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- "Chaotic freedom" in Civil War Louisiana : the origins of an iconic image
- 50 architects you should know
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A companion to Cosimo I de' Medici
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- A girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- A library for Juana : the world of Sor Juana Inés
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A past that won't rest : images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- 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 visible man : a memoir
- A voice named Aretha
- A year without months
- Abacus of loss : a memoir in verse
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Ada Lovelace : the making of a computer scientist
- Admirals under fire : the US Navy and the Vietnam War
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- After the eclipse
- Agnes forever
- Ain't but a few of us : black music writers tell their story
- Alan Magee : art is not a solace
- Alden Mason : paintings
- Alexander Williamson : a victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan
- Ali : a life
- Alia's mission : saving the books of Iraq : inspired by a true story
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All that we say is ours : Guujaaw and the reawakening of the Haida Nation
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always crashing in the same car : on art, crisis & Los Angeles, California
- Always, Jackie : the true story of a boy and his baseball hero
- Amazonian cosmopolitans : navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting indigenous policies, and other modern projects
- Ambition, pragmatism, and party : a political biography of Gerald R. Ford
- America made me a Black man : a memoir
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Indian stories
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American refuge : true stories of the refugee experience
- Amkoullel, the Fula boy
- An angel in Sodom : Henry Gerber and the birth of the gay rights movement
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- Angel on the yardarm : the beginnings of fleet radar defense and the kamikaze threat
- Animal bodies : on death, desire, and other difficulties
- Anni & Josef Albers : equal and unequal
- Anni and Josef Albers
- Antiman : a hybrid memoir
- Are you an echo? : the lost poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
- Aretha Franklin
- Atlantis : an autoanthropology
- Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire
- Audrey Hepburn
- Audubon at sea : the coastal and transatlantic adventures of John James Audubon
- Autoportrait
- Bach
- Back to Japan : the life and art of master kimono painter Kunihiko Moriguchi
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barbed-wire blues : a blinded musician's memoir of waretime captivity, 1940-1943
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be amazing : a history of pride
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be the change : a grandfather Gandhi story
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Becoming
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Before she was Harriet
- Behind barres : the mystique of masterly teaching
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Bending the arc : my journey from prison to politics
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berg
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : colonial traveller, Enlightenment reformer, celebrity writer
- Beyond Seven years in Tibet
- Beyond the betrayal : the memoir of a World War II Japanese American draft resister of conscience
- Biographical directory of the United States Congress
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Panther in exile : the Pete O'Neal story
- Blackballed : the Black vote and US democracy
- 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
- Bohemians west : free love, family, and radicals in twentieth-century America
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Bolívar's afterlife in the Americas : biography, ideology, and the public sphere
- Book of mutter
- Born ready : the true story of a boy named Penelope
- Boy friends
- Brave hearted : the women of the American West 1836-1880
- Bread for words : a Frederick Douglass story
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- British studio ceramics in the 20th century
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Buddha
- Buddha
- Burning man : the trials of D.H. Lawrence
- Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- Capturing Aguinaldo : the daring raid to seize the Philippine president at the dawn of the American century
- Catherine of Aragon : infanta of Spain, queen of England
- Catherine the Great and the culture of celebrity in the eighteenth century
- Cecily Neville : mother of Richard III
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Gainsbourg : transnational and transmedia stardom
- Chase, chance, and creativity : the lucky art of novelty
- Chasing portraits : a great-granddaughter's quest for her lost art legacy
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chiang Kai-shek's politics of shame : leadership, legacy, and national identity in China
- Chief engineer : Washington Roebling : the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
- China's leaders : from Mao to now
- Chris Hani
- Christine de Pizan : life, work, legacy
- Citizen Cash : the political life and times of Johnny Cash
- City of refugees : the story of three newcomers who breathed life into a dying American town
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claiming home, shaping community : testimonios de los valles
- Cleopatra
- Cnut : the North Sea King
- Colin Kaepernick
- Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum
- Collision course : the Olympic tragedy of Mary Decker and Zola Budd
- Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr : the revolutionary war lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Coming to our senses : a boy who learned to see, a girl who learned to hear, and how we all discover the world
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Conflict, war & revolution : my life
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Congressional pictorial directory
- Conquering the Pacific : an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Counting the stars
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Custer at Gettysburg : a new look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the battle's climactic cavalry charges
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Dakota modern : the art of Oscar Howe
- Dance we do : a poet explores Black dance
- Dancing for Diaghilev : the memoirs of Lydia Sokolova
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dark was the night
- David I : king of Scotts, 1124-1153
- Dear William : a father's memoir of addiction, recovery, love, and loss
- Death blossoms : reflections from a prisoner of conscience
- Decimus Burton : gentleman architect
- Decoding Afro-Cuban jazz : the music of Chucho Valdés and Irakere
- Diary of a foreigner in Paris
- Die weisse Massai
- Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Divine rascal : on the trail of LSD's cosmic courier, Michael Hollingshead
