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- "Okay, girls-- man your bunks!" : [tales from the life of a WWII Navy WAVE]
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- '74 and sunny : a memoir
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- --And Jerry Mathers as "the Beaver"
- --und das Meer wird nicht voll : Autobiographie 1969-1996
- 1 year, 100 pounds : my journey to a better, happier life
- 10-24 : a firefighter looks back
- 100 years, 100 stories
- 100,000 hearts : a surgeon's memoir
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 13 Stradomska Street : a memoir of exile and return
- 14 minutes : a running legend's life and death and life
- 1941 : the year that keeps returning
- 2021 Pushcart prize XLV : best of the small presses
- 21 : the epitome of perseverance /:cChris Patterson
- 236 pounds of class vice president : a memoir of teenage insecurity, obesity, and virginity
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 32 third graders and one class bunny : life lessons from teaching
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 401 : the extraordinary story of the man who ran 401 marathons in 401 days and changed his life... forever
- 500 acres and no place to hide : more confessions of a counterfeit farm girl
- 700 Sundays
- 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 1/2 narrow : my life in shoes
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life
- 90-day geisha : my time as a Tokyo hostess
- 99 : stories of the game
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Doughboy with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth : a remembrance of World War I
- A Dublin girl : growing up in the 1930s
- A Jew today
- A Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A bar on every corner : sobering up in a tempting world : [a memoir from the best-selling author of Whiskey's children]
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A boy I once knew : what a teacher learned from her student
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy and a jaguar
- A cabinetmaker's notebook
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A carnival of snackery : diaries 2003-2020
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- A charmed life : growing up in Macbeth's castle
- A chick in the cockpit : my life up in the air
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child of the century
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A chosen destiny : my story
- A comfort of cats
- A common struggle
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A cottage in Portugal
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A covered wagon girl : the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
- A cure for gravity
- A dance autobiography
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A day of pleasure; : stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw.
- 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 diary from Dixie;
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A dog called hope
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog walks into a nursing home : lessons in the good life from an unlikely teacher
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream is a wish your heart makes : my story
- A dream too big : the story of an improbable journey from Compton to Oxford
- A dynamic God : living an unconventional Catholic faith
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A father first : how my life became bigger than basketball
- A few seconds of radiant filmstrip : a memoir of seventh grade
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A garden of marvels : how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
- A gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl walks into a book : what the Bront?s taught me about life, love, and women's work
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work, and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good and perfect gift : faith, expectations, and a little girl named Penny
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good soldier
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hell of a life : an autobiography
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in Sicily
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction : a memoir
- A hunt for justice : the true story of a woman undercover wildlife agent
- A jazz odyssey : the life of Oscar Peterson
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- A journey : my political life
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in music
- A life in parts
- A life less ordinary : a memoir
- A life of lies and spies : tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
- A life of my own
- A life on the road
- A life that matters : transforming faces, renewing lives
- A life well played : my stories
- A lifetime of wisdom : embracing the way God heals you
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- A list of things that didn't kill me : a memoir
- A little bit wicked : (life, love, and faith in stages)
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A long way home
- A long way home : a memoir
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A mad, mad, mad, mad world : a life in Hollywood
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man named Dave : [a story of triumph and forgiveness]
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A man without a country
- A million miles in a thousand years : what I learned while editing my life
- A million years with you : a memoir of life observed
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new kind of country
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A none's story : searching for meaning inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, & Islam
- A numerate life : a mathematician explores the vagaries of life, his own and probably yours
- A nun on the bus : how all of us can create hope, change, and community
- A paper life
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passionate journey : a memoir
- A personal odyssey
- A pioneer farm girl : the diary of Sarah Gillespie, 1877-1878
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called Gyumri : life in the Armenian mountains
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place for us
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A place of exodus : home, memory, and Texas
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A pony in the bedroom : a journey through Asperger's, assault, and healing with horses
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A prayer journal
- A prison diary
- A private history of awe
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A propósito de nada
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A queer and pleasant danger : a memoir
- A question of freedom : a memoir of survival, learning, and coming of age in prison
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A redemptive path forward : from incarceration to a life of activism
- A riot of our own : night and day with the Clash : weird shit coming down--
- A round-heeled woman : my late-life adventures in sex and romance
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times
- A search for solitude : pursuing the monk's true life
- A season of night : New Orleans life after Katrina
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A short autobiography
- A simple path
- A simple path
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A skating life
- A skating life
- A small place
- A small place
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy for all seasons : my life in the CIA
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stone of hope : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A stray cat struts : my life as a rockabilly rebel
- A strong west wind : a memoir
- A surgeon's odyssey
- A tale of two Omars : a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab Spring
- A taste of power : a Black woman's story
- A teenager in Hitler's death camps
- A thousand bells at noon : a Roman's guide to the secrets and pleasures of his native city
- A thousand days in Venice : an unexpected romance
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A three dog life
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A tiger's heart : the story of a modern Chinese woman
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A traveled first lady : writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
- A very fine house : a mother's story of love, faith, and crystal meth
- A very punchable face : a memoir
- A visible man : a memoir
- A waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city
- A walk through the dark : how my husband's 90 minutes in Heaven deepened my faith for a lifetime
