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- "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- 'For us it was heaven' : the passion, grief and fortitude of Patience Darton : from the Spanish Civil War to Mao's China
- 'Iffat Al Thunayan : an Arabian queen
- 1001 beds : performances, essays, and travels
- 1185 Park Avenue : a memoir
- 15 journeys : Warsaw to London
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 21 Yaks and a speedo : how to achieve your impossible
- 28 seconds : a true story of addiction, tragedy and hope
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 4th and goal : one man's quest to recapture his dream
- 700 Sundays
- 703 : how I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- A Blue Puttee at war : the memoir of Captain Sydney Frost, MC
- A California childhood
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Celtic temperament : Robertson Davies as diarist
- A Jane Austen Christmas : celebrating the season of romance, ribbons & mistletoe
- A Prince among Stones : that business with the Rolling Stones and other adventures
- A Romanov fantasy : life at the court of Anna Anderson
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A biography of Robert Baldwin : the morning-star of memory
- A brief history of the private life of Elizabeth II
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A certain idea of France : the life of Charles de Gaulle
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chef's life, Season two
- A comedian sees the world
- A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
- A cook's tour : in search of the perfect meal
- A country boy : from Sussex to the Canadian West
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cowherd in paradise : from China to Canada
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A dark room : Dans le noir
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A difficult par : Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the making of modern golf
- A disappearance in Damascus
- A dream of Canada : an incredible story of struggle and overcoming
- A family sketch and other private writings
- A few seconds of radiant filmstrip : a memoir of seventh grade
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fiery soul : the life and theatrical times of John Hirsch
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- A fine brother : the life of Captain Flora Sandes
- A fine romance
- A free man : [a true story of life and death in Delhi]
- A free man : [a true story of life and death in Delhi]
- A garden of marvels : how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
- A good and perfect gift : faith, expectations, and a little girl named Penny
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A gut reaction : a true story about a mother's fight to save her son's life and his amazing recovery from Crohn's disease
- A hard man to beat : the story of Bill White, labour leader, historian, shipyard worker, raconteur
- A heart blown open : the life and practice of Zen master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi
- A heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters
- A heart to serve : the passion to bring health, hope, and healing
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house with no roof : after my father's assassination, a memoir
- A hunter's confession
- A journey : my political life
- A journey to Starland
- A leg to stand on : an amputee's walk into motherhood
- A life : a memoir
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life in letters
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck, Volume 1, Steel-true 1907-1940
- A life of Sir Francis Galton : from African exploration to the birth of Eugenics
- A life on the edge : memoirs of Everest and beyond
- A little more about me
- A long stone's throw : [a memoir]
- A lucky Irish lad
- A man called Harris : the life of Richard Harris
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America
- A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change
- A man's world : the double life of Emile Griffith
- A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- A mother in history
- A new day
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A piece of cake : a memoir
- A pilot's journey log : Daryl Smith and Pacific Coastal Airlines : a biography
- A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- A poet's revolution : the life of Denise Levertov
- A prison diary
- A prison within
- A prisoner and yet...
- A professor in Parliament : experiencing a turbulent parliament and Reform Party caucus, 1993-97
- A purpose ridden
- A queer and pleasant danger : a memoir
- A raven in my heart : reflections of a bookseller
- A road taken : my journey from a CN station house to the CN boardroom
- A royal duty
- A royal experiment : the private life of King George III
- A royal passion : the turbulent marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
- A search for purple cows : a true story of hope
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A ship without a sail : the life of Lorenz Hart
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A song in the night : a memoir of resilience
- A spoonful of sugar : a nanny's story
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A state of fear : my 10 years inside Iran's torture jails
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A taste for intrigue : the multiple lives of François Mitterrand
- A terrible duty : the madness of Captain Bowen-Colthurst
- A thousand deer : four generations of hunting and the hill country
- A thousand farewells : a reporter's journey from refugee camp to the Arab spring
- A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- A three dog life
