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- " ... when men must live"
- "A punishment on the nation": : an Iowa soldier endures the Civil War
- "Company Aytch", or, A side show of the big show and other sketches
- "Dear friends at home--." : the letters and diary of Thomas James Owen, Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment, during the Civil War
- "L. M. 8046"; : an intimate story of the Foreign legion
- "Stand to it and give them hell" : Gettysburg as the soldie's experienced it from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863.
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- true"There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "This infernal war" : the Civil War letters of William and Jane Standard
- "With the help of God and a few marines" : the battles of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood
- true1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- true1001 nights in Iraq : the shocking story of an American forced to fight for Saddam against the country he loves
- true12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers
- 13 Stradomska Street : a memoir of exile and return
- 15 years of war : how the longest war in U.S. history affected a military family in love, loss, and the cost of service
- 163256 : a memoir of resistance
- 19 with a bullet : a South African paratrooper in Angola
- 1918 : the decisive year in soldiers' own words and photographs
- 23 days to Baghdad : U.S. Marine Aviation Combat Element in Iraq, 2003
- 24 hours inside the President's bunker : 9-11-01, the White House
- true3000 degrees : the true story of a deadly fire and the men who fought it
- true365 thank yous : the year a simple act of daily gratitude changed my life
- true491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing)
- true50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man's Journey of Discovery Across America
- true50 celebrate 50 : fifty extraordinary women talk about facing, turning, and being fifty
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific War's greatest battle
- 999
- 999
- A Civil War captain and his lady : love, courtship, and combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign
- A Civil War drummer boy : the diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
- A Confederate girl's diary
- trueA Jane Austen education : how six novels taught me about love, friendship, and the things that really matter
- A Journey into the Holocaust
- A Kansas soldier at war : the Civil War letters of Christian & Elise Dubach Isely
- A Kansas soldier at war : the Civil War letters of Christian & Elise Dubach Isely
- A Padre in France
- A Palmetto boy : Civil War-era diaries and letters of James Adams Tillman
- A People's History of World War II : the World's Most Destructive Conflict, As Told By the People Who Lived Through It
- A Quaker officer in the Civil War : Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware
- A Quaker officer in the Civil War : Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware
- trueA Red Boyhood: Growing up under Stalin
- A Sappers' war: : how the legendary Aussie tunnel rats fought the Vietcong
- A Semite: : a memoir of Algeria
- A Traveller in War-Time
- A Union woman in Civil War Kentucky : the diary of Frances Peter
- A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: : the diaries of David Hunter Strother
- A Yankee private's Civil War
- trueA boy I once knew : what a teacher learned from her student
- A boy in hiding: : surviving the Nazis : Amsterdam 1940-1945
- A boy in hiding: : surviving the Nazis : Amsterdam 1940-1945
- A chill in the air : an Italian war diary, 1939-1940
- A city laid waste : the capture, sack, and destruction of the city of Columbia
- trueA coach's life
- trueA colonial Quaker girl : the diary of Sally Wister, 1777-1778
- trueA decade of hope : stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends
- A decade of hope : stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends
- trueA delayed life : the true story of the librarian of Auschwitz
- trueA devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- A diary of the Crimea
- trueA dog named Boo : how one dog and one woman rescued each other- and the lives they transformed along the way
- trueA dream is a wish your heart makes : my story
- trueA false spring
- trueA freewheelin' time : a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
- trueA funny thing happened on the way to heaven, or, How I made peace with the paranormal and stigmatized zealots and cynics in the process
- trueA funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- trueA healing touch : true stories of life, death, and hospice
- trueA helluva high note : surviving life, love, and American idol
- trueA helluva high note : surviving life, love, and American idol
- A hill called White Horse : a Korean war story : based on real events
- A journey of hope
- trueA labor of love : an autobiography
- trueA life shaken : my encounter with Parkinson's disease
- trueA lion's tale : around the world in spandex
- A long way gone : [memoirs of a boy soldier]
- trueA 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 long way to Tipperary? : two and a half years in the trenches of World War I, The diary of Maurice Graffet Neal
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- trueA lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky child: : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- trueA matter of life and death : remarkable true stories of hope and healing
- trueA matter of rats : a short biography of Patna
- trueA mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- trueA mirror garden
- trueA monk swimming : a memoir
- A mother's journey : through faith, hope, and courage
- A name unbroken
- A narrative of Ethan Allen's captivity: : containing his voyages and travels
- A narrative of a Revolutionary soldier : some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
- A narrative of the peninsular war
- A nightmare's fairy tale : a young refugee's home fronts, 1938-1948
- A not-so-small-time town : growing up in Plainfield, New Hampshire
- A part of me
- trueA 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 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 people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- A physician under the Nazis : memoirs of Henry Glenwick
- trueA place outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantanamo
- trueA princess found : an American family, an African chiefdom, and the daughter who connected them all
- A refugee at Hanover Tavern : the Civil War diary of Margaret Wight
- A refugee at Hanover Tavern : the Civil War diary of Margaret Wight
- trueA savage business : the comeback and comedown of Mike Tyson
- trueA simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit
- trueA small furry prayer : dog rescue and the meaning of life
- trueA small town near Auschwitz : ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
- trueA soldier's sketchbook : from the front lines of World War II
- trueA song flung up to heaven
- A special brand of courage : a mother and her childrens remarkable escape from nazi germany
- A stranger in my bed : 8 steps to taking your life back from the contagious effects of your veteran's post-traumatic stress disorder
- A surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn : James DeWolf's diary and letters, 1876
- A time of ghosts : a memoir
- A time of silence : the story of a childhood Holocaust survivor
- A time to speak
- A tragedy of the Great War : the story of Chester Schulz
- A traveller in war-time
- A traveller in war-time; : with an essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea
- A visit to three fronts: : June 1916
- trueA voice in the box : my life in radio
- trueA way to see the world : from Texas to Transylvania with a maverick traveler
- trueA wedding in Haiti
- trueA widow's story : a memoir
- A wing and a prayer
- A woman's wartime journal: : an account of the passage over Georgia's plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge)
- trueA year and six seconds : a love story
- trueAbandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Above and beyond
- trueAbove suspicion
- Absent without leave: : the private war of Private Stanley Livingston
- trueAcross many mountains : a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom
- Adamalui : a survivor's journey from civil wars in Africa to life in America
- After the Fall : New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years that Followed
- After the Holocaust the bells still ring
- trueAfter the fall : New Yorkers remember September 2001 and the years that followed
- Agent Storm : my life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA
- trueAgent of destiny : the life and times of General Winfield Scott
- Air war D-Day
- Air war Malta : June 1940 to November 1942
- Alcoholics Anonymous : the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism
- trueAlek : from the streets of the Sudan to the runways of Milan and New York
- trueAll American : why I believe in football, God, and the war in Iraq
- trueAll but my life
- All but my life
- All but my life
- All for the Union : the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
- trueAll for the Union : the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
- trueAll his jazz : the life & death of Bob Fosse
- trueAll in my head : an epic quest to cure an unrelenting, totally unreasonable, and only slightly enlightening headache
- trueAll over the map
- trueAll rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- trueAll the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- Allegany to Appomattox: : the life and letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers
- trueAlone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Alone in the storm
- trueAlong the roaring river : my wild ride from Mao to the Met
- trueAlways remember me : how one family survived World War II
- trueAlways running : [ la vida loca, gang days in L. A.]
- trueAmazing pace : the story of Olympic champion Michael Phelps from Sydney to Athens to Beijing
- trueAmerican band : music, dreams, and coming of age in the heartland
- American experience, Freedom riders
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American spirit : a story of American individualism
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- trueAmerican spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- An American on the Western Front : the First World War letters of Arthur Clifford Kimber, 1917-18
- trueAn Irish country childhood : memories of a bygone age/
- trueAn Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust
- An Uncommon soldier : the Civil War letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers
- trueAn accidental sportswriter : a memoir
- An anchor in the prairie
- trueAn eagle named Freedom : my true story of a remarkable friendship
- An historical sketch of the campaign of 1815
- trueAn interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
- trueAn iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An ode to Salonika : the Ladino verses of Bouena Sarfatty
- An unbroken chain: : my journey through the Nazi Holocaust
- trueAn uncommon friendship : from opposite sides of the Holocaust
- trueAnatomy of a haunting : the nightmare on Baxter Road
- trueAncient Furies
- trueAnd furthermore
- trueAnd still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation
- And then the phone rang : what I've learned about life, love, and lasagna
- Andersonville, a story of rebel military prisons : fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
- Andersonville, a story of rebel military prisons: : fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy, a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
- Angel in the rubble : the miraculous rescue of 9/11's last survivor
- trueAngel in the rubble : the miraculous rescue of 9/11's last survivor
- trueAngela's ashes : a memoir
- Angels in disguise : stories from America's school nurses
- trueAnimal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- trueAnimation : the whole story
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the book, the life, the afterlife
- trueAnne Frank : the book, the life, the afterlife
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- trueAnne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl : the definitive edition
- Anne Frank and the children of the Holocaust
- trueAnne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Anonyma : eine frau in Berlin = A woman in Berlin
- Another day of life
- Another winter, another spring: : a love remembered
- trueAnother world : a retreat in the Ozarks
- trueAppel Is Forever: A Child's Memoir
- trueAppetites : why women want
- trueApples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared
- April 27, 2011, the day my life changed : a true testimony from being a victim to being a survivor
- Army Life in a Black Regiment
- Army life in a Black regiment
- trueArmy life in a Black regiment, and other writings
- As seen through these eyes
- trueAs you wish : inconceivable tales from the making of The princess bride
- trueAs you wish : inconceivable tales from the making of the Princess Bride
- Asian odyssey
- trueAsylum : Hollywood tales from my great depression: brain dis-ease, recovery, and being my mother's son
- trueAsylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At Custer's side: : the Civil War writings of James Harvey Kidd
- trueAt the devil's table : the untold story of the insider who brought down the Cali Cartel
- trueAt the will of the body : reflections on illness
- trueAt war with the wind : the epic struggle with Japan's World War II suicide bombers
- August Willich's gallant Dutchmen : Civil War letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry
- Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account
- Auschwitz: : true tales from a grotesque land
- Autobiography of a face
- trueAutopsy of war : a personal history
- Awakening of a foot soldier : a journal of liberation from the suffering of war
- trueAway from my desk : a round-the-world detour from the rat race, the tech wreck, and the traffic jam of life in America
- trueBaby, we were meant for each other : in praise of adoption
- Backstage at the Lincoln assassination : the untold story of the actors and stagehands at Ford's Theatre
- Basher five-two : the true story of F-16 fighter pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
- trueBataan : a survivor's story
- trueBattle hymn of the tiger mother
- Battles and leaders of the Civil War, Volume 5
- Beautiful soul: : Bella Kurant's memoir of the Nazi era, including appendix with Henry Slamovich's story
- trueBecause I love her : 34 women writers reflect on the mother-daughter bond
- Because of Annie : unlocking the mystery of life after death
- trueBecoming a doctor : a journey of initiation in medical school
- Becoming my mother's daughter : a story of survival and renewal
- Becoming self-directed learners: : student and faculty memoirs of an experimenting high school 40 years later
- trueBefore the glory : 20 baseball heroes talk about growing up and how to turn hard times into home runs
- trueBeg, borrow, steal : a writer's life
- Behind enemy lines : the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
- Behind enemy lines : the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
- Behind the red curtain : my mother's two victories
- Behind the scenes
- Being Frank about Vietnam : a Marine platoon commander's experience
- trueBeing Kendra : cribs, cocktails, & getting my sexy back
- Beirut 1990 : snapshots of a civil war
- trueBelieve : my faith and the tackle that changed my life
- trueBend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Best of Bryson City : stories of a doctor's first year of practice in the Smoky Mountains
- Best of Bryson City: : stories of a doctor's first year of practice in the Smoky Mountains
- trueBette Davis speaks
- trueBetty & friends : my life at the zoo
- trueBetween a heart and a rock place : a memoir
- Beyond No Mean Soldier : the Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator
- Beyond Trochenbrod: : the Betty Gold story
- Beyond breathing
- trueBeyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
- Beyond the wheelchair : welcome to my world
- trueBigmama's
- trueBill Moyers journal : the conversation continues
- Billy Yank & Johnny Reb : soldiering in the Civil War
- Black Empress: : rescuing a puppy from Iran
- trueBlack milk : on writing, motherhood, and the harem within
- trueBlack wave : [a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them]
- trueBlack wave : a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them
- trueBlind ambition : the end of the story
- Blind ambition: : the White House years
- Blind ambition: : the White House years
- Blind descent : [the quest to discover the deepest place on Earth]
- Blood and ink; : an Italo-Ethiopian war diary
- Blood brothers : among the soldiers of Ward 57
- trueBlood horses : notes of a sportswriter's son
- trueBlood matters : from inherited illness to designer babies, how the world and I found ourselves in the future of the gene
- Blood on the risers : an airborne soldier's thirty-five months in Vietnam
- trueBlood, sweat and steel : frontline accounts from the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq
- Blue
- trueBlue front
- trueBlue nights
- Blue-blooded cavalryman : Captain William Brooke Rawle in the army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865
- trueBody story
- trueBonobo handshake : a memoir of love and adventure in the Congo
- trueBook by book : notes on reading and life
- trueBook of dreams
- trueBooks : a memoir
- trueBorn country : how faith, family, and music brought me home
- trueBorn free : a lioness of two worlds
- Born red : a chronicle of the Cultural Revolution
- trueBorn this way : real stories of growing up gay
- trueBorn to win : the authorized biography of Althea Gibson
- trueBoulevard of broken dreams : the life, times, and legend of James Dean
- Boy 30529 : a memoir
- trueBrain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
- trueBrave hearts : extraordinary stories of pride, pain and courage
- Bread, butter, and sugar : a boy's journey through the Holocaust and postwar Europe
- trueBreaking Into the Backcountry
- trueBreaking up with God : a love story
- Bride of war : my mother's World War II memories
- Britain's wartime evacuees : the people, places and stories of the evacuations told through the accounts of those who were there
