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- "All Gaul is divided ..." : Letters from occupied France.
- "Co. Aytch" : a confederate memoir of the Civil War
- "Dear Friend Anna" : the Civil War letters of a common soldier from Maine
- "Gizelle, save the children!"
- "Once in a life time" : tribute to a friend and companion in a World War II experience
- "Take care of Josette" : a memoir in defense of occupied France
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "When they came to take my father" : voices of the Holocaust
- "With the help of God and a few Marines,"
- ... One hundred red days; : a personal chronicle of the bolshevik revolution,
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 444 days : the hostages remember
- 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
- 900 days : myth and reality of the siege of Leningrad
- 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 Rhode Island chaplain in the Revolution; : letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown, 1775-1778;
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bridge in Babylon : stories of a military chaplain in Iraq
- A brotherhood of valor : the common soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A.
- 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 diary from Dixie, : as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and a brigadier-general in the Confederate army;
- A diary of battle; : the personal journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865.
- A family journey ... backwards : a study of Jewish life in the region of the Carpathian Mountains from the 1920s through the 1940s
- A film unfinished
- A fire story
- A flag unfurled : the war letters of John L. Hobson
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A hidden life : a memoir of August 1969
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A lifetime with lions
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- 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 military journal during the American revolutionary war, : from 1775 to 1783;
- A minstrel in France
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A narrative of a Revolutionary soldier : some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
- 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 outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantánamo
- A promise to my father : one survivor's journey through the Holocaust
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A rebel war clerk's diary at the Confederate States capital
- A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A sparrow in the snow.
- A war remembered
- A widow's walk
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- About face
- 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
- After the last border : two families and the story of refuge in America
- Against all odds : a miracle of Holocaust survival
- Aging our way : lessons for living from 85 and beyond
- Alicia : my story
- All for the Union : the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All's for the best : the Civil War reminiscences and letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Alone he went,
- Alpha one sixteen : a combat infantryman's year in Vietnam
- Alsace in rust and gold,
- Am I a murderer? : testament of a Jewish ghetto policeman
- Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
- American experience, Freedom riders
- American experience: : My Lai
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American warrior : the true story of a legendary Ranger
- Among the Afghans
- An artist at war, the WWII memories of Stars & Stripes artist Ed Vebell
- An elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives
- An interrupted life : the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An uncommon soldier : the Civil War letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers
- An underground life : memoirs of a gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
- An unquiet mind
- An unquiet mind
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- And still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation
- And there was light : autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran blind hero of the French Resistance
- Angels on our shoulders : World War II B-29 superfortress destroying the empire of Japan
- Anglo-American memories,
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Another day of life
- Another winter, another spring : a love remembered
- Appalachian odyssey : walking the trail from Georgia to Maine
- Armadillo
- Armenian Golgotha
- Army life in a Black regiment
- Army life; : a private's reminiscences of the Civil War,
- Army memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, : Company "D," 15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry : May 24, 1861, to Sept. 30, 1865
- Arrival stories : women share their experiences of becoming mothers
- As I remember
- 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
- Asylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At sixes and sevens
- Auschwitz : a doctor's story
- 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
- Back in the fight : the explosive memoir of a special operator who never gave up
- Battle at Best.
