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Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
(University of California Press)

John Lewis: A Life
by David Greenberg
(Simon & Schuster)

Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports
by Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
by Martin Klotz
(Westholme Publishing)

Who Needs a Statue?
Eve LaPlante
(Tilbury House Publishers)

The Education of a Statesman: How Global Leaders Can Repair a Fractured World (Jan Eliasson)
by John T. Shaw
(Rowman & Littlefield)

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King
by Dan Jones
(Viking)

The Eagle and The Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
by Helen Castor
(Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

A. J. Foyt, Volume 1: Survivor, Champion, Legend
by Art Garner
(Octane Press)

The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (MF DOOM)
by S. H. Fernando Jr.
(Astra House)

The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party
by Michael Tackett
(Simon & Schuster)

A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
by Robert Hilburn
(Hachette Books)

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
by Ronald Hutton
(Yale University Press)

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
by Dava Sobel
(Atlantic Monthly Press)

Emperor of The Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
by Jack Weatherford
(Bloomsbury Continuum)

Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
by Karen Fang
(Rutgers University Press)

Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother
by Robert S. Bader
(Applause)

SHEMP!: The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy
by Burt Kearns
(Applause)

Elvis: The King of Fashion
by Lorraine Gibson
(White Owl)

Dorothy Parker In Hollywood
by Gail Crowther
(Gallery Books)

Born With A Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan
by Doug Brod
(Hachette Books)

The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy
by Andrew Janiak
(Oxford University Press)

John Willie: A Bizarre Life
by Jane Garrett
(Schiffer)

Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon
by Mirin Fader
(Hachette Books)

Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth
by Richard Esposito
(Crime Ink)

The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer
by Robert L. Suettinger
(Harvard University Press)

Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
by Lee Alan Dugatkin
(University of Chicago Press)

Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah
by Ezra Glinter
(Yale University Press)

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute (Piet Mondrian)
by Nicholas Fox Weber
(Knopf)

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
by Richard Bernstein
(Knopf)

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
by Ann Schmiesing
(Yale University Press)

She Spied For Freedom: Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent
by Margaret C. Jones
(Fonthill Media)

From Siberian Prisoner to Dinosaur Egg Detective: The Epic Odyssey of Karl Hirsch
by Martin Lockley with Bernard Spilka
(Indiana University Press)

LeRoy Neiman: The Life of America’s Most Beloved and Belittled Artist
by Travis Vogan
(University of Chicago Press)

A Book About Ray (Ray Johnson)
by Ellen Levy
(The MIT Press)

The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza―the Forgotten Queen Who Bridged Two Worlds
by Sophie Shorland
(Pegasus Books)

The Inquisition’s Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia
by Richard L. Kagan
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for An American Civilization
by Sam Watters
(GILES)

Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson
by Jane E. Calvert
(Oxford University Press)

Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
by Ian Nathan
(White Lion Publishing)

Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris
by Alice Kaplan
(University of Chicago Press)

Kidnapped At Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
by Andrew Sillen
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson: How America’s Most Powerful Black Preacher Became a Forgotten Man
by Jared E. Alcántara
(Oxford University Press)

Herald Of A Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
by Emily Herring
(Basic Books)

The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey
by Beverley Adams
(Pen and Sword History)

Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix 1942–1970
by J. M. Dupont and Mezzo
(Black Panel Press)

Bannon: American Street Fighter (Stephen K. Bannon)
by Jim Proser
(Skyhorse)

David Crockett In Texas: His Search for New Land
by Allen J. Wiener
(Texas A&M University Press)

Anton Bruckner and the Reception of His Music: A History of Dichotomies and Controversies
by Miguel J. Ramirez
(University of Rochester Press)

From the Reservation to Washington: The Rise of Charles Curtis
by Debra Goodrich
(TwoDot)

David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll Chameleon
by Martin Popoff
(Motorbooks)

Joseph Hart (1712–1768): Eighteenth-Century Hymnody, and the British Evangelical Movement
by Brian G. Najapfour
(Paideia Press)

Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America
by Christa Dierksheide
(Yale University Press)

Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography
by Andreas W. Daum
(Princeton University Press)

Blue-Eyed Soul Brother: The Versatile Football Life of Super Bill Bradley
by William C. Kashatus
(University of Nebraska Press)

William Whewell: Victorian Polymath
by Lukas M. Verburgt
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

Bill Hobby: A Life in Journalism and Public Service
by Don Carleton and Erin L. Purdy
(Briscoe Center for American History, UT-Austin)

Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and The Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
by Patrick Cockburn
(Verso)

Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia
by Wallace L. Daniel
(Northern Illinois University Press)

Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life: The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist
by Claudia Tomlinson
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Jill Johnston In Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian Life
by Clare Croft
(Duke University Press Books)

The Life And Death Of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America
by Paul M. Renfro
(The University of North Carolina Press)

Luciano Fabro: Reinventing Sculpture
by Margit Rowell
(The Monacelli Press)

The Reggie Warford Story: Integrating Basketball at the University of Kentucky
by Scott Brown
(University Press of Kentucky)

Gestapo Hunter: The Remarkable Wartime Career of Mosquito Navigator Ted Sismore
by Sean Feast
(Grub Street Publishing)

The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911–1943: Last Train From Jerusalem
by Ross Davies
(Liverpool University Press)

Francisco Amangual, Trustee of the Presidio: Administration, Dereliction, and the Flying Squadrons in the Comandancia General, 1680–1810
by Roland Rodríguez
(Texas A&M University Press)

The Beaumonts: Kings of Jerusalem
by Kathryn Warner
(Pen and Sword History)

Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907–1948
by Rudolf Mrázek
(Southeast Asia Program Publications)

George Hudson: The Railway King
by Matthew Wells
(Pen and Sword History)

Arctic Genius: Sir William Edward Parry, The Original Arctic Explorer
by Trevor Ware
(Pen and Sword History)

John Dewey: Prophet of an Educated Democracy
by Philip B. Moore
(Routledge)

C. Hutchinson: The Man and His Writing
by Barry Webb
(Lutterworth Press)

Fantasies Of Ito Michio
by Tara Rodman
(University of Michigan Press)

Worldwise: Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century
by Robert Schwartzwald
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)