- A warrior's heart : the true story of life before and beyond The fighter
- A way back to health : 12 lessons from a cancer survivor
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A wild and precious life : a memoir
- A wolf at the table : a memoir of my father
- A wolf in the attic : the legacy of a hidden child of the Holocaust
- A woman among warlords : the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice
- A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert
- A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary
- A woman's battles and transformations
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A wrestling life : the inspiring stories of Dan Gable
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- A year without a name
- Abandon me : memoirs
- About my sisters
- Above the clouds : how I carved my own path to the top of the world
- Above the line : my Wild Oats adventure
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accused : my fight for truth, justice, and the strength to forgive
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Ace! : autobiography of a fighter pilot, World War II
- Acid for the children
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act one : an autobiography
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Woodstock : the true story of a Belgian movie, an Israeli wedding, and a Manhattan breakdown
- After all
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After long silence : a memoir
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After visiting friends : [a son's story]
- Aftermath : on marriage and separation
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : my story
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Age is just a number : achieve your dreams at any stage in your life
- Aging disgracefully : a memoir
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Airhead : the imperfect art of making news
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Pacino
- Album for an age : unconventional words and pictures from the twentieth century
- Alcatraz screw : my years as a guard in America's most notorious prison
- Alguien como yo : la lucha de una niña indocumentada por alcanzar el sueño americano
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice Cooper, golf monster : a rock 'n' roller's 12 steps to becoming a golf addict
- Alive, alive oh! : and other things that matter
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and The Washington post
- All at sea : coming of age in World War II
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All for the Union : the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
- All good things : from Paris to Tahiti : life and longing
- All happy families : a memoir
- All in : an autobiography
- All in : an autobiography
- All in : an autobiography
- All is grace : a ragamuffin memoir
- All my life : a memoir
- All my sins remembered,
- All my yesterdays; : an autobiography
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All over but the shoutin'
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All signs point to Paris
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All strangers are kin : adventures in Arabic and the Arab world
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- All the best, George Bush : my life in letters and other writings
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the things we never knew : chasing the chaos of mental illness
- All the women in my brain : and other concerns
- All the wrong places : a life lost and found
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
- All who go do not return : a memoir
- All you can ever know
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Ally : my journey across the American-Israeli divide
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost romance : a memoir
- Almost there
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alone on the wall
- Alou : my baseball journey
- Alpha docs : the making of a cardiologist
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- Altitude adjustment : a quest for love, home, and meaning in the Tetons
- Always dream
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always running : La vida loca: gang days in L.A.
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- Amando
- Amarcord, Marcella remembers : the remarkable life story of the woman who started out teaching science in a small town in Italy, but ended up teaching America how to cook Italian
- Amazing, fantastic, incredible : a Marvelous memoir
- Ambulance girl : how I saved myself by becoming an EMT
- America : a redemption story
- America's boy : a memoir
- American Gypsy
- American OZ : an astonishing year inside traveling carnivals at state fairs & festivals
- American Shaolin : flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China
- American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world
- American commander
- American commander : serving a country worth fighting for and training the brave soldiers who lead the way
- American desperado : my life, from Mafia soldier to cocaine cowboy to secret government asset
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American outlaw
- American prince : a memoir
- 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 sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American son : my story
- American spy : wry reflections on my life in the CIA
- American spy : wry reflections on my life in the CIA
- American values : lessons I learned from my family
- American warrior : the true story of a legendary Ranger
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Amerykańska księżna : z Nowego Jorku do Siedlisk
- Amor verdadero
- Amoralman : a true story and other lies
- Amy Fisher : my story
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American heroine in the French Resistance : the diary and memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake
- An American son : a memoir
- An Indian among los Indígenas : a native travel memoir
- An Italian affair
- An Obama's journey : my odyssey of self-discovery across three cultures
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An altar in the world : a geography of faith
- An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist : a memoir
- An apple a day : a memoir of love and recovery from anorexia
- An apple a day : adventures of a country doctor
- An assassin's diary
- An astronaut's guide to life on earth
- An autobiography of Jack London
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An enduring love : [my life with the Shah : a memoir]
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood
- An idiot girl's Christmas : true tales from the top of the naughty list
- An improvised life : a memoir
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An invisible thread Christmas story
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An open book
- An ordinary man : an autobiography
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- An unfinished marriage
- An unfinished woman : a memoir
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- An unreasonable woman : a true story of shrimpers, politicos, polluters, and the fight for Seadrift, Texas
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- And I shall have some peace there : trading in the fast lane for my own dirt road
- And a voice to sing with : a memoir
- And furthermore
- And it was beautiful : celebrating life in the midst of the long good-bye
- And live rejoicing : chapters from a charmed life : personal encounters with spiritual mavericks, remarkable seekers, and the world's great religious leaders
- And no birds sang
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- And still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation
- And the beat goes on
- And the good news is ... : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And the good news is... : lessons and advice from the bright side
- And the sea is never full : memoirs, 1969-
- And then I danced : traveling the road to LGBT equality
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then life happens : a memoir
- And you know you should be glad : a true story of lifelong friendship
- Angel in the rubble : the miraculous rescue of 9/11's last survivor
- Angel of death row : my life as a death penalty defense lawyer
- Angel on my shoulder : an autobiography
- Angela Davis : an autobiography
- Angela Davis : an autobiography
- Angela's ashes
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Angeles de luz divina : la extraordinaria historia de uno de los m?s destacados sanadores angelicales y terapeutas espirituales
- Angels of divine light : the remarkable memoir of one of today's leading angelic healers and spir