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- On all fronts : the education of a journalist
- On call in the Arctic : a doctor's pursuit of life, love, and miracles in the Alaskan frontier
- One doctor : close calls, cold cases, and the mysteries of medicine
- One magical Sunday : (but winning isn't everything)
- One magical Sunday : but winning isn't everything
- Open heart : a cardiac surgeon's stories of life and death on the operating table
- Option B : facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy
- Orchard House : How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow
- Out with it : how stuttering helped me find my voice
- Palestine speaks : narratives of life under occupation
- Parenthesis
- Parkland speaks : survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas share their stories
- Parwana : recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen
- Patient H69 : the story of my second sight
- Pee wees : confessions of a hockey parent
- Philosophy for Polar explorers
- Plenty of time when we get home : love and recovery in the aftermath of war
- Poets in their youth : a memoir
- Pregnant butch : nine long months spent in drag
- Puerto Rico strong : a comics anthology supporting Puerto Rico disaster relief and recovery
- Pumpkinflowers : a soldier's story
- Questions I am asked about the Holocaust
- RX : a graphic memoir
- Radical : the science, culture, and history of breast cancer in America
- Rebirth
- Red blood, black sand : fighting alongside John Basilone from boot camp to Iwo Jima
- Rescued from ISIS : the gripping true story of how a father saved his son
- Resistance at Tule Lake
- SEAL Team Six : memoirs of an elite Navy SEAL sniper
- Same time next week : true stories of working through mental illness
- Saving Charlotte : a mother and the power of intuition
- Saving justice : truth, transparency, and trust
- Scattershot : my bipolar family : a memoir
- Schizophrenia : a brother finds answers in biological science
- Scientists making a difference : one hundred eminent behavioral and brain scientists talk about their most important contributions
- Service : a Navy SEAL at war
- Shade it black : death and after in Iraq
- Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body
- Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war
- Shouting won't help : why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you
- Sincerely, your autistic child : what people on the autism spectrum wish their parents knew about growing up, acceptance, and identity
- Sinking the Sultana : a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home
- Six walks : in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
- Slow medicine : the way to healing
- Smile
- Sometimes amazing things happen : heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward
- Song without words : discovering my deafness halfway through life
- Stakes is high : life after the American dream
- Stir : my broken brain and the meals that brought me home
- Stories from Palestine : narratives of resilience
- Superbugs : the race to stop an epidemic
- Surviving Birkenau : the Dr. Susan Spatz story
- Swansong 1945 : a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich
- Switched on : a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening
- Tangles : a story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me
- Teach us to sit still : a skeptic's search for health and healing
- Team of vipers : my 500 extraordinary days in the Trump White House
- TerezÃn : voices from the Holocaust
- The Civil War : the third year told by those who lived it
- The German war : a nation under arms, 1939-1945 : citizens and soldiers
- The Moth presents Occasional magic : true stories of defying the impossible
- The Nazis knew my name : a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
- The Queen of the North disaster : the captain's story
- The Raqqa diaries : escape from "Islamic State"
- The Wahls protocol : how I beat progressive MS using Paleo principles and functional medicine
- The War of 1812 : writings from America's second war of independence
- The age of dignity : preparing for the elder boom in a changing America
- The argonauts
- The art of resistance : my four years in the French underground : a memoir
- The art of resistance : my four years in the French underground : a memoir
- The art of waiting-- : on fertility, medicine, and motherhood
- The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War
- The beauty in breaking : a memoir
- The best of me
- The best of me
- The best we could do : an illustrated memoir
- The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying
- The burning of the world : a memoir of 1914
- The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors
- The choice : embrace the possible
- The collected schizophrenias : essays
- The cowshed : memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist's odyssey through consciousness
- The death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there
- The deepest well : healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity
- The diary of Olga Romanov : royal witness to the Russian Revolution : with excerpts from family letters and memoirs of the period
- The dichotomy of leadership : balancing the challenges of extreme ownership to lead and win
- The dogs are eating them now : our war in Afghanistan
- The electricity of every living thing : a woman's walk in the wild to find her way home
- The end of your life book club
- The fifth act : America's end in Afghanistan
- The fighters : Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
- The first cell : and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last
- The forger
- The gift : 12 lessons to save your life
- The gift of forgiveness : inspiring stories from those who have overcome the unforgivable
