W. Peter Flaig Library

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The AgitatorThis story of an anti-fascist's dramatic and remarkable victory against Nazism in 1935 is an inspiration to anyone compelled to resist wh...

Alexander HamiltonA graphic novel biography of the American legend who inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most ...

American RebelAs an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a...

An American FamilyThis inspiring memoir by the Gold Star parent and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream and ...

BecomingAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplish...

Becoming KareemA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.At one time, Lew Alcindor was just ...

Becoming Dr. SeussThe definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work...

Black PrivilegeAn instant New York Times bestseller! Charlamagne Tha God—the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” cohost of Power 105.1’s The...

Boy ErasedA beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russ...

Called for TravelingCalled for Traveling is a pro basketball journey that spans four continents, seven countries and twelve teams over eleven hilarious and a...

CheThe graphic adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern wo...

The ComebackIn July 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world’s pre-eminent bi...

The Death and Life of Aida HernandezWhat happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta,...

Eat the AppleEat the Apple is a twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined t...

EducatedTara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end...

Eleven RingsDuring his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach i...

Enchanted AirIn this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures...

Soaring EarthIn this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle recounts her teenage y...

The Faithful SpyInterweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the Ge...

Favorite WifeShe had no choice in the matter-none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a s...

First They Killed My FatherFrom a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate...

The Fox Hunt“Nail-bitingly suspenseful. ... Inspiring. ... Essential reading.” — Booklist, starred review The Fox Hunt tells one young man’s unforge...

Frederick Douglass**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History***Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and C...

From the OutsideThe record-holding two-time National Basketball Association champion reflects on his work ethic, his on-the-court friendships and rivalri...

Funny ManA deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in televisi...

Funny, You Don't Look AutisticSlaying autism stereotypes with stand-up, one joke at a time. Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michae...

Game ChangeShortlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction A Globe and Mail Best BookFrom the bestselling author and Hall of Famer ...

The Game of My LifeThe incredible true story of one high school student's determination to triumph against the challenges of autism-and his opponents on the...

GoebbelsFrom renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler’s malevolent minister ...

The Heart of Everything That IsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn astonishing untold story of the American WestThe great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only America...

A Higher LoyaltyFormer FBI Director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the ...

The Ice BalloonIn this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, duri...

I Am Not Your NegroTo compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublis...

I Feel Like Going OnRay Lewis, legendary Baltimore Ravens linebacker and one of the greatest defensive players of his generation, holds nothing back on the s...

The Impossible ClimbThe climbing community had long considered a "free solo" ascent of El Capitan an impossible feat so far beyond human limits that it was n...

It's a Long StoryThe definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this boo...

Jim HensonFor the first time ever-a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, i...

John LennonFor more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive bi...

The KeysFrom Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to s...

Kitchen ConfidentialA deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying ...

Let It BangThe quest, funny and searing, of a young black man learning to shoot—a fascinating odyssey into race, guns, and self-protection in Americ...

Let Love Have the Last WordCommon—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden Globe–winning musician, actor, and activist—follows up his New York Times bestselling ...

Life and Career of David BeckhamDavid Beckham is an English soccer player whose popularity extends beyond the field and into international celebrity. He has played for s...

The Line Becomes A RiverFor Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrubla...

Locked in IceA spellbinding biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a spotlight on his harrowing three-year journey to th...

Lou ReedThe essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou ReedAs lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a ...

Men We Reaped'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that ...

MiyazakiworldThe story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth‑century toxic ...

My Beloved WorldThe first Latinx (Puerto Rican) and third woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. N...

My Fight / Your Fight“The fight is yours to win.” In this inspiring and moving book, Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamw...

Neil Patrick HarrisTired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an excit...

Never AgainThis biography of a movement and the teen activists behind it delves into the quest for gun safety legislation in light of the tragic sho...

Once a CopNew York City Book Awards Hornblower Award WinnerAfrican American Literary Award Winner for Best Biography/MemoirAs a youth, Corey Pegues...

One Man's WildernessTo live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site...

On TrailsIn 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form...

Paul SimonA publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon’s full participation—bu...

The Perfect PredatorEpidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when he came down with a stomach bug. Steffan...

PettyAn exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with PettyN...

PitinoON SEPTEMBER 26, 2017, THE BIGGEST RECRUITING SCANDAL IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL HISTORY SENT SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE WORLD OF SPORTS. CAUGHT U...

PrinceFeaturing a foreword by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. Afshin Shahidi met Prince in 1993 and soon became his cinematographer and later one of t...

Racing to the FinishIt was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he di...

The Restless WaveIn this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life—and what matters most. I don’t know ...

RFKIn honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy’s death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied b...

The Rise and Fall of David Duke

Scrappy Little NobodyA collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. Eve...

Shoe DogIn this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s ea...

SickIn the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addictio...

Somebody to LoveFor the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie ...

Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our age--bestselling author of A Brief History of Time, celebrated theoretical p...

The StowawayThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkabl...

The Sun Is a CompassFor fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to redisco...

Tiger Woods#1 New York Times Bestseller“Irresistible…Immensely readable…The authors have laid out a saga that is part myth, part Shakespeare, part J...

Things That Make White People UncomfortableSuper Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor. M...

Tim Cook Journalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011. The...

TitanJohn D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature ha...

Too Much Is Not EnoughThis edition cancelled by the publisher. From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, ...

TopgunNATIONAL BESTSELLER "If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book." -- Fox & Friends On the 50th anniver...

UnbeatenFrom the bestselling author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of Rocky Marciano, the greatest heavyweight champion of a...

Unmasked"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all ...

Undisputed TruthA bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world—and a legend both in and out of the ring....

The UpsideThe story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) ...

Whipping BoyEqual parts investigative memoir, crime procedural, and revenge thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles the author’s real-life search for the c...

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?The riveting, untold story of the "Father of Christian Rock" and the conflicts that launched a billion-dollar industry at the dawn of Ame...

Woody AllenWoody Allen: A Retrospective is the first complete, film-by-film overview of Woody Allen's entire career, up to and including the 2015 re...

Writing My WrongsIn 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at universities, a leading voice on criminal ...

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