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dorothy Kunhardt : collected works
- Double dunk : the story of Earl "The Goat" Manigault
- Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt : nineteenth-century physician and woman's rights advocate
- Draw what you see : the life and art of Benny Andrews
- Drug Enforcement Administration : a tradition of excellence, 1973-2008
- Dusti Bongé : art and life : Biloxi, New Orleans, New York
- Dying to live : stories from refugees on the road to freedom
- Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. : Popular Black History in Postwar America
- Edison
- Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the fight for civil rights in Alabama, 1940-1975
- Education for extinction : American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Eloquence of the sardine : extraordinary encounters beneath the sea
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empathy economics : Janet Yellen's remarkable rise to power and her drive to spread prosperity to all
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Erasmus of Rotterdam : the spirit of a scholar
- Esteban : the African slave who explored America
- Eunice Hunton Carter : a lifelong fight for social justice
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
- Faces of contemporary Russia : advanced Russian language and culture
- Fan in chief : Richard Nixon and American sports, 1969-1974
- Fannie Lou Hamer : America's freedom fighting woman
- Far from respectable : Dave Hickey and his art
- Fauja Singh keeps going : the true story of the oldest person to ever run a marathon
- Feed your mind : a story of August Wilson
- Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and his legacy
- Fictions of certitude : science, faith, and the search for meaning, 1840-1920
- Fierce and fearless : Patsy Takemoto Mink, first woman of color in Congress
- Fifty years in the Karen revolution in Burma : the soldier and the teacher
- Fighting words : the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars
- Fire Island : a century in the life of an American paradise
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- Flying paintings : the Zhou brothers : a story of revolution and art
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- For the many : American feminists and the global fight for democratic equality
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Fragments of an infinite memory : my life with the internet
- Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist
- Franz Ferdinand : der eigensinnige Thronfolger
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Fredric Jameson and film theory : Marxism, allegory, and geopolitics in world cinema
- Free Cyntoia : my search for redemption in the American prison system
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo and my left leg
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends for freedom : the Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
- From Jerusalem to Delhi, through Persia
- From the ashes : my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Gandhi
- Gauguin
- Gender and survival in Soviet Russia : a life in the shadow of Stalin's terror
- General Kenney reports : a personal history of the Pacific War
- Gentrifier : a memoir
- George Washington Carver
- Gerard P. Kuiper and the rise of modern planetary science
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Gichigami hearts : stories and histories from Misaabekong
- Girls don't : a woman's war in Vietnam
- Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Gossip men : J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation
- Grandad Mandela
- Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus
- Growing up Pedro
- Gunslingers : Allied fighter boys of WWII
- Guru Nanak : first of the Sikhs
- Gustav Klimt : the complete paintings
- Half in shadow : the life and legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
- Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention
- Hapa girl : a memoir
- Harriet Tubman : a life in American history
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Heart of Atlanta : five Black pastors and the Supreme Court victory for integration
- Heavier than heaven : a biography of Kurt Cobain
- Heinrich Heine : writing the revolution
- Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
- Hello, Molly! : a memoir
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland : the fireside poet of Maine
- Her word is bond : navigating hip hop and relationships in a culture of misogyny
- Heroism and wisdom, Italian style : from Roman imperialists to Sicilian magistrates
- 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
- Hippocrates now : the 'father of medicine' in the Internet age
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- History shock : when history collides with foreign relations
- Hitler's girl : the British aristocracy and the Third Reich on the eve of WWII
- Home in the world : a memoir
- Horace Greeley : print, politics, and the failure of American nationhood
- Hosea plays on
- How the "Red Star" rose : Edgar Snow and early images of Mao Zedong
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- How to raise an antiracist
- Human computer : Mary Jackson, engineer
- I always knew : a memoir
- I am Frida Kahlo
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Sacagawea
- I am a promise
- I came as a shadow : an autobiography
- I can only paint : the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton
- I just wanted to save my family : a memoir
- I take my coffee black : reflections on Tupac, musical theater, faith, and being Black in America
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- I was a French Muslim : memories of an Algerian freedom fighter
- Ice breaker : how Mabel Fairbanks changed figure skating
- Iljuwas Bill Reid : life & work
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- Imperial intimacies : a tale of two islands
- In Jerusalem : three generations of an Israeli family and a Palestinian family
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In sensorium : notes for my people
- In the land of men : a memoir
- In the scene : Jane Campion
- In the service of Krishna : illustrating the lives of eighty-four Vaishnavas from a 1702 manuscript
- In this land of plenty : Mickey Leland and Africa in American politics
- Indian boyhood : the true story of a Sioux upbringing
- Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Inquiry about the monks in Egypt
- Inspiring innovation : examining the operational, policy, and technical contributions made by Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. and his successors
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city
- Ira's Shakespeare dream
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isadora speaks
- Isresilience : what Israelis can teach the world
- It jes' happened : when Bill Traylor started to draw
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackie Robinson
- Jacob Lawrence : lines of influence
- Jacques Demy
- Jacques d'Amboise
- Jacques the Frenchman : memories of the Gulag
- James Baldwin : the FBI file
- James Castle : memory palace
- James Gillray : a revolution in satire
- James Wright : a life in poetry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Austen's inspiration : beloved friend Anne Lefroy
- Jane B.
