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- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip : a Memoir of Seventh Grade
- A boy and a jaguar
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A fossil-hunter's notebook : my life with dinosaurs and other friends
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A labor of love : an autobiography
- A life in parts
- A life of my own
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A love letter life : pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A severe mercy
- A simple path
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mom to her dirty son
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- After My Lai : my year commanding first platoon, Charlie Company
- After all
- After life : answers from the other side
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All in : an autobiography
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All over but the shoutin'
- All that is bitter & sweet : a memoir
- All the way : my life in four quarters / Joe Namath with Sean Mortimer and Don Yaeger
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- American daughter : a memoir
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Areli es una dreamer : una historia real
- Aren't you forgetting someone? : essays from my mid-life revenge
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Audition : a memoir
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Ava's man
- Available : a memoir of heartbreak, hookups, love and brunch
- B.S.I love you : sixty funny years with the famous and the infamous
- Back in the game : one gunman, countless heroes, and the fight for my life
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Backbone : living with chronic pain without turning into one
- Baffled by love : stories of the lasting impact of childhood trauma inflicted by loved ones
- Banned book club
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Battle ready : memoir of a SEAL warrior medic
- Be amazing : a history of pride
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful inside and out : conquering thyroid disease with a healthy, happy, "thyroid sexy" life
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Miss Navajo
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Becoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes
- Becoming free indeed : my story of disentangling faith from fear
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Beer and diesel fuel : memoirs of a Caterpillar Tractor Co. service representative
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Berserk : my voyage to the Antarctic in a twenty-seven-foot sailboat
- Bet the house : how I gambled over a grand a day for 30 days on sports, poker, and games of chance
- Betsey. : a memoir
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between you and me : a memoir
- Beyond band of brothers
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Big Apple diaries
- Billie Eilish
- Bird uncaged : an abolitionist's freedom song
- Birds art life : a year of observation
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Bloom : a memoir
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue nights
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Bono : the amazing story of a rescue cat who inspired a community
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Boss life : surviving my own small business
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Brando : songs my mother taught me
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave love : making space for you to be you
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Brinkley's beat : people, places, and events that shaped my time
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Broken on the back row : a journey through grace and forgiveness
- Brown girl dreaming
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But enough about me : a memoir
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian - my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Callgirl
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums, drums, drums
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
- Cheap land Colorado : off-gridders at America's edge
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Choosing hope : moving forward from life's darkest hour
- Christmas in Wales : a homecoming
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Coming home to myself
- Confessions
- Confessions of a cartel hit man
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Cooking as fast as I can : a chef's story of family, food, and forgiveness
- Cop under fire: : moving beyond hashtags of race, crime & politics for a better America
- Courage and consequence : my life as a conservative in the fight
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Cravings : how I conquered food : a memoir
- Crazy is my superpower : how I triumphed by breaking bones, breaking hearts, and breaking the rules
- Critical care : a new nurse faces death, life, and everything in between
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Curators : behind the scenes of natural history museums
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir of a crime
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- David Brinkley : 11 presidents, 4 wars, 22 political conventions, 1 moon landing, 3 assassinations, 2,000 weeks of news and other stuff on television and 18 years of growing up in North Carolina
- Days of grace : a memoir
- Dead lucky : life after death on Mount Everest
- Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States
- Dead men do tell tales
- Dear Mr. You
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Decision points
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep Thoughts from a Hollywood Blonde
- Deke! : U.S. manned space : from Mercury to the shuttle
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Denali : a man, a dog, and the friendship of a lifetime
- Devotion and defiance : my journey in love, faith and politics
- Diamond Doris : the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- Diary of a player : how my musical heroes made a guitar man out of me
- Dimestore
- Dinner with Edward : the story of a remarkable friendship
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from the legendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Dirty daddy : the chronicles of a family man turned filthy comedian
- Dizzy & Jimmy : my life with James Dean : a love story
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dolly Parton : songteller, my life in lyrics
- Dolly on Dolly : interview and encounters
- Don't stop believin'
- Don't stop believin'
- Don't think twice : adventure and healing at 100 miles per hour
- Donnie Brasco : my undercover life in the Mafia
- Down a sunny dirt road : an autobiography
- Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder
- Down size : 12 truths for turning pants-splitting frustration into pants-fitting success
- Dreamers
- Driving Miss Norma : one family's journey saying "yes" to living
- Drop the ball : achieving more by doing less
- Dry
- Elena vanishing : a memoir
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : my year in space and how I got there
- Enough already : learning to love the way I am today
- Escape points : a memoir
- Every body yoga : let go of fear, get on the mat, love your body
- Every day I fight
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Every tool's a hammer : life is what you make it
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Evolving in Monkey Town : how a girl who knew all the answers learned to ask the questions
- Eyes to the wind : a memoir of love and death, hope, and resistance
- Fall down 7 times get up 8 : a young man's voice from the silence of autism
