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- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 100 people who made history : meet the people who shaped the modern world
- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 700 Sundays
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Polish doctor in the Nazi camps : my mother's memories of imprisonment, immigration, and a life remade
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
- A first-class temperament : the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- A full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A game plan for life : the power of mentoring
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A global life : my journey among rich and poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A land of big dreamers : voices of courage in America
- A life without limits : a world champion's journey
- A life's work : fathers and sons
- A long way from home : : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A question of bounty : the shadow of doubt
- A random act : an inspiring true story of fighting to survive and choosing to forgive
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song in the night : a memoir of resilience
- A sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A time to betray : the astonishing double life of a CIA agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A walk across America
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A woman like me
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Abraham Lincoln for kids : his life and times with 21 activities
- Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era : the man and his times
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Adopted by an owl : the true story of Jackson, the owl
- Adventures of a psychic : the fascinating and inspiring true-life story of one of America's most successful clairvoyants
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Against wind and tide : letters and journals, 1947-1986
- Al Franken, God spoke
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Kaline : the biography of a Tigers icon
- Alex Haley's queen : the story of an American family
- Alex Rodriguez : hot corner, hot shot
- Alexander Hamilton
- Ali : an American champion
- All in : the education of General David Petraeus
- All my life : a memoir
- All rivers run to the sea : memoir
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration
- Along the way : the journey of a father and son
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
- American authors, 1600-1900 : a biographical dictionary of American literature
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American phoenix : John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the exile that saved American independence
- American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- An American caddie in St. Andrews : growing up, girls, and looping on the old course
- An American map : essays
- An autobiography of General Custer
- An innocent, a broad
- An uncrowded place : the delights and dilemmas of life up north and a young man's search for home
- An unexpected life : a mother and son's story of love, determination, autism, and art
- An unquenchable thirst : following Mother Teresa in search of love, service, and an authentic life
- Ana's story : a journey of hope
- And I shall have some peace there : trading in the fast lane for my own dirt road
- And the good news is... : lessons from the bright side
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then life happens : a memoir
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Annaleise Carr : how I conquered Lake Ontario to help kids battling cancer
- Arthur Vandenberg : The Man in the Middle of the American Century
- Astor orphan : a memoir
- At home on the range
- At least in the city someone would hear me scream : Misadventures in search of the simple life
- Audition : a memoir
- Audrey Hepburn : an elegant spirit
- Autobiography of Mark Twain. : Volume 1
- Autobiography of a face
- Babe conquers the world : the legendary life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Back in the fight : the explosive memoir of a special operator who never gave up
- Backward, turn backward : recollections of a childhood in northern Michigan
- Barbra : the way she is
- Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
- Basketball junkie : a memoir
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Battle ready
- Bay of spirits : a love story
- Becoming
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Beer money : a memoir of privilege and loss
- Being Oscar : from mob lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas, only in America
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Between man and beast : an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm
- Between you and me : a memoir
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur
- Beyond band of brothers : [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters]
- Beyond belief : my secret life inside Scientology and my harrowing escape
- Beyond the miracle worker : the remarkable life of Anne Sullivan Macy and her extraordinary friendship with Helen Keller
- Big Russ and me : father and son : lessons of life
- Big bucks the Benoit way : secrets from America's first family of Whitetail hunting
- Big in China : my unlikely adventures raising a family, playing the blues, and becoming a star in Beijing
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the patriots
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies : the patriots
- Bill O'Reilly's legends and lies : the real West
- Bind, torture, kill : the inside story of the serial killer next door
- Bird Cloud : a memoir
- Bismarck : a life
- Blacklisted by history : the untold story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's enemies
- Blind eye : how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder
- Blue nights
- Bo
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby and J. Edgar : the historic face-off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that transformed America
- Bobby and Jackie : a love story
- Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America
- Bold women in Michigan history
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today
- Bootstrapper / : From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm, [a memoir]
- Bootstrapper : [a memoir; from broke to badass on a northern Michigan farm]
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant : a memoir
- Born on a mountaintop : on the road with Davy Crockett and the ghosts of the wild frontier
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
- Bossypants
- Bound by honor : a mafioso's story
- Bringing down the house : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions
- Bruce
- Bruce Lee
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt!
- Bulu, African wonder dog
- Burnt toast makes you sing good : a memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family
- By myself and then some
- Call me Ted
- Called to coach : reflections on life, faith and football
- Captain Cook : master of the seas
- Carl Sandburg
- Carly's voice : breaking through autism
- Cary Grant : a biography
- Cast of characters : common people in the hands of an uncommon God
- Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit!
- Catherine de Medici : Renaissance queen of France
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Champlain's dream
- Chancers : addiction, prison, recovery, love : one couple's memoir
- Chasing Matisse : a year in France living my dream
- Christmas in Plains : memories
- Chronicles
- Clapton : the autobiography
- Clarence Darrow : attorney for the damned
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
- Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat, and obsession
- Cleopatra : a life
- Cleopatra rules! : the amazing life of the original teen queen
- Climb from the cellar : how one michigan kid, born in a basement, found his way up to the ..
- Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
- Code talker
- Cold oceans : adventures in kayak, rowboat, and dogsled
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Columbus : the four voyages
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Composed : a memoir
- Composers since 1900; : a biographical and critical guide
- Constantine the Emperor
- Conversations with myself
- Coolidge
- Coolidge
- Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting
- Cowboy princess : life with my parents--Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
- Cradle of gold : the story of Hiram Bingham, a real-life Indiana Jones, and the search for Machu Picchu
- Crazy for the storm : a memoir of survival
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cronkite
- Cronkite's war : his World War II letters home
- Crossing over : one woman's exodus from Amish life
- Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith
- Custer
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cyndi Lauper : a memoir
- Damn you, Scarlett O'Hara : the private lives of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
- Dark waters : an insider's account of the NR-1, the Cold War's undercover nuclear sub
- David Crockett : the Lion of the West
- Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
- Decision points
- Defending Baltimore against enemy attack : a boyhood year during World War II
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia
- Designing Detroit : Wirt Rowland and the rise of modern American architecture
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny of the Republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
- Detective : the inspirational story of the trailblazing woman cop who wouldn't quit
- Detroit : an American autopsy
- Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
- Diana : her true story
- Diary of a stage mother's daughter : [a memoir]
- Dimestore : a writer's life
- Dining with al-Qaeda : three decades exploring the many worlds of the Middle East
- Dinner with the Smileys : one military family, one year of heroes, and lessons for a lifetime
- Do-over! : in which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Does this church make me look fat? : a Mennonite finds faith, meets Mr. Right, and solves her lady problems
- Dolly : my life and other unfinished business
- Don't give up, don't give in : lessons from an extraordinary life
- Don't know much about the American presidents : everything you need to know about the most powerful office on earth and the men who have occupied it
- Double cross : the true story of the D-day spies
- Dr. Seuss
- Dream new dreams : reimagining my life after loss
- Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever
- Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America
- Dreams from my father
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dust to dust : a memoir
- Dutch : a memoir of Ronald Reagan
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Easy Company soldier : the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
- Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- Edith Head : the life and times of Hollywood's celebrated costume designer
- Educated : a memoir
- Edward Kennedy : an intimate biography
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Eisenhower : in war and peace
- El Deafo
- Electric Ben : the amazing life and times of Benjamin Franklin
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Empire builders : how Michigan entrepreneurs helped make America great
- Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
- Empty mansions : the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Ernie Harwell : my 60 years in baseball
- Escape
- Ethan Allen : his life and times
- Every day in Tuscany : seasons of an Italian life
- Every living thing
- Explorers : from ancient times to the space age
- Facing the extreme : one woman's story of true courage, death-defying survival, and her quest for the summit
- Fair game
- Fairy tale interrupted : a memoir of life, love, and loss
