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- "And neither have I wings to fly" : labelled and locked up in Canada's oldest institution
- "Just between you and me" : a memoir
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Membering
- 'Ten generations--then an artist' : the Susan A. Ross story
- 100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 awesome women who transformed science
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 127 heures
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 18 and life on skid row
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 20 soccer superstars
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 28 stories of AIDS in Africa
- 3 2 1 awesome! : 20 fearless women who dared to be different
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 5 elephants
- 50 Canadians who changed the world
- 50 aircraft that changed the world
- 50 artists you should know
- 50 percent of mountaineering is uphill : the life of Canadian mountain rescue pioneer Willi Pfisterer
- 501 movie stars
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 700 Sundays
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 8850 : récit d'aventures de Jean-François Carrey, devenu le plus jeune Canadien à avoir conquis l'Everest
- 99, his game, his story
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Cree healer and his medicine bundle : revelations of indigenous wisdom ; healing plants, practices, and stories
- A Newfoundlander in Canada : always going somewhere, always coming home
- A Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- A Picasso from the north country : the wild journey of Canadian artist, Norval Morrisseau
- A Road Taken : My Journey from a CN Station House to the CN Boardroom
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of scientology
- A bit of a legend in these parts : the life of Betty Berger Lessard
- A bit of a legend in these parts : the life of Betty Berger Lessard
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy named Tommy Douglas
- A brief history of over sharing : one ginger's anthology of humiliation
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A century of sisu, 1910-2010 : 100 years of Finnish tradition, culture and food in the Thunder Bay area = Sisun vuosisata, 1910-2010 : satavuotta suomalaista perinnettä, kulttuuria ja ruokaa Thunder Bayn alueella/
- A champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- A change of plans : women's stories of hemorrhagic stroke
- A criminal & an Irishman : the inside story of the Boston mob-IRA connection
- A crowbar in the Buddhist garden
- A cry for justice
- A cure for Emma : one mother's journey to Oz
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A ghost in the throat
- A gift from Bob : how a street cat helped one man learn the meaning of Christmas
- A good day to die : Dennis Banks & the American Indian movement
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good wife : escaping the life I never chose
- A guy like me : fighting to make the cut
- A higher call
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of my brief body
- A history of the Canadian peoples
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A is for awesome! : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- A killing art : the untold history of Tae kwon do
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life decoded : my genome - my life
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life in parts
- A life in parts
- A life well played
- A life well played : my stories
- A life with words : a writer's memoir
- A line in the sand : Canadians at war in Kandahar
- A little bit broken : a memoir
- A little more than perfect, my life with (and in spite of) Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A map to the door of no return : notes to belonging
- A matter of principle
- A million little pieces
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new kind of monster : the secret life and chilling crimes of Colonel Russell Williams
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A picture book of Jesse Owens
- A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A place within : rediscovering India
- A prayer before dawn : my nightmare in Thailand's prisons
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A remarkable mother
- A remembrance of truth : the story behind the abuse
- A river of oranges : memories of a displaced childhood
- A road back from schizophrenia : a memoir
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A season in hell : my 130 days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda
- A season of loss, a lifetime of forgiveness : the Dan Snyder and Dany Heatley story
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of hope, love, and overcoming
- A song for Cambodia
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spectacle of dust : the autobiography
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stranger at home : a true story
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand farewells : a reporter's journey from refugee camp to the Arab spring
- A three dog life
- A to Z great modern artists
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship and survival in World War Two
- A train through time : a life, real and imagined
- A truck full of money
- A truck full of money
- A two-spirit journey
- A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
- A very punchable face : a memoir/
- A victory garden for trying times : a memoir
- A voice named Aretha
- A warrior's circle of yesterday, today and tomorrow
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman makes a plan : advice for a lifetime of adventure, beauty, and success
- A womb in the shape of a heart : my story of miscarriage and motherhood
- A year in space : and beyond a year in space
- A year with the queen
- A-Rod : the many lives of Alex Rodriguez
- A. Y. Jackson : the life of a landscape painter
- A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge
- Above the clouds : how I carved my own path to the top of the world
- Above the fold : a personal history of the Toronto Star
- Abstract painting in Canada
- Accepted : how the first gay superstar changed WWE
- According to Baba : a collaborative oral history of Sudbury's Ukrainian community
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across Canada by story : a coast-to-coast literary adventure
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Adele : the biography
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- After Auschwitz : a story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
- After Diana : William, Harry, Charles, and the royal house of Windsor
- After the fall : a climber's true story of facing death and finding life
- After the falls
- Aftermath : a firefighter's life
- Aftershock : the quake on Everest and one man's quest
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : my life of hardship, fast breaks, and second chances
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Agallas
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
- Aki-wayn-zih : a person as worthy as the Earth
