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- A grand adventure : the lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and their discovery of a Viking settlement in North America
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- A passion for life : my life-time companion, Felicia
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
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- A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- A woman of the century : fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Adam Mickiewicz : the life of a romantic
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- Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology
- Alice Muriel Williamson : the secret history of an American-English author
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Ambrose of Milan : church and court in a Christian capital
- American Revolutionary War leaders : a biographical dictionary
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- Andrew Johnson
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Ashoka in Ancient India
- Assassin of youth : a kaleidoscopic history of Harry J. Anslinger's war on drugs
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Augustine : Conversions to Confessions
- Avedon : something personal
- Bach : a musical biography
- Barbara La Marr : the girl who was too beautiful for Hollywood
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beardsley : a biography
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Becoming
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Belvidere : a plantation memory
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Benjamin Franklin in London : the British life of America's founding father
- Benjamin V. Cohen : architect of the New Deal
- Bertolt Brecht : a literary life
- Beryl Bainbridge : love by all sorts of means : a biography
- Between the world and me
- Bill Belichick vs. the NFL : the case for the NFL's greatest coach
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bitterroot : the life and death of Meriwether Lewis
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black officer in a Buffalo Soldier regiment : the military career of Charles Young
- Blessed experiences : genuinely Southern, proudly Black
- Born to rule : autobiography of a life president
- Brand Luther : 1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation
- Brecht, a biography
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Brodsky among us : a memoir
- Bruno Mars : pop singer and producer
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Building the modern world : Albert Kahn in Detroit
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Captain Cook's final voyage : the untold story from the journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Cecil Brown : the Murrow boy who became broadcasting's crusader for truth
- Chaim Weizmann : a biography by several hands
- Chairman of the Fed : William McChesney Martin, Jr., and the creation of the modern American financial system
- Charlemagne
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles James, portrait of an unreasonable man : fame, fashion, art
- Charlotte Delbo : la vie retrouvée
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chopin : the man and his music
- Cipriano de Rore : new perspectives on his life and music
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Colonial systems of control : criminal justice in Nigeria
- Colouring the rainbow : blak queer and trans perspectives : life stories and essays by First Nations People of Australia
- Cormac McCarthy : a literary companion
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Dante : the story of his life
- Dear Mr. Beckett : the Samuel Beckett file
- Derzhavin : a biography
- Diccionario de actores cinematográficos
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- Disraeli : the novel politician
- Disruptive leadership : Apple and the technology of caring deeply : nine keys to organizational excellence and global impact
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Double cross in Cairo : the true story of the spy who turned the tide of war in the Middle East
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Einstein, profile of the man
- Eisenhower
- Eisenhower : becoming the leader of the free world
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Emily Brontë reappraised : a view from the twenty-first century
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Encounters with British composers
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and his legacy
- Finding Bix : the life and afterlife of a jazz legend
- Firebrand feminism : the radical lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore
- Flaubert
- Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year
- Flavii Philostrati Vitas sophistarum. : Ad quas accedunt Polemonis Laodicensis Declamationes quae exstant duae
- Forged in crisis : the making of five courageous leaders
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Freud in his time and ours
- From New York to Nebo : the artistic journey of Eugene Thomason
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Game changers : the unsung heroines of sports history
- Game of queens : the women who made sixteenth-century Europe
- George Washington's secret spy war : the making of America's first spymaster
- George Washington, nationalist
- Ghetto Brother : warrior to peacemaker
- Glenn Miller declassified
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Groucho Marx : the comedy of existence
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- Gustav Mahler
- Gustave Caillebotte : painting the Paris of naturalism, 1872-1887
- Günter Grass
- Handel in London : a genius and his craft
- Hannibal
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Haydée Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary : she led by transgression
- Heaven is a beautiful place : a memoir of the South Carolina coast
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry VI
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden in the shadow of the master : the model-wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
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- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Invisible earthquake : a woman's journey through stillbirth
- It starts with trouble : William Goyen and the life of writing
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall
- Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Jasper Johns
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- Jean Cocteau : a life
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- John Le Carré : the biography
- John Sherman Cooper : the global Kentuckian
- John Tyler, the Accidental President
- Jonas Salk : a life
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Julius Rosenwald : repairing the world
- Junctures in women's leadership : business
- Junctures in women's leadership : business
- King of kings : the triumph and tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- King of ragtime : Scott Joplin and his era
- Kirby's way : how Kirby and Caroline Risk built their company on kitchen-table values
- Klandestine : how a Klan lawyer and a checkbook journalist helped James Earl Ray cover up his crime
- Lady Byron & her daughters
- Leonardo : a restless genius
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Libby Larsen : composing an American life
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little House Books
- Life work
- Light come shining : the transformations of Bob Dylan
- Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement
- Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
- Looking for Betty MacDonald : the egg, the plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
- Looking for Betty MacDonald : the egg, the plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
- Looking for The Stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
- Loretta Lynch : first African American woman Attorney General
- Losing Tim : how our health and education systems failed my son with schizophrenia
- Lou Reed : a life
- Loyal to the sky : notes from an activist
- Madam President : the secret presidency of Edith Wilson
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Malcolm X's Michigan worldview : an exemplar for contemporary black studies
- Margaret Thatcher : a life and legacy
- Marie Jaëll : the magic touch, piano music by mind training
- Masters of craft : old jobs in the new urban economy
- Mathew Brady : portraits of a nation
- Max Eastman : a life
- Maybe Esther : a family story
- Me and my house : James Baldwin's last decade in France
- Michel Houellebecq : humanity and its aftermath
- Michelle Obama : a life
- Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the eastern ocean
- Money : the life and fast times of Floyd Mayweather
- Montaigne : a life
- Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense
- Musicians & composers of the 20th century
- My adventures with your money : George Graham Rice and the golden age of the con artist
- Nabokov in America : on the road to Lolita
- Neruda : the poet's calling
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Never in My Wildest Dreams : a Black Woman's Life in Journalism
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nixon's gamble : how a president's own secret government destroyed his administration
- No quarter : the three lives of Jimmy Page
- Octavia E. Butler
- Octavia E. Butler
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- One woman in a hundred : Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra
- Original gangstas : the untold story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the birth of West Coast rap
- PTL : the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's evangelical empire
- Palmetto Profiles : the South Carolina encyclopedia guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fame
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- Parental discretion is advised : the rise of N.W.A and the dawn of gangsta rap
- Patrick N. Lynch, 1817-1882 : third Catholic bishop of Charleston
- Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern
- Percy Bysshe Shelley : poet and revolutionary
- Phil Spector : sound of the Sixties
- Phoning home : essays
- Picasso and the painting that shocked the world
- Pietro Antonio Locatelli : a modern artist in the Baroque era
- Pirate women : the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the Seven Seas
- Playfair : the true story of the British secret agent who changed how we see the world
- Polidoro da Caravaggio
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prescription for survival : a doctor's journey to end nuclear madness
- President Carter : the White House years
- President McKinley : architect of the American century
- Project Gus
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise
- Quick & painless business writing : an essential guide to clear and powerful communication
- Ramban, his life and teachings
- Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reading the rocks : how Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life
- Reagan : an American journey
- Real love, no drama : the music of Mary J. Blige
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance librarian
- Rejected princesses : tales of history's boldest heroines, hellions, and heretics
- Renaissance woman : the life of Vittoria Colonna
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
- Rising star, setting sun : Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and the presidential transition that changed America
- Roads not taken : an intellectual biography of William C. Bullitt
- Robert K. Greenleaf : a life of servant leadership
- Russell Kirk : American conservative
- Russell Kirk, American conservative
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Sam Shepard : a life
- Scratch : writers, money, and the art of making a living
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Seeking the cave : a pilgrimage to Cold Mountain
- Shooting war : 18 profiles of conflict photographers
- Simone de Beauvoir : a life, a love story
- Since when : a memoir in pieces
- Slick water : fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry
- Slowhand : the life and music of Eric Clapton
- Song of my life : a memoir
- Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Stalin's singing spy : the life and exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya
- Steel drivin' man : John Henry, the untold story of an American legend
- Stephen Crane : a life of fire
- Stephen King : a literary companion
- Still so excited! : my life as a Pointer Sister
- Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim
- Sweet dreams and flying machines : the life and music of James Taylor
- The Banks letters; : a calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.
