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Chekhov
Henri Troyat

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Goethe: The Poet and the Age
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
Robert Bernard Martin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Runner: A Short Story About A Long Run
Lizzy Hawker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

America (The Book)
Jon Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1976

A House of My Own
Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Great Bridge
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Monuments Men
Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Barry M. Prizant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

This Angel on My Chest
Leslie Pietrzyk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

John Cardinal O'Connor
Nat Hentoff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

Constantine's Sword
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Cheating Death
Marvin J Cetron, Owen Davies

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Fortunate Man
John Berger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

Inside the Crocodile
Trish Nicholson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Race in America
Matthew Desmond, Mustafa Emirbayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Stacy A. Cordery

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Fight of the Century
Michael Chabon, ed., Ayelet Waldman, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

An American Genocide
Benjamin Madley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Photographer
Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, Frédéric Lemercier

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2003

After the Music Stopped
Alan S. Blinder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

What's Cooking
Burt Wolf

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Fire Season
Philip Connors

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Boomtown Blues
Andrew Gulliford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

They Can't Kill Us All
Wesley Lowery

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Tiffany Box
Kathleen Buckstaff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Stalin's Children
Owen Matthews

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Death of Stalin
Georges Bortoli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Boston Strangler
Gerold Frank

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Fire at Sea
Thomas Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Art of Resistance
Justus Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Story of the Jews
Simon Schama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Joss Whedon
Amy Pascale

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Cocaine Wars
Paul Eddy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Bookstore
Lynne Tillman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuściński

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1982

The Angelic Year
Ambika Wauters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Woman Walking Ahead
Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Breaking Trail
Arlene Blum

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

MetaMaus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Somebody Scream!
Marcus Reeves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Bicycle Diaries
David Kroodsma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Into the Yell
Sarah James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Pearl Buck in China
Hilary Spurling

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Rezso Kasztner
Ladislaus Löb

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Man from New York
Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Richard Rive
Shaun Viljoen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Breakthrough
Gwen Ifill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The High Road to China
Kate Teltscher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Last Sultan
Robert Greenfield

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Secret Life of Words
Henry Hitchings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Man's World
Donald McRae

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

First Farmers
Peter Bellwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Lee Miller: A Life
Carolyn Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Who Will Write Our History?
Samuel D. Kassow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Crack in the Earth
Haim Watzman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Barney Frank
Stuart Weisberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

New York Days
Willie Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Body in Question
Jonathan Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Bloodties
Ted Kerasote

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Don Lattin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Italians and the Holocaust
Susan Zuccotti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Killing Jodie
Janet Fife-Yeomans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Meadowland
John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The First Summit
Theodore A. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The German War: A Nation Under Arms
Nicholas Stargardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hindus: An Alternative History
Transl. Wendy Doniger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Soviet Ambassador
Christopher Shulgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Tulia
Nate Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

American Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Testimony: A Memoir
Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Southern Lady Code
Helen Ellis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
Josh Levin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Lucasta Miller

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Them Dark Days
William Dusinberre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Chopin's Funeral
Benita Eisler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Shock and Awe
Simon Reynolds

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Something in the Air
Richard Hoffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

A Great Leap Forward
Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Hotel Florida
Amanda Vaill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Flora Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015