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- !Hablamos! Puerto Ricans speak
- !Zhirinovsky!
- "Aaron, r.f."
- "All governments lie" : the life and times of rebel journalist I.F. Stone
- "Alongside"
- "Big Bill" Haywood
- "Come, Blackrobe" : De Smet and the Indian tragedy
- "Dear Carrie-- " : the Civil War letters of Thomas N. Stevens
- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- "Eagle forgotten"; : the life of John Peter Altgeld
- "Happiness is not my companion" : the life of General G.K. Warren
- "Have you seen Tom Thumb?"
- "High and mighty queens" of early modern England : realities and representations
- "I must be a part of this war" : a German American's fight against Hitler and Nazism
- "I'd love to kiss you-- " : conversations with Bette Davis
- "In the hands of a good providence" : religion in the life of George Washington
- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- "My greatest quarrel with fortune" : Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862
- "My madness saved me" : the madness and marriage of Virginia Woolf
- "My world is gone" : memories of life in a southern cotton mill town / George G. Suggs, Jr
- "Old Rowley"; : a private life of Charles II,
- "Out here at the front" : the World War I letters of Nora Saltonstall
- "Scribbling women" : true tales from astonishing lives
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- "The Broadway sound" : the autobiography and selected essays of Robert Russell Bennett
- "The Supremes" : essays on the current justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- "The dignity of every human being" : New Brunswick artists and Canadian culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "The sex side of life" : Mary Ware Dennett's pioneering battle for birth control and sex education
- "The wheel of life," 1924-1943
- "Those who labor for my happiness" : slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "War governor of the South" : North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy
- "War stories" : false atrocity tales, swift boaters, and winter soldiers--what really happened in Vietnam
- "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends
- "We are who we say we are" : a Black family's search for home across the Atlantic world
- 'Dear Mrs. Griggs' : women readers pour out their hearts from the heartland
- 'Poor Polidori' : a critical biography of the author of The vampyre
- 'They say' : Ida B. Wells and the reconstruction of race
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Triumphs of English' : Henry Parker, Lord Morley, translator to the Tudor court : new essays in interpretation
- 10 X 10
- 100 celebrated chinese women
- 100 contemporary architects : 100 Zeitgenössische Architekten = 100 architectes contemporains
- 100 painters of tomorrow
- 100 sculptors of tomorrow
- 100 women who shaped world history
- 1001 beds : performances, essays, and travels
- 15 stars : Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three generals who saved the American century
- 1791 : Mozart's last year
- 20th century microbe hunters : their lives, accomplishments, and legacies
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 27 masters of politics
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 50 women artists you should know
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 700 Nimes Road
- 97,196 words : essays
- A 50-year adventure in the advertising business
- A Benjamin Franklin reader
- A Black businessman in white Mississippi, 1886-1974
- A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
- A Brahms reader
- A Braid of lives : Native American childhood
- A British tale of Indian and foreign service : the memoirs of Sir Ian Scott
- A Catholic Cold War : Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the politics of American Catholic anticommunism
- A Chorus line and the musicals of Michael Bennett
- A Companion to Melville studies
- A Conrad companion
- A Cornish childhood : autobiography of a Cornishman
- A D. H. Lawrence companion : life, thought, and works
- A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800
- A Dr. Johnson chronology
- A Dublin girl : growing up in the 1930s
- A Farmington childhood : the watercolors of Lillian Drake Avery
- A Heinrich Schütz reader : letters and documents in translation
- A Hitler youth : growing up in Germany in the 1930s
- A Jackson man : Amos Kendall and the rise of American democracy
- A Jean Monnet chronology : origins of the European Union in the life of a founder, 1888 to 1950
- A Jew in the public arena : the career of Israel Zangwill
- A Jewish life under the tsars : the autobiography of Chaim Aronson, 1825-1888
- A Jewish woman of distinction : the life & diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
- A Kineño remembers : from the King Ranch to the White House
- A Kineño's journey : on family, learning, and public service
- A Kipling chronology
- A Langston Hughes encyclopedia
- A Michigan man : the life & times of Kalamazoo's Al Connable, as told to Tom Thinnes
- A Milwaukee woman's life on the left : the autobiography of Meta Berger
- A Motor City year
- A Muslim in Victorian America : the life of Alexander Russell Webb
- A Muslim woman in Tito's Yugoslavia
- A Navaho autobiography
- A Nazi past : recasting German identity in postwar Europe
- A New England boyhood
- A New England prison diary : slander, religion, and markets in early America
- A Picture book of Harry Houdini
- A Picture book of Robert E. Lee
- A Picture book of Sam Houston
- A Portrait of tsarist Russia : unknown photographs from the Soviet Archives
- A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers
- A Quaker goes to Spain : the diplomatic mission of Anthony Morris, 1813-1816
- A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury : the life and times of Samuel Koteliansky
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Schoenberg reader : documents of a life
- A Scottish life : Sir John Martin, Churchill and Empire
- A Song for Cambodia
- A Spanish prisoner in the ruins of Napoleon's empire : the diary of Fernando Blanco White's flight to freedom
- A Tennyson companion : life and works
- A Victorian gentleman and Ethiopian nationalist : the life and times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin
- A Victorian marriage : Mandell and Louise Creighton
- A Victorian wanderer : the life of Thomas Arnold the Younger
- A William Maxwell portrait : memories and appreciations
- A Zora Neale Hurston companion
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A bed of red flowers : in search of my Afghanistan
- A biographical dictionary of World War II
- A biographical dictionary of ancient Egypt
- A biographical dictionary of people in engineering : from the earliest records until 2000
- A biographical dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988
- A biographical history of Blacks in America since 1528,
- A biographical history of the French revolutions,
- A biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American singer and social activist
- A biography of George F. Kennan : the education of a realist
- A black gambler's world of liquor, vice, and presidential politics : William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 1839-1917
- A body in the O : performances and stories
- A book of noble women
- A book of saints and wonders
- A book of saints and wonders : put down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and the memory of the people of Ireland.
- A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy at the Hogarth Press
- A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E. B. White
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A bus of my own : a memoir
- A capitalist romance : Singer and the sewing machine
- A captive of time
- A celebration of work
- A celtic canvas : the life, work and times of Carey Morris, artist, 1882-1968
- A century of surgeons and surgery : the American College of Surgeons 1913-2012
- A certain loneliness : a memoir
- A chain of cities : diplomacy at the end of empire
- A chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- A chance for love : the World War II letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR
- A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A charmed couple : the art and life of Walter and Matilda Gay
- A chief justice's progress : John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court
- A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi
- A child called Noah ; : a family journey
- A child went forth : reflective teaching with young readers and writers
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- A chronicle of the archbishops of Canterbury
- A cinema of obsession : the life and work of Mai Zetterling
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th century
- A colored woman in a white world
- A common good : the friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
- A common heritage : Noah Webster's blue-back speller
- A companion to George Washington
- A companion to James Madison and James Monroe
- A companion to Thomas Jefferson
- A companion to Thomas More
- A compassionate conservative : a political biography of Joseph W. Martin, Jr., speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- A compendium of Canadian folk artists
- A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- A complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him
- A condition of the spirit : the life and work of Larry Levis
- A convert's tale : art, crime, and Jewish apostasy in Renaissance Italy
- A cornet-playing pilgrim's progress : the complete autobiography of Herbert L. Clarke
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A court in exile : the Stuarts in France, 1689-1718
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A covert life : Jay Lovestone : communist, anti-communist, and spymaster
- A cry for education : my life with cerebral palsy
- A cry for justice : Daniel Rudd and his life in Black Catholicism, journalism, and activism, 1854-1933
- A curious peril : H.D.'s late modernist prose
- A cyclopedia of Canadian biography : being chiefly men of the time. A collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life ; leaders in the commerce and industry of Canada, and successful pioneers.
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A daring life : a biography of Eudora Welty
- A daring young man : a biography of William Saroyan
- A dash of daring : Carmel Snow and her life in fashion, art, and letters
- A daughter of the Seine : the life of Madame Roland
- A day for dancing : the life and music of Lloyd Pfautsch
- A deaf child listened : Thomas Gallaudet, pioneer in American education
- A desperate passion : an autobiography
- A devil and a good woman, too : the lives of Julia Peterkin
- A dictionary for the modern pianist
- A different drummer : my thirty years with Ronald Reagan
- A different vision
- A diplomat looks back
- A diplomat's lady in Brazil : selections from the diary of Mary Robinson Hunter, 1834-1848
- A director calls
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A documentary of Mrs. Booker T. Washington
- A documented history of Gullah Jack Pritchard and the Denmark Vesey slave insurrection of 1822
- A dream and a chisel : Louisiana sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925-1928
- A dubious past : Ernst Junger and the politics of literature after Nazism
- A family called Brontë
- A fatherless child : autobiographical perspectives on African American men
- A feminist in the White House : Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
- A few memories
- A fierce green fire : Aldo Leopold's life and legacy
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fine old conflict
- A fire you can't put out : the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
- A fish in the water : a memoir
- A fly in the soup : memoirs
- A footnote to folly
- A free and hardy life : Theodore Roosevelt's sojourn in the American West
- A gaudy spree : the literary life of Hollywood in the 1930s when the West was fun
- A general history of the robberies & murders of the most notorious pirates
- A generation of revolutionaries : Nikolai Charushin and Russian populism from the great reforms to perestroika
- A generation of women : education in the lives of progressive reformers
- A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- A genetic and cultural odyssey : the life and work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- A genius for living : the life of Frieda Lawrence
- A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- A gift from childhood : memories of an African boyhood
- A gift imprisoned : the poetic life of Matthew Arnold
- A girl named Faithful Plum : a true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream
- A glorious disaster : Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign and the origins of the conservative movement
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A governor's story : the fight for jobs and America's economic future
- A grain of wheat : a writer begins
- A grand guy : the art and life of Terry Southern
- A grizzly in the mail and other adventures in American history
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guide to the blues : history, who's who, research sources
- A hairdresser's experience in high life
- A heart at fire's center : the life and music of Bernard Herrmann
- A heritage of woe : the Civil War diary of Grace Brown Elmore, 1861-1868
- A hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- A historical guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A history of northwest Missouri
- A history of transplantation immunology
- A history of women photographers
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A hostage to fortune
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A jazz odyssey : the life of Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson ; editor and consultant, Richard Palmer
