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- "Voskresenie" : kniga o Muzyke, Druzhbe, Vremeni i Sudʹbe
- (Not quite) Mastering the art of French living
- 10,000 miles with my dead father's ashes : or mi padre es muerto en la bolsa
- 13 Stradomska Street : a memoir of exile and return
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 2020 pushcart prize XLIV : best of the small presses
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific War's greatest battle
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 99 : stories of the game
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A German officer in occupied Paris : the war journals, 1941-1945 : including "Notes from the Caucasus" and "Kirchhorst diaries"
- A Train through Time
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A cloak of good fortune : a Cambodian boy's journey from paradise through a kingdom of terror...
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A fast ride out of here : confessions of rock's most dangerous man
- A fine romance
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way
- A gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A gift from darkness : how i escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A girl walks into a book : what the Brontës taught me about life, love, and women's work
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A house full of daughters
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- A life of lies and spies : tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
- A life of my own
- A life well played : my stories
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away... : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A love letter life : pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A lucky life interrupted : [a memoir of hope]
- 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 man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A marriage in dog years : a memoir
- A million fragile bones : a memoir
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A person of Pakistani origins
- A place for all people : life, architecture and the fair society
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A prayer before dawn : my nightmare in Thailand's prisons
- A rebel in Gaza : behind the lines of the Arab Spring : one woman's story
- A republic, if you can keep it
- A series of catastrophes and miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A simple path
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A socialist defector : from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
- A song for the river
- A song for the river
- A sorrow beyond dreams : a life story
- A spy in the house of loud : New York songs and stories
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
- A victory garden for trying times : a memoir
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- A year of Biblical womanhood : how a liberated woman found herself sitting on her roof, covering her head, and calling her husband "master"
- A year without a name
- A year without a name : a memoir
- About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
- About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
- Accepted : how the first gay superstar changed WWE
- Access all areas : stories from a hard rock life
- Access all areas : stories from a hard rock life
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After the cheering stops : an NFL wife's story of concussions, loss, and the faith that saw her through
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Against the grain : bombthrowing in the fine American tradition of political cartooning
- Aire encantado : dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Algiers, Third World capital : freedom fighters, revolutionaries, Black Panthers
- All falling faiths : reflections on the promise and failure of the 1960s
- All happy families : a memoir
- All happy families : a memoir
- All our waves are water : stumbling toward enlightenment and the perfect ride
- All secure : a special operations soldier's fight to survive on the battlefield and the homefront
- All that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- All the wrong moves : a memoir about chess, love, and ruining everything
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alou : my baseball journey
- Always a bridesmaid (for hire)
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Am I being too subtle? : straight talk from a business rebel
- Amando
- Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar
- Amateur hour : motherhood in essays and swear words
- American daughter : a memoir of intergenerational trauma, a mother's dark secrets, and a daughter's quest for redemption
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis - and how to end it
- American values : lessons I learned from my family
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- An African in Greenland
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An imperfect rapture
- An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
- An invincible spirit : the story of Don Fulk
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- And no birds sing
- And one more thing : includes his one-man show script and collected poems
- Angela Gheorghiu : a life for art
- Angels of divine light : the remarkable autobiography of one of today's leading angelic healers and spiritual therapists
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Another day in the life
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Anything for a hit : an A&R woman's story of surviving the music industry
- Anywhere that is wild : John Muir's first walk to Yosemite
- Anā Malālā : nāḍilt dafāʻā ʻan ḥaq al-taʻalīm wa-ḥāwal al-ṭalabān qatlī
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Are you somebody? : the accidental memoir of a Dublin woman
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art sex music
