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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "When will it stop hurting?"
- 100 accomplished Black Canadian women
- 100 accomplished Black Canadian women 2016
- 100 people who made history : meet the people who shaped the modern world
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing and manhood in Appalachia
- 150 fascinating facts about Canadian women
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 20 years in the Secret Service; : my life with five Presidents
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her sons, and their fight against fascism
- 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 castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A dog named Beautiful : : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A fine team man : Jackie Robinson and the lives he touched
- A force for justice : the Maurice McCabe story
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A forgotten hero : : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A gentleman of substance : the life and legacy of John Redpath, 1796-1869
- A good American family : the red scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A grand adventure : the lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and their discovery of a Viking settlement in North America
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A history of the world in 21 women : a personal selection
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A life beyond reason : a father's memoir
- A life in parts
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A not-so-savage land : the art and times of Frederick Whymper, 1838-1901
- A passionate journey : a memoir
- A poem is a naked person
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A speck in the sea : a story of survival and rescue
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic games
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A spy in the house of loud : New York songs and stories
- A spy named Orphan : : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A stranger among saints : Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth
- A surgeon in the village : an American doctor teaches brain surgery in Africa
- A surprised queenhood in the new black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A tale of two divas : the curious adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller in Canada's Edwardian West
- A train through time : a life, real and imagined
- A tribute to Keith Moon : (there is no substitute)
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A voice of the warm : the life of Rod McKuen
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the reformation
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mother to her dirty son
- Abraham Joshua Heschel : mind, heart, soul
- Abraham Lincoln
- Absolute optimist : remembering Eluned Phillips
- Adele
- Adolf Hitler
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- African samurai : : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the Civil War : the heroes, villains, soldiers, and civilians who changed America
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : traveler, archaeologist, and author
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Airborne : finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Albert Camus, soleil et ombre : une biographie intellectuelle
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's chief of staff
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Algren : a life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All about Anne
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All my mother's secrets
- All ships follow me : a family memoir of war across three continents
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the dreams we've dreamed : a story of hoops and handguns on Chicago's West side
- All the powers of earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- Alligator candy : : a memoir
- Almost nothing : the 20th century art and life of Józef Czapski
- Alpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Always too much and never enough : a memoir
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
- America's reluctant prince : : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American oligarchs : : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- 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 queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011 : let's be frank
- An American family : : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden
- An American princess : : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An unconventional wife : the life of Julia Sorell Arnold
- 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
- Andy Warhol : fighting to revolutionize art
- Angela Gheorghiu : a life for art
- Angela Merkel : first woman chancellor of Germany
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : a life in hiding
- Annie Pootoogook : cutting ice
- Another kind of madness : a journey through the stigma and hope of mental illness
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Ants among elephants : : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Are you anybody? : : a memoir
- Ariana Grande : pop star
- Ariana Grande : your essential unofficial guide to the superstar
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt
- Ask a pro : deep thoughts and unreliable advice from America's foremost cycling sage
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At the bridge : James Teit and an anthropology of belonging
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Auston Matthews
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava : a life in movies
- Avedon : something personal
- Ayrton Senna : memories and mementoes from a life lived at full speed : an interactive journey
- BTS : everything you need to know about the kings of K-pop
- Back from the dead
- Back on board : Greg Louganis
- Back to Amy : an intimate portrait of the real Amy Winehouse featuring rare and unseen photographs
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ballad of the Green Beret : the life and wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and pop stardom to murder and an unsolved, violent death
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barack Obama
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Barracoon : the story of the last "Black cargo"
- Barthes : a biography
- Bastards : a memoir
- 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
- BeastieBoysbook
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Becoming C.S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Lincoln
- Becoming a somebody : the biography of Ignat Kaneff
- Beer drinkers and hell raisers : the rise of Motörhead
- Before all memory is lost : women's voices from the Holocaust
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Evel
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe me : : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believing in Magic
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Benjamin Franklin in London : the British life of America's founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : first female African American and Native American pilot
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Betrayal
- Bette Davis speaks
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- Between heaven and hell : the story of my stroke
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beverley McLachlin : the legacy of a Supreme Court chief justice
- Beverley Tucker : a memoir by his wife
- Beyoncé : queen of the spotlight
- Beyond the baby blues : anxiety and depression during and after pregnancy
- Beyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
- Beyond the high blue air
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big Bear
- Big deal : Bob Fosse and dance in the American musical
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Monroe : the life and music of the Blue Grass man
- Billa Flint : king of Hastings County : merchant, lumberman, land speculator, religious leader, industrialist, philanthropist, temperance advocate, and politician
- Billie Eilish : the ultimate unoffical fanbook
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star : the war years, 1940-1946
- Biz Mackey, a giant behind the plate : the story of the Negro league star and Hall of Fame catcher
- Black flag of the north : Bartholomew Roberts, king of the Atlantic pirates
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black women who dared
- Blondie : parallel lives
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers
- Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
- Bobby Kennedy : : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon : the last highway : the untold story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in black
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Bower : a legendary life
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brand : a second coming
- Brave. Black. First. : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond--the story of rock's greatest manager
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
- Brother & sister
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian war
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Bryce Harper
- Building America : the life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush runner : the adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
- Butch Cassidy : The true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin
- Byron's women
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Calder : the conquest of time
- Called to serve : Georgina Pope, Canadian military nursing heroine
- Cam Newton : trying to win them all
- Camgirl
- Camila Cabello : Cuban American singer
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums drums drums
- Can't forgive
- Canadian women now + then : more than 100 stories of fearless trailblazers
- Cancerland : : a medical memoir
- Captain Edmund Hodges and his descendants : including the Hodges family of the Niagara District of Ontario, Canada
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Cards for Brianna : a mom's messages of living, laughing, and loving as time is running out
- Carey Price
- Carey Price : how a First Nations kid became a superstar goaltender
- Carole King : natural woman
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carved in stone : Holocaust years -- a boy's tale
- Casey : the remarkable, untold story of Frederick Walker “Casey” Baldwin : gentleman, genius, and Alexander Graham Bell<U+2019>s Canadian protegé
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Cezanne
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Change of seasons : : a memoir
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Manson - conversations with a killer : Manson's life behind bars
- Charles Pachter : Canada's artist
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz : the electrical wizard of Schenectady
- Charles at seventy : thoughts, hopes and dreams
- Charlie Chaplin's Red letter days : at work with the comic genius
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing Chopin : a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing Phil : the adventures of two undercover agents with the world's most charming con man
- Chasing the Bear : how Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- Chaucer : a European life
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chief engineer : Washington Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Churchill : the life : an authorized pictorial biography
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Citizen Marc : Marc le citoyen
- City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris
- Claiming Anishinaabe : decolonizing the human spirit