- Battle-fields of the South : from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh : with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps
- 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
- Before Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community
- Before the rain : (a tale in three parts)
- Behind barbed wire : POW's in Houlton, Maine, during WWII
- Beirut 1990 : snapshots of a civil war
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Berlin diary : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941
- Between the thunder and the sun
- Between two rivers
- Between two worlds : autobiography of a child survivor of the Holocaust
- Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out
- Big friendship : how we keep each other close
- Bitten : my unexpected love affair with Florida
- 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
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born twice : total recall of a seventeenth-century life
- Brain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's disease
- Bravo company : an Afghanistan deployment and its aftermath
- Brighter by the day : waking up to new hopes and dreams
- Broken silence
- Brothers at war
- Brothers in war
- Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Call the nurse : true stories of a country nurse on a Scottish isle
- Campaigning with Grant
- Campaigns of a non-combatant, and his romaunt abroad during war
- Can I call you cheesecake? / : 35 stories and poems about food, a Telling Room anthology
- Cancerland : a medical memoir
- Cartoon noir
- Castles burning : a child's life in war
- Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis
- Censored voices
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Changing gears : a distant teen, a desperate mother, and 4,329 miles across the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail
- Channel kindness : stories of kindness and community
- Charlie Company journeys home : the forgotten impact on the wives of Vietnam veterans
- Charlie's civil war : a private's trial by fire in the 5th New York Volunteers-Duryʹee Zouaves and 146th New York Volunteer Infantry
- Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67
- Child of the Holocaust
- Christ in the communist prisons.
- Chronicles of the gringos: : the U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846-1848; accounts of eyewitnesses & combatants.
- Citizen 13660
- City of widows : an Iraqi woman's account of war and resistance
- Civil War nurse : the diary and letters of Hannah Ropes
- Cockeyed : a memoir
- Code name, Johnny Walker : the extraordinary story of the Iraqi who risked everything to fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs
- Code talker
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Combat over Spain; : memoirs of a nationalist fighter pilot, 1936-1939,
- Coming of age : the story of our century by those who've lived it
- Commemorative observance for days of remembrance : materials
- Committed : the battle over involuntary psychiatric care
- Compulsive acts : a psychiatrist's tales of ritual and obsession
- Consequence : a memoir
- Couch tag
- Counter-attack in Spain,
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Cracked open : liberty, fertility, and the pursuit of high tech babies : a memoir
- Craig & Fred : a Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
- Creatures of a day : and other tales of psychotherapy
- Crisis on the border : an eyewitness account of illegal aliens, violent crime, and cartels
- Crossing
- Cry havoc : Charlottesville and American democracy under siege
- 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
- Dare to be kind : how extraordinary compassion can transform our world
- Day nine : a postpartum depression memoir
- Days of decision : an oral history of conscientious objectors in the military during the Vietnam war
- Days of lead : defying death during Israel's War of Independence
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dearest father : the Civil War letters of Lt. Frank Dickerson, a son of Belfast, Maine
- Death march escape : the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust
- Delta Force
- Demon camp : a soldier's exorcism
- Desert diary : Japanese American children behind barbed wire
- Detailed minutiae of soldier life
- Detour : my bipolar road trip in 4-D
- Dialogue with death
- Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865.
- Diary of a Yankee Doughboy in World War I : a story of bombs, shells, mud, rats and God
- Diary of a common soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1 : an annotated edition of the military journal of Jeremiah Greenman
- Diary of the American War : a Hessian journal
- Diary of the Sinai Campaign
- Dirt : adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking
- Displacement
- Disturbance
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Doctor #117641 : a Holocaust memoir
- Dogsled : a true tale of the North
- 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
- Drone warrior : an elite soldier's inside account of the hunt for America's most dangerous enemies
- Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture
- Dust of the saints : a journey through war-torn Afghanistan
- Dust to dust : a memoir
- Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Dying : a memoir
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Easy walking
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- Edith's story
- Edith's story
- Education of a princess, : a memoir,
- El Deafo
- Elegy for a disease : a personal and cultural history of polio
- Elihu Washburne : the diary and letters of America's minister to France during the Siege and Commune of Paris
- Elle & Coach : diabetes, the fight for my daughter's life, and the dog who changed everything
