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- true"21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- true"All governments lie" : the life and times of rebel journalist I.F. Stone
- true"All-American monster" : the unauthorized biography of Timothy McVeigh
- true"I am murdered" : George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the killing that shocked a new nation
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- true"Literchoor Is My Beat" : a Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
- true"Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, Texas Ranger
- true"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- true"Mr. President" : George Washington and the making of the nation's highest office
- true"Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- true"Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- true"TV" Tommy Ivo : drag racing's master showman
- true"To everything there is a season" : Pete Seeger and the power of song
- 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
- true1 year, 100 pounds : my journey to a better, happier life
- 10 explorers who changed the world
- true10 leaders who changed the world
- true10 women who changed science and the world
- true100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- true100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- true100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- true101 changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- true12 : the inside story of Tom Brady's fight for redemption
- true12 children who changed the world
- true12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing, coal mining, and the contradictions of Appalachian manhood
- true13 women : parables from prison
- true13 women artists children should know
- true1517 : Martin Luther and the invention of the Reformation
- true16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 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
- true1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 1939, baseball's tipping point
- 1945-nen no Kurisumasu : Nihonkoku Kenp?o ni "danjo by?od?o" o kaita josei no jiden
- true1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever
- true2015 basketball superstars
- true23 days in July : inside Lance Armstrong's record-breaking Tour de France victory
- true26 Fairmount Avenue
- true27 : a history of the 27 Club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- true28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- true2pac vs. Biggie : an illustrated history of rap's greatest battle
- true30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South
- true300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story-- with recipes
- true41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- true42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- true438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- true4th and goal : one man's quest to recapture his dream
- true50 Cent
- 50 aircraft that changed the world
- 50 impressive kids and their amazing (and true!) stories
- 50 scientists, artists, and mathematicians who revolutionized the world
- true50 things you should know about the Tudors
- 50 unbelievable women and their fascinating (and true!) stories
- true7 dirty words : the life and crimes of George Carlin
- true81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 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 Caldecott celebration : seven artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- trueA Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- trueA Christian and a Democrat : a religious biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- A Different Face of War : Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam
- trueA Dublin girl : growing up in the 1930s
- trueA Hemingway odyssey : special places in his life
- A Hero's Heart
- trueA Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- trueA Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Little Town With a Big Heart : Or "I'm not from around here, but I am now!"
- A Passenger from the West
- trueA Tibetan revolutionary : the political life and times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye
- trueA band of angels : a story inspired by the Jubilee Singers
- trueA beautiful mind
- trueA beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- trueA beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- trueA beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- trueA bird or two : a story about Henri Matisse
- trueA bohemian life : M. Evelyn McCormick (1862-1948), American impressionist
- trueA bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- trueA boy and a jaguar
- trueA boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- trueA boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- trueA boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- trueA boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- trueA bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- trueA brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- trueA broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- trueA brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- trueA burst of light : essays
- trueA cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- trueA century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- trueA chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- trueA change of heart
- trueA clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- trueA common good : the friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
- trueA commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- trueA complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him
- trueA computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- trueA consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- trueA conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy
- trueA cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- trueA country of vast designs : James K. Polk and the conquest of the American continent
- trueA covered wagon girl : the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
- A cup of news : the life of Thomas Nashe
- trueA curator's quest : building the collection of painting and sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art, 1967-1988
- trueA curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- trueA dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- trueA dangerous woman : the life, loves, and scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, America's original superstar
- A day at the beach : recollections
- trueA day in the life : one family, the beautiful people, and the end of the sixties
- A deaf artist in early America : the worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
- trueA death in Washington : Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin terror
- trueA deeper blue : the life and music of Townes Van Zandt
- trueA devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- trueA different kind of cell : the story of a murderer who became a monk
- trueA different person : a memoir
- trueA difficult death : the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
- trueA difficult par : Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the making of modern golf
- trueA difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- trueA disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- trueA dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long trip home
- trueA dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's race around the Eiffel Tower
- trueA dream of undying fame : how Freud betrayed his mentor and invented psychoanalysis
- trueA drinking life : a memoir
- trueA family of strangers
- trueA first-class temperament : the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- trueA flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- trueA force for good : the Dalai Lama's vision for our world