- A tiger's heart : the story of a modern Chinese woman
- A truck full of money
- A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- A view from the top : Avon's elite leaders share their stories and strategies to succeed
- A vineyard in Tuscany : a wine lover's dream
- A wedding in Haiti : the story of a friendship
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wolf at the table : a memoir of my father
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman like me
- A world elsewhere : an American woman in wartime Germany
- A year in the life of a duchess : Catherine, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
- A year straight : confessions of a boy-crazy lesbian beauty queen
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- AC/DC : the story of the original monsters of rock
- Abba Eban : a biography
- Abdullah Gül & the making of the new Turkey
- Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
- About Alice
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Adventures of a no name actor
- Adventures with Ollie
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Everest : inside the private world of Edmund Hillary
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- After the falls
- After the heavy rain
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Afterimage : a brokenhearted memoir of a charmed life
- Aftermath : on marriage and separation
- Against the current : the remarkable life of Agnes Deans Cameron
- Against the wind : an Ironwoman's race for her family's survival
- Agnes Martin : her life and art
- Ai, xie hou : bu ke bu zhi de 17 wei xi fang jing dian yi wen da shi
- Aisyut'ain : sam kwa uju
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Alabo de Laolunsi : zhan zheng, huang yan, di guo yu xing yu xian dai zhong dong de xing cheng
- Alan Turing : the enigma
- Alex Ko : from Iowa to Broadway, my Billy Elliot story
- Alexander I : the tsar who defeated Napoleon
- Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology
- Alexander of Russia : Napoleon's conqueror
- Alfred : Queen Victoria's second son
- Alfred C. Kinsey : a life
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock : the man who knew too much
- Algerian diary : Frank Kearns & the "impossible assignment" for CBS News
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Alice Neel : the art of not sitting pretty
- Alice Ravenhill : never say die
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All cheeses great and small : a life less blurry
- All creatures great and small
- All creatures great and small
- All fired up : tales of a country fireman
- All gone : a memoir of my mother's dementia : with refreshments
- All gone : a memoir of my mother's dementia : with refreshments
- All good things : from Paris to Tahiti, life and longing
- All in : the education of General David Petraeus
- All in all : an actor's life on and off the stage
- All in one basket
- All over the map
- All roads lead to Austen : a yearlong journey with Jane
- All we know : three lives
- Allan Square
- Allen Klein : the man who bailed out the Beatles, made the Stones, and transformed rock & roll
- Almost a great escape : a found story
- Almost there : the onward journey of a Dublin woman
- Alpha docs : the making of a cardiologist
- Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : unlikely champion of women's rights
- Am I sane yet? : an insider's look at mental illness
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : the thrill of it
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt
- America's most famous Catholic (according to himself) : Stephen Colbert and American religion in the twenty-first century
- American Evita : Hillary Clinton's path to power
- American Gandhi : A. J. Muste and the history of radicalism in the twentieth century
- American chica : two worlds, one childhood
- American gangbang : a love story
- American general : the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- American gypsy
- American hostage : a memoir of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq and the remarkable battle to win his release
- American lady : the life of Susan Mary Alsop
- American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- American on purpose : the improbable adventures of an unlikely patriot
- American outlaw
- American queen : the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American titan : searching for John Wayne
- American vandal : Mark Twain abroad
- Americana : the Kinks, the riff, the road : the story
- Amy, Amy, Amy : the Amy Winehouse story
- An American Cardinal : the biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan
- An American bride in Kabul : a memoir
- An Arctic man : sixty-five years in Canada's North
- An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist : a memoir
- An astronaut's guide to life on earth
- An enlightened duke : the life of Archibald Campbell (1692-1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll
- An exact replica of a figment of my imagination : a memoir
- An improvised life : a memoir
- An invisible thread : [the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny]
- An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny
- An ordinary hero : the story of David Goldberg, WWII Canadian Spitfire pilot
- An unquiet mind
- And I am afraid of my dreams
- And live rejoicing : chapters from a charmed life : personal encounters with spiritual mavericks, remarkable seekers, and the world's great religious leaders
- And nothing but the truthiness : the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert
- And so it goes : Kurt Vonnegut, a life
- And still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation
- And then one day : a memoir
- And there was light : the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II
