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- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 1916 : one hundred years of Irish independence : from the Easter Rising to the present
- 1920 : the year that made the decade roar
- 1967 : the year of fire and ice
- 50 moments that defined Major League Baseball
- 59 years of drumsticks and pigskins : the history of Peoria's Thanksgiving football games
- 9 presidents who screwed up America : and four who tried to save her
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Christmas grace : a novel
- A Christmas prayer : a cross-country journey in 1850 leads to high mountain danger and romance
- A King's Ransom
- A Quilt for Christmas
- A Rebel among Redcoats : a Revolutionary War novel
- A beauty so rare
- A big day for baseball
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bond never broken
- A break with charity : a story about the Salem witch trials
- A breath of hope
- A century of music : Peoria symphony orchestra, 1897-1997
- A column of fire
- A column of fire
- A crazy day with cobras
- A daring venture
- A daughter's inheritance
- A daughter's inheritance
- A day long to be remembered : Lincoln in Gettysburg
- A deal with the devil : the dark and twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history
- A death in Live Oak
- A fierce radiance : a novel
- A fire within
- A gentleman in Moscow
- A gentleman in Moscow : a novel
- A ghost tale for Christmas time
- A gift for Mama
- A gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A good night for ghosts
- A great place to have a war : America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
- A guide book of United States coins
- A heart's disguise
- A heart's disguise
- A heart's home
- A heart's home
- A higher form of killing : six weeks in World War I that forever changed the nature of warfare forever
- A history of the Amish
- A history of the World Cup, 1930-2014
- A home at trail's end
- A hopeful heart
- A journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple
- A lady like Sarah : a Rocky Creek romance
- A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin
- A light in the wilderness : a novel
- A matter of character : a novel
- A nice little place on the North Side : Wrigley Field at one hundred
- A night divided
- A passion denied
- A passion most pure
- A passion redeemed
- A place called freedom
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A quilt for Christmas
- A rare Benedictine
- A reckoning
- A reliable wife : a novel
- A river to cross
- A rogue of my own
- A shining light
- A slant of light : a novel
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A stand for independence
- A sunless sea : a William Monk novel
- A surrendered heart
- A tale of two murders : guilt, innocence, and the execution of Edith Thompson
- A very expensive poison : the definitive story of the murder of Litvinenko and Russia's war with the West
- A whisper of peace : a novel
- A woman called Sage : a novel
- A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country
- A.D. 33 : a novel
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln : a house divided
- Absolutely everything! : a history of Earth, dinosaurs, rulers, robots and other things too numerous to mention
- Acceptable loss : a William Monk novel
- Across the wide dark sea : the mayflower journey
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Addy learns a lesson : a school story
- Addy saves the day : a summer story
- Addy's surprise : a Christmas story
- Afghanistan : graveyard of empires : a new history of the borderlands
- After Lincoln : how the north won the Civil War and lost the peace
- Against a brightening sky
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent 6
- Airman
- Alex and Eliza : a love story
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alexander, the Great
- Ali : a life
- All different now : Juneteenth, the first day of freedom
- All in a day's work : seventy-five years of Caterpillar
- All quiet on the Western front
- All she left behind
- All the Presidents' gardens : Madison's cabbages to Kennedy's roses : how the White House grounds have grown with America
- All the light we cannot see : a novel
- All things hidden
- All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah
- Alt-America : the rise of the radical right in the age of Trump
- America : a patriotic primer
- America : the story of us
- American Girl
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American murder houses : a coast-to-coast tour of the most notorious houses of homicide
- American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
- American prophets : seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice
- Americana : a 400-year history of American capitalism
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- Among the headhunters : an extraordinary World War II story of survival in the Burmese jungle
- An affair downstairs
- An echo in the bone : a novel
- An unexpected love
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angel on the square
- Anna's crossing : an Amish beginnings novel
- Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
- Art : the definitive visual guide
- Ashes
- Ashes
- Ashes of roses
- Asylum light : stories from the Dr. George A. Zeller era and beyond; Peoria State Hospital, Galesburg mental health center, and George A. Zeller Mental Health center
- At home in her tomb : Lady Dai and the ancient Chinese treasures of Mawangdui
- At home with Illinois Governors : a social history of the Illinois Executive Mansion, 1855-2003
- Atomic Blonde
- Ballet : the definitive illustrated story
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balm : a novel
- Balto of the Blue Dawn
- Barbie
- Barbie all dolled up : celebrating 50 years of Barbie
- Barkskins : a novel
- Barn find road trip : 3 guys, 14 days and 1,000 lost collector cars discovered
- Barns of Illinois
- Basketball : a love story
- Battles that changed history
- Be careful what you wish for
- Be careful what you wish for
- Beautiful creatures
- Behind the throne : a domestic history of the British royal household
- Belgravia
