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- "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- A Brahms reader
- A Burns companion
- A Catholic in the White House? : religion, politics, and John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign
- A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A brief history of geology
- A chainless soul : a life of Emily Brontë
- A companion to Thomas Mann's The magic mountain
- A critical study of Beethoven's nine symphonies : with "A few words on his trios and sonatas," a criticism of "Fidelio" and an introductory essay on music.
- A cross and a star : memoirs of a Jewish girl in Chile
- A cry for education : my life with cerebral palsy
- A dance autobiography
- A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A dream of passion : the development of the method
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A great and glorious game : baseball writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A life in the twentieth century
- A life of Kenneth Rexroth
- A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
- A little tiger in the Chinese night : an autobiography in art
- A man without a country
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
- A past in hiding : memory and survival in Nazi Germany
- A pictorial life of Jack London
- A portrait of Claude Debussy
- A portrait of Jane Austen
- A sentimental journey : memoirs, 1917-1922
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A soaring eagle : Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924
- A swinger of birches; : a portrait of Robert Frost.
- A time to dance, no time to weep
- A traitor's kiss : the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
- A voice from the wildernesss : the story of Anna Howard Shaw
- A warning
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- A world without Martha : a memoir of sisters, disability, and difference
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- Aaron Copland : the life and work of an uncommon man
- Abigail Adams : a writing life
- Abraham Lincoln, a press portrait : his life and times from the original newspaper documents of the Union, the Confederacy, and Europe
- Across boundaries : the journey of a South African woman leader
- Ada Lovelace : the making of a computer scientist
- Adams and Jefferson : a revolutionary dialogue
- Adieux : a farewell to Sartre
- Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus
- Adolf Hitler
- Adventures with D.W. Griffith
- African American authors, 1745-1945 : bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
- African American lives
- African American women scientists and inventors
- African lives : an anthology of memoirs and autobiographies
- African queen : the real life of the Hottentot Venus
- African states and rulers
- After Diana : irreverent elegies
- After long silence : a memoir
- Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world
- Agrippina : sex, power, and politics in the early Empire
- Ahead of her time : Abby Kelley and the politics of antislavery
- Akhenaten : history, fantasy, and ancient Egypt
- Akhenaten, Egypt's false prophet
- Akhenaten, the heretic king
- Alain L. Locke : biography of a philosopher
- Albert Schweitzer : a biography
- Albert Speer : his battle with truth
- Alberto Giacometti
- Albrecht Dürer : a biography
- Aldo Leopold's odyssey
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a biography
- Alexander Hamilton, American
- Alexander the Great : a reader
- Alexander the Great : the hunt for a new past
- Alexander the Great : the invisible enemy : a biography
- Alexis de Tocqueville : a life
- Alfred Russel Wallace : a life
- Alice Walker : a life
- All her paths are peace : women pioneers in peacemaking
- All things possible : my story of faith, football, and the miracle season
- America's political dynasties : from Adams to Clinton
- America's secret aristocracy
- American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
- American Indian biographies
- American Indian leaders : studies in diversity
- American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
- American art : history and culture
- American composers : a biographical dictionary
- American dreams, lost and found
- American feminists
- American first ladies : their lives and their legacy
- American musicians : fifty-six portraits in jazz
- American playwrights since 1945 : a guide to scholarship, criticism, and performance
- American reform and reformers : a biographical dictionary
- American social leaders and activists
- Americans from Germany
- An American in the making : the life story of an immigrant
- An American life
- An American requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us
- An Encyclopedia of continental women writers
- An accidental autobiography
- An angle of vision : women writers on their poor and working-class roots
- An artist's journey : lettres d'un bachelier ès musique, 1835-1841
- An autobiography
- An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood
- Ana's story : a journey of hope
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- And music at the close: Stravinsky's last years, : a personal memoir
- And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion
- Andrea Mantegna
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- André Gide : a life in the present
- Andy Warhol : a documentary film
- Angela Davis--an autobiography
- Anna Akhmatova : a poetic pilgrimage
- Anna Pavlova, her life and art
- Anna of all the Russias : the life of Anna Akhmatova
- Anne Brigman : a visionary in modern photography
- Anne Sexton : a biography
- Another day in paradise : international humanitarian workers tell their stories
- Anthony Trollope
- Antoine Lavoisier : science, administration, and revolution
- Arab women writers : a critical reference guide, 1873-1999
- Aristocrats : Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
- Arm the spirit : a woman's journey underground and back
- Art 21 : art in the twenty-first century : seasons one and two
- Art and intellect in the philosophy of Etienne Gilson
- Arthur Vandenberg : The Man in the Middle of the American Century
- Artists : from Michelangelo to Maya Lin
- As if : an autobiography
- Ashoka : the search for India's lost emperor