- The Biography of Ulysses S Grant
- The Centralia Tragedy of 1919 : Elmer Smith and the Wobblies
- The Gatsby affair : Scott, Zelda, and the betrayal that shaped an American classic
- The Happiness Philosophers : The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians
- The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution
- The Immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero
- The Indomitable spirit of Edmonia Lewis : a narrative biography
- The Jane effect : celebrating Jane Goodall
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Kings of Big Spring : God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream
- The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence
- The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- The Orange Trees of Marrakesh : Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man
- The Oxford companion to the Brontës
- The President's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The President's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The Rabbi's atheist daughter : Ernestine Rose, international feminist pioneer
- The Treblinka death camp : history, biographies, remembrance
- The accidental slaveowner : revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family
- The archaeology of Bruce Trigger : theoretical empiricism
- The art and inventions of Max Fleischer : American animation pioneer
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The butcher's trail : how the search for Balkan war criminals became the world's most successful manhunt
- The case of Alan Turing : the extraordinary and tragic story of the legendary codebreaker
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The collector : the story of Sergei Shchukin and his lost masterpieces
- The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art
- The complete Muhammad Ali
- The entrepreneur who built modern Japan : Shibusawa Eiichi
- The face of Britain : a history of the nation through its portraits
- The final season : the perseverance of Pat Summitt
- The first Nazi : Erich Ludendorff, the man who made Hitler possible
- The first king of Hollywood : the life of Douglas Fairbanks
- The first modern Japanese : the life of Ishikawa Takuboku
- The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- The gambler : how penniless dropout Kirk Kerkorian became the greatest deal maker in capitalist history
- The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer-- The unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
- The generals : Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the winning of World War II
- The good mothers : the true story of the women who took on the world's most powerful mafia
- The hidden lives of Tudor women : a social history
- The horse lover : a cowboy's quest to save the wild mustangs
- The inception of modern professional education : C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906
- The know-it-alls : the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball
- The lady from the black lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick
- The last 100 days : FDR at war and at peace
- The last Republicans : inside the extraordinary relationship between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
- The last days of Stalin
- The life and masterworks of Salvador Dalí
- The life and times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948
- The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871
- The life of Saul Bellow : love and strife, 1965-2005
- The longest shot : Lil E. Tee and the Kentucky Derby
- The lost detective : becoming Dashiell Hammett
- The making of Donald Trump
- The man who knew : the life and times of Alan Greenspan
- The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
- The music of the Stanley Brothers
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- The orbital perspective : lessons in seeing the big picture from a journey of seventy-one million miles
- The original cowgirl : the wild adventures of Lucille Mulhall
- The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel : a story of marriage and money in the early republic
- The simple faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt : religion's role in the FDR presidency
- The songs we know best : John Ashbery's early life
- The spirit of self-help : the life of Samuel Smiles
- The three escapes of Hannah Arendt : a tyranny of truth
- The transferred life of George Eliot : the biography of a novelist
- The trials of a scold : the incredible true story of writer Anne Royall
- The trials of the King of Hampshire : madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England
- The unexpected president : the life and times of Chester A. Arthur
- The whole harmonium : the life of Wallace Stevens
- The wise king : a Christian prince, Muslim Spain, and the birth of the Renaissance
- The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
- The women who flew for Hitler : a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry
- The working class Republican : Ronald Reagan and the return of blue-collar conservatism
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books
- The year of fear : Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation
- Theodora : actress, empress, saint
- Theodore Roosevelt : a literary life
- Theodore the great : conservative crusader
- Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking
- This land is your land : the story of field biology in America
- This strange wilderness : the life and art of John James Audubon
- Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life
- Thomas Hardy : half a Londoner
- Thomas Nast : the father of modern political cartoons
- Thoreau and the language of trees
- Ties that bound : founding first ladies and slaves
- Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life
- Trans/portraits : voices from transgender communities
- Traveling soul : the life of Curtis Mayfield
- Traveling soul : the life of Curtis Mayfield
- Trouble boys : the true story of the Replacements
- Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
- Understanding Don DeLillo
- Universal man : the lives of John Maynard Keynes
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Veteran narratives and the collective memory of the Vietnam War
- Vie de Saint Martin
- Virginia Woolf : a portrait
- Voices of the Arab Spring : personal stories from the Arab revolutions
- Waterman : the life and times of Duke Kahanamoku
- What the suffragists did next : how the fight for women's rights went on
- When the center held : Gerald Ford and the rescue of the American presidency
- When the world stopped to listen : Van Cliburn's Cold War triumph, and its aftermath
- Wicked women of Missouri
- Wilkie Collins
- William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker
- Winter is coming : why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped
- Without precedent : the life of Susie Marshall Sharp
- Women heroes of World War I : 16 remarkable resisters, soldiers, spies, and medics
- Women of steel and stone : 22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers
- Women, peace and welfare : a suppressed history of social reform, 1880-1920
- Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Young Elizabeth : The Making of the Queen
- Young Orson : the years of luck and genius on the path to Citizen Kane
- Éric Rohmer : a biography
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