- A job for Superman
- A journey : my political life
- A journey round my skull
- A journey through the Cold War : a memoir of containment and coexistence
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A journey to the rivers : justice for Serbia
- A judge comes of age
- A larger memory : a history of our diversity with voices
- A lawyer's journey : the Morris Dees story
- A life decoded : my genome, my life
- A life for language : a biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield
- A life in a wooden O : memoirs of the theatre
- A life in jazz
- A life in our times : memoirs
- A life in ragtime : a biography of James Reese Europe
- A life in the struggle : Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition
- A life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- A life in writing : the story of an American journalist
- A life of George Herbert
- A life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A life of James Boswell
- A life of John Davis, the navigator, 1550-1605 : discoverer of Davis straits
- A life of Kenneth Rexroth
- A life of Napoleon Bonaparte : with a sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French
- A life of Picasso
- A life of Riley : the Suffolk life and times of Frank Riley Smith, 1901-1912
- A life of Thomas Chatterton
- A life of William Shakespeare
- A life of William Shakespeare
- A life of William Shakespeare,
- A life of learning
- A life of learning
- A life of learning
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins lecture for 1999
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins lecture for 2000
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins lecture for 2001
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins lecture for 2002
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins lecture for 2005
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins lecture, April 23, 1987
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins prize lecture for 2006
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins prize lecture for 2011
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins prize lecture for 2015
- A life of learning : Charles Homer Haskins prize lecture for 2016
- A life of learning : wandering among fields : Charles Homer Haskins prize lecture for 2013
- A life of one's own : childhood and youth
- A life of one's own; : three gifted women and the men they married
- A life of privilege, mostly
- A life of propriety : Anne Murray Powell and her family, 1755-1849
- A life on paper : the drawings and lithographs of John Thomas Biggers
- A life on the road
- A life spent changing places
- A life with history
- A lifetime of labor : the autobiography of Alice H. Cook
- A little love & good company
- A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
- A little too close to God : the thrills and panic of a life in Israel
- A logical journey : from Gödel to philosophy
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way, baby ; : behind the scenes in women's pro tennis
- A look over my shoulder : a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
- A lot to ask : a life of Barbara Pym
- A madman of Ch'u : the Chinese myth of loyalty and dissent
- A madman's manifesto. : Le plaidoyer d'un fou
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A man must choose
- A man named John; : the life of Pope John XXIII.
- A man named Thoreau
- A man of honor : the autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- A manner of being : writers on their mentors
- A marriage of true minds : an intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
- A matter of black and white : the autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
- A matter of consequences : part three of an autobiography
- A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the civil rights revolution
- A matter of law : a memoir of struggle in the cause of equal rights
- A matter of opinion
- A matter of simple justice : the untold story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a few good women
- A mayor's life : governing New York's gorgeous mosaic
- A memoir of misfortune
- A memoir of the Warsaw uprising
- A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- A message from God in the atomic age
- A meteor shining brightly : essays on the life and career of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A mind in prison : the memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich
- A mind of her own : the life of Karen Horney
- A mind that found itself, : an autobiography
- A mingled chime : an autobiography
- A modern heretic and a traditional community : Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism
- A moment of war : a memoir of the Spanish Civil War
- A most remarkable fella : Frank Loesser and the guys and dolls in his life : a portrait by his daughter
- A mother's cry : a memoir of politics, prison, and torture under the Brazilian military dictatorship
- A mother's tale
- A mouth sweeter than salt : an African memoir
- A musical biography
- A musician and teacher in nineteenth century New England : Irving Emerson, 1843-1903
- A naturalist in Costa Rica
- A never-ending groove : Johnny Sandlin's musical odyssey
- A notorious woman : Anne Royall in Jacksonian America
- A papal chamberlain : the personal chronicle of Francis Augustus MacNutt
- A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss
- A passion for equality : George A. Wiley and the movement
- A passion for nature : Thomas Jefferson and natural history
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A passion for the land : John F. Seiberling and the environmental movement
- A passionate pilgrim : a biography of Bishop James A. Pike
- A passionate sisterhood : women of the Wordsworth circle
- A passionate usefulness : the life and literary labors of Hannah Adams
- A people awakened : the story of Woodrow Wilson's first campaign which carried New Jersey to the lead of the states in the great movement for the emancipation of the government
- A perfect union : Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation
- A personal Jesus; : portrait and interpretation
- A personal odyssey
- A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of Anne Frank
- A picture book of Benjamin Franklin
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
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