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- 101 things you didn't know about Da Vinci : inventions, intrigue, and unfinished works
- 101 things you didn't know about Einstein : sex, science, and the secrets of the universe
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 30 people who changed the world : fascinating bite-sized essays from award-winning writers
- 5 histoires de personnalités autochtones inspirantes
- 5-minute stories for fearless girls
- 50 queers who changed the world : a celebration of LGBTQ+ icons
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy named Tommy Douglas
- A burning in my bones : the authorized biography of Eugene H. Peterson
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A farmer's diary : a year at High House Farm
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A friend like Iggy
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A history of me
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A leopard diary : my journey into the hidden world of a mother and her cubs
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A long way home
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mill behind every stump
- A mind like mine : 21 famous people and their mental health
- A promised land, Discs 1-14
- A promised land, Discs 15-28
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympics Games
- A voice named Aretha
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mother to her dirty son
- Abraham Lincoln
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Adele
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Advancing technology : women who led the way
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the current : the remarkable life of Agnes Deans Cameron
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : a very elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Aggie & Mudgy : the journey of two Kaska Dena children
- Agnes Macphail
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a curious mind
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alex Ovechkin
- Alexa! : changing the face of Canadian politics
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Ali : a life
- Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- All about Anne
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All in : an autobiography
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All my mother's secrets
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- 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
- Altitude
- Amazing Atlantic Canadian women : fascinating stories of excellence and determination
- Amazing artists
- Amazing athletes : 40 inspiring icons
- Amazing athletes : an all-star look at Canada's Paralympians
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire
- Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart is on the moon?
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American 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
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American serial killers : the epidemic years 1950-2000
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Ancient civilizations : women who made a difference
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andy Warhol
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Anne's cradle : the life & works of Hanako Muraoka, Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables
- Annie Pootoogook : cutting ice = Ini Putugu : tukisitittisimavuq takusinnggittunik
- Anthem : Rush in the '70s
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Art of freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Artists : inspiring stories of their lives and works
- As Glenn as can be
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Astronauts : with STEM projects for kids
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- Auston Matthews : hockey dynamo
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Back to beer... and hockey : the story of Eric Molson
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Banksy : graffitied walls and wasn't sorry
- Barkley : a biography
- Barracoon : the story of the last "Black cargo"
- Basketball dreams
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- BeastieBoysbook
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the movies, memes, and meaning of Hollywood's most enigmatic actor
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Before John was a jazz giant : a song of John Coltrane
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Behind the bookcase : Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Ram Dass
- Belonging : a German reckons with history and home
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bessie Coleman : bold pilot who gave women wings
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Beverley McLachlin : the legacy of a Supreme Court Chief Justice
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big men fear me : the fast life and quick death of Canada's most powerful media mogul
- Bihār va Jhārkhanḍ men̲ Urdū afsānah aur afsānah nigār
- Bill Gates
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Biology for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome biologists, past and present
- Bix
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- Black flag of the north : Bartholomew Roberts, king of the Atlantic pirates
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black trailblazers : 30 courageous visionaries who broke boundaries, made a difference, and paved the way
- Black women who dared
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Boss ladies of science
- Boss the bestseller list like J.K. Rowling
- Bossypants
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bower : a legendary life
- Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Brave face : a memoir
- Brave leaders and activists
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Brayden speaks up
- Bread for words : a Frederick Douglass story
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking through : how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brother & sister
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Bruno Sammartino
- Bush runner : the adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
- Butch Cassidy : The true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Canadian courage : true stories of Canada's everyday heroes
- Canadian women now + then : more than 100 stories of fearless trailblazers
- Cancerland : a medical memoir
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carey Price
- Carey Price
- Carey Price : how a First Nations kid became a superstar goaltender
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Chance the Rapper : independent master of hip-hop flow
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin
- Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts
- Chasing Cosby : the downfall of America's dad
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Christopher Columbus : explorer and colonist
- Churchill & son
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- City of devils : the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai
- Civil rights : women who made a difference
- Clarence's big secret
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claude Monet
- Claudette Colvin
- Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
- Clever Hans : the true story of the counting, adding, and time-telling horse
- Coco Chanel
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Commander in cheat : how golf explains Trump
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire--a biography
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasian
- Connor McDavid
- Connor McDavid : hockey superstar
- Conquering the Pacific : an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the age of discovery
- Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Creepy crawling : Charles Manson and the many lives of America's most infamous family
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman keeper
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dare to be different : inspirational words from people who changed the world
- Daring Amelia
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie
- David Bowie : a life
- David Thompson
- Dead mom walking : a memoir of miracle cures and other disasters
- Deadly hearts : history's most dangerous people
- Dear Scarlet : the story of my postpartum depression
- Devils, lusts and strange desires : the life of Patricia Highsmith
- Dhund men̲ cihare
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Didn't we almost have it all : in defense of Whitney Houston
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the twenty-first century
- Dix gars passionnés! : 10 parcours inspirants
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Does the noise in my head bother you? : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- Don't stop believin'
- Donald J. Trump : a president like no other
- Dorothy Vaughan : NASA's leading human computer
- Dostoevsky in love : an intimate life
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dragon hoops
- Dream big, little one
- Dreamers
- Driven : Rush in the '90s and "in the end"
- Driving Miss Norma : one family's journey saying 'yes' to living
- Drum from the heart
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Earth squad : 50 people who are saving the planet
- Edison
- Edison
- Educated : a memoir
- El Chapo : the untold story of the world's most infamous drug lord
- El Jefe : the stalking of Chapo Guzmán
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Elle a persisté autour du monde : 13 femmes qui ont changé l'histoire
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Elon Musk
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future : young readers' edition
- Elon musk : risking it all
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmy Noether : the most important mathematician you've never heard of
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress of the Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
- Engineers : with STEM projects for kids
- Enough already : learning to love the way I am today
- Escape : es-cape (verb) : to avoid a threatening evil
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everest : the remarkable story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- Every day I'm hustling
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
- Everybody thought we were crazy : Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- Everyday hockey heroes : more inspiring stories about our great game, Volume II
- Everything Trump touches dies : a Republican strategist gets real about the worst president ever
- Explorapedia : amazing explorers of the world and their journeys of discovery
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Explorers and pioneers : intrepid adventurers who achieved the unthinkable
- Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont
- Extraordinary Canadians : stories from the heart of our nation
- Fairest : a memoir
- Faiz̤ Aḥmad Faiz̤
- Famous black Canadians
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fantastic failures : true stories of people who changed the world by falling down first
- Father of lions : one man's remarkable quest to save the Mosul Zoo
- Fatty legs : a true story
- Fauja Singh keeps going : the true story of the oldest person to ever run a marathon
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fierce : how competing for myself changed everything
- Fighting for yes! : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
- Fights : one boy's triumph over violence
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Murph : how Joe Murphy went from winning a championship to living homeless in the bush
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : a cook's story : remaking a life from scratch
- Finding my dance
- Fire and fury : inside the Trump White House
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First in flight : how a photograph captured the takeoff of the Wright brothers' flyer
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Florence Griffith Joyner
- Flower diary : in which Mary Hiester Reid paints, travels, marries & opens a door
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly into the wind : how to harness faith and fearlessness on your ascent to greatness
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- For the love of soccer!
- Forever Terry : a legacy in letters
- Forgotten women : the artists
- Forgotten women : the leaders
- Forgotten women : the scientists
- Frankel : the greatest racehorse of all time and the sport that made him
- Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free lunch
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freedom
- Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- From here to there : inventions that changed the way the world moves
- From scratch : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
- From the streets of Shaolin : the Wu-Tang saga
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Frontline general : Douglas MacArthur : America's most controversial hero
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Futureface : a family mystery, a search for identity, and the truth about belonging : adapted for young readers
- Galileo Galilei
- Game change : the life and death of Steve Montador and the future of hockey
- Game, set, sisters! : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gandhi
- Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- Gentle on my mind : in sickness and in health with Glen Campbell
- George
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Ghostbuster's daughter : life with my dad, Harold Ramis
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl athlete : powrful stories from game-changing women
- Girl squads : 20 female friendships that changed history
- Girl warriors : how 25 young activists are saving the Earth
- Girls can! : smash stereotypes, defy expectations, and make history!
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Gizmos, gadgets, and guitars : the story of Leo Fender
- Global activists : women who made a difference
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- God's shadow : Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the making of the modern world
- Going there
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Golden handcuffs : the secret history of Trump's women
- Gone to the woods : surviving a lost childhood
- Good boy : my life in seven dogs
- Good morning, sunshine! : the Joey Moss story
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 inspiring young changemakers
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 real-life tales of black girl magic
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Gorgée! : la vie trop courte de Roberto "Bob" Bissonnette
- Govern like a girl : the women who became Canada's first ministers
- Grass
- Greenlights
- Greta Thunberg
- Greta Thunberg and the climate crisis
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Groundbreaking scientists