- The great stain : witnessing American slavery
- The happiest man on Earth : the beautiful life of an Auschwitz survivor
- The hospital suite
- The iceberg
- The incurable romantic and other tales of madness and desire
- The kidney sellers : a journey of discovery in Iran
- The knock at the door : a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide
- The language of kindness : a nurse's story
- The least of us : true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth
- The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
- The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
- The listeners : a new documentary about suicide hotline volunteers
- The lives they saved : the untold story of medics, mariners, and the incredible boat lift that evacuated nearly 300,000 people from New York City on 9/11
- The long road home : a story of war and family
- The long road home : the aftermath of the Second World War
- The lost boy : a foster child's search for the love of a family
- The man who broke into Auschwitz : a true story of world War II
- The middle place
- The moth presents all these wonders : true stories about facing the unknown
- The movement made us : a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride
- The naked don't fear the water : an underground journey with Afghan refugees
- The next pandemic : on the front lines against humankind's gravest dangers
- The nine lives of Pakistan : dispatches from a precarious state
- The nurses : a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital
- The only plane in the sky : an oral history of 9/11
- The only plane in the sky : an oral history of 9/11
- The perfect predator : a scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug
- The personal journal of Austin Alden of Gorham Town from 1761
- The prenatal bombshell : help and hope when continuing or ending a precious pregnancy after an abnormal diagnosis
- The priority list : a teacher's final quest to discover life's greatest lessons
- The real doctor will see you shortly : a physician's first year
- The reaper : autobiography of one of the deadliest special ops snipers
- The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath
- The rising : Ireland--Easter 1916
- The shapeless unease : a year of not sleeping
- The snake eaters : an unlikely band of brothers and the battle for the soul of iraq
- The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches
- The soul of care : the moral education of a husband and a doctor
- The still point of the turning world
- The tincture of time : a memoir of (medical) uncertainty
- The turnaway study : ten years, a thousand women, and the consequences of having--or being denied--an abortion
- The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
- The unsubstantial air : American fliers in the First World War
- The urge : our history of addiction
- The voice of a lion : stories from The Telling Room's Young Writers & Leaders Program
- The warriors of Anbar : the Marines who crushed Al Qaeda - the greatest untold story of the Iraq War
- The white pocketbook : memories of World War Two in Belgium
- There was a country : a personal history of Biafra
- They shall not grow old
- This birth place of souls : the Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton
- This is assisted dying : a doctor's story of empowering patients at the end of life
- This is how I save my life : from California to India, a true story of finding everything when you are willing to try anything
- Three dads and a baby : adventures in modern parenting
- Thresholds : connecting body and soul after brain injury
- Together we rise : behind the scenes at the protest heard around the world
- Tolstoy and the purple chair : my year of magical reading
- Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of "The Children's Ship"
- Trip : psychedelics, alienation, and change
- True war stories : tales of deployment from Vietnam to today
- Twelve patients : life and death at Bellevue Hospital
- Twice forgotten : African Americans and the Korean War, an oral history
- Uncommon measure : a journey through music, performance, and the science of time
- Undaunted : my fight against America's enemies, at home and abroad
- Underground in Berlin : a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
- Unknown valor : a story of family, courage, and sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima
- Unsinkable : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett
- Unsinkable : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett
- Until I say good-bye : my year of living with joy
- Vacationland : true stories from painful beaches
- Vessels : a love story
- Vietnam bao chi : warriors of word and film
- Vietnamese memories, Book 2, Little Saigon
- Walk in my combat boots : true stories from America's bravest warriors
- Walker finds a way : running into the adult world with autism
- Walking it off : a veteran's chronicle of war and wilderness
- War doctor : surgery on the front line
- We must not forget : Holocaust stories of survival and resistance
- We've been too patient : voices from radical mental health : stories and research challenging the biomedical model
- Went the day well? : witnessing Waterloo
- What doctors feel : how emotions affect the practice of medicine
- What it is like to go to war
- What makes a marriage last : 40 celebrated couples share with us the secrets to a happy life
- What matters most : the Get Your Shit Together guide to wills, money, insurance, and life's "what-ifs"
- What was asked of us : an oral history of the Iraq War by the soldiers who fought it
- Whatever gets you through : twelve survivors on life after sexual assault
- When I grow up : the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers
- When death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon
- When we rise : my life in the movement
