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- 25 women who ruled
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- 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 dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of George Washington
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the 1969 Mets
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the things we never knew
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amelia Earhart : beyond the grave
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An affair with beauty : the mystique of Howard Chandler Christy, [1], The magic of youth
- An improbable friendship : the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission
- An unlikely ballerina
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Autumn
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- 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
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Bethany Hamilton
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Between the world and me
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black women who dared
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- 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
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Both sides of the line : my coach, the Boston mob enforcer, my mentor, the murderer : the true story of Clyde Dempsey and the 1974 Don Bosco Bears
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Carli Lloyd : soccer star
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Champions of women's soccer
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Schulz
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing ghosts : a memoir of a father, gone to war
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra and ancient Egypt for kids : her life and world, with 21 activities
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel : pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Cousin Bella : the whore of Minsk
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cyrus Field's big dream : the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
- Dadland
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Dangerous Jane
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Danica Patrick
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darling, I'm going to Charlie : a memoir
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Deep-cover spies and double-crossers of the Cold War
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exupéry's lost child
- Disney
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolores Huerta stands strong : the woman who demanded justice
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis ignited : the rise of an icon in Florida
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Family history : a memoir
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First founding father : Richard Henry Lee and the call to independence
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First ladies of the Republic : Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role
- First to the top : Sir Edmund Hillary's amazing Everest adventure
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten women : the scientists
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939, v. 1
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the war years, 1939-1945, v. 2
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Genius : a photobiography of Albert Einstein
- Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Goddess of love incarnate : the life of stripteuse Lili St. Cyr
- Goebbels : a biography
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Going to the mountain : life lessons from my grandfather, Nelson Mandela
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- Grace of Monaco
- Grandad Mandela
- Grant
- Grant
- Greetings from Utopia Park : surviving a transcendent childhood
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Growing up Pedro
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Helen Oxenbury : a life in illustration
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Hidden figures
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hidden women : the African-American mathematicians of NASA who helped America win the space race
- Hillary Clinton
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How Dante can save your life : the life-changing wisdom of history's greatest poem
- How Emily saved the bridge : the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- Hustling Hitler : the Jewish vaudevillian who fooled the Führer
- Hypatia : the life and legend of an ancient philosopher
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Sacagawea
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I've got this round : more tales of debauchery
- Identity unknown : rediscovering seven American women artists
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Paris : twenty women, on life in the City of Light
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the darkroom
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the name of the father : family, football, and the Manning dynasty
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Indestructible : One man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- Irving Berlin : the immigrant boy who made America sing
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- J.K. Rowling
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
- Jackie Robinson : an integrated life
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Jeff Kinney
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joan of Arc : a history
- Joe Gould's teeth
- John Hughes : a life in film
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Jonathan Toews
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Judas : how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- Judy Blume
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Kanye West : god & monster
- Kate DiCamillo
- Kate Warne : Pinkerton detective
- Kellogg's
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kennedy babylon : a century of scandal and depravity, Volume 2
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- King John : treachery and tyranny in Medieval England : the road to Magna Carta
- King John and the road to Magna Carta
- King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- Kissinger, v. 1, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Labyrinths : Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Last man standing : Mort Sahl and the birth of modern comedy
- Last royal rebel : the life and death of James, Duke of Monmouth
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Laurie Hernandez
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Lenin on the train
- Leo Durocher : baseball's prodigal son
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letters to Vera
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile