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- Captain Cook, by Jim Ollhoff
- Falling in Honey, How a Tiny Greek Island Stole My Heart, Jennifer Barclay
- The woman who smashed codes, a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies, Jason Fagone
- Victoria, a life, A.N. Wilson
- The seamstress, a memoir of survival, Sara Tuvel Bernstein, with Louise Loots Thornton and Marlene Bernstein Samuels ; introduction by Edgar M. Bronfman
- And no birds sang, Farley Mowat
- Prince Harry, brother, soldier, son, Penny Junor
- While the world watched, a Birmingham bombing survivor comes of age during the Civil Rights movement, Carolyn Maull McKinstry, with Denise George
- Team 19 in Vietnam, an Australian soldier at war, David Millie
- Admiral of the ocean sea, a life of Christopher Columbus, by Samuel Eliot Morison
- Prince William, the man who will be king, Penny Junor
- The disappeared, the Cleveland kidnappings and other shocking cases, Al Cimino
- Lions of the West, heroes and villains of the westward expansion, Robert Morgan
- The man without a face, the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin, Masha Gessen
- Sgt. Reckless, America's war horse, Robin Hutton
- The indifferent stars above, the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride, Daniel James Brown
- Juniper, the girl who was born too soon, Kelley and Thomas French
- The good son, JFK Jr. and the mother he loved, by Christopher Andersen
- My accidental jihad, a love story, Krista Bremer
- A disposition to be rich, how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States, Geoffrey C. Ward
- Don't be afraid of the bullets, an accidental war correspondent in Yemen, Laura Kasinof
- South with the sun, Roald Amundsen, his polar explorations, and the quest for discovery, Lynne Cox
- The written world, the power of stories to shape people, history, civilization, Martin Puchner
- The Book of Joe, the life, wit, and (sometimes accidental) wisdom of Joe Biden, Jeff Wilser
- Memoirs of a Highland lady, Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus ; edited with an introduction by Andrew Tod
- Georges and Pauline Vanier, portrait of a couple, Mary Frances Coady
- American Ulysses, a life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald C. White
- A higher call, an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of WWII, Adam Makos, with Larry Alexander
- Submarine commander, a story of World War II and Korea, Paul R. Schratz
- The court-martial of Corporal Nutting, a memoir of the Vietnam War, John R. Nutting ; foreword by Ray M. Franklin
- For crew and country, the inspirational true story of bravery and sacrifice aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts, John Wukovits
- Assholes, a theory of Donald Trump, by Aaron James
- Cruel harvest, a memoir, Fran Elizabeth Grubb ; with Bryan Reardon
- Drugstore cowgirl, adventures in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, Patricia Joy MacKay
- I have Iraq in my shoe, misadventures of a soldier of fashion : a memoir, Gretchen Berg
- Pirate women, the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the Seven Seas, Laura Sook Duncombe
- Lara, the untold love story and the inspiration for Doctor Zhivago, Anna Pasternak
- Irena's children, the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Young Mr. Roosevelt, FDR's introduction to war, politics, and life, Stanley Weintraub
- Winter king, the dawn of Tudor England, Thomas Penn
- So long, Marianne, a love story, by Kari Hesthamar ; translated by Helle V. Goldman
- Caught in the revolution, Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge, Helen Rappaport
- No easy day, the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
- The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester and Paul Reid, Vol. 3
- Master of the mountain, Thomas Jefferson and his slaves, Henry Wiencek
- "Mr. President", George Washington and the making of the nation's highest office, Harlow Giles Unger
- Lincoln's notebooks, letters, speeches, journals, notes, poems, and doodles, edited by Dan Tucker ; foreword by Harold Holzer
- Sharon Tate, a life, Ed Sanders ; illustrations by Rick Veitch
- John Quincy Adams, militant spirit, James Traub
- While the gods were sleeping, a journey through love and rebellion in Nepal, by Elizabeth Enslin