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- "An Honorable profession" : a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy
- "Caballo azul de mi locura" : Lorca y el mundo gay
- "The dignity of every human being" : New Brunswick artists and Canadian culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
- (Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph
- 100 sculptors of tomorrow
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 designers you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 women artists you should know
- A Kiowa's odyssey : a sketchbook from Fort Marion
- A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A brief history of geology
- A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A library for Juana : the world of Sor Juana Inés
- A life of her own : the transformation of a countrywoman in twentieth-century France
- A life on hold : living with schizophrenia
- A literary occupation : responses of German writers in service in occupied Europe
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A map to the door of no return : notes to belonging
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
- A pedagogy of faith : the theological vision of Paulo Freire
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A poisoned past : the life and times of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century accused poisoner
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A rebel in Gaza : behind the lines of the Arab Spring : one woman's story
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A song for Cambodia
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A well-ordered thing : Dmitrii Mendeleev and the shadow of the periodic table
- A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Aaron Klug : a long way from Durban : a biography
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller : the woman in the family
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Académie Royale : a history in portraits
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- According to their lights : stories of Irishmen in the British Army, Easter 1916
- Activist : portraits of courage
- Ada Lovelace : the making of a computer scientist
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Adio kerida : Goodbye dear love
- Adolf Hitler
- African American historic burial grounds and gravesites of New England
- African American women chemists in the modern era
- After the war : women in physics in the United States
- Agnes de Mille : telling stories in Broadway dance
- Ai Weiwei : The fake case
- Albert A. Peña Jr. : Dean of Chicano politics
- Albert Luthuli
- Albert Pujols : baseball superstar
- Alexander Wilson, enlightened naturalist
- Alexandra Kollontai : a biography
- Alfred Bester
- Alfred Wegener : science, exploration, and the theory of continental drift
- Ali : a life
- Alia's mission : saving the books of Iraq : inspired by a true story
- Alice Paul : claiming power
- Alison and Peter Smithson
- All aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- All the colors we will see : reflections on barriers, brokenness, and finding our way
- Amalasuintha : the transformation of queenship in the post-Roman world
- Ambition, pragmatism, and party : a political biography of Gerald R. Ford
- Amedeo d'Aosta, Re di Spagna
- Amelia to Zora : twenty-six women who changed the world
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Indian stories
- American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- Americans who tell the truth
- Amitabh Bachchan
- An American genius : Frank Lloyd Wright
- An appeal to the ladies of Hyderabad : scandal in the Raj
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An uncommon curiosity : at home & in nature with Bernd Heinrich
- And the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography
- Andrey Tarkovsky : life and work : film by film, stills, polaroids & writings
- Anna Halprin : dance, process, form
- Anna Komnene : the life and work of a medieval historian
- Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley : African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
- Anna May Wong : performing the modern
- Anonymous was a woman
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek : master of the minuscule
- Antosha & Levitasha : the shared lives and art of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan
- Apple, tree : writers on their parents
- Archbishop Pole
- Are you an echo? : the lost poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
- Arendt and America
- Arminius Vambéry and the British Empire : between East and West
- Art21 : art in the twenty-first century, Season seven
- Arthur Ashe : tennis and justice in the civil rights era
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- Aspects of Roman history, 31 BC-AD 117
- Assassin of youth : a kaleidoscopic history of Harry J. Anslinger's war on drugs
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- At ease : stories I tell to friends
- 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
- Audrey Hepburn
- Audubon's elephant : America's greatest naturalist and the making of The birds of America
- Augustus : the biography
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Avenging the people : Andrew Jackson, the rule of law, and the American nation
- Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barbara Hepworth : the sculptor in the studio
- Barefoot to Avalon : a brother's story
- Bartolomeo Cristofori and the invention of the piano
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be the change : a grandfather Gandhi story
- Beckoned by the sea : women at work on the Cascadia coast / Sylvia Taylor; foreword by Renée Sarojini Saklikar
- Becoming
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Julia de Burgos : the making of a Puerto Rican icon
- Becoming critical : the emergence of social justice scholars
- Before she was Harriet
- Behind the Burly Q : the story of burlesque in America
- Behind the scenes at the Ballets Russes : stories from a golden age
