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- 'You must remember this--' : popular songwriters 1900-1980
- 14 cows for America
- 1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- A Biographical dictionary of artists
- A boy named Boomer
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's portrait of Shakespeare
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A firefly in the night : a son of the middle west
- A garden gallery : the plants, art, and hardscape of Little and Lewis
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A heritage history of beautiful Green Lake, Wisconsin
- A higher call
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A hunt for justice : the true story of a woman undercover wildlife agent
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A million little pieces
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Sacagawea
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A quiet American : the secret war of Varian Fry
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- A song at twilight of alzheimer's and love: : a memoir
- A spotlight for Harry
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A three dog life
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A view of the lake : living the dream on Lake Superior / by Beryl Singleton Bissell
- A wolf at the table : a memoir of my father
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Airborne : a photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Alan Ameche : the story of "the Horse"
- Alaska's wolf man : the 1915-55 wilderness adventures of Frank Glaser
- Aldo Leopold's shack : Nina's story
- Aldo Leopold, the professor
- Alexander the Great
- All that is bitter and sweet : a memoir
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Along the way : the journey of a father and son
- Amazing Gracie : a dog's tale
- Ambulance girl : how I saved myself by becoming an EMT
- Amelia Earhart : first lady of flight
- American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
- American dynasty : aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush
- American gypsy
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American sniper : [the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history]
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- Among the islands
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American hero : the true story of Charles A. Lindbergh
- An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- And so it goes : Kurt Vonnegut, a life
- And the good news is-- : lessons and advice from the bright side
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anna & Solomon
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank, beyond the diary : a photographic remembrance
- Ansel Adams : America's photographer : a biography for young people
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Approval junkie
- Armed and dangerous : the hunt for one of America's most wanted
- As I saw it
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march towards freedom
- Assassination vacation
- Audition
- Audition : a memoir
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3
- Back from the dead : one woman's search for the men who walked off America's death row
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall
- Badger boneyards : the eternal rest of the story
- Badger saints and sinners,
- Banished : surviving my years in the Westboro Baptist Church
- Barack Obama : United States President : updated and expanded!
- Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball's sluggers
- Basketball's great players
- Bastards : a memoir
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Beatrix Potter
- Because of Romek
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Ben Franklin
- Becoming Jane
- Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder : the woman behind the legend
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Ben Franklin's almanac : being a true account of the good gentleman's life
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : inventor, writer, patriot
- Betty Doll
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bing Crosby rediscovered
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- Birdseye : the adventures of a curious man
- Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Blood, bones, & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Bloodline
- Blue Jenkins : working for workers
- Blue guitar highway
- Blue nights
- Bob and Belle La Follette : partners in politics
- Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America
- Bon appetit! : the delicious life of Julia Child
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Boom! : [voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today]
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born a crime
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant : a memoir
- Born to run
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Breaking into print : before and after the invention of the printing press
- Breath : a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung : a memoir
- Brett Favre
- Bright Lights
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bruce
- Buck
- Buffalo Bird Girl : a Hidatsa story
- C. S. Lewis : a life
- Call him Father Nature : the story of John Muir
- Call the midwife : [a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times]
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Captain Cook
- Cash : the autobiography
- Casper Jaggi : master Swiss cheese maker
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Cavalryman of the lost cause : a biography of J.E.B. Stuart
- Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith
- Cheesemonger : a life on the wedge
- Christopher Columbus
- Chronicles
- Civil War wives : the lives and times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
- Clapton : the autobiography
- Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat, and obsession
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra : a life
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Colorful dreamer : the story of artist Henri Matisse
- Confessions of an economic hit man
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Country music superstars
- Crazy Horse
- Creating Dairyland : how caring for cows saved our soil, created our landscape, brought prosperity to our state, and still shapes our way of life in Wisconsin
- Cronkite's war : his World War II letters home
- Cures for hunger : a memoir
- Curlew, home : essays & a journey back
- Custer survivor : the end of a myth, the beginning of a legend
- Cut me loose : sin and salvation after my ultra-Orthodox girlhood
- Cutie and the boxer
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Daddy, we hardly knew you
- Dale Earnhardt
- Dark safari : the life behind the legend of Henry Morton Stanley
