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Biography

  • Updated 12 months ago
  • 117 Books
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Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Jane Austen: A Life
Secret Lives of the First Ladies
Florence Harding
I am Gandhi
Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame, and What the Neighbors Thought
Lives of the athletes
Miss Lady Bird's wildflowers
Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times
Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes
Some Writer!
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
The Zookeeper's Wife
Daniel Boone
The Nine
Rich Mullins
Founding mothers
Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels ~ and What the Neighbors Thought
First ladies
The 100
Life Among the Texas Flora: Ferdinand Lindheimer's Letters to George Engelmann
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers
Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
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Vincent and Theo

Six Dots
Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice
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The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

Kindness and Wonder
The Only Woman in the Photo
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum
Harvesting hope
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
So You Want to Be President?
The Boy on Fairfield Street
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People of the Century

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
John Adams
Theodore Rex
Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights
Fred's Big Feelings
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Heroes for Civil Rights
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Howard Thurman's great hope
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What Would Cleopatra Do?

Who was Claude Monet?
Who Was Napoleon?
King Louie's Shoes
Vincent
Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall
The Provocative Colette
Hildegard of Bingen: Scientist, Composer, Healer, and Saint
No Ordinary Men
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Feed Your Mind

William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
The True Story of Zippy Chippy: The Little Horse That Couldn't
Hello, Neighbor!: The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
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Fifty Cents and a Dream

Cleopatra: A Life
Snowflake Bentley
In her hands
Yellowstone Moran: Painting the American West
Ron's Big Mission
Sky High
Coretta Scott
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis
Pippo the Fool
Darwin: With Glimpses into His Private Journal and Letters
Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
The Life and Times of Martin Luther
Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography
The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey
Pablo
The Little Book of Saints
Brazen
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Banksy Graffitied Walls and Wasn't Sorry.
Emmanuel's Dream
Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers
Different Like Coco
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
100 Pablo Picassos
¡Compórtate, Pablo Picasso!
Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi
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