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- "Dr. Bullie's" notes : reminiscences of early Georgia and of Philadelphia and New Haven in the 1800s
- "Just love me" : my life turned upside down by Alzheimer's
- "The face of all the world is changed" : an autobiographical study with the focus on stuttering
- "Uncle Tom's story of his life." : An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876
- 101 global leadership lessons for nurses : shared legacies from leaders and their mentors
- A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
- A Schoenberg reader : documents of a life
- A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants : Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat
- A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety
- A casual past
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called Noah : a family journey
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A death of one's own
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters
- A heart to serve : the passion to bring health, hope, and healing
- A journal during a residence in France : from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792, to which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France
- A leg to stand on
- A letter to Jimmy
- A life decoded : my genome, my life
- A life under Russian serfdom : memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-1868
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A measure of my days : the journal of a country doctor
- A memoir of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry, G.C.B : Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ambassador Extraordinary and first British Plenipotentiary to the Second Hague Conference, 1827-1918
- A midwife's story
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A miracle and a privilege : recounting a half century of surgical advance
- A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine ...
- A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New guide to health, or botanic family physician, containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison, &c
- A narrative of the life of David Crockett ...
- A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, : an African prince, written by himself. [Five lines from Isaiah]
- A new American family : a love story
- A nurse's story : life, death, and in-between in an intensive care unit
- A papal chamberlain : the personal chronicle of Francis Augustus MacNutt
- A physician faces cancer in himself
- A place for all people : life, architecture and the fair society
- A private practice
- A promised land
- A question of choice
- A remarkable medicine has been overlooked
- A river could be a tree : a memoir
- A special gift : the story of Jan
- A spy in the house of loud : New York songs and stories
- A surgeon in Belgium
- A surgeon's world
- A surgeon's world
- A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
- A witness : the Haiti earthquake, a song, death, and resurrection
- A woman in residence
- A woman's decision : breast care, treatment, & reconstruction
- About what was lost : 20 writers on miscarriage, healing, and hope
- Academic adventures : a law school professor's recollections and observations
- Academic paths : career decisions and experiences of psychologists
- Adventures of a surgical resident
- After the diagnosis : transcending chronic illness
- Afternoons with Puppy : inspirations from a therapist and his animals
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Albert Bandura, the man and his ideas--a dialogue
- Algiers, Third World capital : freedom fighters, revolutionaries, Black Panthers
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All creatures great and small : veterinary surgery
- All in my head : an epic quest to cure an unrelenting, totally unreasonable, and only slightly enlightening headache
- All kinds of love : experiencing hospice
- All of a piece : a life with multiple sclerosis
- All who go do not return : a memoir
- Alone in the mainstream : a deaf woman remembers public school
- America anonymous : eight addicts in search of a life
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- An American in the making : the life story of an immigrant
- An autobiography : the story of my experiments with truth
- An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln : consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches, and conversations
- An autobiography or The story of my experiments with truth
- And no birds sing
- Angel on the yardarm : the beginnings of fleet radar defense and the kamikaze threat
- Angels & monsters : a child's eye view of cancer
- Ansel Adams, an autobiography
- Arguments with England : a memoir
- Around the world with LBJ : my wild ride as Air Force One pilot, White House aide, and personal confidant
- Around the world with nephrology : an autobiography
- As I live and breathe : notes of a patient-doctor
- Attack on the Pentagon : the medical response to 9/11
- Autobiography : sketch of life and labors of Miss Catherine S. Lawrence, who in early life so distinguished herself as a bitter opponent of slavery and intemperance, and later in life as a nurse in the late war ; and for other patriotic and philanthropic services
- Autobiography of Benjamin Russell
- Autobiography of a face
- Autobiography of seventy years
- Avid reader : a life
- Avoid boring people : lessons from a life in science
- Balcony on the moon : a Palestinian coming of age memoir
- Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming a doctor : a journey of initiation in medical school
- Becoming a doctor : from student to specialist, doctor-writers share their experiences
- Becoming human : a story of transformation through conflict and healing
- Bed number ten
- Bedside manners : one doctor's reflections on the oddly intimate encounters between patient and healer
- Before the manifesto : the life writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris
- Behind the door of delusion
- Behind the surgeon's mask
- Believe it or not--Mama likes the nursing home!