- Darkroom : a memoir in black and white
- Darwin's Origin of species : a biography
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- David Chang, Season 1
- Deadly valentines : the story of Capone's henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, his blonde alibi
- Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
- Death at SeaWorld : Shamu and the dark side of killer whales in captivity
- Death in a prairie house : Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin murders
- Delancey : a man, a woman, a restaurant, a marriage
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Detroit : an American autopsy
- Devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- Diana & Dodi : a love story
- Diary of a Confederate soldier : John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade
- Dickens
- Dillinger's wild ride : the year that made America's public enemy number one
- Does this church make me look fat? : a Mennonite finds faith, meets Mr. Right, and solves her lady problems
- Dog years : a memoir
- Dog years : a memoir
- Dogtripping : 25 rescues, 11 volunteers, and 3 RVs on our canine cross-country adventure
- Don't give up, don't give in : lessons from an extraordinary life
- Don't tell dad : a memoir
- Down among the dead men : a year in the life of a mortuary technician
- Down thunder road : the making of Bruce Springsteen
- Dr. Kate : angel on snowshoes
- Dr. Seuss
- Dragon bones and dinosaur eggs : a photobiography of explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
- Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America
- Dreams from my father
- Dry
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- Eat pray love
- Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
- Edison : the father of invention
- Edith and Woodrow : the Wilson White House
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated: a memoir
- Eight women, two Model Ts, and the American West
- Einstein : [his life and universe]
- El deafo
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Elegy for Iris
- Elizabeth Blackwell : the first woman doctor
- Ellis Island
- Elsewhere
- Elvis Presley : the king of rock and roll
- Elvis Presley : the man, the life, the legend
- Elvis, Rare moments with the king ; Elvis, king of entertainment
- Elvis, vol. 1
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
- Epilogue : a memoir
- Escape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the west
- Ethel & Ernest
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two World War II correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Every day in Tuscany : seasons of an Italian life
- Everybody's got something
- Fair game
- Falling in Honey : How a Tiny Greek Island Stole My Heart
- Falling through clouds : a story of survival, love, and liability
- Famous Wisconsin inventors & entrepreneurs
- Fatal jealousy : [the true story of a doomed romance, a singular obsession, and a quadruple murder]
- Father's day : a journey into the mind and heart of my extraordinary son
- Favre
- Feingold : a new Democratic Party
- Fifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington
- Finding freedom : the untold story of Joshua Glover, runaway slave
- Finding me : a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed: a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
- Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir
- Firestorm at Peshtigo : a town, its people, and the deadliest fire in American history
- First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
- First ladies
- First ladies
- First to fly : how Wilbur & Orville Wright invented the airplane
- First to the pole : the exciting true story of a salesman from Minnesota and his friends who became the first to reach the North Pole over the ice
- Flags of our fathers
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Florence Nightingale
- Flyboys : a true story of courage
- For all the tea in China : how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history
- For the duration : the war years
- For the love of soccer!
- For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago
- Forever young : my friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Fortunate son : my life, my music
- Founding brothers
- Founding fathers
- Founding mothers : the women who raised our nation
- Foxcatcher
- Francis : man of prayer
- Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Lloyd Wright : a biography
- Frank Lloyd Wright and his new American architecture
- Frank and Jesse James : the story behind the legend
- Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
- Free solo
- Freedom train north : stories of the underground railroad in Wisconsin
- Frida
- From scratch : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
- From the top of a secret tree
- Fugitive days : a memoir
- Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
- Funny Cide : [how a horse, a trainer, a jockey, and a bunch of high school buddies took on the sheiks and bluebloods-- and won]
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- Gabby : a story of courage and hope
- Gaining ground : a story of farmers' markets, local food, and saving the family farm
- Gaylord Nelson : champion for our Earth
- Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case
- Giant George : life with the world's biggest dog
- Girl in the dark : a memoir
- Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation
- Girls like us : fighting for a world where girls are not for sale, an activist finds her calling and heals herself
- Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
- Good dog. Stay
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grace and grit : my fight for equal pay and fairness at Goodyear and beyond
- Grace(eventually) : thoughts on faith
- Grant
- Grayson
- Great Lakes, great quilts : includes 12 projects celebrating quilt traditions
- Great moments in baseball history
- Green & golden moments : Bob Harlan and the Green Bay Packers
- Grey Gardens
- Growing up Amish : a memoir
- Gypsy boy : my life in the secret world of the Romany Gypsies
- H.H. Bennett, photographer : his American landscape
- Had I known : a memoir of survival
- Half baked : the story of my nerves, my newborn and how we both learned to breathe
- Hammer head : the making of a carpenter
- Hana's suitcase : a true story
- Hard choices
- Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- Harry Houdini escape artist
- Harvesting hope : the story of Cesar Chavez
- He named me Malala
- Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world
- Helen Keller : courage in the dark
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Here if you need me
- Here if you need me : a true story
- Heroes in the skies : American aviators in World War II
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the...
- Hildegard of Bingen : the woman of her age
- Hillary's choice
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- History of northern Wisconsin, : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc. ..
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Home is a roof over a pig : an American family's journey in China
- Home is burning
- Homegrown democrat : a few plain thoughts from the heart of America
- Honor bound : a gay American fights for the right to serve his country
- Houdini : the life of the great escape artist
- Hour of the women
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- How about never-- is never good for you? : my life in cartoons
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- Humor from the country
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hyperbole and a half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened
- I am Albert Einstein
- I am Gandhi
- I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
- I am Marc Chagall : text loosely inspired by My Life by Marc Chagall
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am Scout : a biography of Harper Lee
- I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death
- I forgot to remember : a memoir of amnesia
- I had brain surgery, what's your excuse? : an illustrated memoir
- I hate to leave this beautiful place
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I love you, Miss Huddleston, and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood
- I promise I'll pay attention : (living with a seemingly invisible, progressively debilitating illness)
- I should be dead : my life surviving politics, TV, and addiction
- I shouldn't even be doing this : and other things that strike me as funny
- I think I'm outta here : a memoir of all my families
- I will not fear : my story of a lifetime of building faith under fire
- I'm over all that : and other confessions
- I'm your man : the life of Leonard Cohen
- If a bus could talk : the story of Rosa Parks
- If you ask me : (and of course you won't)
- In my blood : six generations of madness and desire in an American family
- In my time : a personal and political memoir
- In pieces : a memoir
- In search of Sacco and Vanzetti : double lives, troubled times, and the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world
- In search of greatness
- In the absence of angels : a Hollywood family's courageous story
- In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
- In the valley of the kings : Howard Carter and the mystery of King Tutankhamun's tomb
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Internal medicine : a doctor's stories
- Into Africa : the epic adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
- Into the deep : the life of naturalist and explorer William Beebe
- Isaac Newton and physics for kids : his life and ideas with 21 activities
- Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
- Island practice : cobblestone rash, Underground Tom, and other adventures of a Nantucket doctor
- It happened in Wisconsin
- It was me all along : a memoir
- It's a long story : my life
- It's only a game
- J is for jazz
- J. D. Salinger : a life
- J.K. Rowling : creator of Harry Potter
- J.K. Rowling : the wizard behind Harry Potter
- Jackie
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie's girl : my life with the Kennedy family
- Jacob Lawrence : a painter's story
- Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet
- James Herriot's cat stories
- James Madison : a life reconsidered
- Jane's fame : how Jane Austen conquered the world
- Jazz on a Saturday night
- Jean Davidson's Harley-Davidson family album : 100 years of the world's greatest motorcycle in rare photos
- Jeannie out of the bottle
- Jerry Apps, a farm story
- Jerry Lee Lewis : his own story
- Jim Henson : the guy who played with puppets
- Jiro dreams of sushi
- Joan of Arc
- Joe Montana, the comeback kid
- Joe's law : America's toughest sheriff takes on illegal immigration, drugs, and everything else that threatens America
- John Adams
- John Deere
- John Glenn : a memoir
- John Lennon : all I want is the truth : a photographic biography
- John Muir : America's first environmentalist
- John Muir : nature's visionary
- John Muir and his legacy : the American conservation movement
- John Wayne, my father
- Judy Garland : the other side of the rainbow
- Julie & Julia
- Juliette Kinzie : frontier storyteller
- Justin Bieber : never say never
- Kay Thompson : from Funny face to Eloise
- Keeping the feast : one couple's story of love, food, and healing in Italy
- Keeping watch : 30 sheep, 24 rabbits, 2 llamas, 1 alpaca, and a shepherdess with a day job
- Kenny Salwey's tales of a river rat : adventures along the wild Mississippi
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Killer spy : the inside story of the FBI's pursuit and capture of Aldrich Ames, America's deadliest spy
- Kings & queens of England & Scotland
- Kitchen table entrepreneurs : how eleven women escaped poverty and became their own bosses
- La Salle : explorer of the North American frontier
- Lab girl
- Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation
- Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
- Lady blue eyes : my life with Frank
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Lakota woman
- Lance 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
- Last words
- Laura Ingalls Wilder : a tribute to the young at heart
- Law of the jungle : the hunt for Colombian guerrillas, American hostages, and buried treasure
- Leadership