
- History of King Charles the First of England
- History of Nero
- History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
- History of Queen Elizabeth
- History of Romulus
- Hitler : a global biography
- Hokusai : a graphic biography
- Hollywood Eden : electric guitars, fast cars, and the myth of the California paradise
- Home made : a story of grief, groceries, showing up--and what we make when we make dinner
- Home/land : a memoir of departure and return
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Honeypot : black Southern women who love women
- Horace M. Kallen in the heartland : the midwestern roots of American pluralism
- Horace Pippin, American modern
- Horror stories : a memoir
- Hospital hom3
- Houdini : the elusive American
- House of Nutter : the rebel tailor of Savile Row
- House of sticks : a memoir
- How does it feel to be unwanted? : stories of resistance and resilience from Mexicans living in the United States
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir
- How we go home : voices from indigenous North America
- Human flow : stories from the global refugee crisis
- Hypatia : the life and legend of an ancient philosopher
- I Passaggi obbligati di Italo Calvino : autobiografia, memoria, identità
- I am a girl from Africa : a memoir
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I came all this way to meet you : writing myself home
- I came as a shadow : an autobiography
- I can only paint : the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton
- I don't want to die poor : essays
- I dream he talks to me : a memoir of learning how to listen
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I never left home : poet, feminist, revolutionary : a memoir of time & place
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- I'm possible : a story of survival, a tuba, and the small miracle of a big dream
- I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton
- I've seen the future and I'm not going : the art scene and downtown New York in the 1980s
- Ibsen in context
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- Ida Rubinstein : revolutionary dancer, actress, and impresario
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- Illness and authority : disability in the life and lives of Francis of Assisi
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In my own moccasins : a memoir of resilience
- In pursuit of disobedient women : a memoir of love, rebellion, and family, far away
- In search of Mary Seacole : the making of a cultural icon
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In the footsteps of Flora Tristan : a political biography
- In the houses of their dead : the Lincolns, the Booths, and the spirits
- In the shadow of the mountain : a memoir of courage
- In the shadows of Paris : the Nazi concentration camp that dimmed the city of light
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Intentions
- Interdisciplinary Barthes
- Inventor of the future : the visionary life of Buckminster Fuller
- Inventory : a memoir
- Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irving Berlin : New York genius
- It's Garry Shandling's book
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- It's hard being you : a primer on being happy anyway
- JD Samson
- Jack Kemp : the bleeding-heart conservative who changed America
- James Baldwin : living in fire
- James Castle : memory palace
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Janis : her life and music
- Jasper Johns : pictures within pictures 1980-2015
- Jerome Robbins, by himself : selections from his letters, journals, drawings, photographs, and an unfinished memoir
- Johann Scheibe : organ builder in Leipzig at the time of Bach
- John Craxton : a life of gifts
- John Hervey Wheeler, black banking, and the economic struggle for civil rights
- John Venn : a life in logic
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Joshua Sofaer : performance - objects - participation
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Judith Butler
- Junctures in women's leadership : higher education
- Just as I am : a memoir