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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- true#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- #eSociety : in the digital age, no one should be left behind
- true'Membering
- true'Zine : how I spent six years of my life in the underground and finally found myself-- I think
- (Extra)ordinary (women) : ten inspirational stories
- true10 women who changed science and the world
- true12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- true12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing, coal mining, and the contradictions of Appalachian manhood
- true13 women : parables from prison
- true150 glimpses of the Beatles
- true18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- true18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1939, baseball's tipping point
- 1945-nen no Kurisumasu : Nihonkoku Kenp?o ni "danjo by?od?o" o kaita josei no jiden
- true20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- true24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- true300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story-- with recipes
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- true42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 50 aircraft that changed the world
- 50 scientists, artists, and mathematicians who revolutionized the world
- true50 things you should know about the Tudors
- true83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- true90 Church : inside America's notorious first narcotics squad
- trueA Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- trueA Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- A Different Face of War : Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam
- trueA Dublin girl : growing up in the 1930s
- A Hero's Heart
- A Little Town With a Big Heart : Or "I'm not from around here, but I am now!"
- A Passenger from the West
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- trueA bowl full of peace : a true story
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- trueA brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- trueA burst of light : essays
- A chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- trueA change of heart
- A cup of news : the life of Thomas Nashe
- trueA dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A day at the beach : recollections
- A deaf artist in early America : the worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
- trueA different person : a memoir
- trueA difficult death : the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
- trueA disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long trip home
- trueA drinking life : a memoir
- trueA forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- trueA future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- trueA generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary
- A girl named Rosa
- trueA girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A great and glorious romance : the story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen
- trueA great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A grip on the mane of life : an authorized biography of Earl V. Shaffer, 1918-2002
- trueA guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- trueA guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre and her dramatic captivity and daring escape from Nazi Germany
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- trueA house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- trueA house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
- trueA house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- trueA house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- trueA journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- trueA kids' guide to America's first ladies
- trueA kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- trueA knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- trueA lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- trueA lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A letter to Jo
- trueA life beyond reason : a father's memoir
- trueA life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- trueA life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life for ballet
- trueA life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Kenneth Rexroth
- trueA life of Picasso, Volume II, 1907-1917
- A light so lovely : the spiritual legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time
- trueA likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- trueA lot to ask : a life of Barbara Pym
- A man absolutely sure of himself : Texan George Washington Littlefield
- trueA man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man without words
- trueA man's world : portraits
- trueA marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A midwife in Amish country : celebrating God's gift of life
- trueA mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A million little pieces
- trueA mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- trueA nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- trueA picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- trueA poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- trueA portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- trueA prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- trueA private war : Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels, and renegades
- A promised land
- trueA proper drink : the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world
- A pulso : la historia de superación de Javier Gómez Noya
- trueA pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism
- trueA radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A rendezvous with death : Alan Seeger in poetry, at war
- trueA revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- trueA ringing glass : the life of Rainer Maria Rilke
- trueA round-heeled woman : my late-life adventures in sex and romance
- trueA season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- trueA secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- trueA self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- trueA sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- trueA song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- trueA song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A southern family in white & Black : the Cuneys of Texas
- trueA splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- trueA sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- trueA spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A step away from paradise : the true story of a Tibetan Lama's journey to a land of immortality
- trueA stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- trueA surgeon in the village : an American doctor teaches brain surgery in Africa
- trueA surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A thorn in my pocket : Temple Grandin's mother tells the family story
- trueA thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A throw of the dice : the life of Stéphane Mallarmé
- trueA triumph of genius : Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak patent war
- trueA truck full of money
- A truck full of money
- trueA twenty minute silence followed by applause
- trueA very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of parliament
- trueA very punchable face : a memoir
- trueA voice named Aretha
- A walk through Paris
- trueA warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A weed is a flower : the life of George Washington Carver
- trueA well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A wild life : a visual biography of photographer Michael Nichols
- trueA woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- trueA woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- trueA woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- trueA world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- trueA world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- trueA world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- A year in the woods
- trueAOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- trueAaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator
- trueAbandon me : memoirs
- trueAbandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- trueAbe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- trueAbout this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- trueAbove the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- trueAbraham