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Alanis Morissette
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Albert Einstein and relativity for kids : his life and ideas with 21 activities and thought experiments
- Albert Pujols : baseball superstar
- Album of my life
- Aleister Crowley : the biography : spiritual revolutionary, romantic explorer, occult master and spy
- Alex Ovechkin
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Alfred and Emily
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Alice Walker
- Alien heart : the life and work of Margaret Laurence
- All aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All bets are off : losers, liars, and recovery from gambling addiction
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All caps : stories that justify an outrageous hat collection
- All in : an autobiography
- All my knotted-up life : a memoir
- All my mother's secrets
- All of me
- All of me
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All out : a father and son confront the hard truths that made them better men
- All over the map
- All over the map : rambles and ruminations from the Canadian road
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All roads home : a life on and off the ice
- All strangers are kin : adventures in Arabic and the Arab world
- All that glitters : a climber's journey through addiction and depression
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the rage : a partial memoir in two acts and a prologue
- All the things we never knew
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way : my life on ice
- All the women in my brain : and other concerns
- All the wrong moves : a memoir about chess, love, and ruining everything
- All things consoled : a daughter's memoir
- All we knew but couldn't say
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Aloha Wanderwell : the border-smashing, record-setting life of the world's youngest explorer
- Alone : orphaned on the ocean
- Alone : orphaned on the ocean
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alone in the great unknown : one woman's remarkable adventures in the Northwestern wilderness
- Along the way : the journey of a father and son
- Althea Gibson
- Altitude
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Am I sane yet? : an insider's look at mental illness
- Amazing airmen : Canadian flyers in the Second World War
- Amazing artists
- Amazing athletes : 50 remarkable athletes of history
- Amazing athletes : an all-star look at Canada's Paralympians
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : the legend of the lost aviator
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Revolution : battles and leaders
- American dreams : portraits & stories of a country
- American legacy : the story of John and Caroline Kennedy
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American outlaw
- American outlaw : price of pride
- American prince : a memoir
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American widow
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Among the islands : adventures in the Pacific
- Amour et courage : mon histoire de famille et de résilience : biographie
- Amy Winehouse : a losing game
- Amy, 27
- Amy, my daughter
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An Arctic man : the classic account of sixty-five years in Canada's North
- An affair of the heart : an up-close look at the man, his music, and the fans he inspires
- An alphabet for Joanna : a portrait of my mother in 26 fragments
- An altar in the world : a geography of faith
- An amaysingly unique hockey life
- An apple a day : a memoir of love and recovery from anorexia
- An astronaut's guide to life on earth
- An astronaut's guide to life on earth
- An embarrassment of Critch's : immature stories from my grown-up life
- An encyclopedia of women's wrestling : 100 profiles of the strongest in the sport
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And furthermore
- And furthermore
- And home was Kariakoo : a memoir of East Africa
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And the good news is... : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Carnegie
- Angela's ashes
- Angelina : an unauthorized biography
- Angels on earth
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections
- Angler : the Cheney vice presidency
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Angry queer Somali boy : a complicated memoir
- Anishinaabe syndicated : a view from the rez
- Anna : the biography
- Annaleise Carr : how I conquered Lake Ontario to help kids battling cancer
- Anne Boleyn :
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
- Anne Frank : the biography
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Frank : une vie
- Anne Frank : witness to history!
- Anne Frank's chestnut tree
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Annie Pootoogook : cutting ice = Ini Putugu : tukisitittisimavuq takusinnggittunik
- Annie Sullivan and the trials of Helen Keller
- Answering a different call : my (queer) Thunder Bay life
- Anyone who had a heart : my life and music
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Arctic solitaire : a boat, a bay, and the quest for the perfect bear
- Armed & dangerous : the hunt for one of America's most wanted criminals
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Around the world
- Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt
- Arthur Miller : 1915-1962
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Artists
- As they see 'em : a fan's travels in the land of umpires
- Ascent of women
- Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield
- Aski awasis/Children of the earth : First Peoples speaking on adoption
- At home in the world : stories and essential teachings from a monk's life
- At least in the city someone would hear me scream : (misadventures in search of the simple life)
- At the existentialist cafe : freedom, being and apricot cocktails
- At the stranger's gate : arrivals in New York
- Athletes
- Augustine : a new biography
- Autobiography
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Autobiography of a face
- Ayesha's gift : a daughter's search for the truth about her father
- Baby, let's play house : Elvis Presley and the women who loved him
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Back to the red road : a story of survival, redemption and love
- Bad : an unprecedented investigation into the Michael Jackson cover-up
- Bad blood : the end of honour
- Bad girls of fashion : style rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
- Bad medicine : a judge's struggle for justice in a First Nations community
- Bad mother : a chronicle of maternal crimes, minor calamities, and occasional moments of grace
- Bad trips : how I went from Vice reporter to international drug smuggler
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Baker's biographical dictionary of popular musicians since 1990
- Balancing Bountiful : what I learned about feminism from my polygamist grandmothers
- Ballet is not for Muslim girls : growing up Pakistani-Canadian
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barack Obama : the story
- Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Batista unleashed
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Battle of brothers : William & Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Bay of spirits : a love story
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Bear with me : what they don't tell you about pregnancy and new motherhood
- Bears in the streets : three journeys across a changing Russia
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles vs. Stones
- Beatrix Potter : a life in nature
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful scars : Steeltown secrets, Mohawk skywalkers and the road home
- Beautiful scars : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because I am a girl : I can change the world
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming "Leslie" : a film about Leslie Cochran "Queen of Austin"
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Buddha : the story of Siddhartha
- Becoming Frederick Douglass
- Becoming Jimi Hendrix : from Southern crossroads to psychedelic London, the untold story of a musical genius
- Becoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes
- Becoming Vancouver : a history
- Becoming kin : an indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future
- Becoming sister wives : the story of an unconventional marriage
- Bedroom rapper : Cadence Weapon on hip-hop, resistance, and surviving the music industry
- Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
- Beethoven's world
- Before I go
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids
- Befriend and betray : infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and other criminal brotherhoods
- Befriend and betray : part II
- Behind Nazi lines : my father's heroic quest to save 149 World War II POWs
- Behind closed doors : stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School
- Behind enemy lines : the autobiography of Britain's most decorated living war hero
- Behind the bookcase : Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
- Being Lolita : a memoir
- Being uncle Charlie : a life undercover with killers, kingpins, bikers and druglords
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believing in Magic
- Belinda : the political and private life of Belinda Stronach
- Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired upstairs, downstairs and Downton Abbey
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bennett : the rebel who challenged and changed a nation
- Bent props and blow pots : a pioneer remembers Northern bush flying
- Bergman : muistelma
- Best of the original six
- Best young woman job book : a memoir
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Betty : the Helen Betty Osborne story
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between gods : a memoir
- Between heaven and hell : the story of my stroke
- Between interruptions : 30 women tell the truth about motherhood
- Between the pipes : a revealing look at hockey's legendary goalies
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Between two worlds
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Beyonce : running the world the biography
- Beyoncé : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyond Belfast : a 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet
- Beyond belief : my secret life inside Scientology and my harrowing escape
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Bhutto
- Bibi : my story
- Big Bear
- Big Papi : my story of big dreams and big hits
- Big Sonia
- Big bucks the Benoit way : secrets from America's first family of Whitetail hunting
- Big men fear me : the fast life and quick death of Canada's most powerful media mogul
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Davis : nation builder, and not so bland after all
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies: The patriots
- Billie Eilish
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billionaires : the lives of the rich and powerful
- Billy Bishop : the courage of the early morning : a biography of the great ace of World War I
- Billy Joel : the definitive biography
- Biographical dictionary and history of Victorian Thunder Bay (1850-1901) : including Prince Arthur{u2019}s Landing, Port Arthur, Fort William, Neebing, Nipigon, McIntyre, Oliver, Paipoonge, Rossport, Savanne, Schreiber, Shuniah, and Silver Islet
- Biology for kids : science experiments and activities inspired by awesome biologists, past and present
- Bismarck : a life
- Bite me : how Lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me
- Bix
- Black & white : an intimate, multicultural perspective on "white advantage" and the paths to change
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Elk's vision : a Lakota story
- Black Loyalists : southern settlers of Nova Scotia's first free black communities
- Black Sabbath : symptom of the universe
- Black cop : my 36 years in police work, and my career-ending experiences with official racism
- Black like me : the definitive Griffin Estate edition, corrected from the original manuscripts, with historic photographs by Don Rutledge and an afterword by Robert Bonazzi
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black water : family, legacy, and blood memory
- Black widow : a sad-funny journey through grief for people who normally avoid books with words like "journey" in the title
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Bleeding blue : giving my all for the game
- Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment
- Blissfully blended bullshit : the uncomfortable truth of blending families
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Blonde ambition : the untold story behind Anna Nicole Smith's death
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood aces : the wild ride of Benny Binion, the Texas gangster who created Vegas poker
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood in the cage : mixed martial arts, Pat Miletich, and the furious rise of the UFC
- Blood in the water : a true story of revenge in the Maritimes
- Blood, bones, & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
- Blood, sweat and tears
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue nights
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Blue thunder : the truth about Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper
- Bob Dylan 1978-1989 : both ends of the rainbow
- Bob Dylan in America
- Bob Marley : the lost tapes
- Bobby Darin : a life
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Boldness be my friend
- Bonbons assortis : Assorted candies
- Bonbons assortis : récits
- Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
- Booky wook 2 : this time it's personal
- Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today
- Booze and the badge : a cop's battle with the bottle
- Bora Laskin : bringing law to life
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant ; a memoir
- Born standing up : a comic's life
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born to shine : do good, find your joy, and build a life you love
- Bossypants
- Both/and : a life in many worlds