- And we go on
- Andrea Martin's lady parts
- Andy Kaufman : the truth, finally
- Andy Serkis : the man behind the mask
- Angela James : the first superstar of women's hockey : a biography
- Angry conversations with God : a snarky but authentic spiritual memoir
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Annapurna, a woman's place
- Anne Boleyn : fatal attractions
- Anne Boleyn : the queen of controversy : a biographical essay
- Anni de sheng dan jie : Siwudao de gu shi
- Annie Parker decoded : the story that inspired the film
- Another man's war : the story of a Burma boy in Britain's forgotten African army
- Another man's war : the true story of one man's battle to save children in the Sudan
- Another side of Bob Dylan : a personal history on the road and off the tracks
- Anquetil tout seul : récit
- Anthems and minstrel shows : the life and times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation
- Antigona and me
- Any day now : David Bowie : the London years, 1947-1974
- Apologies to my censor : the high and low adventures of a foreigner in China
- Appleby House
- Archibald Wavell : leadership, strategy, conflict
- Are you somebody? : the accidental memoir of a Dublin woman
- Aren't you forgetting someone? : essays from my mid-life revenge
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
- Ariel Sharon : an intimate portrait
- Arik : the life of Ariel Sharon
- Arlo Guthrie : the Warner/Reprise years
- Army of lovers : a community history of Will Munro : the artist, activist, impresario and civic hero who brought together Toronto's club kids, art fags, hardcore boys, drag queens, rock'n'roll queers, needlework obsessives, limp-wristed nellies, stone butches, New Wave freaks, unabashed perverts, proud prudes and beautiful dreamers
- Art Ross : the hockey legend who built the Bruins
- Art and madness : a memoir of lust without reason
- Arthur Ashe : tennis and justice in the Civil Rights era
- Arthur Erickson : an architect's life
- Arthur Miller : 1915-1962
- Arthur Miller, 1962-2005
- As I see it : my view from the inside out
- As good as God, as clever as the devil : the impossible life of Mary Benson
- As good as god, as clever as the devil : the impossible life of Mary Benson
- As luck would have it : my seven ages
- Ashe vs Connors : Wimbledon 1975 : tennis that went beyond centre court
- Astonished : a story of evil, blessings, grace, and solace
- Astor orphan : a memoir
- Asylum : Hollywood tales from my great depression: brain dis-ease, recovery, and being my mother's son
- At home with Jane Austen
- At the far reaches of empire : the life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
- At the world's edge : Curt Lang's Vancouver, 1937-1998
- At the yeoman's house
- At this moment : the story of Michael Bublé
- Attempting normal
- Audition : a memoir
- Audrey : her real story
- Audrey and Bill : a romantic biography of Audrey Hepburn & William Holden
- Aurangzeb : the life and legacy of India's most controversial king
- Autism breakthrough : the groundbreaking method that has helped families all over the world
- Autopsy of war : a personal history
- Ava Gardner : "love is nothing"
- Ayn Rand and the world she made
- Back story : a memoir
- Backstairs Billy : the life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's most devoted servant
- Bad blood
- Bad dog : a love story
- Bad habits : confessions of a recovering Catholic
- Baking as biography : a life story in recipes
- Banished : surviving my years in the Westboro Baptist Church
- Banksy : the man behind the wall
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barack Obama : [the story]
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barbara Reid
- Barefoot at the lake : a boyhood summer in cottage country
- Barnum Brown : the man who discovered Tyrannosaurus rex
- Basketball junkie : a memoir
- Battling melanoma : one couple's struggle from diagnosis to cure
- Beale Street Dynasty : sex, song, and the struggle for the soul of Memphis
- Beatles vs. Stones
- Beatrix Potter : a life in nature
- Beautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr
- Beautiful eyes : a father transformed
- Beauty queen : inside the reign of Avon's Andrea Jung
- Beauty, disrupted : a memoir
- Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical
- Becoming Buddha : the story of Siddhartha
- Becoming Freud : the making of a psychoanalyst
- Becoming Mr. October
- Becoming Queen Victoria : the tragic death of Princess Charlotte and the unexpected rise of Britain's greatest monarch
- Becoming Richard Pryor
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming a Londoner : a diary
- Becoming a man : half a life story
- Becoming wild : living the primitive life on a west coast island
- Bedsit disco queen : how I grew up and tried to be a pop star
- Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
- Beethoven : the man revealed
- Beethoven : the universal composer
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Behind palace doors : my service as the Queen Mother's equerry
- Behind the green
- Behind the scenes
- Bei qing zai xiang : Li Hongzhang zhuan
- Bei ying : wo de fu qin Boyang
- Being Kendra : cribs, cocktails, & getting my sexy back
- Being a Rockefeller, becoming myself : a memoir
- Believer : my forty years in politics
- Belmarsh, hell
- Below stairs : [the bestselling memoirs of a 1920s kitchen maid]
- Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
- Ben Hogan : the myths everyone knows, the man no one knew
- Ben ren de cheng sheng zhi dao : Zeng Guofan
- Ben-Gurion : father of modern Israel
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Beneath a waning moon : diaries 1985-1987
- Benjamin Britten : a life for music
- Benjamin Britten : a life in the twentieth century