- Bert & Lori : the autobiography of a crossdresser
- Best practices in nursing education : stories of exemplary teachers
- Better : a surgeon's notes on performance
- Better : a surgeon's notes on performance
- Better than plowing, and other personal essays
- Betty Neuman
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between bench and bedside : science, healing, and interleukin-2 in a cancer ward
- Between expectations : lessons from a pediatric residency
- Between two millstones, Book 1, Sketches of exile 1974-1978
- Beyoncé in formation : remixing Black feminism
- Birds, beasts & bature
- Birth of a theorem : a mathematical adventure
- Black Klansman : race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime
- Black Water : family, legacy, and blood memory
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- Blatant injustice : the story of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II
- Blonde Indian : an Alaska Native memoir
- Bloodletting : a memoir of secrets, self-harm & survival
- Bloomberg by Bloomberg
- Body of work : meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born to rebel : an autobiography
- Born to run
- Brain child : a mother's diary
- Brain on fire : my month of madness
- Brain, heal thyself : a caregiver's new approach to recovery from stroke, aneurysm, and traumatic brain injuries
- Brainstorms--epilepsy in our words : personal accounts of living with seizures
- Bread : a memoir of hunger
- Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now
- Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard
- Breaking silence : a family grows with deafness
- Breast cancer : twenty women's stories : becoming more alive through the experience
- Briefe
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Cancer in two voices
- Cancer on five dollars a day (chemo not included) : how humor got me through the toughest journey of my life
- Cancer stories : lessons in love, loss & hope
- Captain Cook's final voyage : the untold story from the journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts
- Case capsules : the droll, diverting, devilish, definitely different
- Cases in field epidemiology : a global perspective
- Cast of thousands
- Casting lots : creating a family in a beautiful, broken world
- Changing American psychiatry : a personal perspective
- Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
- Christian Dior and I
- Circuit journeys
- Citizen 13660
- Civil War nurse : the diary and letters of Hannah Ropes
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Cocaine's son : a memoir
- Code blue : a Katrina physician's memoir
- Colitiscope : living with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis : adventures, humor, insights
- Combat trauma : a personal look at long-term consequences
- Comedy sex god
- Comes the darkness, comes the light : a memoir of cutting, healing, and hope
- Coming full circle : from Jim Crow to journalism
- Coming of middle age : a journey
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Composing a life
- Compulsive acts : a psychiatrist's tales of ritual and obsession
- Conclusions
- Confessions
- Confessions of a GP
- Confessions of a surgeon : the good, the bad, and the complicated-- : life behind the O.R. doors
- Confessions of an economic hit man
- Confessions, Books V-IX
- Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist
- Consumed by hate, redeemed by love : how a violent Klansman became a champion for racial reconciliation
- Contemporary psychoanalysis in America : leading analysts present their work
- Conversations with the Conroys : interviews with Pat Conroy and his family
- Crashing the party : an American reporter in China
- Critical care : a new nurse faces death, life, and everything in between
- Crossing : a memoir
- Crossing the line : a Bluejacket's odyssey in World War II
- Crusading doctor : my fight for coöperative medicine
- Cry bloody murder : a tale of tainted blood
- Cushing's syndrome, a patient guide : one woman's journey
- Cutting it out : a journey through psychotherapy and self-harm
- Dancing in Blackness : a Memoir
- Dare to be human : a contemporary psychoanalytic journey
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Darkness visible : a memoir of madness
- Daughter of Family G. : a memoir of cancer genes, love and fate
- Days of grace : a memoir
- Deaf hearing boy : a memoir
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Gang
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Delta doctor
- Dementia care programming : an identity-focused approach
- Deposition, 1940-1944 : a secret diary of life in Vichy France