- As time goes by
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks
- At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks
- At home in the world : stories and essential teachings from a monk's life
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At home with the armadillo
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autobiografía
- Autobiografía de un pinche güey : la fuga de la normalidad
- Autobiography of Maxim Gorky
- Autobiography of a recovering skinhead : the Frank Meeink story
- Avid reader : a life
- Back from the dead
- Back in the game : one gunman, countless heroes, and the fight for my life
- Backbone : living with chronic pain without turning into one
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Baffled by love : stories of the lasting impact of childhood trauma inflicted by loved ones
- Ballplayer
- Bang Bang : my life in ink
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Bare bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Bastards : a memoir
- Be brave in the scared : how I learned to trust God during the most difficult days of my life
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Bears in the streets : three journeys across a changing Russia
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming : moi︠a︡ istorii︠a︡
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood
- 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 grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Been so long : my life and music
- Been so long : my life and music
- Been so long : my life and music
- Been so long : my life and music
- Beer money : a memoir of privilege and loss
- Beer money : a memoir of privilege and loss
- Before I had the words : on being a transgender young adult
- Behind the line of scrimmage : inside the front office of the NFL
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Bent : how yoga saved my ass
- Better than beach money
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between gods : a memoir
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two millstones
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Big city cat : my life in folk-rock
- Bill Duke : my 40-year career on screen and behind the camera
- Birds, art, life : a year of observation
- Birthing hope : giving fear to the light
- Bite me : how Lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me
- Bitterroot : a Salish memoir of transracial adoption
- Bittersweet : the life and times of the wordl's leading chocolate taster : a memoir
- Bitwise : a life in code
- Black Indian
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- BlackkKlansman
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Blessed life : my surprising journey of joy, tears, and tales from Harlem to Hollywood
- Blessed life : my surprising journey of joy, tears, and tales from Harlem to Hollywood
- Blitz writing : night shift & it was different at the time
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood : a memoir
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue : the color of noise
- Blue man mack : how I conquered the stage and the streets, vol. 1
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Bluegrass generation : a memoir
- Blues from Laurel Canyon : my life as a bluesman
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Bogema
- Bolʹshai︠a︡ igra
- Bono : the amazing story of a rescue cat who inspired a community
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born both : an intersex life
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born for this : my story in music
- Born just right
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Boston ballerina : a dancer, a company, an era
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Boys keep swinging : a memoir
- Braided : a journey of a thousand challahs
- Brave
- Brave
- Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker
- Brave face : a memoir
- Brave new medicine : a doctor's unconventional path to healing her autoimmune illness
- Brave new medicine : a doctor's unconventional path to healing her autoimmune illness
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking the Ruhls : a memoir
- Breathe : a letter to my sons
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Broadway, Balanchine, and beyond : a memoir
- Broken but unbowed : the fight to fix a broken America
- Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
- Broken whole : a memoir
- Brother & sister
- Brother & sister
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian war
- Brown girl dreaming
- Brown white black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Brownie points : bite-size life lessons
- Bruce Lee : words of the dragon : interviews and conversations 1958-1973
- Bruja : a dreamoir
- Brutally honest
- Buffering : unshared tales of a fully loaded life
- Buffering : unshared tales of a life fully loaded
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Building bridges with music : stories from a composer's life
- Bullies : a friendship
- Burn the place : a memoir
- Buseyisms : Gary Busey's basic instructions before leaving earth
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But seriously
- But seriously
- But seriously
- But seriously
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian, my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian--my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- Buy yourself the f*cking lilies : and other rituals to fix your life from someone who's been there
- Buy yourself the f*cking lilies : and other rituals to fix your life, from someone who's been there
- By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
- Byloe bylo vchera
- Byt i nravy t︠s︡arstvennykh osob glazami freĭlin
- C'est modnifique : adventures of an English grump in rural France
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Called to rise
- Camgirl
- Camino a las estrellas : mi recorrido de Girl Scout a ingeniera astronáutica