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belisario : sketches of character : a historical biography of a Jamaican artist
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson : taking the stage as the first black and white jazz band in history
- Berlin for Jews : a twenty-first-century companion
- Bernard A. Schriever : challenging the unknown
- Bernie
- Bess of Hardwick : new perspectives
- Bessie Pease Gutmann : her life and works
- Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women
- Beyond the back of the bus : Miss Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bing xue mei lin : shi ji cai nü Su Xuelin
- Biography of a yogi : Paramahansa Yogananda and the origins of modern yoga
- Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Indian
- Black bride of Christ : Chicaba, an African nun in eighteenth-century Spain
- Black dog of fate : a memoir
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black like me
- Black. Queer. Southern. Women. : an oral history
- Blanche of Castile : Queen of France
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Bloody engagements : John R. Kelso's Civil War
- Bones around my neck : the life and exile of a prince provocateur
- Bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith
- Born modern : the life and work of Alvin Lustig
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Bourbon and bullets : true stories of whiskey, war, and military service
- Bowen theory's secrets : revealing the hidden life of families
- Bravo! : poems about amazing Hispanics
- Bread : a memoir of hunger
- Bricktop's Paris : African American women in Paris between the two World Wars
- Bright, infinite future : a generational memoir on the progressive rise
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Buck : a memoir
- Buck Whaley : Ireland's greatest adventurer
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Buffalo Bird Girl : a Hidatsa story
- Building the Golden Gate Bridge : a workers' oral history
- Butch heroes
- Bụ̣i đời : life like dust
- C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity : a biography
- Caligula : the abuse of power
- Call me American : a memoir
- Camp Pendleton : the historic Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores and the U.S. Marine Corps in Southern California : a shared history
- Capital dames : the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868
- Caracalla : a military biography
- Caro
- Carroll Cloar : in his studio
- Carter
- Catching the moon : the story of a young girl's baseball dream
- Catullus' bedspread : the life of Rome's most erotic poet
- Cecily Neville : mother of Richard III
- Celia Cruz, queen of salsa
- Charlemagne
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chen Hengzhe : a life between orthodoxies
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chief engineer : Washington Roebling : the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
- Citizen Akoy : basketball and the making of a South Sudanese American
- Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Claggett : Newport's illustrious clockmakers
- Claiming home, shaping community : testimonios de los valles
- Claudio Abbado : the silence that follows the music
- Claudius
- Cnut : the North Sea King
- Cnut the Great
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Collected works
- Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum
- Collision course : the Olympic tragedy of Mary Decker and Zola Budd
- Commanding generals and chiefs of staff, 1775-2013 : portraits & biographical sketches of the United States Army's senior officer
- Community and solitude : new essays on Johnson's circle
- Composing a life
- Confessions
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Connecting histories : Francophone Caribbean writers interrogating their past
- Constantius II : usurpers, eunuchs and the antichrist
- Contrary to nature : being an illustrated commentary on some persons and events of historical importance in the development of knowledge concerning ... cancer
- Contrasts that complement : Eileen Monaghan Whitaker & Frederic Whitaker
- Cool melons--turn to frogs! : the life and poems of Issa
- Coretta Scott
- Coyote and the mean mountain sheep
- Crash course : from the good war to the forever war
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Daisy Bates : first lady of Little Rock
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Dakini power : twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
- Dalton Trumbo : blacklisted Hollywood radical
- Dancing genius : the stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky
- Dancing in blackness : a memoir
- Dancing in the family : an unconventional memoir of three women
- Dancing to freedom : the true story of Mao's last dancer
- Dangerous friendship : Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy brothers
- Dante and the early astronomer : science, adventure, and a Victorian woman who opened the heavens
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Daughter of Venice : Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and woman of the Renaissance
- Daughters of the trade : Atlantic slavers and interracial marriage on the Gold Coast
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- Days of democracy
- Dear Mandela
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Debussy raconté aux enfants
- Dedicated to god : an oral history of cloistered nuns
- Deej
- Deep South dispatch : memoir of a civil rights journalist
- Defending the City of God : a medieval queen, the first Crusades, and the quest for peace in Jerusalem
- Design and science : the life and work of Will Burtin
- Designing Gotham : West Point engineers and the rise of modern New York, 1817-1898
- Detour ahead : an afternoon with Herb Ellis
- Diary and autobiographical writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
- Diary of a citizen scientist : chasing tiger beetles and other new ways of engaging the world
- Diasporic Blackness : the life and times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
- Dickinson in her own time : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates
- Die, nigger, die!
