Personal narratives
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Incoming Resources
- 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
- Hitler, my neighbor, memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939, Edgar Feuchtwanger with Bertil Scali ; translated by Adriana Hunter
- November 1942, an intimate history of the turning point of World War II, Peter Englund ; translated from Swedish by Peter Graves
- Those who saw the sun, African American oral histories from the Jim Crow South, Jaha Nailah Avery
- The best of me, David Sedaris
- The sky was falling, a young surgeon's story of bravery, survival, and hope, Dr. Cornelia Griggs
- We must not forget, Holocaust stories of survival and resistance, Deborah Hopkinson
- Write to me, letters from Japanese American children to the Librarian they left behind, Cynthia Grady ; illustrated by Amiko Hirao
- He held radical light, the art of faith, the faith of art, Christian Wiman
- 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
- The secret lives of booksellers and librarians, true stories of the magic of reading, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney
- The diary keepers, World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it, Nina Siegal
- Man's search for meaning, Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; foreword by Harold S. Kushner ; afterword by William J. Winslade ; selected letters, speeches, and essays translated by Helen Pisano
- The making of a Navy SEAL, my story of surviving the toughest challenge and training the best, Brandon Webb and John David Mann; foreword by Marcus Luttrell
- The survivors of the Clotilda, the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade, Hannah Durkin
- Head case, my brain and other wonders, Cole Cohen
- One hundred Saturdays, Stella Levi and the search for a lost world, Michael Frank ; [artwork by Maira Kalman]
- From broken glass, my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation, Steve Ross with Glenn Frank and Brian Wallace
- Unknown valor, a story of family, courage, and sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima, Martha MacCallum ; with Ronald J. Drez
- Always faithful, a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter, Major Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki with Russell Worth Parker
- 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
- 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
- Hitler's forgotten children, a true story of the Lebensborn program and one woman's search for her real identity, Ingrid von Oelhafen & Tim Tate ; with Dr. Dorothee Schmitz-Koster
- What the Taliban told me, Ian Fritz
- Consequence, a memoir, Eric Fair
- Perfectly wounded, a memoir about what happens after a miracle, Mike Day with Robert Vera ; foreword by Admiral William H. McRaven
- All that moves us, life lessons from a pediatric neurosurgeon, Jay Wellons
- A bag of marbles, Joseph Joffo ; translated from the French by Martin Sokolinsky ; with a new afterword by the author
- Saved, a war reporter's mission to make it home, Benjamin Hall
- Rescued from ISIS, the gripping true story of how a father saved his son, Dimitri Bontinck
- By all means available, memoirs of a life in intelligence, special operations, and strategy, Michael G. Vickers
- Happy-go-lucky, David Sedaris
- Un-American, a soldier's reckoning of our longest war, Erik Edstrom
- American shoes, a refugee's story, Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke, and Garrett L. Turke
- Modern warriors, real stories from real heroes, Pete Hegseth
- Floating in the deep end, how caregivers can see beyond Alzheimer's, Patti Davis
- Operation Pineapple Express, the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Scott Mann (Ret.)
- Healing children, a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine, Kurt Newman, M.D
- Underground in Berlin, a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany, Marie Jalowicz Simon ; translated by Anthea Bell ; foreword and afterword by Hermann Simon
- Shooting ghosts, a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war, Thomas J. Brennan, USMC (Ret.), and Finbarr O'Reilly
- 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
- The checklist manifesto, how to get things right, Atul Gawande
- When I grow up, the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers, Ken Krimstein
- The fox hunt, a refugee's memoir of coming to America, Mohammed Al Samawi
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz, a true story of family and survival, by Jeremy Dronfield
Outgoing Resources
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