Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Incoming Resources
- Pumpkinflowers, a soldier's story, Matti Friedman
- When I grow up, the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers, Ken Krimstein
- The first survivors of Alzheimer's, how patients recovered life and hope in their own words, Dale E. Bredesen, M.D
- Say the name, a survivor's tale in prose and poetry, Judith H. Sherman
- One hundred Saturdays, Stella Levi and the search for a lost world, Michael Frank ; [artwork by Maira Kalman]
- Fighting for life, becoming a force for change in a wounded world, Lila Rose
- Blood and germs, the Civil War battle against wounds and disease, by Gail Jarrow
- Dry tears, the story of a lost childhood, Nechama Tec
- 24 hours in Charlottesville, an oral history of the stand against White supremacy, Nora Neus
- Warrior dog, by Will Chesney, with Joe Layden
- My name is Bana, words by Bana Alabed ; pictures by Nez Riaz
- The Ice Cream Factory aka the White House, beatings and murder in the Florida Reform School at Marianna, Florida, Claude Robins
- Hunter killer, inside America's unmanned air war, Lt. Col. T. Mark McCurley with Kevin Maurer
- A journal for Jordan, a story of love and honor, Dana Canedy
- Those who saw the sun, African American oral histories from the Jim Crow South, Jaha Nailah Avery
- The light of days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos, Judy Batalion
- Scars and stripes, an unapologetically American story of fighting the Taliban, UFC warriors, and myself, Tim Kennedy with Nick Palmisciano
- Memoirs of a kamikaze, a World War II pilot's inspiring story of survival, honor and reconciliation, Kazuo Odachi with Shigeru Ohta and Hiroyoshi Nishijima ; translated by Alexander Bennett and Shigeru Ohta
- Parkland speaks, survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas share their stories, edited by MSD teacher Sarah Lerner
- The secret lives of booksellers and librarians, true stories of the magic of reading, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney
- When can we go back to America?, voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, Susan H. Kamei ; foreword by Secretary Norman Y. Mineta
- The Old Gays guide to the good life, lessons learned about love and death, sex and sin, and saving the best for last, by the Old Gays of TikTok
- Fly like a girl, one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front, Mary Jennings Hegar
- Bravo company, an Afghanistan deployment and its aftermath, Ben Kesling
- In search of The Color Purple, the story of an American masterpiece, Salamishah Tillet
- The Nazis knew my name, a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz, Magda Hellinger, and Maya Lee ; with David Brewster
- Unmasked, inside Antifa's radical plan to destroy democracy, Andy Ngo
- Six walks, in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, Ben Shattuck
- We survived the Holocaust, the Bluma & Felix Goldberg story, Frank W. Baker with Tim E. Ogline ; and Esther Goldberg Greenberg, Karl Goldberg & Henry Goldberg
- On his Majesty's service, observations of the British home fleet from the diary, reports, and letters of Joseph H. Wellings, assistant U.S. naval attaché, London, 1940-41, edited by John B. Hattendorf
- Going for broke, living on the edge in the world's richest country, edited by Alissa Quart and David Wallis
- The witching year, a memoir of earnest fumbling through modern witchcraft, Diana Helmuth
- The farm table, Julius Roberts
- Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell ; with a foreword by Adam Hochschild ; and an introduction by Lionel Trilling
- Unvarnished, a gimlet-eyed look at life behind the bar, Eric Alperin and Deborah Stoll
- Red memory, the afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, Tania Branigan
- Getting out of Saigon, how a 27-year-old American banker saved 113 Vietnamese civilians, Ralph White
- On all fronts, the education of a journalist, Clarissa Ward
- No surrender, my thirty-year war, Hiroo Onoda ; translated by Charles S. Terry
- The fox hunt, a refugee's memoir of coming to America, Mohammed al Samawi
- Man enough, undefining my masculinity, Justin Baldoni
- Hell before their very eyes, American soldiers liberate concentration camps in Germany, April 1945, John C. McManus
- I marched with Patton, a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest generals, Frank Sisson with Robert L. Wise
- Orchard House, how a neglected garden taught one family to grow, Tara Austen Weaver
- My life in gluttony, a culinary adventure, written & illustrated by Jeffrey Spear
- Walk in my combat boots, true stories from America's bravest warriors, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, First Sergeant, USA, Ret., with Chris Mooney
- Chernobylʹskai͡a molitva, khronika budushchego, Svetlana Aleksievich
- 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
- No ordinary dog, my partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden raid, Will Chesney, with Joe Layden
Outgoing Resources
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