- Can't Help Myself : Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist
- Can't help myself : lessons and confessions from a modern advice columnist
- Can't nothing bring me down : chasing myself in the race against time
- Cancerland : a medical memoir
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Caregiver's survival guide : caring for yourself while caring for a loved one
- Carrying the fire : an astronaut's journeys
- Cartel wives : a true story of deadly decisions, steadfast love, and bringing down El Chapo
- Catch a star : shining through adversity to become a champion
- Cazando a El Chapo : La historia contada desde adentro por el agente de la ley estadounidense que capturó al narcotraficante más buscado del mundo
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Changing normal : how I helped my husband beat cancer
- Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
- Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
- Chasing hope : a patient's deep dive into stem cells, faith, and the future
- Chasing my cure : a doctor's race to turn hope into action : a memoir
- Chasing space
- Chasing space : an astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances
- Chasing water : elegy of an Olympian
- Cheng wei zhe yang de wo : Mixie'er Oubama
- Cherez gody i rasstoi︠a︡nii︠a︡ : istorii︠a︡ odnoĭ semʹi
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Children of the land
- Choose your own disaster : A. a memoir, B. a personality quiz, C. a mostly true and completely honest look at one young woman's attempt to find herself, D. all of the above
- Choosing hope : moving forward from life's darkest hours
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Coal black mornings
- Cockroaches
- Colors of the mountain
- Colors of the mountain
- Come and get these memories : the genius of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown's incomparable songwriters
- Comedy sex god
- Coming full circle : from Jim Crow to journalism
- Coming of age : my journey to the eighties : a memoir
- Coming to my senses : The Making of a Counterculture Cook
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Communist daze : the many misadventures of a Soviet doctor
- Conceivability : what I learned exploring the frontiers of fertility
- Conceivability : what I learned exploring the frontiers of fertility
- Confessions of a Wall Street insider : a cautionary tale of rats, feds, and banksters
- Confessions of a Wall Street insider : a cautionary tale of rats, feds, and banksters
- Confessions of a funeral director : how the business of death saved my life
- Confessions of an English opium-eater and other writings
- Congratulations, who are you again? : a memoir
- Congratulations, who are you again? : a memoir
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Consequence : a memoir
- Consumed by hate, redeemed by love : how a violent Klansman became a champion for racial reconciliation
- Costly grace : an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope and love
- Costly grace : an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope and love
- Counterpoint : a memoir of Bach and mourning
- Counterpoint : a memoir of Bach and mourning
- Counterpoint : a memoir of Bach and mourning
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Counting sheep : reflections and observations of a Swedish shepherd
- Counting the days while my mind slips away : a love letter to my family
- Counting the days while my mind slips away : a love letter to my family
- Courage to soar : a body in motion, a life in balance
- Crash course : from the good war to the forever war
- Crashing the party : an American reporter in China
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Cravings
- Crawl of fame : Julie Moss and the fifteen feet that created an ironman triathlon legend
- Crawl of fame : Julie Moss and the fifteen feet that created an ironman triathlon legend
- Crazy is my superpower : how I triumphed by breaking bones, breaking hearts, and breaking the rules
- Crazy is my superpower : how I triumphed by breaking bones, breaking hearts, and breaking the rules
- Criminals : my family's life on both sides of the law
- Cronaca familiare
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Cuando era invisible : la increíble historia del niño que vivió 12 años atrapado por su cuerpo inmóvil
- Cómo cambiar tu mente : lo que la nueva ciencia de la psicodelia nos enseña sobre la conciencia, la muerte, la adicción, la depresión y la trascendencia
- Dad's maybe book
- Dance me to the end : ten months and ten days with ALS
- Dangerous territory : my misguided quest to save the world
- Dapper Dan : made in Harlem : a memoir
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Darkness to light : a memoir
- Darling days
- Darling days
- Dave Hill doesn't live here anymore
- Days of lead : defying death during Israel's War of Independence
- De donde son los gusanos : crónica un regreso a Cuba después de 37 años de exilio
- De profundis
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death need not be fatal
- Death need not be fatal
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep undercover : my secret life & tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America
- Deep undercover : my secret life & tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America
- Deep undercover : my secret life and tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America
- Defending Israel : the story of my relationship with my most challenging client
- Definitely Hispanic : growing up Latino and celebrating what unites us
- Defying gravity : Jordan's story
- Defying limits : lessons from the edge of the universe
- Delo chesti : byt russkikh ofit︠s︡erov
- Delta lady : a memoir
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Diamond Doris : the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- Diana : a strange autobiography
- Dimestore
- Dimestore : a writer's life