- Asian Americans : oral histories of first to fourth generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia
- Auden and Christianity
- Audubon : life and art in the American wilderness
- Audubon's Birds of America
- August Strindberg
- Augustine : a new biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography and selected letters
- Autobiography of a Yogi
- Autobiography of a face
- Autobiography of an aspiring saint
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Bach : eine Lebensgeschichte in Bildern = a life in pictures
- Bach : music in the castle of heaven
- Balzac : a life
- Balzac : a life of passion
- Barefoot to Avalon : a brother's story
- Basketball junkie : a memoir
- Basketball my way
- Battling injustice : 16 women Nobel peace laureates
- Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement
- Because I remember terror, Father, I remember you
- Becoming modern : the life of Mina Loy
- Beethoven
- Beethoven : the music and the life
- Begin the begin : R.E.M.'s early years
- Being an actor
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin and his enemies
- Bernini
- Bernini : his life and his Rome
- Berthe Morisot
- Bertolt Brecht : chaos, according to plan
- Best of Covered wagon women
- Better Than the Best : Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Between republic and empire : interpretations of Augustus and his principate
- Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war, 1941-1945
- Between the world and me
- Big Daddy from the Pedernales : Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Billie Holiday
- Billy Graham, evangelist to the world : an authorized biography of the decisive years
- Bin Laden : the man who declared war on America
- Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe : 19th and 20th centuries
- Biography of American author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
- Bismarck
- Bismarck and his times
- Bizet
- Black Elk : holy man of the Oglala
- Black and red : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American response to the Cold War, 1944-1963
- Black like me
- Black pearls : blues queens of the 1920s
- Black women scientists in the United States
- Black women writing autobiography : a tradition within a tradition
- Black, French, and African : a life of Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Blood brothers
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood of the prophets : Brigham Young and the massacre at Mountain Meadows
- Bloody Mary
- Bloomsbury : a house of lions
- Blue arabesque : a search for the sublime
- Bo
- Bold words : a century of Asian American writing
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901
- Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- Border junkies : addiction and survival on the streets of Juárez and El Paso
- Boris Pasternak, his life and art
- Born to wander : autobiography of John Ball, 1794-1884
- Boss Tweed : the rise and fall of the corrupt pol who conceived the soul of modern New York
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves
- Brahms
- Brando : songs my mother taught me
- Brave are my people : Indian heroes not forgotten
- Bridge to sound with a "bionic" ear
- Brigham Young : American Moses
- Britain's master spy : the adventures of Sidney Reilly
- Broadway : its history, people, and places : an encyclopedia
- Brothers and keepers
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Burying the typewriter : a memoir
- Business ethics : profiles in civic virtue
- Butler's lives of the saints
- Byron and the Websters : the letters and entangled lives of the poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster
- C. S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- C.S. Lewis : a biography
- C.S. Lewis : a celebration of his early life
- C.S. Lewis : memories and reflections
- C.S. Lewis at the breakfast table, and other reminiscences
- C.S. Lewis: images of his world.
- Caesar Augustus : seven aspects
- Caitlin : life with Dylan Thomas
- Calamity Jane : the woman and the legend
- Calculus gems : brief lives and memorable mathematics
- Camus
- Canaletto
- Candid science VI : more conversations with famous scientists
- Caravaggio
- Carry A. Nation : retelling the life
- Carter G. Woodson : a life in Black history
- Catfish and mandala : a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam
- Catherine the Great
- Catherine the Great
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Cavendish : the experimental life
- Cervantes, a biography
- Chandra : a biography of S. Chandrasekhar
- Chardin
- Charlemagne : father of a continent
- Charles Babbage, pioneer of the computer
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Darwin : a biography
- Charles Darwin and the problem of creation
- Charles Dickens : a literary life
- Charles Dickens and his publishers
- Charles Dickens and the blacking factory
- Charles I
- Charles I : a political life
- Charles Ives : a life with music
- Charles and Ray Eames : designers of the twentieth century
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : the making of a radical feminist, 1860-1896
- Chaucer's tale : 1386 and the road to Canterbury
- Cheever : a life
- Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president
- Chester Himes : a life
- Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy : the making of GKC, 1874-1908
- Children of the movement : the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and others reveal how the civil rights movement tested and transformed their families
- China in family photographs : a people's history of revolution and everyday life
- Chinese profiles
- Chopin, the reluctant romantic
- Christina Rossetti : a writer's life
- Christopher Columbus, mariner.
- Christopher Isherwood : his era, his gang, and the legacy of the truly strong man
- Christopher Marlowe
- Christopher Marlowe : a Renaissance life
- Christopher Marlowe : a literary life
- Churchill : a life
- Churchill and America
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill's empire : the world that made him and the world he made
- Churchill: a study in failure, 1900-1939
- Cicero : politics and persuasion in ancient Rome
- Cicero and his friends; : a study of Roman society in the time of Caesar.