- trueAbraham : the first historical biography
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- trueAbraham Lincoln
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- trueAccidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- trueAccidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Achievements in Black Austin : historical reference guide, Volume I
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Act one : an autobiography
- trueAda Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- trueAda and the number-crunching machine
- trueAda's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- trueAdam Smith : father of economics
- Adele Briscoe Looscan : Daughter of the Republic
- Adictas a la insurgencia : historia perdida de las mujeres que lucharon por la libertad de México
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- trueAdnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- trueAdrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it
- trueAdrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- African American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of Blacks in America
- trueAfrican rhythms : the autobiography of Randy Weston
- trueAfrican samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- trueAfropessimism
- trueAfter Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- trueAfter Auschwitz : one man's story
- trueAfter Kathy Acker : a literary biography
- trueAfter the Revolution : profiles of early American culture
- trueAfter the cheering stops : an NFL wife's story of concussions, loss, and the faith that saw her through
- trueAfter the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the 1969 Mets
- trueAgatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a biography
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- trueAgent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- trueAgent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- trueAgent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent of change : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- trueAgrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- trueAim for the skies : Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith's race to complete Amelia Earhart's quest
- Ain't got no cigarettes : memories of music legend Roger Miller
- trueAka bpNichol : a preliminary biography
- trueAl Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- trueAlabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Sues : a funny man : a biography
- trueAlbert Camus : a life
- trueAlbert Einstein : a curious mind
- Albert Einstein : a life of genius
- Albert Einstein : physicist, philosopher, humanitarian
- trueAlbert Gore, Sr. : a political life
- Aldous Huxley : a biography
- Alejandro Sanz : #Vive
- trueAlex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Haley's roots : an author's odyssey
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Morgan
- trueAlexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- trueAlexander Hamilton
- trueAlexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- trueAlexander Hamilton : American hero
- trueAlexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : documents decoded
- trueAlexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the illustrated biography
- trueAlexander Hamilton : the making of America
- trueAlexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- trueAlexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- trueAlexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- trueAlexander Pope : a life
- trueAlexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- trueAlfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- trueAlgren : a life
- Ali
- Ali
- trueAli : a life
- Ali on Ali : why he said what he said when he said it
- trueAlia Muhammad Baker : saving a library from war
- trueAlice Adams : portrait of a writer
- trueAlice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- trueAlice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Aliceheimer's : Alzheimer's through the looking glass
- trueAll God's children need traveling shoes
- trueAll about Anne
- trueAll blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- trueAll boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- trueAll in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- trueAll of me
- All of me
- All over the map : true heroes of Texas music
- trueAll over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- trueAll rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- trueAll ships follow me : a family memoir of war across three continents
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- trueAll that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- trueAll that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- trueAll the King's horses : the equestrian life of Elvis Presley
- trueAll the powers of earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, [Volume III], 1856-1860
- All the things I lost in the flood : essays on pictures, language, and code
- trueAll the things we never knew
- trueAll the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- trueAll the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All things Austen : an encyclopedia of Austen's world
- All-American murder : [the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row]
- trueAllen Klein : the man who bailed out the Beatles, made the Stones, and transformed rock & roll
- trueAlmighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- trueAlmost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- trueAlmost nothing : the 20th century art and life of Józef Czapski
- trueAlone : the triumph and tragedy of John Curry
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alone with Chrissie Hynde
- trueAlpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- trueAlways remember me : how one family survived World War II
- trueAlways young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- trueAm I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- Amazing artists and designers
- Amazing fantastic incredible : a marvelous memoir
- trueAmazing football : stars, stats and facts
- trueAmazing women
- Amazing women : over 100 lives to inspire you
- trueAmazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- trueAmazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- trueAmbrose Bierce : alone in bad company
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- trueAmelia Earhart
- trueAmelia Earhart
- trueAmerica's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- trueAmerica, border, culture, dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- trueAmerican Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- trueAmerican Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Indian stories of success : new visions of leadership in Indian Country
- trueAmerican Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- trueAmerican Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- trueAmerican Sherlock : remembering a forgotten pioneer in scientific crime investigation
- trueAmerican Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- trueAmerican apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- trueAmerican daughter : a memoir
- American dharma
- American experience, Voice of freedom
- trueAmerican governor
- trueAmerican heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- trueAmerican kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- trueAmerican 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
- trueAmerican philosophy : a love story
- trueAmerican predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- trueAmerican priest : the ambitious life and conflicted legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
- trueAmerican queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- trueAmerican radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- trueAmerican spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- trueAmerican warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- trueAmong heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- trueAmong the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amores trágicos : las más dramáticas relaciones amorosas de la historia
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- trueAn American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden