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- 100 things Cubs fans should know & do before they die
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 17 carnations : the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 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
- 24 hours after Hiroshima
- 300
- 4 Little Girls
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 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 Paralyzing Fear : The Story of Polio in America
- A Quilt for Christmas
- A Rebel among Redcoats : a Revolutionary War novel
- A beauty so rare
- A big day for baseball
- A black women's history of the United States
- 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 cultural history of body piercing
- A daring venture
- A daughter's inheritance
- A daughter's inheritance
- A day long to be remembered : Lincoln in Gettysburg
- A day to pick your own cotton
- 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 desperate hope
- A distance too grand
- 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 gilded lady
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good night for ghosts
- A great place to have a war : America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- 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 Bible : the story of the world's most influential book
- 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 little princess
- A long petal of the sea : a novel
- A longer fall
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students
- A matter of character : a novel
- A nice little place on the North Side : Wrigley Field at one hundred
- A night divided
- A passage to India
- A passion denied
- A passion most pure
- A passion redeemed
- A performance of Macbeth
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A reckoning
- A reliable wife : a novel
- A reluctant belle
- A river to cross
- A rogue by night
- A rogue of my own
- A shining light
- A single spark
- A single thread
- A single thread
- A slant of light : a novel
- A snapshot of murder
- A song for the stars
- 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 squirrelly situation
- A stand for independence
- A sunless sea : a William Monk novel
- A surrendered heart
- A tale of two cities
- A tale of two murders : guilt, innocence, and the execution of Edith Thompson
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A trace of deceit
- A treacherous curse
- 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 Moses
- 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 Lincoln
- 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
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Across the wide dark sea : the mayflower journey
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Adam of the road
- African American lives
- African American lives 2
- After Lincoln : how the north won the Civil War and lost the peace
- After the rain
- Against a brightening sky
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent 6
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Airman
- Albert Nobbs
- Alex and Eliza : a love story
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alexander Hamilton; : a biography in his own words.
- Alexander, the Great
- Ali : a life
- Alias Grace
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All different now : Juneteenth, the first day of freedom
- 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 things hidden
- All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alt-America : the rise of the radical right in the age of Trump
- Amazing grace
- America : freedom to Fascism
- America : the story of us
- America's game : the NFL at 100
- American Girl
- American Homer : reflections on Shelby Foote and his classic The Civil War : a narrative
- American Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American experience, Freedom riders
- American experience, John & Abigail Adams
- American murder houses : a coast-to-coast tour of the most notorious houses of homicide
- American muscle cars : a full-throttle history
- American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
- American priest : the ambitious life and conflicted legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
- American prophets : seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American spy : a novel
- 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 African American and Latinx history of the United States
- An American tail
- An affair downstairs
- An echo in the bone : a novel
- An indigenous peoples' history of the United States
- An unexpected love
- Anastasia and her sisters
- And the band played on
- And this is free : the life and times of Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Angel on the square
- Anna's crossing : an Amish beginnings novel
- Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
- Anonymous
- Answers to questions about old jewelry, 1840-1950
- Antisemitism : here and now
- Apollo : a graphic guide to mankind's greatest mission
- Apollo's angels : a history of ballet
- Art : the definitive visual guide
- Ashes
- Ashes
- Ashes in the snow
- Ashes of roses
- Assassinations : the plots, politics, and powers behind history-changing murders
- 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
- Australia
- Bach to the rescue!!! : how a rich dude who couldn't sleep inspired the greatest music ever
- Ballet : the definitive illustrated story
- Balloons and airships
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Balto of the Blue Dawn
- Banned book club
- Barack Obama
- 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
- Baseball : an illustrated history
- Basketball : a love story
- Battles that changed history
- Be careful what you wish for
- Be careful what you wish for
- Beautiful creatures
- Beauty tempts the beast
- Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- 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
- Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
- Beneath a golden veil
- Beneath a prairie moon : a novel
- Beneath a scarlet sky
- Benjamin Harrison
- Best kept secret
- Best kept secret
- Best kept secret
- Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen
- Between shades of gray
- Beyond the bright sea
- Beyond the silence
- Bezonomics : how Amazon is changing our lives, and what the world's best companies are learning from it
- Big bad ironclad! : a Civil War steamship showdown
- Bill Adams' yester days
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies, The Civil War
- Bill O'Reilly's legends and lies : the patriots
- Bitter melon
- Black Beauty
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black baseball, 1858-1900 : a comprehensive record of the teams, players, managers, owners and umpires
- Black dahlia
- Black futures
- Black ice
- Black storm comin'
- Black storm comin'