- Der Weg zum Glück, oder: Das Leben von Dr. Benj. Franklin. : Beschrieben von ihm selbst
- Diary of a midwife : the power of positive childbearing
- Dirty wars and polished silver : the life and times of a war correspondent turned ambassatrix
- Disabled, female, and proud! : stories of ten women with disabilities
- Doctor on the move
- Doctor to the North : thirty years treating heart disease among the Inuit
- Doctors and patients
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothea Orem
- Dorothy Johnson
- Dr. Generic will see you now : 33 rules for surviving managed care
- Drinking : a love story
- Drop the ball : achieving more by doing less
- Early bench and bar of Illinois
- Educated : a memoir
- Elizabeth
- Encounter with disaster : a medical diary of Hiroshima, 1945
- Experiencing Erickson : an introduction to the man and his work
- Experiencing HIV : personal, family, and work relationships
- Exploding into life
- Extreme clinic : an outpatient doctor's guide to the perfect 7-minute visit
- Facing cancer
- Far from home : memories of World War II and afterward
- Fashion climbing
- Fast girl : a life spent running from madness
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Fifty years in medicine : the story of a New England doctor
- Fifty years of medicine and surgery ; : an autobiographical sketch
- Fifty years of neurosurgery : a personal story
- Final exam : a surgeon's reflections on mortality
- Find a way : the inspiring story of one woman's pursuit of a lifelong dream
- Finding Kansas : living and decoding Asperger's syndrome
- Finding Mr. Wong
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- Finding my virginity : the new autobiography
- Fireball lily : Christa-Maria's (extra)ordinary travels, 2000-2014 : memoirs, part II
- First interval : the autobiography of Donald Wolfit
- Footlight flashes
- For single mothers working as train conductors
- Forget memory : creating better lives for people with dementia
- Forgotten memories : a journey out of the darkness of sexual abuse
- Forty years of psychiatry
- Foursquare; the story of a fourfold life
- Frantumaglia : a writer's journey
- Free associations ; : memories of a psycho-analyst
- Free fall
- Free refills : a doctor confronts his addiction
- Freud and the child woman : the memoirs of Fritz Wittels
- From Chernobyl with love : reporting from the ruins of the Soviet Union
- From Mersey to Missouri : a new and different world
- From a surgeon's journal, 1915-1918
- From a surgeon's journal, 1915-1918
- From both ends of the stethoscope : an interview with David Peters, M.D.
- From chaos to coherence : psychotherapy with a little boy with ADHD
- From dawn to dusk : autobiography of Judith Hubback
- From the Danube to the Yalu
- From the ashes
- From the ground up : a journey to reimagine the promise of America
- Frontier doctor
- Frontier doctor : the autobiography of a pioneer on the frontier of public health
- Fugitives : evading and escaping the Japanese
- Functional assessment and developmental changes of the older adult
- Gaining : the truth about life after eating disorders
- Gender outlaw : on men, women, and the rest of us
- Gender outlaws : the next generation
- German boy : a refugee's story
- Gift of life
- Gilliamesque : a pre-posthumous memoir : TG's bio(degradable) autography : a singular person's first first person singular palin-dromic biograph : my me, me, me memoir
- Girl in a band
- Girl, interrupted
- Glimpses of fifty years : the autobiography of an American woman
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Going hungry : writers on desire, self-denial, and overcoming anorexia
- Good days, bad days : the self in chronic illness and time
- Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy
- Goodbye, Antoura : a memoir of the Armenian genocide
- Grace without God : the search for meaning, purpose, and belonging in a secular age
- Grain or chaff? : the autobiography of a police magistrate
- Gravity pulls you in : perspectives on parenting children on the autism spectrum
- Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen
- Greenlights
- Gringo lawyer
- Guadalcanal Marine
- Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir
- H is for Hawk
- Harem surgeon : Ṭabīb jirāḥī ikhtiṣāṣ lil-nisāʼ
- Hearing the stream : a survivor's journey into the sisterhood of breast cancer
- Heirs of general practice
- Helen Silving : memoirs
- Help him make you smile : the development of intersubjectivity in the atypical child
- Her father's partner : the story of a lady lawyer
- Heroes, hacks, and fools : memoirs from the political inside
- Hey, white girl!