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Emil Landau : surviving the Third Reich
- Enemy combatant : my imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
- Enola Gay
- Entwined : sisters and secrets in the silent world of artist Judith Scott
- Escape from China : the long journey from Tiananmen to freedom
- Escape into danger : the true story of a Kievan girl in World War II
- Escape via Berlin,
- 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
- Exit Berlin : how one woman saved her family from Nazi Germany
- Exodus 1947,
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years
- Eyes to the wind : a memoir of love and death, hope and resistance
- Eyewitness to World War II : unforgettable stories and photographs from history's greatest conflict
- Falling into the fire : a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis
- Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history
- Fields of fury : the American Civil War
- Fighting blind : a Green Beret's story of extraordinary courage
- Finding refuge : real-life immigration stories from young people
- Fire and ice : the Nazis' scorched earth campaign in Norway
- First, we make the beast beautiful : a new journey through anxiety
- Fishermen at war
- Flashbacks : on returning to Vietnam
- Flavor : the science of our most neglected sense
- Floating in the deep end : how caregivers can see beyond Alzheimer's
- Flory : a miraculous story of survival
- Fly girls
- Footnotes in Gaza
- For Sama
- For self and country : for the wounded in Vietnam the journey home took more courage than going into battle : a true story
- Fortitude : American resilience in the era of outrage
- Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr
- Forty days
- Fountain of life, : being the Impressions and comments of Havelock Ellis
- Four men went to war
- Four years in the mountains of Kurdistan, 1915-1919 : an Armenian boy's memoir of survival
- Fragile beginnings : discoveries and triumphs in the newborn ICU
- Fred Boynton, lobsterman, New Harbor, Maine
- From Love Field : our final hours with president John F. Kennedy
- From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America
- From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From power to peace
- From private to field-marshal
- From red earth : a Rwandan story of healing and forgiveness
- From the land of silent people
- 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
- Generation in turmoil.
- Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
- Gettysburg : the last invasion
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Gone for a soldier : the Civil War memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard : from the Alec Thomas Archives
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Gratitude
- Greenlights
- Greenlights
- Groove interrupted : loss, renewal, and the music of New Orleans
- Growing up trans
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Guts
- Haiti after the earthquake
- Haldol and hyacinths : a bipolar life
- Hanna and Walter : a love story
- 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
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Hard times : an oral history of the Great Depression
- Hardtack and coffee, or, The unwritten story of Army life
- 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
- Hear my voice : the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States
- Heart : a history
- Hearth and knapsack : the Ladley letters, 1857-1880
- Hearts touched by fire : the best of Battles and leaders of the Civil War
- Hell and back again
- Hell is so green : search and rescue over the hump in World War II
- 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
- Hidden on the mountain : stories of children sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon
- Hiding and seeking : faith and tolerance after the Holocaust
- High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
- High: a farewell to the pain of alcoholism
- Himmler's Jewish tailor : the story of Holocaust survivor Jacob Frank
- Himself and I : our sea saga
- Hiroshima in the morning
- History lessons : a memoir of madness, memory, and the brain
- History of a suicide : my sister's unfinished life
- Hitlerland : American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power
- Homage to Catalonia ; : Down and out in Paris and London
- Home : a memoir of my early years
- Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
- Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
- 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 to climb trees : 40 stories and poems about play : 2011 Telling Room anthology
- How to survive : stories & poems from the streets of Portland
- 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
- Hurricane Street
- 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 carry it everywhere : 50 teenagers on what really matters
- I escaped from Hong Kong,
- I forgot to remember : a memoir of amnesia
- I fought with Geronimo
- I found my tribe
- I go by sea, I go by land
- I haven't forgotten : a Telling Room collection from the Young Writers & Leaders Program
- I heard my country calling : a memoir
- I marched with Patton : a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest generals
- I shall live : surviving against all odds, 1939-1945
- I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
- If God is willing and da creek don't rise
- If I die in a combat zone : box me up and ship me home
- If I don't make it, I love you : survivors in the aftermath of school shootings
- If you could be my friend : letters of Mervet Akram Sha'ban and Galit Fink
- Im toten Winkel : Hitlers Sekretärin = Blind spot : Hitler's secretary
- Imagine wanting only this
- In and out of rebel prisons
- 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 Warsaw Ghetto : summer 1941
- In the beginning was the ghetto : notebooks from Łódź