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- "Company Aytch", or, A side show of the big show and other sketches
- "Gizelle, save the children!"
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers
- 1915, the death of innocence
- 365 thank yous : the year a simple act of daily gratitude changed my life
- 40 thieves on Saipan : the elite Marine scout-snipers in one of WWII's bloodiest battles
- 444 days : the hostages remember
- 50 jobs in 50 states : one man's journey of discovery across America
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 9 months in, 9 months out : a scientist's tale of pregnancy and parenthood
- 9/11 ordinary people: extraordinary heroes : NYC-- the first battle in the war against terror!
- 999 : the extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz
- A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
- A Black woman's odyssey through Russia and Jamaica : the narrative of Nancy Prince
- A Confederate girl : the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
- A Grand army of Black men : letters from African-American soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865
- A Helluva High Note
- A Jane Austen education : how six novels taught me about love, friendship, and the things that really matter
- A Jewish boyhood in Poland : remembering Kolbuszowa
- A Mighty Long Way
- A Prose anthology of the First World War
- A Woman like you : life stories of women recovering from alcoholism and addiction
- A boob's life : how America's obsession shaped me... and you
- A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- A burning desire to be free
- A champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- A conspiracy of decency : the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II
- A course called America : fifty states, five thousand fairways, and the search for the great American golf course
- A cup of tears : a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A decade of hope : stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- A fortunate life
- A freewheelin' time : a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A healing touch : true stories of life, death, and hospice
- A helluva high note : surviving life, love, and American idol
- A hidden childhood, 1942-1945
- A hidden life : a memoir of August 1969
- A higher loyalty [large print] : truth, lies, and leadership
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- A lab of one's own [book on cd]: : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A life decoded : my genome, my life
- A life shaken : my encounter with Parkinson's disease
- A long way gone : [memoirs of a boy soldier]
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A matter of honor : one cop's lifelong pursuit of John Gotti and the Mob
- A matter of rats : a short biography of Patna
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A mind spread out on the ground
- A monk swimming
- A mother's courage : talking back to autism
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- A place for us
- A place outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantanamo
- A princess found
- A promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland
- A simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit
- A small town near Auschwitz : ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
- A song flung up to heaven
- A surplus of memory : chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
- A thing of beauty : travels in mythical and modern Greece
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A view of the ocean
- A wedding in Haiti
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A widow's walk
- A will to survive
- A year and six seconds : a love story
- A young people's history of the United States, Volume one, Columbus to the Spanish-American War
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Above suspicion
- Across many mountains : a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom
- Africa's vanishing wildlife
- After Stalingrad : seven years as a Soviet prisoner of war
- After long silence : a memoir
- After the Reich : the brutal history of the Allied occupation
- After the fall : New Yorkers remember September 2001 and the years that followed
- Afterwords : stories and reports from 9/11 and beyond
- Agassi and ecstasy : the turbulent life of Andre Agassi
- Agent of destiny : the life and times of General Winfield Scott
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- All American : why I believe in football, God, and the war in Iraq
- All his jazz : the life & death of Bob Fosse
- All in
- All rivers run to the sea : memoir
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the gallant men [large print] : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- Always remember me : how one family survived World War II
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always running : La Vida Loca, gang days in L.A.