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jasper Johns : pictures within pictures 1980-2015
- Jesse Owens : athletes who made a difference
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- John Donne : in the shadow of religion
- John James Audubon : the nature of the American woodsman
- Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison : the making of a masterpiece
- Jooss : Dokumentation
- Josef Albers : life and work
- Joshua Sofaer : performance - objects - participation
- Josie Mpama/Palmer : get up and get moving
- Judith Kerr
- Julius Nyerere
- Jump at the sun : the true life tale of unstoppable storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
- Jump! : from the life of Michael Jordan
- Justice Leah Ward Sears : seizing serendipity
- Justice for all : the legacy of Thurgood Marshall
- Kenneth N. Walker : airpower's untempered crusader
- King and emperor : a new life of Charlemagne
- King of ragtime : the story of Scott Joplin
- Korean "comfort women" : military brothels, brutality, and the redress movement
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- Kuhn's intellectual path : charting the structure of scientific revolutions
- Kutuzov : a life in war and peace
- Kwame Nkrumah : visions of liberation
- L'événement
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Lame captains and left-handed admirals : amputee officers in Nelson's Navy
- Leaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
- Lenore Tawney : mirror of the universe
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leontyne Price : voice of a century
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Les plages d'Agnès : The beaches of Agnès
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let the people see : the story of Emmett Till
- Letters of Denis Glover
- Letters to Gil : a memoir
- Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano : a memoir of the World War II refugee crisis
- Life of the indigenous mind : Vine Deloria Jr. and the birth of the Red Power movement
- Lift your light a little higher : the story of Stephen Bishop : slave-explorer
- Light the road of freedom
- Like a girl
- Liminal spaces : migration and women of the Guyanese diaspora
- Little dancer aged fourteen : the true story behind Degas's masterpiece
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little journeys to the homes of the great
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi
- Lives of Gainsborough
- Lives of William Blake
- Lives of saints
- Lives of the Caesars
- Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time : containing a narrative of the most interesting events in the career of each president ; thus constituting a graphic history of the United States ; to which is added The centennial jubilee, showing the hundred years' progress of the republic
- Living in two worlds : diaries of a Jewish couple in Germany and in exile
- Living when everything changed : my life in academia
- Localizing learning : the literati enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100-1600
- Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun
- Louder than words : a mother's journey in healing autism
- Louis D. Brandeis : American prophet
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Lula and his politics of cunning : from metalworker to president of Brazil
- Luminous presence : Derek Jarman's life-writing
- Lévi-Strauss : a biography
- Madam C. J. Walker's gospel of giving : black women's philanthropy during Jim Crow
- Madhuri Dixit
- Mae Jemison
- Mafia raj : the rule of bosses in South Asia
- Mahalia Jackson : walking with kings and queens
- Making history : the storytellers who shaped the past
- Making revolution : my life in the Black Panther Party
- Making their voices heard : the inspiring friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Marc Chagall : the artist as peacemaker
- Marie-Antoinette
- Marines at war : stories from Afghanistan and Iraq
- Mario and the hole in the sky : how a chemist saved our planet
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther King : a religious life
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Monath : a Jewish resistance fighter among Nazi soldiers
- Martí's song for freedom : Martí y sus versos por la libertad
- Matters of vital interest : a forty-year friendship with Leonard Cohen
- Max Alioth : Architekt, Zeichner, Wegbereiter = Architect, draughtsman, trailblazer
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines : designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Mayor Harold Washington : champion of race and reform in Chicago
- Michelle Obama : first mom
- Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS effect : platform, presence, and agency
- Michelle's garden : how the First Lady planted seeds of change
- Milestones : the Women's Bureau celebrates 65 years of women's labor history
- Mill town : reckoning with what remains
- Mindy Kaling
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
- Miró
- Molly, by golly! : the legend of Molly Williams, America's first female firefighter
- Mr. Crum's potato predicament
- Mud and stars : travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and other geniuses of the Golden Age
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali : a champion is born
- Multiplied : Edition MAT and the transformable work of art, 1959-1965
- Muppets in Moscow : the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia
- My First Life : Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet
- My boy will die of sorrow : a memoir of immigration from the front lines
- My first thirty years : a memoir
- My life with Down syndrome
- My life with autism
- My name is James Madison Hemings
- My name is Truth : the life of Sojourner Truth
- Nacho's nachos : the story behind the world's favorite snack
- Napoleon : a life told in gardens and shadows