- Benjamin Franklin : an American Life
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Bento box in the heartland : my Japanese girlhood in whitebread America
- Beria : Stalin's first lieutenant
- Berlusconi : the epic story of the billionaire who took over Italy
- Bernard Berenson : a life in the picture trade
- Bernard Hinault and the fall and rise of French cycling
- Bertie : a life of Edward VII
- Bertrand Russell, 1921-70 : the ghost of madness
- Best of both worlds
- Beth Chatto : a life with plants
- Betrayal : the life and lies of Bernie Madoff
- Better : how I let go of control, held on to hope, and found joy in my darkest hour
- Better late than never
- Between gods
- Between torture and resistance
- Beyond belief : my secret life inside scientology and my harrowing escape
- Beyond the Chilcotin : on the Home Ranch with Pan Phillips
- Beyond the Home Ranch
- Beyond the bear : how I learned to live and love again after being blinded by a bear
- Beyond the horizon : extreme adventures at the edge of the world
- Beyond the miracle worker : the remarkable life of Anne Sullivan Macy and her extraordinary friendship with Helen Keller
- Beyond the outer shores : the untold odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the pioneering ecologist who inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big appetite : my Southern-fried search for the meaning of life
- Big sex, little death : [a memoir]
- Biko : a life
- Bill Reid : the making of an Indian
- Billion dollar painter : the triumph and tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, painter of light
- Billion dollar painter : the triumph and tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, painter of light
- Billions to bust-- and back : how I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way
- Billy Joel
- Billy Joel : the definitive biography
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Bird & Diz
- Bird : the life and music of Charlie Parker
- Bird of paradise : how I became Latina
- Birdseye : the adventures of a curious man
- Birth certificate : the story of Danilo Kiš
- Bismarck : a life
- Bitter blood : a true story of southern family pride, madness, and multiple murder
- Black Sabbath : the original princes of darkness
- Black Sun : the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby
- Black and white : the way I see it
- Blackbird : a childhood lost and found
- Blasphemy : a memoir : sentenced to death over a cup of water
- Blind curves : a woman, a motorcycle, and a journey to reinvent herself
- Blind descent : surviving alone and blind on Mount Everest
- Blockade diary : under siege in Leningrad, 1941-1942
- Blonde ambition : the untold story behind Anna Nicole Smith's death
- Blood, bones & butter : [the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef]
- Blood, bones, & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Blood, sweat, and fear
- Blossoms on the wind : a memoir
- Blue days, black nights : a memoir
- Blue nights
- Blue nights
- Blue-eyed boy : a memoir
- Bob Dylan : a biography
- Bob Dylan : the never ending star
- Bob Marley
- Bob Marley : a life
- Bobby Darin : a life
- Bobby's book
- Body counts : a memoir of politics, sex, AIDS, and survival
- Boku niwa ashi wa nai kedo yume ga aru : donzoko de tsukanda ikikata no gokui = Secrets to life I found at rock bottom
- Bolaño : a biography in conversations
- Bolívar : American liberator
- Bombing Hitler : the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer
- Bon appétempt : a coming-of-age story (with recipes!)
- Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin
- Bookbinding & conservation : a sixty-year odyssey of art and craft
- Bookmarked : reading my way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
- Booky wook 2 : this time it's personal
- Born for the wild country : big feet and a mouth to match
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to royalty
- Borrowed finery : a memoir
- Bossypants
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Both : a portrait in two parts
- Bound by flesh
- Boundless optimism : Richard McBride's British Columbia
- Bowie : the biography
- Boy on ice : the life and death of Derek Boogaard
- Bradley Wiggins : tour de force
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brando's smile : his life, thought, and work
- Brangelina : [the untold story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie]
- Brave girl : Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
- Breakfast at Sally's : one homeless man's inspirational journey
- Breakfast with Lucian : the astounding life and outrageous times of Britain's great modern painter
- Breaking in : the rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the politics of justice
- Breaking new ground : a personal history
- Breaking night : [a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard]
- Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard
- Breaking the code : a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
- Breaking the surface
- Brian Jones : the making of the Rolling Stones
- Brief encounters : conversations, magic moments, and assorted hijinks
- Brief encounters : conversations, magic moments, and assorted hijinks
- Brigham Young, pioneer prophet
- Britney : the biography
- Brooks : the biography of Brooks Robinson
- Brothers (& me) : a memoir of loving and giving
- Brothers : on his brothers and brothers in history
- Brothers Emanuel : [a memoir of an American family]
- Brothers Emanuel : a memoir of an American family
- Bruce
- Bu zi you guo du de zi you ren : Liu Xiaobo de sheng ming yu si xiang shi jie
- Bud's story : game warden to CO
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Buffalo gal : a memoir
- Building a mystery : the story of Sarah McLachlan & Lilith Fair