- Falling apart in one piece : one optimist's journey through the hell of divorce
- Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter
- Falling with wings : a mother's story
- Fashion climbing
- Fast girl : a life spent running from madness
- Fast into the night : a woman, her dogs, and their journey north on the Iditarod Trail
- Father Joe : the man who saved my soul
- Fierce : how competing for myself changed everything
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Find a way
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding me
- Finding my dance
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Finding the bright side : the art of chasing what matters
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- Flunk, start : reclaiming my decade lost in Scientology
- Flunk. start
- Fly like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Flyover lives : a memoir
- Forever and ever, amen : a memoir of music, faith, and braving the storms of life
- Forever young : a memoir
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Fox and I : an uncommon friendship
- Free lunch
- Free lunch
- Freezing order : a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From scratch : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
- Front row at the White House : my life and times
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Frontier follies : adventures in marriage and motherhood in the middle of nowhere
- Full disclosure
- Full of heart : my story of survival, strength, and spirit
- Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Furiously happy : [a funny book about horrible things]
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- Gabby : a story of courage and hope
- Gender queer : a memoir
- Getting good at being you : learning to love who God made you to be
- Getting real
- Girl in a band
- Girl on a wire : walking the line between faith and freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
- Give me a break : how I exposed hucksters, cheats, and scam artists and became the scourge of the liberal media--
- Glitter and glue : a memoir
- Go ask Ali : half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
- Go big or go home : taking risks in life, love, and tattooing
- God bless this mess : learning to live and love through life's best (and worst) moments
- God, the universe, and where I fit in : a psychic's reflections on figuring out the rest of your life
- Going there
- Good boy : my life in seven dogs
- Good call : reflections on faith, family, and fowl
- Good for the money : my fight to pay back America
- Good talk : a memoir in conversations
- Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy
- Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy
- Goodbye, sweet girl : a story of domestic violence and survival
- Grace : President Obama and ten days in the battle for America
- Grace notes
- Gray day : my undercover mission to expose America's first cyber spy
- Greenlights
- Greetings from Utopia Park : surviving a transcendent childhood
- Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
- Growing up Biden : a memoir
- Growing up again : life, loves, and oh yeah, diabetes
- Growing up again : life, loves, and oh yeah, diabetes
- Growing up laughing : my story and the story of funny
- H is for Hawk
- Had I known : a memoir of survival
- Happily Ali after : and other fairly true tales
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Healing : when a nurse becomes a patient
- Heart of a patriot : how I found the courage to survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
- Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
- Heaven is here : an incredible story of hope, triumph, and everyday joy
- Hell and other destinations : a 21st-century memoir
- Hell and other destinations : a 21st-century memoir
- Hello, Molly! : a memoir
- Her : a memoir
- Here's the deal : a memoir
- Here, right matters : an American story
- Highest duty : my search for what really matters
- Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hoffa's man : the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa as witnessed by his strongest arm
- Hold on, but don't hold still : hope and humor from my seriously flawed life
- Hollywood : a third memoir
- Hollywood Park : a memoir
- Hollywood animal : a memoir
- Home is a stranger : a memoir
- Home made : a story of grief, groceries, showing up--and what we make when we make dinner
- Home work : a memoir of my Hollywood years
- Hooked : how crafting saved my life
- Horse crazy : the story of a woman and a world in love with an animal
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- How I lost 5 pounds in 6 years : an autobiography
- How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child
- How not to die : surprising lessons on living longer, safer, and healthier from America's favorite medical examiner
- How to be a good creature : a memoir in thirteen animals
- How to be an antiracist
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- How's your faith? : an unlikely spiritual journey
- Hunter killer : inside America's unmanned air war
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- I am C-3PO : the inside story
- I am Jazz!
- I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
- I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
- I am third
- I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death
- I came all this way to meet you : writing myself home
- I can't make this up : life lessons
- I can't make this up : life lessons
- I cried to dream again : trafficking, murder, and deliverance : a memoir
- I dream he talks to me : a memoir of learning how to listen
- I feel like going on : life, game and glory
- I got this : how I changed my ways and lost what weighed me down
- I had to survive : how a plane crash in the Andes inspired my calling to save lives
- I hate everyone, except you
- I love you, Ronnie : the letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I regret nothing : a memoir
- I should be dead : my life surviving politics, TV, and addiction
- I'll be damned : how my young and restless life led me to America's #1 daytime drama
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- I'll stand by you : one woman's mission to heal the children of the world
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House
- I'm a stranger here myself : notes on returning to America after twenty years away
- I'm glad my mom died
- I'm hosting as fast as I can! : Zen and the art of staying sane in Hollywood
- I'm no philosopher, but I got thoughts : mini-meditations for saints, sinners, and the rest of us
- I'm over all that : and other confessions
- I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness
- IM : a memoir
- If we break : a memoir of marriage, addiction, and healing
- If you love me : a mother's journey through her daughter's opioid addiction
- In an instant : a family's journey of love and healing
- In deep : how I survived gangs, heroin, and prison to become a Chicago violence interrupter
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In my time : a personal and political memoir
- In pieces : a memoir
- In shock : my journey from death to recovery and the redemptive power of hope
- In the Heights : finding home
- In the dream house : a memoir
- In the land of giants : my life in basketball
- Infinite hope : how wrongful conviction, solitary confinement, and 12 years on death row failed to kill my soul
- Inside Iran : life under Khomeini's regime
- Inside out : a memoir
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Interventions : a life in war and peace
- Into the deep : a memoir from the man who found Titanic
- Into the planet : my life as a cave diver
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- Is this anything?
- It takes two : our story
- It