- trueA force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
- trueA forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- trueA full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- trueA future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- trueA gambling man : Charles II's Restoration game
- trueA game for swallows : to die, to leave, to return
- trueA generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- trueA gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- trueA girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- trueA girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- trueA girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary
- A girl named Rosa
- trueA girl's got to breathe : the life of Teresa Wright
- trueA glorious disaster : Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign and the origins of the conservative movement
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- trueA godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- trueA good American family : the red scare and my father
- trueA good forest for dying : the tragic death of a young man on the front lines of the environmental wars
- trueA good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- trueA grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- trueA grand guy : the art and life of Terry Southern
- 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
- trueA great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- 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
- trueA home for Mr. Emerson
- trueA hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- trueA hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- trueA hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- trueA hope more powerful than the sea : one teen refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- 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 hundred or more hidden things : the life and films of Vincente Minnelli
- trueA is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from A to Z
- trueA is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- trueA journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- trueA just and generous nation : Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity
- trueA kids' guide to America's first ladies
- trueA kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- trueA lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- trueA lawless breed : John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and violence in the Wild West
- trueA leap for Legadema : the true story of a little leopard in a big world
- A letter to Jo
- trueA library for Juana : the world of Sor Juana Inaes
- 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 in red : a story of forbidden love, the Great Depression, and the Communist fight for a Black nation in the deep South
- trueA life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- trueA life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- trueA life in twilight : the final years of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- trueA life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- trueA life observed : a spiritual biography of C.S. Lewis
- trueA life observed : a spiritual biography of C.S. Lewis
- trueA life of Barbara Stanwyck, Volume 1, Steel-true, 1907-1940
- trueA life of James Boswell
- A life of Kenneth Rexroth
- trueA life of Picasso, Volume I, 1881-1906.
- trueA life of Picasso, Volume II, 1907-1917
- trueA life of Picasso, Volume III, The triumphant years, 1917-1932
- trueA life of discovery : Michael Faraday, giant of the scientific revolution
- trueA life of the Buddha
- trueA life worth living : Albert Camus and the quest for meaning
- trueA light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- 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 list of things that didn't kill me
- trueA lively oracle : a centennial celebration of P. L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins
- trueA loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- trueA long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- trueA lot to ask : a life of Barbara Pym
- trueA love affair with birds : the life of Thomas Sadler Roberts
- trueA magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- trueA man and his mountain : the everyman who created Kendall-Jackson and became America's greatest wine entrepreneur
- trueA man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- trueA man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the S.S. United States
- trueA man called Peter : the story of Peter Marshall
- trueA man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- trueA man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- trueA man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America
- trueA man of faith : the spiritual journey of George W. Bush
- trueA man of good hope
- trueA man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change
- A man without words
- trueA man's world : portraits
- trueA marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- trueA marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- trueA mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- trueA mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- trueA million little pieces
- trueA mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- trueA more perfect heaven : how Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos
- trueA most dangerous method : the story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- trueA movie in my pillow : poems
- trueA mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- trueA nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- trueA nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- trueA natural woman : a memoir
- trueA new kind of monster : the secret life and shocking true crimes of an officer---and a murderer
- trueA parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonita
- trueA passage to Egypt : the life of Lucie Duff Gordon
- trueA passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- trueA passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- trueA passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- trueA passion for the impossible : the life of Lilias Trotter
- trueA passionate pilgrim : a biography of Bishop James A. Pike
- trueA perfect union : Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation
- trueA picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- trueA picture book of Amelia Earhart
- trueA picture book of Anne Frank
- trueA picture book of Cesar Chavez
- trueA picture book of Daniel Boone
- trueA picture book of Davy Crockett
- trueA picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- trueA picture book of Frederick Douglass
- trueA picture book of Frederick Douglass
- trueA picture book of George Washington Carver
- trueA picture book of George Washington Carver
- trueA picture book of Harriet Tubman
- trueA picture book of Harry Houdini
- trueA picture book of Jesse Owens
- trueA picture book of John F. Kennedy
- trueA picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- trueA picture book of Lewis and Clark
- trueA picture book of Louis Braille
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueA picture book of Patrick Henry
- trueA picture book of Paul Revere
- trueA picture book of Rosa Parks
- trueA picture book of Sacagawea
- trueA picture book of Sam Houston
- trueA picture book of Samuel Adams
- trueA picture book of Sojourner Truth
- trueA picture book of Thomas Alva Edison
- trueA picture book of Thomas Jefferson
- trueA picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- trueA pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- trueA pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- trueA pitcher's story : innings with David Cone
- trueA place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation