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- "Bóng"
- "Come, Blackrobe" : De Smet and the Indian tragedy
- "I'd love to kiss you-- " : conversations with Bette Davis
- "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- "Schoolmarms"
- "Son" : a psychopath and his victims
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "Upside-down" Pangborn, King of the Barnstormers
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky : the life of Jimi Hendrix
- 10 women who changed science, and the world
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Danish photographer of Idaho Indians : Benedicte Wrensted
- A Romanov fantasy : life at the court of Anna Anderson
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A brave face : two cultures, two families, and the Iraqi girl who bound them together
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A certain Democrat : Senator Henry M. Jackson; a political biography
- A chance to die : the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A crime in the family
- A difficult par : Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the making of modern golf
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fighting chance
- A first rate tragedy : Robert Falcon Scott and the race to the South Pole
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre and her dramatic captivity and daring escape from Nazi Germany
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A history : 1888-1987, the first one hundred years of Murphey Favre Incorporated
- A journey : my political life
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the SS United States
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A man for others : Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the words of those who knew him
- A midwife's tale
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A municipal mother : Portland's Lola Greene Baldwin, America's first policewoman
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A past in hiding : memory and survival in Nazi Germany
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A prison diary
- A rose for Mrs. Miniver : the life of Greer Garson
- A royal duty
- A saint on death row : how a forgotten child became a man and changed a world
- A schoolteacher in old Alaska : the story of Hannah Breece
- A secret life : the sex, lies and scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A sniper in the Tower : the Charles Whitman murders
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby's great betrayal
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A talent for trouble : the life of Hollywood's most acclaimed director, William Wyler
- A thorn in my pocket : Temple Grandin's mother tells the family story
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A to Z great modern artists
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A window over the sink : a mainly affectionate memoir
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A. G. Rizzoli : architect of magnificent visions
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- A.k.a. Cassius Clay
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Abigail Adams
- About Alice
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Accidental presidents : : eight men who changed America
- Ace Powell, Western realist
- Ace of aces : the life of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Admiral Bill Halsey : a naval life
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS
- Adventures with Ed : a portrait of Abbey
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Afternoons with Mr. Hogan : a boy, a golf legend, and the lessons of a lifetime
- Against all odds : my story
- Against medical advice : : a true story
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- Agnes Martin : her life and art
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton, American
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander the Great : the hunt for a new past
- Alexandra : the last tsarina
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Hitchcock : the man who knew too much
- Alfred Jacob Miller : artist on the Oregon Trail
- Ali : a life
- Ali : the man, the moves, the mouth
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington power broker
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice Walker : a life
- Alice in Chains : the untold story
- Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All or nothing at all : a life of Frank Sinatra
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All shook up! : the life and death of Elvis Presley
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the things we never knew
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Allan Pinkerton : the first private eye
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost a hero : the voyages of John Meares, R.N., to China, Hawaii, and the Northwest Coast
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia Earhart : beyond the grave
- Amelia Earhart : the sky's no limit
- Amelia Earhart : the thrill of it
- Amelia Earhart : the turbulent life of an American icon
- America's bishop : the life and times of Fulton J. Sheen
- America's other Audubon
- America's queen : the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Cicero : Mario Cuomo and the defense of American Liberalism
- American Isis : the life and art of Sylvia Plath
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- American Spartan : the promise, the mission, and the betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American fuehrer : George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American icon : Alan Mulally and the fight to save Ford Motor Company
- American lion : : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American queen : the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American saint : the life of Elizabeth Seton
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amy, my daughter
- An American bride in Kabul : a memoir
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An arrow in the earth : General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- And furthermore
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And the good news is-- : lessons and advice from the bright side
- Andre the Giant : life and legend
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson, his life and times
- Andrus : Idaho's greatest governor
- Andy Little : Idaho sheep king
- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol and the can that sold the world
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Anne Sexton : a biography
- Another side of Bob Dylan : a personal history on the road and off the tracks
- Another sort of pioneer, Mary Shipman Penrose
- Ansel Adams : a documentary film
- Ansel Adams : divine performance
- Anthony Bourdain : the last interview and other conversations
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- Antoine Plante : mountain man, rancher, miner, guide, hostler, and ferryman
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arctic son : fulfilling the dream
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- As big as the West : the pioneer life of Granville Stuart
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Audrey Hepburn
- August Valentine Kautz, USA : biography of a Civil War general
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Augustine Laure, S. J., missionary to the Yakimas
- Augustus
- Augustus : first emperor of Rome
- Augustus : the life of Rome's first emperor
- Ava : a life in movies
- Ava Gardner : the secret conversations
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
- Bach
- Bach : music in the castle of heaven
- Backwards in high heels : Faith Whittlesey, Reagan's Madam Ambassador in Switzerland and the West Wing
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ball four : the final pitch
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barbara Stanwyck : the miracle woman
- Battle ready
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box
- Beautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Becoming Beyonce : the untold story
- Becoming Charlemagne : Europe, Baghdad, and the empires of A.D. 800
- Becoming Freud : the making of a psychoanalyst
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of a wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Madison : the extraordinary origins of the least likely founding father
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming a mountain : Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime
- Beethoven : the universal composer
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Martha : : the inside story of Martha Stewart and her amazing life
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
- Benjamin Bonneville : soldier of the American frontier
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Beware of Mr. Baker
- Beyond the hundredth meridian : John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bill W. : a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson
- Billion dollar painter : the triumph and tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, painter of light
- Billy Joel : the definitive biography
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Bing : the authorized biography
- Bing Crosby : a pocketful of dreams
- Bing Crosby : crooner of the century
- Bing Crosby : day by day
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Black Cat 2-1 : the true story of a Vietnam helicopter pilot and his crew
- Black Elk : holy man of the Oglala
- Black Harris
- Black fire : the true story of the original Tom Sawyer--and of the mysterious fires that baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blackbird : the life and times of Paul McCartney
- Blaze of light : the inspiring true story of Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor recipient
- Blessed, blessed. . . blessed : the untold story of our family's fight to love hard, stay strong, and keep the faith when life can't be fixed
- Blind hope : an unwanted dog & the woman she rescued
- Blood aces : the wild ride of Benny Binion, the Texas gangster who created Vegas poker
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood in the soil : a true tale of racism, sex, and murder in the South
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood, bones, & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Blow by Blow : the story of Isabella Blow
- Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
- Bob Dylan in America
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby and Jackie : a love story
- Bogart : a life in Hollywood
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Boris Berezovskiĭ i londonskiĭ shtab
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born criminal : Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical suffragist
- Born on a mountaintop : on the road with Davy Crockett and the ghosts of the wild frontier
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Both of us : my life with Farrah
- Bound for Idaho : the 1864 trail journal of Julius Merrill
- Bound like grass : a memoir from the western high plains
- Bowie : a biography
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brando's smile : his life, thought, and work
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking the code : a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
- Bretz's flood : the remarkable story of a rebel geologist and the world's greatest flood
- Brian Jones : the making of the Rolling Stones
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Brother Van : Montana pioner circuit rider
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Bully! : the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Butch Cassidy : beyond the grave
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Butterfly in the typewriter : the tragic life of John Kennedy Toole and the remarkable story of A confederacy of dunces
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- By honor and right : how one man boldly defined the destiny of a nation
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Byron : life and legend
- C. Ben Ross and the New deal in Idaho,
- C. S. Lewis : a life
- C. S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- Cabal of death : Harry Orchard and his associates in murder in the western mining wars
- Call me Burroughs : a life
- Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Capote : a biography
- Captain Cook : master of the seas
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captain Gray in the Pacific Northwest
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley
- Carl F. Gould : a life in architecture and the arts
- Carl Maxey : a fighting life
- Carole Lombard : the Hoosier tornado
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carriers in combat : the air war at sea
- Carsick : John Waters hitchhikes across America
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a biography
- Casey Stengel : a splendid baseball life
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Casino : love and honor in Las Vegas
- Catfish and Mandala : a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam
- Cathedral of the wild : an African journey home
- Catherine the Great : a short history
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Catullus' bedspread : the life of Rome's most erotic poet
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Cavalier in buckskin : George Armstrong Custer and the western military frontier
- Chanel bonfire
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Chaplin : a life
- Charlatan : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Dickens : a life
- Charles John Seghers, priest and bishop in the Pacific Northwest, 1839-1886 : a biography
- Charles M. Russell : the life and legend of America's cowboy artist