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Bellagrand
- Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
- Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ
- Beneath a golden veil
- Beneath a prairie moon : a novel
- Beneath a scarlet sky
- Best kept secret
- Best kept secret
- Best kept secret
- Between shades of gray
- Big bad ironclad! : a Civil War steamship showdown
- Bill Adams' yester days
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies, The Civil War
- Bill O'Reilly's legends and lies : the patriots
- Bitter melon
- Black storm comin'
- Black storm comin'
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Blizzard of the blue moon
- Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
- Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America
- Blood is blood
- Blood of the Vikings : last of the Vikings
- Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago
- Bloodshed of eagles
- Bo at Ballard Creek
- Bo at Iditarod Creek
- Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Born to fly
- Breaking Stalin's nose
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Bright young dead
- Bright young dead
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bud, not Buddy
- Calling his shot : Babe Ruth's legendary home run
- Carried forward by hope, April -December 1865
- Castle
- Catch the wind : my journey with Caroline
- Cecile's gift
- Celebrity in chief : a history of the presidents and the culture of stardom
- Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Changes for Addy : a winter story
- Changes for Addy : a winter story
- Changes for Felicity : a winter story
- Changes for Josefina : a winter story
- Changes for Julie
- Charting Christmas
- Chasing the North Star : a novel
- Chasing the sun
- Chevy Chevelle : fifty years
- Chicago : city of the century
- Chicago Bears
- Chickadee
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Christmas at Carnton
- Circle of spies
- Citadel
- City of rocks : a western story
- City of women
- Civil War, 1861-1965
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany : a novel
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile
- Clockwork angel
- Code girls : the true story of the American women who secretly broke codes in World War II
- Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
- Collector's Originality Guide Mustang, 1964-1/2-1966
- Colonial cooking
- Combat!, Season I, Campaign I
- Come home : a novel
- Cometh the hour
- Cometh the hour
- Cometh the hour
- Connecting the coasts : the race to build the transcontinental railroad
- Coretta Scott King
- Corridors of the night : a William Monk novel
- Corrupt Illinois : patronage, cronyism, and criminality
- Courageous women of the Civil War : soldiers, spies, medics, and more
- Crooked heart
- Crooked heart : a novel
- Crooked river
- Danger in Paris : a Samantha mystery
- Dangerous diseases : scary illnesses that frighten the world
- Dare to love again : a novel
- Darkest hour
- Darth Vader : sith lord
- Day of the Dragon King
- Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Death in Salem
- Death in the air : the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city
- Death of an eye
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Detroit resurrected : to bankruptcy and back
- Dictator
- Digging for Brachiosaurus
- Digging for Tyrannosaurus rex : a discovery timeline
- Disinformation : former spy chief reveals secret strategies for undermining freedom, attacking religion, and promoting terrorism
- Disney
- Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Django Unchained
- Dogs in the dead of night
- Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about American history but never learned
- Donner dinner party
- Dorchester Terrace : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel
- Dragon of the red dawn
- Dream of love
- Dreams of joy : a novel
- Drones
- Drums of autumn
- Drums of change : the story of Running Fawn
- ESPN sports century
- Early warning
- Echo : a novel
- Edge of eternity
- Edible : an illustrated guide to the world's food plants
- Electric October : seven World Series games, six lives, five minutes of fame that lasted forever
- Elizabeth : the Golden Age
- Elizabeth at 90
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Ellen's broom
- Ellen's story
- Embers of love
- Emory's gift
- Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
- Escape from Syria
- Every insult and indignity : the life, genius and legacy of Major Patrick Ferguson
- Every town is a sports town : business leadership at ESPN, from the mailroom to the boardroom
- Everything she didn't say
- Everything she didn't say
- Exile on Front Street : my life as a Hells Angel ... and beyond
- Exploration : a very short Introduction
- Exploring Ephesus : city of apostles
- Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years
- Eyewitness vote
- Facing the enemy
- Famous first facts : a record of first happenings, discoveries and inventions in the United States
- Felicity learns a lesson : a school story, 1774
- Felicity saves the day : a summer story
- Felicity's surprise : a Christmas story
- Fever, 1793
- Fighting after the war
- Finale : a novel of the Reagan years
- Finding Mercy
- Firearms : an illustrated history
- First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
- First ladies and American women : in politics and at home
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Flight : 100 years of aviation
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fools and mortals : a novel
- Fools and mortals : a novel
- For the good of mankind? : the shameful history of human medical experimentation
- For whom the bell tolls
- Forged in crisis : the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times
- Founding leadership : lessons on business and personal leadership from the men who brought you the American Revolution
- Four funerals and maybe a wedding
- Foxing the geese
- Foyle's war
- Freedom summer : the 1964 struggle for civil rights in Mississippi
- From the folks who brought you the weekend : a short, illustrated history of labor in the United States
- From the headlines to Hollywood : the birth and boom of Warner Bros.
