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Biography

Just browse through the biography section to see what we have if you’re looking for a book about a person but aren’t really looking for anyone in particular. If you’re looking for a specific person, the biography section is arranged alphabetically by the subject’s last name (for example, the call number for a book about Justin Timberlake is B TIM). These are just a few biographies that you might find interesting:

Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (920 GIB)

William & Catherine: A Royal Wedding (920 MOR)

Imperfect: An Improbable Life (B ABB—“born without a right hand, Jim Abbott dreamed of being an athlete”)

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky (B AHM)

Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope (B ANA—infected with HIV/AIDS at birth)

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (B BEA)

Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High (B BEA)

Usain Bolt: Being the World’s Fastest Man (B BOL)

Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead (B BOY—severe injuries from a car accident)

A Long Way Home: A Memoir (B BRI—“As a five-year-old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five

years later, from Australia, I found my way back.”)

Laughing at My Nightmare (B BUR—eye-opening (and graphic) glimpse into the daily life and mind

of a young man who has been in a wheelchair since he was two)

The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir (B BUS--what happens to a family when the father is

shot before testifying in an upcoming trial)

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (B COP)

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography (B CRU—Chris Crutcher’s life as “a dateless,

broken-toothed, scabbed-over, God-fearing dweeb”)

The Courage to Compete: Living with Cerebral Palsy and Following My Dreams (B CUR—first contestant

with a disability to win a major beauty contest)

Charles & Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (B DAR)

Driven: From Homeless to Champion, My Journeys On and Off the Field (B DRI—the story of Donald Driver)

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (B DUM)

This Star Won’t Go Out (B EAR—memoir of a young cancer patient)

Heart of the Storm: My Adventures as a Helicopter Rescue Pilot and Commander (B FLE)

Healed by Horses (B FLE—recovery from severe burns)

Marley & Me: Life & Love with the World’s Worst Dog (B GRO)

Hidden Girl (B HAL—sold by her Egyptian parents into domestic slavery when she was eight)

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (B HAM—shark attack)

Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse (B HUD)

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust (B JAC)

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different (B JOB)

Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival (B KRA—Holocaust)

My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban (B LAT)

A Girl Named Faithful Plum: A True Story about a Dancer from China . . . Achieved Her Dream (B LI)

Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask (B LIG—born with a rare disfiguring growth on his face and neck)

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (B MAH)

Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard (B MAW)

No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling . . . (B MAY)

Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer (B MAY)

The Game of My Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing Up Autistic (B MCE)

Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me (B MCG)

We Bought a Zoo (B MEE—“the amazing true story of a young family, a broken down zoo, and the 200 wild

animals that change their lives forever”)

Coming Clean (B MIL—how hoarding affects a family)

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him (B MON)

Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams (B MOO)

Discovering Wes Moore (B MOO)

Breakaway (B MOR— Alex Morgan—Olympic gold medalist—women’s soccer)

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (B OPD)

Invincible: My Journey from Fan to NFL Team Captain (B PAP)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (B RAL—rock-climber Ralston was trapped by an 800-lb. boulder)

Three Little Words (B RHO—life in foster care)

Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values (B ROB)

FDR and the American Crisis (B ROO)

Eleven Seconds (B ROY—paralyzed 11 seconds into his first college hockey game)

Burned Alive: A Survivor of an “Honor Killing” Speaks Out (B SOU)

Cartwheels in a Sari (B TAM—a memoir of growing up in the religious cult of Sri Chinmoy)

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood (B TRA—memoir of a teen with OCD)

Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman (B UNG)

The Bear’s Embrace: A Story of Survival (B VAN—survival and recovery of a woman attacked by a bear)

Grief Girl (B VIN—only 14 when both parents died in a car accident)

Life without Limits (B VUJ—the story of a young man born without arms or legs)

The Boy Who Played with Fusion (B WIL—about the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion)

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (B YOU)

Dewey Decimal Areas That You Might Want to Check (including selected specific titles that might be of interest but might be missed when browsing)

000s—Computer Science//Information//General Works

001.9—Controversial Knowledge (Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, Loch Ness Monster, etc.)

The Fog: A Never Before Published Theory of the Bermuda Triangle Phenomenon (001.94 MAC)

Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine (006.3 BAK—an interesting look at artificial intelligence)

100s—Philosophy//Parapsychology and Occultism//Psychology

133.1—Ghosts

133.4—Witchcraft

133.8—ESP/Psychics

Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead (133.9 WIC)

Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel (155.9 PAD)

200s—Religion

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (231.7 BUR)

Killing Jesus: A History (232.96 ORE)

Rachel’s Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott (248.83 SCO)

300s—Social Sciences

355-359—Military

362s—Social Problems (suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, etc.)

364s—Crime

Outliers: The Story of Success (302 GLA)

Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories (302.3 DEA)

Gabe & Izzy: Standing Up for America’s Bullied (302.34 FOR)

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs (303.48 BEN)\

Ain’t Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America’s Peace Seekers (303.6 MEL)

Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping (306.3 KLA)

The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir (306.874 ROD)

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group (322.4 BAR)

We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11 (323.173 NGU)

The Bullies of Wall Street: This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy (330.973 BAI—the 2008

financial crisis during which 100,000 businesses went bankrupt)

Free the Children: A Young Man’s Personal Crusade against Child Labor (331.3 KIE)

The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time (332 HAR)

100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save the Earth’s Most Endangered Species (333.95 COR)

World without Fish (333.95 KUR—what’s happening to fish, the oceans, and our environment)

Chocolate: Sweet Science and Dark Secrets of the World’s Favorite Treat (338.7 FRY)

Trial: The Inside Story (345.73 KUK)

Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General (355.0092 ORE)

Return with Honor (355.4 OGR—story of an American pilot who was shot down over Bosnia)

Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 (359.9 COU)

The Warrior’s Heart (359.9 GRE—story of a former Navy SEAL)

Positive: A Memoir (362.19 RAW—cheerleader, soccer player, honor student—born HIV-positive—

how her life changes when people find out)

Regine’s Book: A Teen Girl’s Last Words (362.19 STO—a teen living with (and ultimately dying of)

leukemia)

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (362.76 GRE)

Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster (363.11 GRE)

Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic

Science (363.25 BEA)

So Others May Live: Coast Guard’s Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death (363.28 LAG)

Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph over Tragedy (363.325 SHE)

Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious

Nazi (364.15 BAS)

In Cold Blood: A True Account of Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (364.15 CAP)

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (371.82 MOR)

To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (372.9773 COW—story of a fire that killed 95 people in a

Chicago elementary school)

Columbine (373.788 CUL)

500s—Natural Sciences and Mathematics

590s—Animals

Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End (520 PLA)

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (523.49 BRO)

Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches (551.3 FRE)

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One (551.46 EAR)

The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925 (551.55 AKI)

Storm Kings: The Untold History of America’s First Tornado Chasers (551.55 SAN)

Fraser’s Penguins: Warning Signs from Antarctica (577.2 MON)

Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet (578.6 HAM)

Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals (590 CON)

The Smartest Animals on the Planet (591.5 BOY)

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us (591.78 BUC)

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (594 MON)

Close to Shore: The . . . True Story of the New Jersey Great White Shark Attacks of 1916 (597.3 CAP)

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl (598.9 WIN)

Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us (599.53 NEI)

Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species (599.79 WIL)

Planet without Apes (599.88 STA—“extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within

just a few human generations”)

600s—Technology

616s—Diseases

636s—Pets (horses, dogs, cats, etc)

We Beat the Streets: How a Friendship Pact Helped Us Succeed (610 DAV)

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors without Borders (610.6 BOR)

Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World (610.92 AND—Jack Andraka was just

15 when he invented an inexpensive early-detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer)

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (614.4 QUA)

American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (614.5 MUR)

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (614.5 PRE—“a highly infectious, deadly virus from the African

rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.”)

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (614.5 SAL)

The Healing Power of Pets (615.8 BEC)

Elle & Coach: Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter’s Life, and the Dog Who Changed

Everything (615.8 SHA)

Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine (616 DEN)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (616 SKL—taken without her knowledge, her cells became one of the most important tools in the advancement of medicine)

Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts (616.02 ANT)

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature (616.02 VAN)

The Autistic Brain (616.85 GRA—by Temple Grandin, a well-known scientist who has autism)

League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth (617 FAI)

Concussion (617 LAS—the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu’s battle with the NFL)

Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope (617.4 TAB—only one survivor—

but which girl really survived?)