- American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
- American ghosts
- American hunger
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American war generals
- An Irish country childhood : memories of a bygone age
- An accidental sportswriter : a memoir
- An eagle named Freedom : my true story of a remarkable friendship
- An innocent, a broad
- An interrupted life : the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An unquiet mind
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- And furthermore
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angola : promises and lies
- Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- Anne Frank : the book, the life, the afterlife
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Frank and the children of the Holocaust
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Apocalypse : World War II
- Apples & oranges : my brother and me, lost and found
- Arrival stories : women share their experiences of becoming mothers
- Art from the ashes : a Holocaust anthology
- As you wish : inconceivable tales from the making of The princess bride
- As you wish [book on cd] : inconceivable tales from the making of the Princess Bride
- Asian Americans in the twenty-first century : oral histories of first- to fourth-generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos
- Ask a North Korean : defectors talk about their lives inside the world's most secretive nation
- Asylum : Hollywood tales about my great depression, brain dis-ease, recovery, and being my mother's son
- Asylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At least in the city someone would hear me scream : (misadventures in search of the simple life)
- At the devil's table : the untold story of the insider who brought down the Cali Cartel
- Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account
- Auschwitz : inside the Nazi state
- Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land
- Awesome Bill from Dawsonville : my life in NASCAR
- Awkward and definition : the high school comic chronicles of Ariel Schrag
- Bali ji
- Barney Ross
- Baseball in '41 : a celebration of the best baseball season ever-- in the year America went to war
- Bataan : a survivor's story
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Battles and leaders of the Civil War
- Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, Volume I
- Battles and leaders of the Civil War, Volume 5
- Bearing witness : stories of the Holocaust
- Beautiful boy : a father's journey through his son's addiction
- Beautiful unbroken : one nurse's life
- Because God loves stories : an anthology of Jewish storytelling
- Becoming a mountain : Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime
- Bed number ten
- Before the rain : (a tale in three parts)
- Beg, borrow, steal : a writer's life
- Behind enemy lines : the true story of a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
- Being Kendra : cribs, cocktails, & getting my sexy back
- Believe : my faith and the tackle that changed my life
- Believe : the victorious story of Eric LeGrand
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Bette Davis speaks
- Betty & friends : my life at the zoo
- Betty White in person
- Between a heart and a rock place : a memoir
- Between me and the river : living beyond cancer : a memoir
- Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen
- Bicycle diaries
- Big Sonia
- Bill Moyers journal : the conversation continues
- Bird watching : on playing and coaching the game I love
- Birders : tales of a tribe
- Bitter is the new black : confessions of a condescending, egomaniacal, self-centered, smart-ass, or, why you should never carry a Prada bag to the unemployment office : a memoir
- Black ice
- Black milk : on writing, motherhood, and the harem within
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black postcards : a rock & roll romance
- Black wave : [a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them]
- Black wave : a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them
- Blackout : the untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training
- Blind ambition : the White House years
- Blind spot
- Blonde heat : the sizzling screen career of Marilyn Monroe
- Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease
- Blood and whiskey : the life and times of Jack Daniel, an American legend
- Blood of Spain : an oral history of the Spanish Civil War
- Blue collar, blue scrubs : the making of a surgeon
- Blue nights
- Bonobo handshake : a memoir of love and adventure in the Congo
- Book by book : notes on reading and life
- Book of dreams
- Books : a memoir
- Born to win : the authorized biography of Althea Gibson
- Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Brain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
- Breakshot : a life in the 21st century American Mafia
- Brighter by the day : waking up to new hopes and dreams
- Brighter by the day [book on cd] : waking up to new hopes and dreams
- Brighter by the day [playaway]: : waking up to new hopes and dreams
- Broken bodies, shattered minds : a medical odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan
- Brother, I'm dying
- Brown girl dreaming
- Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Cakewalk : a memoir
- Camp
- Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton : the secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mecca, discovered the Kama Sutra, and brought the Arabian nights to the West
- Car guys vs. bean counters : the battle for the soul of American business
- Caregiver's survival guide [large print] : caring for yourself while caring for a loved one
- Cartier's hope
- Case files of the tracker : true stories from America's greatest outdoorsman
- Catching homelessness : a nurse's story of falling through the safety net
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Caught in the revolution [book on cd] : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Censored voices
- Chalked up : inside elite gymnastics' merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and elusive Olympic dreams
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Chasing China : how I went to China in search of a fortune and found a life
- Chasing the high : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with substance abuse
- Children in the Holocaust and World War II : their secret diaries
- Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
- Chosen forever : a memoir
- Cinderella Man : James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history
- Circling the Square : stories from the Egyptian Revolution
- Citizen soldier : the Revolutionary War journal of Joseph Bloomfield
- Civil War eyewitness reports
- Clanlands : whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other
- Clanlands almanac : seasonal stories from Scotland
- Clara's kitchen : wisdom, memories, and recipes from the Great Depression
- Clara's war : one girl's story of survival
- Coach : lessons on the game of life
- Collections of nothing
- Come to the edge : a memoir
- Come to win : business leaders, artists, doctors, and other visionaries on how sports can help you top your profession
- Comfort : a journey through grief
- Como aprendà inglés : 55 latinos realizados relatan las lecciones de idioma y vida
- Competing voices from World War II in Europe
- Condition critical : the story of a nurse continues
- Confections of a closet master baker : one woman's sweet journey from unhappy Hollywood executive to contented country baker
- Confessions of a counterfeit farm girl
- Confessions of a street addict
- Conquest of the useless : reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo
- Consequence : a memoir
- Convicted : a crooked cop, an innocent man, and an unlikely journey of forgiveness and friendship
- Cop in the hood : my year policing Baltimore's eastern district
- Counselor : a life at the edge of history
- Countdown to victory : the final European campaigns of World War II
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Country of ash : a Jewish doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
- Cronkite's war : his World War II letters home
- Cross country : fifteen years and ninety thousand miles on the roads and interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, my wife, my mother-in law, two kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant
- Cry havoc : Charlottesville and American democracy under siege
- Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy
- Cyndi Lauper : a memoir
- Dancing on my grave : an autobiography
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dear Cary : a memoir
- Dear God, have you ever gone hungry? : memoirs
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dear world [large print] : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death benefits : how losing a parent can change an adult's life-- for the better
- Defensive Shield : an Israeli special forces commander on the front line of counterterrorism : the inspirational story of Brigadier General Gal Hirsch
- Delivering happiness : a path to profits, passion, and purpose
- Desert diary : American children behind barbed wire
- Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor
- Dig this gig : find your dream job - or invent it
- Dirt : the quirks, habits, and passions of keeping house
- Disturbance
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- Don't hurry me down to Hades : the Civil War in the words of those who lived through it
- Don't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Don't mind if I do
- Drawn across borders : true stories of human migration
- Drawn to the rhythm : a passionate life reclaimed
- Dream catchers : POPS the Club anthology
- Dream new dreams : reimagining my life after loss
- Dreams in a time of war : a childhood memoir
- Drinking : a love story
- Driver #8
- Drunkard : a hard-drinking life
- Dry tears : the story of a lost childhood
- Dumbfounded : a memoir
- Dunkirk
- Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses [large print] : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- Education of a wandering man
- Either you're in or you're in the way : two brothers, twelve months, and one filmmaking hell-ride to keep a promise to their father
- Eleni
- Elihu Washburne : the diary and letters of America's minister to France during the siege and commune of Paris
- Elly : my true story of the Holocaust
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Emerald labyrinth : a scientist's adventures in the jungles of the Congo
- Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature
- Enduring Vietnam [large print] : an American generation and its war
- Enola Gay
- Enslaved by ducks
- Escape
- Escape from China : the long journey from Tiananmen to freedon
- Escape into darkness : the true story of a young woman's extraordinary survival during World War II
- Europa Europa
- Europa, Europa
- Even silence has an end : my six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Every other Monday : twenty years of life, lunch, faith, and friendship
- Everybody : a book about freedom
- Experiencing the Holocaust : novels, nonfiction books, short stories, poems, plays, films & songs
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Extreme ownership [book on cd]: : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eye of the storm : a Civil War odyssey
- Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years
- Eyewitness : D-Day
- Fairy tale interrupted : a memoir of life, love, and loss
- Faith under fire : an Army chaplain's memoir
- Falling into manholes : the memoir of a bad/good girl
- Family meals : coming together to care for an aging parent
- Family romance : a love story
- Farm city : the education of an urban farmer
- Fascination : Helena's story
- Fathermothergod : my journey out of Christian Science
- Feather in the storm : a childhood lost in chaos
- Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history
- Fiction ruined my family
- Fidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography
- Fidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography
- Fields of fury : the American Civil War
- Fighting the flying circus,
- First comes love, then comes malaria : how a Peace Corps poster boy won my heart and a Third-World adventure changed my life
- First into Nagasaki : [the censored eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war]
- First into Nagasaki : the censored eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war
- First stop in the New World : Mexico City, the capital of the 21st century
- Fit2 fat 2fit : the unexpected lessons from gaining and losing 75 lbs on purpose
- Five four whiskey : a memory of war
- Five years of my life : an innocent man in Guantanamo