- Family meals : coming together to care for an aging parent
- Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
- Farewell, Jackie : a portrait of her final days
- Fear
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Femme fatale : love, lies, and the unknown life of Mata Hari
- Fifty acres and a poodle : a story of love, livestock, and finding myself on a farm
- Filthy rich : a powerful billionaire, the sex scandal that undid him, and all the justice that money can buy : the shocking true story of Jeffrey Epstein
- Find a way : three words that changed my life
- Finders keepers : the story of a man who found $1 million
- Finding Everett Ruess : the life and unsolved disappearance of a legendary wilderness explorer
- Finding Moosewood, finding God : what happened when a TV newsman abandoned his career for life on an island
- Fire season : field notes from a wilderness lookout
- First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
- First Lady of Detroit : the story of Marie-Thérěse Guyon, Mme. Cadillac
- First family : Abigail and John
- First flight : the story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers
- First hand account of life in Mancelona in the 20th century
- First ladies
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Fishtown : Leland, Michigan's historic fishery
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- Flags of our fathers
- Flags of our fathers
- Flyboys : a true story of courage
- Following Atticus : forty-eight high peaks, one little dog, and an extraordinary friendship
- For the birds : the life of Roger Tory Peterson
- For the love of physics : from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time-- a journey through the wonders of physics
- For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago
- Forever and ever, amen : becoming a nun in the sixties
- Founders : the people who brought you a nation
- Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation
- Frankie's place : a love story
- Franklin and Eleanor : an extraordinary marriage
- Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
- From this moment on
- Gabby : a story of courage and hope
- Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves : the lives and crimes of fifty American villains
- Garbage bag suitcase : a memoir
- George Washington and Benedict Arnold : a tale of two patriots
- George Washington, spymaster : how the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War
- Geronimo's bones : a memoir of my brother and me
- Ghost! : field journal of a bird dog
- Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI
- Giants : what I learned about life from Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry
- Gifted hands
- Girl, interrupted
- Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation
- Girls who grew up great : a book of encouragement for girls about amazing women who dared to dream
- Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
- Glitter and glue : a memoir
- Glorious war : the Civil War adventures of George Armstrong Custer
- God grew tired of us
- Going back to Central : on the road in search of the past in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
- Gonzo : the life of Hunter S. Thompson : an oral biography
- Good Sports : from hardships to championships
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Goya
- Grace (eventually) : thoughts on faith
- Grace : the secret lives of a princess
- Grand Traverse : the Civil War era
- Grant
- Great Lakes crime : murder, mayhem, booze & broads
- Great girls in Michigan history
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer, America's deadliest serial murderer
- Gregory Peck : a charmed life
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Guest of honor : Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House dinner that shocked a nation
- Guts : the endless follies and tiny triumphs of a giant disaster
- H is for Hawk
- Hammerin' Hank Greenberg : baseball pioneer
- Hank Greenberg : the hero who didn't want to be one
- Hannah's gift : lessons from a life fully lived
- Hard Corps : from gangster to Marine hero
- Hard choices
- Hard choices : [a memoir]
- Harry S. Truman : the 33rd President
- Harry Truman's excellent adventure : the true story of a great American road trip
- Have mother, will travel : a mother and daughter discover themselves, each other, and the world
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Heaven is here : an incredible story of hope, triumph, and everyday joy
- Heisman : the man behind the trophy
- Helen Keller : the world in her heart
- Henry Adams and the making of America
- Here comes trouble : stories from my life
- Hero : the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia
- Hero found : the greatest POW escape of the Vietnam War
- Heroes never die : warriors and warfare in World War II
- Heroes of baseball : the men who made it America's favorite game
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hiding in plain sight : the secret life of Raymond Burr
- Highest duty : my search for what really matters
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hillbilly heart : [a memoir]
- His Excellency : George Washington
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina