Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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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
- The siren's call and second chances, a story of perseverance, service, heroic courage and love, Tom and Joan Kelley
- In search of the color purple, the story of an American masterpiece, Salamishah Tillet
- 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
- Dunkirk, the history behind the major motion picture, Joshua Levine
- Death march escape, the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust, Jack J. Hersch
- November 1942, an intimate history of the turning point of World War II, Peter Englund ; translated from Swedish by Peter Graves
- Faith still moves mountains, miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer, Harris Faulkner
- Those who saw the sun, African American oral histories from the Jim Crow South, Jaha Nailah Avery
- Crisis of command, how we lost trust and confidence in America's generals and politicians, Stuart Scheller
- The choice, embrace the possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand
- Girl, my childhood and the Second World War, Alona Frankel ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
- The light of days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos, Judy Batalion ; with Winifred Conkling
- Scars and stripes, an unapologetically American story of fighting the Taliban, UFC warriors, and myself, Tim Kennedy with Nick Palmisciano
- 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
- Clanlands, whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with Charlotte Reather ; [foreword by Diana Gabaldon]
- Lodz ghetto, inside a community under siege, compiled and edited by Alan Adelson and Robert Lapides ; with an afterword by Geoffrey Hartman ; annotations and bibliographical notes by Marek Web
- Saved, a war reporter's mission to make it home, Benjamin Hall
- Walk in my combat boots, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, with Chris Mooney
- 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
- What the Taliban told me, Ian Fritz
- Consequence, a memoir, Eric Fair
- Lost voices, the untold stories of America's World War I veterans and their families, Martin King and Michael Collins
- My brother, my land, a story from Palestine, Sami Hermez, with Sireen Sawalha
- Head case, my brain and other wonders, Cole Cohen
- 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
- Never forget to lie., a film by Marian Marzynski ; written, produced and directed by Marian Marzynski ; a Life on Marz production for WGBH/Frontline, DVD/Widescreen
- The operator, firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior, Robert O'Neill
- Black ops, the life of a CIA shadow warrior, Ric Prado
- Return from Siberia, John Shallman
- Modern warriors, real stories from real heroes, Pete Hegseth
- Bring me back alive, a memoir of adventure, luck, and terror in the air, by Spalding K. Manson III
- The journalist, life and loss in America's secret war, Jerry A. Rose and Lucy Rose Fischer
- The occupied garden, a family memoir of war-torn Holland, Kristen den Hartog & Tracy Kasaboski
- Do no harm, stories of life, death, and brain surgery, Henry Marsh
- Shoot like a girl, one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front, Mary Jennings Hegar
- Perfectly wounded, a memoir about what happens after a miracle, Mike Day with Robert Vera ; foreword by Admiral William H. McRaven
- When love meets dementia, frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and the family, Ada Anbar ; foreword by Marwan N. Sabbah
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz, a true story of family and survival, by Jeremy Dronfield
- The shift, one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives, Theresa Brown
- The unwomanly face of war, an oral history of women in World War II, Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- The stone crusher, the true story of a father and son's fight for survival in Auschwitz, Jeremy Dronfield
Outgoing Resources
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