- Bless the bride
- Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
- Blizzard of the blue moon
- Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease
- Blood and oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
- Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America
- Blood diamond
- Blood is blood
- Blood of the Vikings : last of the Vikings
- Bloodshed of eagles
- Bo at Ballard Creek
- Bo at Iditarod Creek
- Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon
- Bones of my grandfather : reclaiming a lost hero of World War II
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Born fighting : how the Scots-Irish shaped America
- Brava Italia
- Braveheart
- Breaking Stalin's nose
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Bright young dead
- Bright young dead
- Brionne
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken trail
- Brown girl dreaming
- Buckhorn : paid in blood
- Buckingham Palace gardens
- Bud, not Buddy
- Buffalo soldiers
- Building the great cathedrals
- Buried lives : the enslaved people of George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Calling his shot : Babe Ruth's legendary home run
- Calvin Coolidge
- Candle in the darkness
- Capitalism in America : a history
- Carried forward by hope, April -December 1865
- 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
- Censorship & privacy
- Charlie Wilson's war
- Charting Christmas
- Chasing the North Star : a novel
- Chasing the sun
- Cherokee America
- Chester Arthur
- Chevy Chevelle : fifty years
- Chicago : city of the century
- Chicago Bears
- Chicago's great fire : the destruction and resurrection of an iconic American city
- Chickadee
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Chinatown
- Christmas at Carnton
- Circle of spies
- Citadel
- Citizen Washington : a novel
- City of flickering light
- City of rocks : a western story
- City of women
- Civil War fathers : sons of the Civil War in WW II
- Civil War on Sunday
- Civil War, 1861-1965
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany : a novel
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile
- Clockwork angel
- Coat of arms conundrum : Perri and Archer's (mis)adventure in medieval England
- 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
- Collected essays
- 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
- Confirmation bias : inside Washington's war over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's death to Justice Kavanaugh
- 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
- Countdown 1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
- Country matters
- Courage rising : April - August 1871
- Courageous women of the Civil War : soldiers, spies, medics, and more
- Crooked heart
- Crooked river
- Crucible of empire : the Spanish-American War
- Cult of glory : the bold and brutal history of the Texas Rangers
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dances with wolves
- Danger in Paris : a Samantha mystery
- Dangerous diseases : scary illnesses that frighten the world
- Dare to love again : a novel
- Dark tides : a novel
- Dark tides : a novel
- Darkness at Chancellorsville : a novel of Stonewall Jackson's triumph and tragedy
- Darth Vader : sith lord
- Daughter of Black Lake
- Daughter of Twin Oaks
- Daughter of the Reich : a novel
- 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
- Deathless divide
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Desperate crossing : the untold story of the Mayflower
- Desperate crossing : the untold story of the Mayflower
- Detroit resurrected : to bankruptcy and back
- Diary of Charlotte Forten : a free Black girl before the Civil War
- Dictator
- Digging for Brachiosaurus
- Digging for Tyrannosaurus rex : a discovery timeline
- Disaster strikes! : the most dangerous space missions of all time
- Discovering the motorcycle : the history, the culture, the machines
- Disinformation : former spy chief reveals secret strategies for undermining freedom, attacking religion, and promoting terrorism
- Disney
- Disney's land : Walt Disney and the inventions of the amusement park that changed the world
- Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Divide and conquer
- Django Unchained
- Doctor Zhivago
- 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
- Dorchester terrace
- Double cross
- Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down to the bonny glen
- Dragon of the red dawn
- Dragon's Jaw : an epic story of courage and tenacity in Vietnam
- Dragonfly in amber : a novel
- Dream of love
- Dreams of El Dorado : a history of the American West
- Dreams of Savannah
- Dreams of joy : a novel
- Drones
- Drug warrior : inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis
- Drums of autumn
- Drunk history : season 4
- Drunk history, Season 3
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Early warning
- Earth Day and the environmental movement : standing up for Earth
- Echo : a novel
- Echo Mountain
- Edgar Allan Poe and the empire of the dead
- Edge of eternity
- Edible : an illustrated guide to the world's food plants
- Egyptians
- Eleanor : crown jewel of Aquitaine
- Electric October : seven World Series games, six lives, five minutes of fame that lasted forever
- Eli Roth's history of horror, Season 1
- Elizabeth : the Golden Age
- Elizabeth at 90
- Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch
- Ellen's broom
- Elska
- Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Embers of love
- Emory's gift
- Emperor
- Empire of lies
- 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 Egypt
- Escape from Syria
- Escape to freedom
- Ethel & Ernest
- Europe against the Jews : 1880-1945
- Every insult and indignity : the life, genius and legacy of Major Patrick Ferguson
- Everything she didn't say
- Everything she didn't say
- Exile on Front Street : my life as a Hells Angel ... and beyond
- Exodus
- Exploration : a very short Introduction
- Explorers : great tales of adventure and endurance
- Exploring Ephesus : city of apostles
- Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years
- Eyewitness vote
- Facing the enemy
- Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
- Fatal enquiry
- Fever year : the killer flu of 1918 : a tragedy in three acts
- Fever, 1793
- Fighting after the war
- 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
- Flight : the complete history of aviation
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flyboys : a true story of courage
- Flying free
- Fools and mortals : a novel
- Fools and mortals : a novel
- For the good of mankind? : the shameful history of human medical experimentation
- For the good of the game : the inside story of the surprising and dramatic transformation of Major League Baseball
- For whom the bell tolls
- Forged in crisis : the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times