- British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856 : Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Battle of the Balaclava - the Charge of the Light Brigade
- Broken nation: : Australians in the Great War
- Brother against brother : the lost Civil War diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey
- Brother of mine: : the Civil War letters of Thomas and William Christie
- trueBrother, I'm dying
- Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story
- trueBrown dog of the Yaak : essays on art and activism
- trueBrown girl dreaming
- Buffaloes over Singapore
- Bullets & billets
- trueBullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Bullets of '71 : a freedom fighter's story
- Bully! : three autobiographies
- Buried memories : Katie Beers' Story
- Buried words : the diary of Molly Applebaum
- Burn on the bayou
- Bush War operator : memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond
- Bush War operator : memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond
- trueBy honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- trueBy hook or by crook : a journey in search of English
- trueBy the sword : a young man meets war
- trueCakewalk : a memoir
- Call me Ted
- Call of duty : my life before, during and after the Band of brothers
- Camp 165 Watten : Scotland's most secretive prisoner of war camp
- Cannon fodder : an infantryman's life on the Western front, 1914-18
- trueCaptured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- trueCar guys vs. bean counters : the battle for the soul of American business
- trueCartier's hope : a novel
- trueCary Grant, dark angel
- trueCase files of the tracker : true stories from America's greatest outdoorsman
- trueCatch this! : going deep with the NFL's sharpest weapon
- trueCatching heat : the Jim Leyritz story
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- trueCaught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Ce que dit le tonnerre: : réflexions d'un officier canadien à Kandahar
- Censored voices
- trueChalked up : inside elite gymnastics' merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and elusive Olympic dreams
- trueChange in the weather : life after stroke
- Chaplain Davis and Hood's Texas Brigade : being an expanded edition of the Reverend Nicholas A. Davis's The campaign from Texas to Maryland, with the battle of Fredericksburg (Richmond, 1863)
- Charleston blockade : the journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy, 1861-1862
- trueChasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse
- trueChe : the diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara
- Che : the diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara
- trueCheating death, stealing life : the Eddie Guerrero story
- trueChester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- trueChild abuse
- Child prisoner in American concentration camps
- Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
- trueChildren of the storm : childhood memories of World War II
- trueChosen forever : a memoir
- trueChuck reducks
- trueCinderella Man : James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history
- trueCircling the Square : stories from the Egyptian Revolution
- Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009
- Civil War
- Civil War Hospital Sketches
- Civil War eyewitness reports
- Civil War poetry and prose
- Civil War poetry and prose
- Clara's kitchen : wisdom, memories, and recipes from the great depression
- trueClara's war : one girl's story of survival
- Coastal Missouri : driving on the edge of wild
- trueCockeyed : a memoir
- Cocoon of cancer : An invitation to love deeply
- Code name : Johnny Walker
- Coffee grounds and potato peeling pancakes : the garbage we ate to live
- Colditz : the untold story of World War II's greatest escapes
- Collecting Colditz and its secrets : a unique pictorial record of life behind the walls
- trueCome to the edge : a memoir
- trueCome to win : business leaders, artists, doctors, and other visionaries on how sports can help you top your profession
- trueComeback season : how I learned to play the game of love
- trueComes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope
- trueComfort : a journey through grief
- trueComing home to eat : the pleasures and politics of local foods
- Commando; : a Boer journal of the Boer War.
- Complicity, Collaboration, and Resistance : France under the Nazi Occupation
- trueCondition critical : the story of a nurse continues
- trueConfections of a closet master baker : one woman's sweet journey from unhappy Hollywood executive to contented country baker
- Confederate South Carolina : true stories of civilians, soldiers and the war
- trueConfessions of a counterfeit farm girl
- trueConfessions of a recovering slut and other love stories
- trueConfessions of a street addict
- trueConquest of the useless : reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo
- trueConsequence : a memoir
- Conspicuous gallantry: : the Civil War and Reconstruction letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
- trueControl the crazy : my plan to stop stressing, manage haters, and maintain inner cool
- trueConversations With Uncommon Women: Insights from Women Who've Risen Above Life's Challenges to Achieve Extraordinary Success
- trueConversations with Cosmo : at home with an African grey parrot
- trueConvictions : a prosecutor's battles against Mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron thieves
- trueCooking & screaming
- trueCop in the hood : my year policing Baltimore's eastern district
- Corpsmen: : letters from Korea
- trueCounselor : a life at the edge of history
- trueCountdown : an autobiography
- trueCountdown to victory : the final European campaigns of World War II
- trueCounting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Counting on America : a Holocaust memoir of terror, chutzpah, romance and escape
- trueCounting the days : POWs, internees, and stragglers of World War II in the Pacific
- Country of ash: : a Jewish doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
- Courageous journey: : walking the lost boys' path from Sudan to America