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- "Smoked Yankees" and the struggle for empire : letters from negro soldiers, 1898-1902
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "We'll never be young again" : remembering the last days of John F. Kennedy
- true1,000 dollars & an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- 14 war stories
- true30 before 30 : how I made a mess of my 20s, and you can too
- true365 thank yous : the year a simple act of daily gratitude changed my life
- true491 days : prisoner number 1323/69
- trueA Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volonteers [sic]
- trueA Black woman's odyssey through Russia and Jamaica : the narratives of Nancy Prince
- A Civil War drummer boy : the diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
- A Confederate girl : the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
- A Connecticut Yankee at war : the life and letters of George Lee Gaskell
- trueA Jane Austen education : how six novels taught me about love, friendship, and the things that really matter
- A Maryland bride in the Deep South : the Civil War diary of Priscilla Bond
- A better class of blond : a California diary
- A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- A blockaded family
- trueA boy I once knew : what a teacher learned from her student
- trueA cast of friends
- trueA champion's mind : lessons from a life in tennis
- trueA charge to keep : my journey to the White House
- 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
- trueA dog named Boo : how one dog and one woman rescued each other--and the lives they transformed along the way
- trueA fool's gold : a story of ancient Spanish treasure, two pounds of pot, and the young lawyer almost left holding the bag
- 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 gift of love : one woman's journey to save a life
- trueA gypsy in Auschwitz
- trueA handmade wilderness
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of silence : a memoir
- trueA life decoded : my genome, my life
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- trueA long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- trueA lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- 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
- trueA passion for this earth
- A people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- trueA people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- trueA princess found : an American family, an African chiefdom, and the daughter who connected them all
- trueA sacred landscape : the search for ancient Peru
- trueA simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit
- trueA single wave : stories of storms and survival
- A slaver's log book : or 20 years' residence in Africa : the original manuscript
- trueA soldier's sketchbook : the illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn
- trueA song flung up to heaven
- A song of longing : an Ethiopian journey
- trueA view of the ocean
- trueA voice from the Holocaust
- trueA voice of thunder : the Civil War letters of George E. Stephens
- trueA wealth of family : an adopted son's international quest for heritage, reunion, and enrichment
- trueA wedding in Haiti : the story of a friendship
- trueA widow's story : a memoir
- trueA young people's history of the United States
- trueAbandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- trueAbandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate
- trueAcross many mountains : a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom
- African exploits : the diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892
- trueAfter the Reich : the brutal history of the Allied occupation
- trueAfter the fall : New Yorkers remember September 2001 and the years that followed
- trueAfternoons with Mr. Hogan : a boy, a golf legend, and the lessons of a lifetime
- trueAlek : from sudanese refugee to international supermodel
- trueAlice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- trueAll American : why I believe in football, God, and the war in Iraq
- trueAll in
- trueAll over the map
- trueAll rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- trueAll the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- trueAll things censored
- trueAlways remember me : how one family survived World War II
- trueAlways running : la vida loca, gang days in L. A.
- America beyond the color line
- America's black warriors : two wars to win
- American experience, The Great War, 1918
- trueAmerican hunger
- Amidst the Shadows of Trees : a Holocaust child's survival in the Partisans
- trueAn Iranian metamorphosis
- trueAn uncommon friendship : from opposite sides of the Holocaust
- trueAn unquiet mind
- trueAnatomy of a haunting : the nightmare on Baxter Road
- trueAncient furies : a young girl's struggles in the crossfire of World War II
- trueAnd furthermore
- Angel in the rubble : the miraculous rescue of 9/11's last survivor
- trueAngela's ashes : a memoir
- trueAnimal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- trueAnne Frank : the book, the life, the afterlife
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- trueAnne Frank and children of the Holocaust
- trueApples & oranges : my brother and me, lost and found
- Army life in a Black regiment
- Army life in a Black regiment
- Army life in a Black regiment,
- Army life in a Black regiment.
- Army life in a black regiment.
- As if it were glory : Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black regiments
- As if it were glory : Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black regiments
- trueAs you wish : inconceivable tales from the making of The princess bride
- trueAs you wish : inconceivable tales from the making of the Princess Bride
- trueAsk me about my divorce : women open up about moving on
- trueAsylum : Hollywood tales about 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 risk : writing on and over the edge of South Africa
- trueAt war with the wind : the epic struggle with Japan's World War II suicide bombers
- Atlanta
- Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land
- trueAutopsy of war : a personal history
- trueBaby, we were meant for each other : in praise of adoption
- trueBaghdad pups
- trueBaghdad without a map : and other misadventures in Arabia
- trueBands, brands and billions : my top 10 rules for making any business go platinum
- trueBar flower : my decadently destructive days and nights as a Tokyo nightclub hostess
- trueBaseball's great experiment : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- Battle for the skies : the story of WWII by the aviators who fought it
- trueBattle hymn of the tiger mother
- trueBeautiful unbroken : one nurse's life
- trueBecoming a mountain : Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime
- Before the rain : (a tale in three parts)
- trueBehind the scenes
- trueBeing Kendra : cribs, cocktails & getting my sexy back
- trueBelieve : my faith and the tackle that changed my life
- trueBelieve : the victorious story of Eric LeGrand
- trueBend, not break : a life in two worlds
- trueBetty & friends : my life at the zoo
- trueBetty White in person
- trueBetween a heart and a rock place : a memoir
- trueBicycle diaries
- trueBigger deal : a year on the new poker circuit
- trueBigmama's
- BiografÃa de un cimarrÃ3n
- trueBiography of a runaway slave
- trueBird watching : on playing and coaching the game I love
- trueBite me : how lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me
- trueBitten : my unexpected love affair with Florida
- trueBitter is the new black : confessions of a condescending, egomaniacal, self-centered, smart-ass, or, why you should never carry a Prada bag to the unemployment office : a memoir
- trueBlack ice
- Black men in chains; : narratives by escaped slaves.
- trueBlackout : the untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training
- Blacks in bondage; : letters of American slaves,
- Blind ambition : the White House years
- trueBlind ambition : the end of the story
- trueBlind vengeance : the Roy Moody mail bomb murders
- trueBlood and whiskey : the life and times of Jack Daniel, an American legend
- trueBlue nights
- trueBody, remember : a memoir
- trueBonobo handshake : a memoir of love and adventure in the Congo
- trueBook by book : notes on the reading life
- trueBook of dreams
- Book of the American Civil War
- trueBooks : a memoir
- trueBorn country : how faith, family, and music brought me home
- trueBorn free, a lioness of two worlds
- trueBorn to play : the Eric Davis story : life lessons in overcoming adversity on and off the field
- trueBorn to win : the authorized biography of Althea Gibson
- trueBoulevard of broken dreams : the life, times, and legend of James Dean
- trueBrain on fire : my month of madness
- trueBreaking up with God : a love story
- trueBrother, I'm dying
- Brothers in war
- trueBrown girl dreaming
- trueBy hook or by crook : a journey in search of English
- trueBy the sword : a young man meets war
- Call of the litany bird : surviving the Zimbabwe bush war
- Camp-fire and cotton-field: southern adventure in time of war. : Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation.
- Captain Canot, an African slaver,
- trueCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton : the secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mecca, discovered the Kama Sutra, and brought the Arabian nights to the West
- trueCar guys vs. bean counters : the battle for the soul of American business
- trueCartier's Hope : a novel
- trueCatch this! : going deep with the NFL's sharpest weapon
- Censored voices
- trueChalked up : inside elite gymnastics' merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and elusive Olympic dreams
- Child soldiers : Sierra Leone's revolutionary united front
- trueChildren in the Holocaust and World War II : their secret diaries
- China's son : growing up in the Cultural Revolution
- Chinese comfort women : testimonies from Imperial Japan's sex slaves
- trueCinderella Man : James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history
- trueCircling the Square : stories from the Egyptian Revolution
- Civil War America : voices from the home front
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- trueClara's war : one girl's story of survival
- trueCoach : lessons on the game of life
- trueCoach's challenge : faith, football, and filling the father gap
- trueCode talker
- Colored soldiers,
- trueColors of the mountain
- trueCome to win : business leaders, artists, doctors, and other visionaries on how sports can help you top your profession
- trueComfort : a journey through grief
- trueCompulsive acts : a psychiatrist's tales of ritual and obsession
- trueConfessions of a carb queen : the lies you tell others & the lies you tell yourself : a memoir
- 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
- trueCounselor : a life at the edge of history
- trueCounselor : a life at the edge of history
- trueCourage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first black paratroopers
- trueCourageous journey : walking the Lost Boys' path from the Sudan to America
- trueCourageous teen resisters : primary sources from the Holocaust
- trueCronkite's war : his World War II letters home
- trueCyndi Lauper : a memoir