- Napoleon : the decline and fall of an empire : 1811-1821
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself : authoritative text contexts criticsm
- Natural rivals : John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the creation of America's public lands
- Navy medicine in Vietnam : Passage to Freedom to the fall of Saigon
- Ned Christie : the creation of an outlaw and Cherokee hero
- Nelson Mandela
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Never-ending man Hayao Miyazaki
- Nico : songs they never play on the radio
- Ninety miles and a lifetime away : memories of early Cuban exiles
- No steps behind : Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan
- No straight path : becoming women historians
- No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history
- No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson
- Northern Light : my life behind a lens
- Nothing is impossible : America's reconciliation with Vietnam
- Obama : only in America
- Occupy this body : a Buddhist memoir
- Octavia E. Butler
- Odetta : a life in music and protest
- Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters' eyes
- Official congressional directory
- Ordinary girls : a memoir
- Orion on the dunes : a biography of Henry Beston
- Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark
- Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets
- PTL : the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's evangelical empire
- Pablo Neruda : poet of the people
- Pacifist to padre : the World War II memoir of Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn, December 1941-January 1946
- Paper son : the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, immigrant and artist
- Paracelsus : an alchemical life
- Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler
- Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
- Patton's madness : the dark side of a battlefield genius
- Pelé : soccer hero
- Personal politics in the postwar world : Western diplomacy behind the scenes
- Peter Henisch
- Philipovna : daughter of sorrow
- Philippine sanctuary : a Holocaust odyssey
- Philo of Alexandria : an intellectual biography
- Philosophy of science : the key thinkers
- Piano starts here : the young Art Tatum
- Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the crisis of Renaissance Italy
- Pirate queen : a story of Zheng Yi Sao
- Pocahontas
- Pocahontas and the English boys : caught between cultures in early Virginia
- Poet warrior : a memoir
- Portraits unmasked : the stories behind the faces
- Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
- Power in numbers : the rebel women of mathematics
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Preparing for martial law : through the eyes of Col. Ryszard Kuklinski
- Pretty baby : a memoir
- Primo Levi : an identikit
- Prisoner of the infidels : the memoirs of an Ottoman Muslim in seventeenth-century Europe
- Provocations : the work of David Connor
- Queen Victoria : this thorny crown
- Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter : a Biography of Princess Louise
- Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom
- Questions of character : the presidency of Donald J. Trump
- Race and racism in nineteenth-century art : the ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis
- Rahel Varnhagen : the life of a Jewish woman
- Raising Rosie : our story of parenting an intersex child
- Ralph Ellison in context
- Raymond Briggs
- Rebels against the Raj : Western fighters for India's freedom
- Red Bird sings : the story of Zitkala-Š̌̌̌a, Native American author, musician, and activist
- Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth
- Refugee
- Remembering Akbar : inside the Iranian Revolution
- Republican populist : Spiro Agnew and the origins of Donald Trump's America
- Reservation restless
- Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship
- Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx : the fight for a secular world of universal and equal rights
- Rez rules : my indictment of Canada's and America's systemic racism against indigenous people
- Richard Devane SJ : social commentator and advocate, 1876-1951
- Rickover and the nuclear navy : the discipline of technology
- Right here, right now : life stories from America's death row
- Ritchie Boy secrets : how a force of immigrants and refugees helped win World War II
- Robert Mugabe
- Rock & roll highway : the Robbie Robertson story
- Romare Bearden in the homeland of his imagination : an artist's reckoning with the South
- Rosa Parks
- Royal renegades : the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
- RuPaul
- Ruby Bridges
- Rumi : whirling dervish
- Running a thousand miles for freedom : the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
- Russian tattoo : a memoir
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Saga boy : my life of Blackness and becoming
- San Francisco's queen of vice : the strange career of abortionist Inez Brown Burns
- Sanctuary : a memoir
- Sara : prison memoir of a Kurdish revolutionary
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Scientist : E. O. Wilson : a life in nature
- Secretaries and chiefs of staff of the United States Air Force : biographical sketches and portraits
- Seeing sideways : a memoir of music and motherhood
- Selena : queen of Tejano music
- Serena : the littlest sister
- Serena Williams
- Service above self : women veterans in American politics
- Service in a time of suspicion : experiences of Muslims serving in the U.S. military post-9/11
- Shaped by her hands : potter Maria Martinez
- Sharing a house with the never-ending man : 15 years at Studio Ghibli
- Sharuko : el arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello = Sharuko: Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- Shelf life : chronicles of a Cairo bookseller