- From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America
- Frontline, President Trump
- Fugitive from the grave
- Full moon over Noah's ark : an odyssey to Mount Ararat and beyond
- GM&O - the Alton Route in color, Volume 2, The second generation
- Game changers : the unsung heroines of sports history
- Gangs of New York
- Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the Underground Railroad
- Genghis Khan, the emperor of all men
- Get well soon : history's worst plagues and the heroes who fought them
- Gettysburg
- Gettysburg : history and legends
- Ghost : my thirty years as an FBI undercover agent
- Ghost riders : when US and German soldiers fought together to save the world's most beautiful horses in the last days of World War II
- Ghost town at sundown
- Ghostly echoes
- Ghosts of the tsunami : death and life in Japan's disaster zone
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Girl at war : a novel
- Girl waits with gun
- Gladiator
- Gods and generals
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Gone with the wind
- Good and mad : the revolutionary power of women's anger
- Good time coming : [a novel of the American Civil War]
- Graffiti palace
- Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
- Great battles
- Green : a novel
- Green Bay Packers
- Ground zero : how a photograph sent a message of hope
- Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
- Gutenberg's apprentice : a novel
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- Habits of the house
- Halsey's typhoon : the true story of a fighting admiral, an epic storm, and an untold rescue
- Hammering for freedom : the William Lewis story
- Hanging Mary
- Harry Potter : a history of magic
- Hasty death
- Hattie's story
- Hawaiian crosswinds
- He : a novel
- Head in the clouds
- Heads you win : a novel
- Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans
- Heart of glass : a novel
- Hearts aglow
- Heaven's ditch : God, gold, and murder on the Erie Canal
- Henry V
- Hidden affections
- Hidden warbirds II : more epic stories of finding, recovering, and rebuilding WWII's lost aircraft
- Higher, steeper, faster : the daredevils who conquered the skies
- Highlights of the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Highlights of the San Francisco 49ers
- Hit the target : eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe
- Hitler's American friends : the Third Reich's supporters in the United States
- Honor in the dust : a novel
- Hot air balloons
- Hot pink : the life & fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
- House of purple cedar
- How they croaked : the awful ends of the awfully famous
- How to change the world
- Hunt for the bamboo rat
- Hurry up, Houdini!
- Hurry up, Houdini!
- I am Abraham Lincoln
- I am not your negro
- I have a dream
- I love dinosaurs
- I survived #15
- I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
- I survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
- I survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011
- I survived the Nazi invasion, 1944
- I survived the San Francisco earthquake, 1906
- I survived the shark attacks of 1916
- I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl
- Ibn al-Haytham : the man who discovered how we see
- Ice ghosts : the epic hunt for the lost Franklin expedition
- If the dead rise not : a Bernie Gunther novel
- If the walls could talk : family life at the White House
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Illinois : a history in pictures
- Illinois blue book, 2017-2018
- Illinois in the Civil War
- Illinois, the heart of the nation
- Illuminating women in the medieval world
- In Europe's shadow : two Cold Wars and a thirty-year journey through Romania and beyond