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- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- (Not quite) Mastering the art of French living
- 10,000 miles with my dead father's ashes : or mi padre es muerto en la bolsa
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 20 years in the Secret Service; : my life with five Presidents
- 20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 34 years in hell : my time inside America's toughest prisons
- 44 chapters about 4 men : a memoir
- 48 peaks : hiking and healing in the White Mountains
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific War's greatest battle
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 98% funky stuff : my life in music
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Lublin survivor : life is like a dream
- A POLITICALLY INCORRECT FEMINIST : CREATING A MOVEMENT WITH BITCHES, LUNATICS, DYKES, PRODIGIES, WARRIORS, AND WONDER WOMEN
- A Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world
- A backward glance
- A bad reaction : a memoir
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A body in the O : performances and stories
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A child of the century
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A crime in the family
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A delayed life : the true story of the librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream too big : the story of an improbable journey from Compton to Oxford
- A few minor adjustments : a memoir of healing
- A fierce love : one woman's courageous journey to save her marriage
- A fine romance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A forger's tale : confessions of the Bolton forger
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A girl walks into a book : what the Brontës taught me about life, love, and women's work
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A handful of happiness : how a prickly creature softened a prickly heart
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- A life in parts
- A life of my own
- A life well played : my stories
- A lifetime of labor : the autobiography of Alice H. Cook
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- A little annihilation
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A lot like me : a father and son's journey to reconciliation : a memoir
- A love letter life : pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man of the theater : survival as an artist in Iran
- A marriage in dog years : a memoir
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A new America : how music reshaped the culture and future of a nation--and redefined my life
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A normal life : a memoir
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passionate journey : a memoir
- A personal odyssey
- A prayer for Orion : a son's addiction and a mother's love
- A promised land
- A purpose ridden
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A rock between two rivers : fracturing a Texas family ranch
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A sick life : TLC 'n me : stories from on and off the stage
- A song for the river
- A spy in the house of loud : New York songs and stories
- A stone of hope : a memoir
- A stranger at home : a true story
- A survivor's journey : from victim to advocate
- A tale of love and darkness
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A time for action : empowering the faithful to reclaim America
- A touch of innocence
- A true child of Papua New Guinea : memoir of a life in two worlds
- A very punchable face
- A vision for my father : the life & work of the Palestinian-American artist & designer Rajie Cook
- A war away : an American woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- A year of Biblical womanhood : how a liberated woman found herself sitting on her roof, covering her head, and calling her husband "master"
- A year without mom
- ALL THE COLORS CAME OUT : A FATHER, A DAUGHTER, AND A LIFETIME OF LESSONS
- ASSIGNMENT RUSSIA : BECOMING A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT IN THE CRUCIBLE OF THE COLD WAR
- Abandon me : memoirs
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mom to her dirty son
- Above the line : my Wild Oats adventure
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Access all areas : stories from a hard rock life
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Addicted to perfect : a journey out of the grips of Adderall
- Adios, motherfucker : a gentleman's progress through rock and roll
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- Adventures in Zambian politics : a story in black and white
- Africa in my blood : an autobiography in letters : the early years
- Africa solo : my world record race from Cairo to Cape Town
- Afropessimism
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search : a memoir
- Aftermath : when it felt like life was over
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Against my will : groomed, trapped and abused. This is my true story of survival
- Against the grain : bombthrowing in the fine American tradition of political cartooning
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Aire encantado : dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
- Al Franken Giant of the Senate
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- All I could bare : my life in the strip clubs of gay Washington D.C.
- All I ever wanted : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All day : a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- All the oceans : designing by the seat of my pants : a memoir
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- All you can ever know
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Almost there
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Alone : a love story
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
- Alone in the trenches : my life as a gay man in the NFL
- Alone on the wall
- Along comes The Association : beyond folk rock and three-piece suits
- Alou : my baseball journey
- Alpine apprentice
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always the young strangers
- Am I being too subtle? : straight talk from a business rebel
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- America day by day
- American English, Italian chocolate : small subjects of great importance
- American Indian stories
- American animals : a true crime memoir
- American daughter : a memoir
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- American hunger
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American values : lessons I learned from my family
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Among the believers : an Islamic journey
- Among those present : a reporter's view of twenty-five years in Washington
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An academic life : a memoir
- An autobiography : the story of my experiments with truth
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An impossible life : the inspiring true story of a woman's struggle from within
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
- An invisible thread
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- An outlaw and a lady : a memoir of music, life with Waylon, and the faith that brought me home
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- Ana Roš - sun and rain
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- And then I danced : traveling the road to LGBT equality
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion
- Andrew Wyeth : autobiography
- Angela Gheorghiu : a life for art
- Angela's ashes
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angels on Earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections
- Anger is my middle name : a memoir
- Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- Another kind of madness : a journey through the stigma and hope of mental illness
- Another life : on memory, language, love, and the passage of time
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Anything for Amelia : a true story of the challenges endured by two gay men who had the desire to adopt a child
- Anywhere that is wild : John Muir's first walk to Yosemite
- Apocalypse child : a life in end times : a memoir
- Apollo pilot : the memoir of astronaut Donn Eisele
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Approaching eye level
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art and madness : a memoir of lust without reason
- Ashes in the ocean : a son's story of living through & learning from his father's suicide