- When we walked above the clouds : a memoir of Vietnam
- Where we live : a benefit for the survivors in Las Vegas
- White hot light : twenty-five years in emergency medicine
- Why we lost : a general's inside account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
- Wintering : the power of rest and retreat in difficult times
- Working stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner
- World War I and America : told by the Americans who lived it
- World War II memoirs : the Pacific Theater
- World War II writings
- Write to me : letters from Japanese American children to the Librarian they left behind
- Wuhan diary : dispatches from a quarantined city
- You will get through this night
- You're looking at me like I live here and I don't
- You're the only one I've told : the stories behind abortion
- Young water protectors : a story about Standing Rock
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 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
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 999 : The extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz
- A Lakota war book from the Little Bighorn : the pictographic "autobiography of Half Moon"
- A bridge in Babylon : stories of a military chaplain in Iraq
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A fire story
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A military journal during the American revolutionary war, : from 1775 to 1783;
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A place outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantánamo
- A pros and cons list for strong feelings : a graphic memoir
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- Adamalui : a survivor's journey from civil wars in Africa to life in America
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Advice for future corpses * and those who love them : a practical perspective on death and dying
- Against all odds : a miracle of Holocaust survival
- Aging our way : lessons for living from 85 and beyond
- Alpha one sixteen : a combat infantryman's year in Vietnam
- American experience, Freedom riders
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- An elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An unquiet mind
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- Angels on our shoulders : World War II B-29 superfortress destroying the empire of Japan
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
- Ask a North Korean : defectors talk about their lives inside the world's most secretive nation
- Ask me why I hurt : the kids nobody wants and the doctor who heals them
- Autism is a world
- Autopsy : the memoirs of Milton Helpern, the world's greatest medical detective
- Avalanche : a love story
- Babylon by bus : or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling Yankees suck t-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them
- Battle at Best
- Beautiful unbroken : one nurse's life
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Big friendship : how we keep each other close
- Bitter chicory to sweet espresso : survival and deliverance from WWII in the Naples, Italy area, 1940-49
- Black in the middle : an anthology of the Black Midwest
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black women's yoga history : memoirs of inner peace
- Blood Papa : Rwanda's new generation
- Bloody engagements : John R. Kelso's Civil War
- Brain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's disease
- Breakout : the Chosin Reservoir campaign, Korea 1950
- Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- Call the nurse : true stories of a country nurse on a Scottish isle
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Channel kindness : stories of kindness and community
- Charlie Company journeys home : the forgotten impact on the wives of Vietnam veterans
- Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67
- Cockeyed : a memoir
- Code talker
- Committed : the battle over involuntary psychiatric care
- Compulsive acts : a psychiatrist's tales of ritual and obsession
- Consequence : a memoir
- Couch tag
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Coyotes : a journey through the secret world of America's illegal aliens
- Craig & Fred : a Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
- Creatures of a day : and other tales of psychotherapy
- Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Day nine : a postpartum depression memoir
- Dear Scarlet : the story of my postpartum depression
- Death march escape : the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust
- Demon camp : a soldier's exorcism
- Desert diary : Japanese American children behind barbed wire
- Displacement
- Disturbance
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Doctor on a bicycle
- Don't hurry me down to Hades : the Civil War in the words of those who lived it
- Don't leave me this way : or when I get back on my feet you'll be sorry
- Dream catchers : POPS the Club anthology
- Ducks : two years in the oil sands
- Dying : a memoir
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- El Deafo
- Elegy for a disease : a personal and cultural history of polio
- Entwined : sisters and secrets in the silent world of artist Judith Scott
- Escape into danger : the true story of a Kievan girl in World War II
- Every deep-drawn breath : a critical care doctor on healing, recovery, and transforming medicine in the ICU
- Everything happens for a reason : and other lies I've loved
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eyes to the wind : a memoir of love and death, hope and resistance
- Falling into the fire : a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis
- Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history
- Finding refuge : real-life immigration stories from young people