- Cicero and the Roman Republic
- Cinema eye, cinema ear; : some key film-makers of the sixties
- Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy
- Clapton : the autobiography
- Cleopatra : beyond the myth
- Cleopatras
- Clodia Metelli : the tribune's sister
- Clover Adams : a gilded and heartbreaking life
- Colin Powell : soldier/statesman--statesman/soldier
- Coming to my senses : the autobiography of a sociologist
- Commander : the life and exploits of Britain's greatest frigate captain
- Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Confessions of a knife
- Confessions of a parish priest : an autobiography
- Confessions of an S.O.B.
- Confessions of an economic hit man
- Confessions, Books I-IV
- Contemporary African American novelists : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
- Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary
- Contemporary Japanese film
- Contemporary composers
- Conversations with Chinua Achebe
- Conversations with Saul Bellow
- Coto vedado
- Create dangerously : the immigrant artist at work
- Creating across cultures : women in the arts from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
- Crime, deviance and doping : fallen sports stars, autobiography and the management of stigma
- Critical companion to James Joyce : a literary reference to his life and work
- Critical companion to T.S. Eliot : a literary reference to his life and work
- Critical companion to Tennessee Williams
- Critical companion to Walt Whitman : a literary reference to his life and work
- Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail
- Crossing the line : a year in the land of apartheid
- Cures : a gay man's odyssey
- Curriculum vitae : autobiography
- Cyril Connolly : journal and memoir
- D.H. Lawrence
- D.H. Lawrence : the life of an outsider
- Dalí illustrator / : of Lautréamont : Les Chants de Maldoror / Dante : the Divine Comedy / Holy Scripture : the Sacred Bible
- Dancing revelations : Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture
- Daniel Boone
- Daniel Defoe : master of fictions : his life and ideas
- Daniel Webster
- Dante
- Dark midnight when I rise : the story of the Jubilee Singers, who introduced the world to the music of Black America
- Darwin
- Darwin : discovering the tree of life
- Darwin's Origin of species : a biography
- Darwin's mentor ; : John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861
- Dateline Soweto : travels with black South African reporters
- Daughter of destiny : an autobiography
- Daughter of good fortune : a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir
- David Gilhooly
- De Gaulle
- De Stijl, the formative years, 1917-1922
- Dearest beloved : the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family
- Deciphering the rising sun : Navy and Marine Corps codebreakers, translators, and interpreters in the Pacific war
- Decoding the stars : a biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and scientist
- Deep in our hearts : nine white women in the Freedom Movement
- Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
- Derek Walcott : a Caribbean life
- Destruction of the father reconstruction of the father : writings and interviews, 1923-1997
- Diaghilev's Ballets russes
- Dickens
- Dickey Chapelle under fire : photographs by the first American female war correspondent killed in action
- Dictionary of contemporary American artists
- Discovering great artists : hands-on art for children in the styles of the great masters
- Disraeli and his world
- Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century
- Dixie Bohemia : a French Quarter circle in the 1920s
- Doctor Mary in Arabia : memoirs
- Donatist martyr stories : the Church in conflict in Roman North Africa
- Donizetti and his operas
- Dorothea Lange : a life beyond limits
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Dorothy Hodgkin : a life
- Dorothy L. Sayers : her life and soul
- Drawn to extremes : the use and abuse of editorial cartoons
- Drawn to purpose : American women illustrators and cartoonists
- Dreams in the mirror : a biography of E.E. Cummings
- Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India
- Dwelling place : a plantation epic
- E.B. White : a biography
- Echoes of an autobiography
- Ecstasy and the demon : feminism and nationalism in the dances of Mary Wigman
- Edgar Degas, life and work
- Edison
- Edvard Munch : behind the Scream
- Edward I
- Edward I
- Edward II
- Edward III
- Edward Lear : a biography
- Edward Lear, landscape painter and nonsense poet (1812-1888) / by Angus Davidson
- Edward M. Kennedy : a biography
- Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein's masterwork : 1915 and the general theory of relativity
- Eisenhower : portrait of the hero
- Eisenhower's lieutenants : the campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945
- Eisenhower: captive hero; : a critical study of the general and the President
- Eleanor and Franklin : the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers
- Elgar
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth Bishop : life and the memory of it
- Ella Baker : freedom bound
- Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
- Ellington : the early years
- Ellis Island interviews : in their own words
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis day by day
- Embracing America : a Cuban exile comes of age
- Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography
- Eminent economists : their life philosophies
- Emperor of Japan : Meiji and his world, 1852-1912
- Empty phantoms : interviews and encounters with Jack Kerouac
- Encounters and dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
- Encounters with Kierkegaard : a life as seen by his contemporaries
- Encyclopedia of German literature
- Encyclopedia of Japanese American internment
- Encyclopedia of Latin American literature
- Encyclopedia of Latin American theater
- Encyclopedia of feminist literature
- Encyclopedia of political anarchy
- Encyclopedia of terrorism
- Encyclopedia of the blues
- Enemies of slavery
- Energy and empire : a biographical study of Lord Kelvin
- Enrico Fermi : physicist
- Epistolophilia : writing the life of Ona Šimaitė
- Equiano, the African : biography of a self-made man