- trueD-Day : they fought to free Europe from Hitler's tyranny
- trueD-day : minute by minute
- Daily life during the Holocaust
- Dateline Jerusalem : an eyewitness account of prophecies unfolding in the Middle East
- Dead leaves : two years in the Rhodesian War
- Deaf mosaic, 611
- trueDear Cary : my life with Cary Grant
- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt : letters to Eleanor Roosevelt through depression and war
- Dear old Roswell : Civil War letters of the King family of Roswell, Georgia
- trueDeath benefits : how losing a parent can change an adult's life-- for the better
- trueDelivering happiness : a path to profits, passion, and purpose
- trueDiaries of an unfinished revolution : voices from Tunis to Damascus
- trueDiary of Sally Wister : a colonial Quaker girl
- trueDiary of William Bircher : a Civil War drummer
- trueDiary of a Christian soldier : Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War
- trueDiary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor
- trueDiary of a psychic : shattering the myths
- Diary of an enlisted man
- trueDiary of the dark years, 1940-1944 : collaboration, resistance, and daily life in occupied Paris
- trueDietrich Bonhoeffer
- Disunion, war, defeat, and recovery in Alabama : the journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885
- trueDo no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- trueDon't hurry me down to Hades : the Civil War in the words of those who lived it
- trueDon't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life
- trueDon't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- trueDon't make me stop this car! : adventures in fatherhood
- trueDon't mind if I do
- Down in Tennessee ; : and back by way of Richmond
- Down these mean streets
- trueDream new dreams : reimagining my life after loss
- trueDreams in a time of war : a childhood memoir
- trueDrinking : a love story
- trueDrunkard : a hard-drinking life
- trueDumbfounded : a memoir
- Dunkirk
- trueDuty : memoirs of a Secretary at war
- trueEating for beginners : an education in the pleasures of food from chefs, farmers, and one picky kid
- trueEchoes from the Holocaust : a memoir
- Echoes from the battlefield ; : or, Southern life during the war
- Echoes of World War II
- trueEdith's story
- trueEducation of a wandering man
- trueEinstein : the passions of a scientist
- trueElihu Washburne : a hero through fire and blood : the diary and letters of America's minister to France during the Siege and Commune of Paris
- trueElly : my true story of the Holocaust
- trueEmpty hands, open arms : the race to save bonobos in the Congo and make conservation go viral
- Enola Gay
- trueEscalante : the best teacher in America
- trueEscape
- Europa Europa
- trueEvel Knievel : an American hero
- trueEven silence has an end : my six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle
- trueEvery man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- trueEvery other Monday : twenty years of life, lunch, faith, and friendship
- trueExit Berlin : how one woman saved her family from Nazi Germany
- trueExit row : the true story of an emergency volunteer, a miraculous survivor and the crash of flight 965
- Experiences in the Civil War
- Eye of the storm : a Civil War odyssey
- trueEyewitness to Gettysburg : the story of Gettysburg as told by the leading correspondent of his day
- trueEyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to Reconstruction
- Facing racial revolution : eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection
- Facing the lion : memoirs of a young girl in Nazi Europe
- trueFairy tale interrupted : a memoir of life, love, and loss
- trueFalcon brigade : combat and command in Somalia and Haiti
- Far from home
- trueFarm city : the education of an urban farmer
- trueFast women : the legendary ladies of racing
- trueFat, forty, and fired : one man's frank, funny, and inspiring account of losing his job and finding his life
- trueFetching Dylan : a true tale of canine domestication in leaps and bounds
- trueFiction ruined my family
- trueFidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography
- trueFields of fury : The American Civil War
- trueFinding Moosewood, finding God : what happened when a TV newsman abandoned his career for life on an island
- Fire in the sky : the Walton experience
- trueFirst comes love, then comes malaria : how a Peace Corps poster boy won my heart and a Third World adventure changed my life
- trueFirst into Nagasaki : the censored eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war
- trueFirst stop in the New World : Mexico City, the capital of the 21st century
- trueFive days that shocked the world : eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II
- trueFive years of my life : an innocent man in Guantanamo
- Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust
- trueFlavor Flav : the icon, the memoir
- trueFlipping burgers to flipping millions : a guide to financial freedom whether you have your dream job, own your own business, just started your first job
- trueFlunking sainthood : a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray, and still loving my neighbor
- trueFlying solo : reimagining manhood, courage, and loss
- trueFor a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison
- For love & liberty : the untold Civil War story of Major Sullivan Ballou & his famous love letter
- trueFor those I loved
- Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story
- trueFour perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story
- Frank : the first year
- Freedom riders
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- Freedom's witness : the Civil War correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
- trueFrench ghosts, Russian nights, and American outlaws : souvenirs of a professional vagabond
