BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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- The ghosts of Eden Park, the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz- age America, Karen Abbott
- Girl who smiled beads, a story of war and what comes after, Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
- Upstairs at the White House, my life with the First Ladies, by J.B. West, with Mary Lynn Kotz
- The mirage factory, illusion, imagination, and the invention of Los Angeles, Gary Krist
- Georgia Women, Their Lives and Times, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen An Clark, Volume 2
- The immortal Irishman, the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero, Timothy Egan
- For love of country, what our veterans can teach us about citizenship, heroism, and sacrifice, Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Oral Roberts and the rise of the prosperity gospel, Jonathan Root
- Lady in red, an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan, Sheila Tate
- The fast times of Albert Champion, from record-setting racer to dashing tycoon, an untold story of speed, success, and betrayal, Peter Joffre Nye
- Mud and bodies, the war diaries and letters of Captain N.A.C. Weir, 1914-1920, edited by Saul David ; preface by Michael Weir Burns
- Robert Oppenheimer, a life inside the center, Ray Monk
- The lost Gutenberg, the astounding story of one book's five-hundred-year odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis
- Becoming Madison, the extraordinary origins of the least likely founding father, Michael Signer
- Lara, the untold love story that inspired Doctor Zhivago, Anna Pasternak
- Surviving Andersonville, one prisoner's recollections of the Civil War's most notorious camp, Ed Glennan ; edited by David A. Ranzan
- Eichmann before jerusalem, the unexamined life of a mass murderer, Bettina Stangneth
- The children of Henry VIII, Alison Weir
- Competing with idiots, Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait, Nick Davis
- The Duchess Countess, the woman who scandalized eighteenth-century London, Catherine Ostler
- Valor, unsung heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the home front, Mark Lee Greenblatt
- Nelson Mandela : The Authorised Comic Book
- Founders' son, a life of Abraham Lincoln, Richard Brookhiser
- Lady Catherine, the earl, and the real Downton Abbey, the Countess of Carnarvon
- Toussaint Louverture, a revolutionary life, Philippe Girard
- The woman who would be king, Hatshepsut's rise to power in ancient Egypt, Kara Cooney
- A world of her own, 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers, Michael Elsohn Ross
- I kiss your hands many times, hearts, souls, and wars in Hungary, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
- The good son, JFK Jr. and the mother he loved, by Christopher Andersen
- Casi una mujer, Esmeralda Santiago ; traducción de Nina Torres-Vidal
- Empire of the summer moon, Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history, S.C. Gwynne
- No surrender, a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today, Chris Edmonds and Douglas Century
- The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen
- Raoul Wallenberg, the heroic life and mysterious disappearance of the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocuast, Ingrid Carlberg ; with an introduction by Kofi A. Annan ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg
- Gandhi before India, Ramachana Guha
- All the frequent troubles of our days, the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler, Rebecca Donner
- American Prometheus, the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Living to some purpose, memoirs of a secularist Iraqi and Arab statesman, Adnan Pachachi ; foreword by Peter Sluglett
- Self made, inspired by the life of Madam C.J. Walker, A'Lelia Bundles
- The first Kennedys, the humble roots of an American dynasty, Neal Thompson
- Mrs. Adolf Hitler, the Eva Braun photograph albums 1912-45, Blaine Taylor
- Cuando era puertorriqueña, Esmeralda Santiago
- Queens of the crusades, 1154-1291, Alison Weir
- The world remade, America in World War I, G.J. Meyer
- Ten Caesars, Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine, Barry Strauss
- While the gods were sleeping, a journey through love and rebellion in Nepal, by Elizabeth Enslin
- The hidden thread, Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era, Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson
- On laughter-silvered wings, the story of Lt. Col. E.T. (Ted) Strever DFC, Gail Strever-Morkel
- Secret harvests, a hidden story of separation and the resilience of a family farm, David Mas Masumoto ; artwork by Patricia Wakida
- The color of abolition, how a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation, Linda Hirshman