Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Incoming Resources
- The best of me, David Sedaris
- We must not forget, Holocaust stories of survival and resistance, Deborah Hopkinson
- Saving justice, truth, transparency, and trust, James Comey
- ER nurses, true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney
- Darkness visible, a memoir of madness, William Styron
- The light of days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos, Judy Batalion
- The Moth presents All these wonders, true stories about facing the unknown, edited by Catherine Burns
- Dear world, a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace, Bana Alabed
- The diary keepers, World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it, Nina Siegal
- November 1942, an intimate history of the turning point of World War II, Peter Englund ; translated from Swedish by Peter Graves
- The survivors of the Clotilda, the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade, Hannah Durkin
- One hundred Saturdays, Stella Levi and the search for a lost world, Michael Frank ; [artwork by Maira Kalman]
- Every man a hero, a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war, Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice
- Marcel's letters, a font and the search for one man's fate, Carolyn Porter
- The checklist manifesto, how to get things right, Atul Gawande
- Clanlands, whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with Charlotte Reather ; [foreword by Diana Gabaldon]
- The soul of a woman, on impatient love, long life, and good witches, Isabel Allende
- The movement made us, a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride, David J. Dennis Jr. in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr
- The diary keepers, World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it, Nina Siegal
- Guts, Raina Telgemeier ; with color by Braden Lamb
- American sniper, the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
- The electricity of every living thing, a woman's walk in the wild to find her way home, Katherine May
- The gift, 12 lessons to save your life, Edith Eger ; with Esmé Schwall Weigand
- By all means available, memoirs of a life in intelligence, special operations, and strategy, Michael G. Vickers
- The operator, firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior, Robert O'Neill
- Europa, Europa, Solomon Perel ; translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo
- No turning back, life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria, Rania Abouzeid
- The choice, embrace the possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand
- Bravo company, an Afghanistan deployment and its aftermath, Ben Kesling
- Do no harm, stories of life, death, and brain surgery, Henry Marsh
- When I grow up, the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers, Ken Krimstein
- Gay bar, why we went out, Jeremy Lin Atherton
- Together we rise, behind the scenes at the protest heard round the world, the Women's March organizers and Condé Nast
- Hear my voice, the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States, compiled by Warren Binford for Project Amplify ; foreword by Michael Garcia Bochenek of Human Rights Watch = Escucha mi voz : los testimonios de niños detenidos en la frontera sur de los Estados Unidos / recopilado por Warren Binford para Project Amplify ; prefacio por Michael Garcia Bochenek
- The journalist, life and loss in America's secret war, Jerry A. Rose and Lucy Rose Fischer
- Unsinkable, five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett, James Sullivan
- Un-American, a soldier's reckoning of our longest war, Erik Edstrom
- Black ops, the life of a CIA shadow warrior, Ric Prado
- All that moves us, life lessons from a pediatric neurosurgeon, Jay Wellons
- My name is Selma, the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbr, k survivor, Selma van de Perre ; translated by Alice Tetlye-Paul and Anna Asbury
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz, a true story of family and survival, by Jeremy Dronfield
- Last witnesses, an oral history of the children of World War II, Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- We got this, solo mom stories of grit, heart, and humor, edited by Marika Lindholm, Cheryl Dumesnil, Domenica Ruta, and Katherine Shonk
- Walk in my combat boots, true stories from America's bravest warriors, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, First Sergeant, USA, Ret. ; with Chris Mooney
- The unwomanly face of war, an oral history of women in World War II, Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- The light of days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos, Judy Batalion
- Red memory, the afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, Tania Branigan
- 24 hours in Charlottesville, an oral history of the stand against white supremacy, Nora Neus
- Lieutenant dangerous, a Vietnam War memoir, Jeff Danziger
- Sure, I'll be your Black friend, notes from the other side of the fist bump, Ben Philippe
Outgoing Resources
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