- First, we make the beast beautiful : a new journey through anxiety
- Flavor : the science of our most neglected sense
- Floating in the deep end : how caregivers can see beyond Alzheimer's
- For Sama
- Fortitude : American resilience in the era of outrage
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- GI Jews : Jewish Americans in World War II
- Gay bar : why we went out
- Gene everlasting : a contrary farmer's thoughts on living forever
- Gettysburg : the last invasion
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Gratitude
- Greenlights
- Greenlights
- Growing up trans
- Guts
- Haiti after the earthquake
- Haldol and hyacinths : a bipolar life
- Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir
- Happiness is a choice you make : lessons from a year among the oldest old
- Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white
- Head case : my brain and other wonders
- Healing after dark : pioneering compassionate medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic : a memoir
- Healthy at last : a plant-based approach to preventing and reversing diabetes and other chronic illnesses
- Heart : a history
- Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person
- Hesitation kills : a female Marine officer's combat experience in Iraq
- Hey, kiddo
- Hidden like Anne Frank : fourteen true stories of survival
- High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
- History lessons : a memoir of madness, memory, and the brain
- Hospice voices : lessons for living at the end of life
- Hot lights, cold steel : life, death, and sleepless nights in a surgeon's first years
- How it feels to float
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- How we do harm : a doctor breaks ranks about being sick in America
- How we live now : scenes from the pandemic
- Human heart, cosmic heart : a doctor's quest to understand, treat, and prevent cardiovascular disease
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- Hurricane : my story of resilience
- Hurry down sunshine
- Hyper : a personal history of ADHD
- I can hear you whisper : an intimate journey through the science of sound and language
- I forgot to remember : a memoir of amnesia
- I found my tribe
- I haven't forgotten : a Telling Room collection from the Young Writers & Leaders Program
- I heard my country calling : a memoir
- If I don't make it, I love you : survivors in the aftermath of school shootings
- Imagine wanting only this
- In broad daylight : the secret procedures behind the Holocaust by bullets
- In pain : a bioethicist's personal struggle with opioids
- In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's
- In search of The color purple : the story of an American masterpiece
- In search of safety : voices of refugees
- In the company of heroes : the inspiring stories of Medal of Honor recipients from America's longest wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- In the pleasure groove : love, death, & Duran Duran
- In-between days : a memoir about living with cancer
- Inferno : a doctor's ebola story
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Intelligent love : the story of Clara Park, her autistic daughter, and the myth of the refrigerator mother
- Into the fire : a first-hand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War
- Into the gray zone : a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death
- Irritable hearts : a PTSD love story
- It shouldn't be this hard to serve your country : our broken Government and the plight of Veterans
- It's ok to laugh : (crying is cool, too)
- Journey to a revolution : a personal memoir and history of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Just eat : one reporter's quest for a weight-loss regimen that works
- Ketchup is my favorite vegetable : a family grows up with autism
- Kid gloves : nine months of careful chaos
- Kimiko does cancer : a graphic memoir
- Knocking on heaven's door : the path to a better way of death
- Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper
- Last men out : the true story of America's heroic final hours in Vietnam
- Last witnesses : an oral history of the children of World War II
- Let's pretend this never happened : (a mostly true memoir)
- Life on the line : young doctors come of age in a pandemic
- Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice
- Lighter than my shadow
- Lights on, rats out : a memoir
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life
- Lucky dog : how being a veterinarian saved my life
- Madness : a bipolar life
- Malignant : how cancer becomes us
- Man's search for meaning
- Manic : a memoir
- Mayhem
- Mess : one man's struggle to clean up his house and his act
- Modern madness : an owner's manual
- Modern warriors : real stories from real heroes
- Monkey mind : a memoir of anxiety
- Muriel's war
- My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind
- My body politic : a memoir
- My life as a foreign country
- My name is Selma : the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
- My retreat from Russia;
- Nagasaki : the massacre of the innocent and unknowing
- Nationalist in the Viet Nam wars : memoirs of a victim turned soldier
- Neptune's inferno : the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway
- No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America
- No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses
- No turning back : life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria
- No, you shut up : speaking truth to power and reclaiming America
- Nonbinary : memoirs of gender and identity
- Nourishment : feeding my starving soul when my mind and body betrayed me
- Numb to this : memoir of a mass shooting
- Obsessed : a memoir of my life with OCD
- Odd girl out : my extraordinary autistic life
- On Pluto : inside the mind of Alzheimer's
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