Who Was John McCain?
by Michael Burgan
(Penguin Workshop)

A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin
by Gretchen Woelfle
(Calkins Creek)

Clara Barton: Civil War Humanitarian
edited by Terry Reimer, with a chapter by Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
(National Museum of Civil War Medicine Press)

Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation 
by Collin Hansen 
(Zondervan) 

Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House 
by Alex Prud’homme 
(Knopf) 

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe 
by Mark Dawidziak 
(St. Martin’s Press) 

Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction 
by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor 
(Mysterious Press) 

What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman 
by Lerita Coleman Brown 
(Broadleaf Books) 

Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy 
by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams 
(Penguin Press) 

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America (Anna Marie Rosenberg) 
by Christopher C. Gorham 
(Citadel) 

Max Hoffman: Million Dollar Middleman 
by Myles Kornblatt 
(Veloce Publishing) 

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science 
by Kate Zernike 
(Scribner) 

The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel 
by Meredith Bagby 
(William Morrow) 

The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History 
by Edward Achorn 
(Atlantic Monthly Press) 

The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe 
by Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler 
(Simon & Schuster) 

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction (Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt) 
by Lynne Olson 
(Random House) 

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages (Elaine Dundy, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Una Troubridge, and Elsa Morante) 
by Carmela Ciuraru 
(Harper) 

Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson 
by Ashley Brown  
(Oxford University Press) 

We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth 
by Nancy Koester 
(Eerdmans) 

The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives 
by Simon Cambers 
(Pitch Publishing) 

Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter 
by Therese Taylor-Stinson 
(Broadleaf Books) 

Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag 
by Craig Seligman 
(PublicAffairs) 

Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld 
by William Middleton 
(Harper) 

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist 
by Jennifer Wright 
(Hachette Books) 

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age (Peter Freuchen) 
by Reid Mitenbuler 
(Mariner Books) 

King David and Boss Daley: The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge (David Barksdale) 
by Lance Williams 
(Prometheus) 

Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin: The Amazing Story of the Seiler Family 
by Vanessa Holburn 
(Pen and Sword History) 

John T. Wilder: Union General, Southern Industrialist 
by Steven Cox 
(Mercer University Press) 

Remember Their Sacrifice: Stories of Unheralded Athletes of Color 
by Arif Khatib and Pete Elman 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century 
Art by Youssef Daoudi, poetics by Adrian Matejka 
(Liveright) 

Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman 
by Kaya Sahin 
(Oxford University Press) 

The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story 
by Sebastian Payne 
(Macmillan UK) 

The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II 
by Ian Lloyd 
(The History Press) 

The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said, Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army 
by Dean Calbreath 
(Pegasus Books) 

Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era 
by Matthew Frye Jacobson 
(University of California Press) 

The William E. Boeing Story: A Gift of Flight 
by David Williams 
(America Through Time) 

Sculpting A Life: Chana Orloff Between Paris and Tel Aviv 
by Paula J. Birnbaum 
(Brandeis University Press) 

Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made 
by Derek Leebaert 
(St. Martin’s Press) 

Norman Rockwell’s Models: In and Out of the Studio 
by S. T. Haggerty 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors 
by Amanda Harvey Purse 
(Amberley Publishing)  

Celestial Inclinations: A Life of Augustus 
by Anne-Marie Lewis 
(Oxford University Press) 

Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History 
by Philip C. Almond 
(Cambridge University Press) 

The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America 
by Dean Snow 
(Oxford University Press) 

A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser 
by Sergei Kan 
(University of Nebraska Press) 

A Boxing Legacy: The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll 
edited by Ian Phimister and David Patrick 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn: U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord 
by Todd E. Harburn 
(University of Oklahoma Press) 

The Constitution’s Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America’s Basic Charter 
by Dennis C. Rasmussen 
(University Press of Kansas) 

The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Joel and Arthur Spingarn) 
by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock 
(Johns Hopkins University Press) 

Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt 
by Willard Spiegelman 
(Knopf) 

Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer 
by Jeremy D. Popkin 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

David Lloyd George: The Politics of Religious Conviction 
by Jerry Gaw 
(University of Tennessee Press) 

Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters 
by Ana de Sagrera 
(Fonthill Media) 

Belle Baranceanu: Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance 
by Jennifer Peoples Hernandez 
(Lexington Books) 

Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life 
by Margueritte Shelton 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig, Warrior Six: Combat Leader in World War II and Korea 
by Richard D. Camp 
(Casemate) 

Bridging Revolutions: The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O’ Neall 
by Joseph A. Ranney 
(University of Georgia Press) 

Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound 
by Carol Shloss 
(University of Pennsylvania Press) 

Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games 
by David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

Keynes in Action: Truth and Expediency in Public Policy 
by Peter Clarke 
(Cambridge University Press) 

Everything I Did I Did for Happiness: The Life of Enzo Piccinini 
by Marco Bardazzi 
(Slant Books) 

Anne Spencer Between Worlds 
by Noelle Morrissette 
(University of Georgia Press) 

My Heart Is Bound Up with Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation 
by David Martínez 
(University of Arizona Press) 

A Map of Longings: The Life & Works of Agha Shahid Ali 
by Manan Kapoor 
(Yale University Press) 

The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada 
by Don Hollway 
(Osprey Publishing)