- Flipping burgers to flipping millions : a guide to financial freedom whether you have your dream job, own your own business, just started your first job
- Flirting with danger : confessions of a reluctant war reporter
- Flory : a miraculous story of survival
- Flunking sainthood : a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray, and still loving my neighbor
- Fly like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Flying without wings : personal reflections on being disabled
- Footnotes in Gaza
- For Sasha, with love : an Alzheimer's crusade : the Anne Bashkiroff story
- For a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison
- For all the write reasons
- For justice : the Serge & Beate Klarsfeld story
- For us the living : the Civil War in paintings and eyewitness accounts
- Forever and ever, amen : becoming a nun in the sixties
- Fortitude : American resilience in the era of outrage
- Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
- Forward from here : leaving middle age--and other unexpected adventures
- Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story
- Four seasons lodge
- Fragment of an empire
- Fragments of Isabella : a memoir of Auschwitz
- Freddie & me : a coming-of-age (Bohemian) rhapsody
- Freedom riders
- Freedom's children : young civil rights activists tell their own stories
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From the ground up : a journey to reimagine the promise of America
- From this moment on
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
- Full throttle : the life and fast times of NASCAR legend Curtis Turner
- Funny thing happened on the way to heaven : or, how I made peace with the paranormal and stigmatized zealots and cynics in the process
- GI Jews : Jewish Americans in World War II
- Gay bar : why we went out
- Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night
- George Burns and the hundred-year dash
- Getting it through my thick skull : why I stayed, what I learned, and what millions of people involved with sociopaths need to know
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Ghosts of Rwanda
- Gifts from the enemy
- Girl on the couch : life, love, and confessions of a normal neurotic
- Girl, interrupted
- Girlhood : teens around the world in their own voices
- Gluten-free girl : how I found the food that loves me back-- & how you can, too
- God in my corner
- God, if you're not up there, I'm f*cked : tales of stand-up, Saturday Night Live, and other mind-altering mayhem
- Going home : finding peace when pets die
- Golden bones : an extraordinary journey from hell in Cambodia to a new life in America
- Good dog. Stay
- Good stuff : a reminiscence of my father, Cary Grant
- Goose : the outrageous life and times of a football guy
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Grass
- Great Civil War heroes and their battles
- Great food, all day long : cook splendidly, eat smart
- Green suede shoes : an Irish-American odyssey
- Greenlights
- Greenlights [book on cd]
- Groove interrupted : loss, renewal, and the music of New Orleans
- Grounded : a down to earth journey around the world
- Growing up Amish : a memoir
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Gypsy boy : my life in the secret world of the Romany Gypsies
- Happy accidents
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky [book on cd]
- Happy-go-lucky [large print]
- Happy-go-lucky [playaway]/
- Hard marching every day : the Civil War letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865
- Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
- Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
- Hardcourt confidential : tales from twenty years in the pro tennis trenches
- Harold : the boy who became Mark Twain
- Harold Robbins : the man who invented sex
- Hasidic tales of the Holocaust
- Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white
- Have mercy! : Confessions of the original rock 'n' roll animal
- Have you found her : a memoir
- He talk like a white boy : [reflections on faith, family, politics, and authenticity]
- Healing children : a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine
- Healthy at last : a plant-based approach to preventing and reversing diabetes and other chronic illnesses
- Heartbreak & triumph : the Shawn Michaels story
- Hedy's journey : the true story of a Hungarian girl fleeing the Holocaust
- Heirloom : notes from an accidental tomato farmer
- Helga's diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
- Here we all are
- Heroes for my daughter
- Heroes for my son
- Hi-Ho, Steverino! : my adventures in the wonderful wacky world of TV
- Hidden child
- Hidden in Berlin : a Holocaust memoir
- Hidden like Anne Frank : fourteen true stories of survival
- Hidden on the mountain : stories of children sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon
- Hidden teens, hidden lives : primary sources from the Holocaust
- Hiding and seeking : faith and tolerance after the Holocaust
- Hiding in plain sight : the incredible true story of a German-Jewish teenager's struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied Poland
- Hiding to survive : stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust
- Hilarity ensues
- Himmler's Jewish tailor : the story of Holocaust survivor Jacob Frank
- Hiroshima : three witnesses
- Hiroshima Maidens
- His bright light : the story of Nick Traina
- Historical sketches of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars : with an account of author's desperate leap from a swiftly moving train of cars, and a fatiguing tramp of 1,000 miles through three Confederate states, in making his escape from a prison-pen
- Hitler's diplomat : the life and times of Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Hitler's forgotten children : a true story of the Lebensborn program and one woman's search for her real identity
- Hitler, my neighbor : memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939
- Holocaust testimonies : European survivors and American liberators in New Jersey
- Home is a roof over a pig : an American family's journey in China
- Homer's odyssey : a fearless feline tale, or, how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat
- Honeymoon in Tehran : two years of love and danger in Iran
- Hope wins : a collection of inspiring stories for young readers
- Hospital sketches
- House of stone : the true story of a family divided in war-torn Zimbabwe