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (623.4 SHE)

The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race (629.13 BAK)

Electric Dreams: One Unlikely Team of Kids and the Race to Build the Car of the Future (629.22 KET)

The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide (629.4 COM)

The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle

of Smarts (629.8 BAS)

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American

Dream (629.8 DAV)

My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope (636.08 LAK)

Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs (636.088 GRI)

The Rescue of Belle and Sundance: One Town’s Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned

Horses (636.1 STU)

Haatchi & Little B: The Inspiring True Story of One Boy and His Dog (636.7 HOL)

A Big Little Life (636.7 KOO—a best-selling author writes about the dog that changed his life)

Mornings with Barney: The True Story of an Extraordinary Beagle (636.7 WOL)

A Street Cat Named Bob (636.8 BOW)

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (636.8 MYR)

The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the

World’s Largest Animal Rescue (639.9 DEN)

Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top (639.97 BRA)

Tommy: The Gun That Changed America (683.4 BLU)

700s—The Arts

780s—Music

791s—Movies and Television

796-799—Sports

796.323—Basketball

796.332—Football

796.357—Baseball

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (780.92 AND)

American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland (784.8 LAI—Concord

Community High School marching band)

Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World (791.3 CHA)

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (791.3 HEL)

Animal Stars: Behind the Scenes with Your Favorite Animal Actors (791.8 GAN)

We’ve Got Spirit: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Cheerleading Team (791.6 MCE)

Theater Geek: The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts

Camp (792 RAP)

The Perfection Point: Sport Science Predicts the Fastest Man, the Highest Jump, and the Limits of

Athletic Performance (796.01 BRE)

Shooting Stars (796.323 JAM—LeBron James)

Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas

Football (796.332 DEN)

Striking Gridiron: A Town’s Pride and a Team’s Shot at Glory during the Biggest Strike in American

History (796.332 NIC)

Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team (796.332 STO)

One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School

Football Game (796.332 WAL)

The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever (796.352 FRO)

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (796.357 ASI)

One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (796.357 BAL)

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred (796.357 WIL)

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (796.52 KRA)

No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven

Summits (796.52 ROM)

Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500 (796.72 LEE)

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin

Olympics (797.12 BRO)

Seabiscuit: An American Legend (798.4 HIL)

The Best There Ever Was: Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century (798.4 SMI—he was more

celebrated than Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods combined—he was hands down the most

famous athlete in his day—he was a horse)

900s—History and Geography

932—Ancient Egypt

937—Ancient Rome

940.1—Middle Ages

940.3-940.4—World War I

940.53-940.54—World War II

941-968—Country Histories (Great Britain, Germany, Russia, etc.)

973-979—History of the United States

973.3—Revolutionary War

973.7—Civil War

973.9s—History from 1900 to the Present

The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue (910.9163 TOU)

Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex (910.9164 PHI)

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (917.404 BRY)

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (919.9 ALE)

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (940.4 LAR)

Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America’s Rogue Ace of World

War I (940.4 PAR)

The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis (940.53 FRI)

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler (940.53 HO—the story of a group of teen-aged resistance fighters in

Denmark after the Nazi invasion)

In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry (940.53 MCC)

Flags of Our Fathers (940.54 BRA)

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission

of World War II (940.54 FRE)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (940.54 HIL)

Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Crew (940.54 KER)

The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who

Flew at His Side (940.54 LEW)

81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska’s Frozen

Wilderness (940.54 MUR)

Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis (940.54 NEL)

Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army (940.54 RAU)

Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion (940.54 SEI)

In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its

Survivors (940.54 STA)

G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (940.54 TOM)

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (943.086 BAR)

The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour (943.087 CHE)

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia (947.08 FLE)

From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (956.7044 KOP)

The Long Road Home (956.7044 RAD—war in Iraq)

Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI (956.7044 SMI)

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (959.704 SHE)

Black Hawk Down (967.73 BOW—American soldiers were trapped in Somalia when their helicopter

was taken down by a grenade)

In the Company of Heroes (967.7305 DUR)

Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (971.6 WAL)

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (971.8 DEF)

American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things (973 DOT)

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever (973.7 ORE)

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer (973.7 SWA)

Stealing Lincoln’s Body (973.7092 CRA—the unsuccessful attempt in 1876 to steal the body of

Abraham Lincoln from his tomb in Springfield)

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (973.922 ORE)

Kennedy’s Last Days (973.922 ORE—a special illustrated version of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Kennedy

adapted for younger readers)

Let’s Roll (973.931 BEA—September 11)

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (973.931 DWY)

Firehouse (973.931 HAL—September 11)

Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath (974.4 ESP)

The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception (974.7 FIS—the story of a

woman who falsely claimed to be a September 11 survivor)

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (974.7 MAR)

Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center (974.7 PIC)

Among the Heroes (974.8 LON—September 11)

Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (976.4 LAR)

A Weekend in September (976.4 WEE—hurricane in Galveston in 1900)

Ashes under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America (977.3 MCC— more than

800 people died when a massive Lake Michigan steamship flipped over while tied to its dock in

Chicago in 1915)

Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster (977.3 TIN—mining disaster in Illinois)

The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party (978 CAL)

Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 (979.4 JEF)

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