- Diego Rivera : an artist for the people
- Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
- Displacement
- Dolores
- Donald Trump : the rhetoric
- Double threat : Canadian Jews, the military, and World War II
- Doug Knockwood, Mi'kmaw elder : stories, memories, reflections
- Draw what you see : the life and art of Benny Andrews
- Drawing the line : the early work of Agnes Martin
- Drawn from memory
- Drawn to purpose : American women illustrators and cartoonists
- Drummer boy of John John
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- Dying every day : Seneca at the court of Nero
- Early Inuit studies : themes and transitions, 1850s-1980s
- Edison
- Edward II : the terrors of kingship
- Edward Lear's birds
- Egon Schiele : almost a lifetime
- Egon Schiele : the complete paintings, 1909-1918
- Ehret : flower painter extraordinary
- Eight films by Jean Rouch
- Einstein's Italian mathematicians : Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the birth of general relativity
- El zorro rojo : la vida de Santiago Carrillo
- Eleanor Marx : a life
- Eli Reed : a long walk home
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf : a self-portrait
- Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life
- Ella : Queen of Jazz
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Emblem of faith untouched : a short life of Thomas Cranmer
- Emil Nolde
- Emma Hamilton : seduction & celebrity
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Emperor Haile Selassie
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enjoying Canadian painting
- Epic lives and monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050
- Escape to Miami : an oral history of the Cuban rafter crisis
- Estée : a success story
- Estée Lauder : beyond the magic : an unauthorized biography
- Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake
- Every act of life : the illustrated script for the documentary about Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally
- Everybody can help somebody
- Exemplary women of early China : the Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Facing freedom : an African American community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow
- Facing the spears of change : the life and legacy of John Papa ʻIʻi
- Fagen : an African American renegade in the Philippine-American War
- Familiar stranger : a life between two islands
- Faustina I and II : imperial women of the golden age
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
- Feast of excess : a cultural history of the New Sensibility
- Feelings are facts : the life of Yvonne Rainer
- Feminist ethnography : thinking through methodologies, challenges, and possibilities
- Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and his legacy
- Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir
- First martyr of liberty : Crispus Attucks in American memory
- Flat Rock of the old time : letters from the mountains to the Lowcountry, 1837-1939
- Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- Fly until you die : an oral history of Hmong pilots in the Vietnam War
- Folk art and aging : life-story objects and their makers
- Food, feminisms, rhetorics
- For the birds : American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice
- For the love of soccer!