- From Capetown to Ladysmith : an unfinished record of the South African war,
- trueFrom a world apart : a little girl in the concentration camps
- trueFrom the ashes of Sobibor : a story of survival
- trueFrom the ground up : a journey to reimagine the promise of America
- trueFrom this moment on
- trueFull body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
- trueFull throttle : the life and fast times of NASCAR racing legend Curtis Turner
- Genocide : my stolen Rwanda
- trueGeorge Burns and the hundred-year dash
- Get up, you`re not dead
- trueGetting open : the unknown story of Bill Garrett and the integration of college basketball
- Ghosts of Rwanda
- trueGifts from the enemy
- trueGirl at the end of the world : my escape from fundamentalism in search of faith with a future
- trueGirl on the couch : life, love, and confessions of a normal neurotic
- trueGod in my corner
- trueGod is not here : a soldier's struggle with torture, trauma, and the moral injuries of war
- trueGodfather of night : a Greek mafia father, a drug runner son, and an unexpected shot at redemption
- trueGoing home : finding peace when pets die
- trueGood dog. Stay
- trueGood riddance : an illustrated memoir of divorce
- trueGoose : the outrageous life and times of a football guy
- trueGracie : a love story
- trueGrandmother's secrets : the ancient rituals and healing power of belly dancing
- Great Civil War heroes and their battles ; edited and with an introduction by Walton Rawls
- trueGreat time coming : the life of Jackie Robinson, from baseball to Birmingham
- trueGroove interrupted : loss, renewal, and the music of New Orleans
- trueGrowgirl : how my life after The Blair Witch project, went to pot
- trueGrowing up Amish : a memoir
- Growing up trans
- Guests of the Ayatollah : [the first battle in America's war with militant Islam]
- trueGuests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- trueGypsy boy : my life in the secret world of the Romany Gypsies
- Hanna and Walter : a love story
- trueHappy accidents
- trueHard times : an oral history of the Great Depression
- trueHardcourt confidential : tales from twenty years in the pro tennis trenches
- trueHarold : the boy who became Mark Twain
- trueHe talk like a white boy : [reflections on faith, family, politics, and authenticity]
- trueHead cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath
- trueHeartbreak & triumph : the Shawn Michaels story
- trueHearts touched by fire : the best of battles and leaders of the Civil War
- trueHeirloom : notes from an accidental tomato farmer
- Helga's diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
- trueHelga's diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
- trueHelping me help myself : one skeptic, ten self-help Gurus, and a year on the brink of the comfort zone
- trueHere we all are
- trueHeroes for my daughter
- trueHeroes for my son
- Heroes of Iwo Jima
- Heroines of Dixie: : Confederate women tell their story of the war
- trueHidden Like Anne Frank : fourteen true stories of survival
- trueHidden child
- trueHide : a child's view of the Holocaust
- trueHiding in Hip Hop : on the down low in the entertainment industry, from music to Hollywood
- trueHiding in plain sight : the incredible true story of a German-Jewish teenager's struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied Poland
- trueHiding to survive : stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust
- trueHilarity ensues
- trueHimmler's Jewish tailor : the story of Holocaust survivor Jacob Frank
- trueHistory lessons : a memoir of madness, memory, and the brain
- Hitler's forgotten children
- Hitler's last witness : the memoirs of Hitler's bodyguard
- trueHoly ghosts, or, How a (not so) good Catholic boy became a believer in things that go bump in the night
- Homeland : Iraq year zero
- trueHomer's odyssey : a fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat
- trueHomesteading in the 21st century : how one family created a more sustainable, self-sufficient, and satisfying life
- trueHometowns : gay men write about where they belong
- trueHoneymoon in Tehran : two years of love and danger in Iran
- Honor in command : Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry
- trueHope dies last : keeping the faith in difficult times
- trueHope unseen : the story of the U.S. Army's first blind active-duty officer
- trueHosoi : my life as a skateboarder, junkie, inmate pastor
- trueHospice voices : lessons for living at the end of life
- Hospital : man, woman, birth, death, infinity, plus red tape, bad behavior, money, God, and diversity on steroids
- trueHow I stayed alive when my brain was trying to kill me : one person's guide to suicide prevention
- trueHow I would help the world
- trueHow to get out of your own way
- trueHow to rig an election : confessions of a Republican operative
- trueHunting down home
- trueHurricane Street
- I am South Africa
- trueI am a star : child of the Holocaust
- trueI am the new black
- trueI had brain surgery, what's your excuse? : an illustrated memoir
- trueI have fun everywhere I go : savage tales of pot, porn, punk rock, pro wrestling, talking apes, evil bosses, dirty blues, American heroes, and the most notorious magazines in the world
- trueI have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust
- trueI know I am, but what are you?
- trueI love a man in uniform : a memoir of love, war and other battles
- trueI love being the enemy : a season on the court with the NBA's best shooter and sharpest tongue
- trueI love you Phillip Morris : a true story of life, love, and prison breaks
- trueI never loved a man the way I love you : Aretha Franklin, respect, and the making of a soul music masterpiece
- I remember nothing more : the Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish resistance
- trueI say a prayer for me : one woman's life of faith and triumph