- Ask a pro : deep thoughts and unreliable advice from America's foremost cycling sage
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Assata : an autobiography
- Asshole attorney : musings, memories, and missteps in a forty-year career
- Assume nothing : a memoir of intimate violence
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Asylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks
- At home in the world : stories and essential teachings from a monk's life
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autobiography of my hungers
- Avid reader : a life
- BAD : the autobiography of James Carr
- Baby, don't hurt me : stories and scars from Saturday night live
- Back Seat With Fish : a man's adventures in angling and romance
- Back from the dead
- Back in the game : one gunman, countless heroes, and the fight for my life
- Backbone : an inspirational manual for coping with chronic pain
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Baffled by love : stories of the lasting impact of childhood trauma inflicted by loved ones
- Bajo las palmas reales : una infancia cubana
- Balance : a story of faith, family, and life on the line
- Balcony on the moon : a Palestinian coming of age memoir
- Ballad of the Green Beret : the life and wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and pop stardom to murder and an unsolved, violent death
- Ballplayer
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Barefoot at the lake : a boyhood summer in cottage country
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Bastards : a memoir
- Be bold : finding your fierce
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be straight with me
- Bears in the streets : three journeys across a changing Russia
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful scars : a life redefined
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist / Edward M. Hallowell
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming : mi historia
- Becoming Coach Jake : a story of overcoming the odds, on the soccer field and beyond
- Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Kid Quixote : a true story of belonging in America
- Becoming Maria : love and chaos in the South Bronx : a memoir
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Becoming Odyssa : adventures on the Appalachian Trail
- 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 a man : the story of a transition
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Been so long : my life and music
- Beer money : a memoir of privilege and loss
- Before pictures
- Beginners : the joy and transformative power of lifelong learning
- Behind the laughter : a comedian's tale of tragedy and hope
- Behind the line of scrimmage : inside the front office of the NFL
- Behind the scenes : thirty years a slave and four years in the White House
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being Rapoport : capitalist with a conscience
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Betsey : a memoir
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between each line of pain and glory : my life story
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Between you & me : confessions of a Comma Queen
- Beyond vision : going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self
- Bienvenida a casa : apuntes biográficos, fotografÃas y cartas escogidas
- Big bosses : a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America
- Big girl : how I gave up dieting and got a life
- Bill Duke : my 40-year career on screen and behind the camera
- Billie Eilish
- Bird uncaged : an abolitionist's freedom song
- Birds, art, life : a year of observation
- Birthing hope : giving fear to the light
- Black Klansman : race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime
- Black boy
- Black boy out of time : a memoir
- Black dog of fate : a memoir
- Black ice
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black lotus : a woman's search for racial identity
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- Black scientists
- Black sheep : a blue-eyed negro speaks of abandonment, belonging, racism, and redemption
- Blackout : my 40 years in the music business
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Blessed life : my surprising journey of joy, tears, and tales from Harlem to Hollywood
- Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue : the color of noise
- Blue highways : a journey into America
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Bobby : my story in pictures
- Bono : the amazing story of a rescue cat who inspired a community
- Boot language : a memoir
- Borderline shine : a memoir
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born just right
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Born-again blakfella
- Bounty hunter 4/3 : my life in combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Boys don't cry
- Boys keep swinging : a memoir
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave
- Brave face : a memoir
- Brave new medicine : a doctor's unconventional path to healing her autoimmune illness
- Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) lifetime
- Breaking cover : my secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting for
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking ground : from landmines to grapevines, one woman's mission to heal the world
- Breaking the ocean : a memoir of race, rebellion, and reconciliation
- Bricktop
- Bridging the divide : my life
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
- Broken whole : a memoir
- Brooklyn : a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie
- Brother dog : southern tales & Hollywood adventures
- Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian War
- Brown girl dreaming
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Bruce Lee : words of the dragon : interviews and conversations 1958-1973
- Brutally honest
- Buffering : unshared tales of a life fully loaded
- Burn the place : a memoir
- Bursting bonds : enlarged edition [of] The heir of slaves : the autobiography of a "new Negro"
- Buru Island : a prison memoir
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But my brain had other ideas : a memoir of recovery from brain injury
- But seriously
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian, my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- Buy yourself the f*cking lilies : and other rituals to fix your life, from someone who's been there
- By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
- Caca dolce : essays from a lowbrow life
- Caged eyes : an Air Force cadet's story of rape and resilience
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Called out but safe : a baseball umpire's journey
- Called to rise : a life in faithful service to the community that made me
- Camgirl
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums, drums, drums
- Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger
- Can't help myself : lessons and confessions from a modern advice columnist
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Can't nothing bring me down : chasing myself in the race against time
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carson McCullers : stories, plays & other writings
- Cash : the autobiography
- Catch me if you can
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Chancers : addiction, prison, recovery, love: one couple's memoir
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Changing normal : how I helped my husband beat cancer
- Chasing grace : what the quarter mile has taught me about God and life
- Chasing space
- Chasing space : an astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chasing water : elegy of an Olympian
- Chickenhawk
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Children of the land
- Children of the land
- Choose your own disaster : A. a memoir, B. a personality quiz, C. a mostly true and completely honest look at one young woman's attempt to find herself, D. all of the above
- Chutzpah & high heels : the search for love and identity in the Holy Land
- CinderGirl : my journey out of the ashes to a life of hope, a memoir
- City gate, open up
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classic style : hand it down, dress it up, wear it out
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat, and obsession
- Clifford : a memoir, a fiction, a fantasy, a thought experiment
- Clinging to the iceberg : writing for a living on the stage and in Hollywood
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coach of a different color : one man's story of breaking barriers in football
- Cockroaches
- Collected essays & memoirs
- Colored people : a memoir