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forces in motion : Anthony Braxton and the meta-reality of creative music
- Founders of American industrial design
- Founders' son : a life of Abraham Lincoln
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Frank Lloyd Wright's warehouse in Richland Center, Wisconsin
- Frank N. Meyer, plant hunter in Asia
- Frantz Fanon, my brother : doctor, playwright, revolutionary
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick Gibberd
- Frederick Novy and the development of bacteriology in medicine
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Freedom in white and black : a lost story of the illegal slave trade and its global legacy
- Frida Kahlo : an illustrated life
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From New York to Nebo : the artistic journey of Eugene Thomason
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- G. Sviridov
- GI brides : the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love
- Game, set, match, champion Arthur Ashe
- Genealogies of environmentalism : the lost works of Clarence Glacken
- Generation of fellows : grants to individuals from the National Endowment for the Arts
- George Bernard Shaw : man of the century. A lecture delivered under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, November 19, 1956
- George Frideric Handel : a life with friends
- George Tice : seeing beyond the moment
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver : a life
- George Washington Carver : an innovative life
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gerard P. Kuiper and the rise of modern planetary science
- Gerhard Richter painting
- Germany and Central Europe
- Get things moving! : FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Office for Emergency Management, 1941-1943
- Getting off : Lee Breuer on performance
- Giant's Causeway : Frederick Douglass's Irish odyssey and the making of an American visionary
- Gilliamesque : a pre-posthumous memoir : TG's bio(degradable) autography : a singular person's first first person singular palin-dromic biograph : my me, me, me memoir
- Glimpses of an Irish felon's prison life
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Godfrey of Bouillon : Duke of Lower Lotharingia, ruler of Latin Jerusalem, c. 1060-1100
- Goodbye to all that : writers on loving and leaving New York
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Grandad Mandela
- Grandfather Gandhi
- Graphic icons : visionaries who shaped modern graphic design
- Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people
- Great Plains politics
- Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus
- Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- Growing up Pedro
- Growing up in a shrinking world : how politics, culture and the nuclear age defined the biography of Ali A. Mazrui
- Guantánamo diary
- HAP, Henry H. Arnold, military aviator
- Haben : the Deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
- Haig's coup : how Richard Nixon's closest aide forced him from office
- Haile Selassie : his rise, his fall
- Half of What I Say Is Meaningless
- Handel raconté aux enfants
- Hannibal : a Hellenistic life
- Harlem's little blackbird
- Harold Stassen : Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the pursuit of nuclear disarmament
- Harriet Tubman
- Harvesting hope : the story of Cesar Chavez
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Havana : a subtropical delirium
- Havera: The Story of an Island
- Headstrong daughters : inspiring stories from the new generation of Australian Muslim women
- Heart matters : a memoir of a female heart surgeon
- Heavier than heaven : a biography of Kurt Cobain
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Heavy ground : William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster
- Hemingway's brain
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry III : the son of Magna Carta
- Henry V : the conscience of a king
- Henry VI
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland : the fireside poet of Maine
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Crowley : the temple of silence : his forgotten works
- Here, there and everywhere : my life recording the music of the Beatles
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hinkemann; : eine Tragödie.
- His Excellency : George Washington
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
- Historic king arthur : authenticating the Celtic hero of post-Roman Britain
- History of my own times
- Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread
- Hitler at war : meetings and conferences, 1939-1945
- Honda : the boy who dreamed of cars
- Hoop dreams
- Horace Kallen confronts America : Jewish identity, science, and secularism
- How empire shaped us
- How schools work : an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- How the sphinx got to the museum
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- How to talk dirty and influence people : an autobiography
- How to think like a Roman emperor : the stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
- Howard Thurman's great hope
- Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the life of a general
- Hunters on the track : William Penny and the search for Franklin
- I : six nonlectures
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Sacagawea
- I am not a White man but the US government is forcing me to be one
- I don't belong anywhere : le cinéma de Chantal Akerman
- I remember Beirut
- I was a dancer : a memoir
- Ida B. Wells : a passion for justice
- Ida B. Wells : social reformer and activist
- Ida O'Keeffe : escaping Georgia's shadow
- If I only had a horn : young Louis Armstrong
- If a bus could talk : the story of Rosa Parks
- Ignaz Moscheles and the changing world of musical Europe
- Imagine
- Imagining Shakespeare's wife : the afterlife of Anne Hathaway
- Imagining religious leadership in the Middle Ages : Richard of Saint-Vanne and the politics of reform
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- In country : remembering the Vietnam War
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's