- Hildegard Peplau
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hindsight : & all the things I can't see in front of me
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Horror stories : a memoir
- Horses, mules, and remounts : the memoirs of a World War I veterinary officer
- Hospitals are us
- House calls : recollections of a family physician
- House of a Thousand Babies : experiences of an American woman physician in China (1922-1940)
- How I overcame inoperable cancer
- How it was : anabolic action of steroids and remembrances
- How to be an antiracist
- How to survive hearing loss
- How to survive medical school
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- How we die : reflections on life's final chapter
- How will you measure your life?
- Howard Zinn's Southern diary : sit-ins, civil rights, and black women's student activism
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
- I am Brian Wilson : a memoir
- I am C-3PO : the inside story
- I am Hutterite : the fascinating true story of a young woman's journey to reclaim her heritage
- I am not your slave : a memoir
- I call to remembrance : Toyo Suyemoto's years of internment
- I can't remember : family stories of Alzheimer's disease
- I know better now : my life before, during, and after the Ramones
- I never left home : poet, feminist, revolutionary : a memoir of time & place
- I remember
- I remember
- I was a stutterer : stories from life ; autobiographic sketches--readjusted personalities
- I'm still here : black dignity in a world made for whiteness
- IM : a memoir
- Ida Orlando
- If I had my life to live over, I would pick more daisies
- Imogene King
- In Bluebeard's castle
- In Full Color : Finding My Place in a Black and White World
- In Quisling's shadow : the memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's first wife, Alexandra
- In brief authority
- In her father's eyes : a childhood extinguished by the Holocaust
- In hostile skies : an American B-24 pilot in World War II
- In my mind's eye : a thought diary
- In pieces : a memoir
- In silence : growing up hearing in a deaf world
- In the arena : a memoir of victory, defeat, and renewal
- In the darkroom
- In the land of men : a memoir
- In the shadow of Mt. Kenya
- Incidental heroes : disabling the myths about multiple sclerosis
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Injured brains of medical minds : views from within
- Inside medical Washington
- Insomniac
- Intern : a doctor's initiation
- Interpreting the aging self : personal journals of later life
- Interpreting women's lives : feminist theory and personal narratives
- Intimacy Idiot
- Intimate wars : the life and times of the woman who brought abortion from the back alley to the board room
- Invasion diary
- Invested : changing forever the way Americans invest
- Island home : a landscape memoir
- It never goes away : gender transition at a mature age
- It shouldn't be this way : the failure of long-term care
- It's a long story : my life
- It's how we play the game : build a business, take a stand, make a difference
- Jarmila Novotná : my life in song
- Jean Watson
- Josie's story : a mother's inspiring crusade to make medical care safe
- Journal of a neurosurgeon
- Journey to authenticity : voices of chief residents
- Journey with Grandpa : our family's struggle with Alzheimer's disease
- Just a nurse : from clinic to hospital ward, battleground to cancer unit : the hearts and minds of nurses today
- Just as I am : a memoir
- Just here trying to save a few lives : tales of life and death from the ER
- Kate : the journal of a Confederate nurse
- Keeping at it : the quest for sound money and good government
- Keeping faith : memoirs of a president
- Kitchen table wisdom : stories that heal
- Knowing herself : women tell their stories in psychotherapy
- Lab girl
- Lay analysis : life inside the controversy
- Lead from the outside : how to build your future and make real change
- Learning to sit in the silence : a journal of caretaking
- Leaves from a surgeon's case-book
- Legends and legacies : [personal journeys of women physicians and scientists at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center]
- Lessons in mortality : doctors and patients struggling together
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Letters to a young Muslim
- Life and death : the story of a hospital
- Life as we know it : a father, a family, and an exceptional child
- Life of Lord Jeffrey : with a selection from his correspondence.
- Life support : three nurses on the front lines
- Life's a pleasant institution : the peregrinations of a Rockefeller doctor
- Light and life
- Light at the tunnel end
- Listen to me good : the life story of an Alabama midwife
- Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark : reconstructing life after brain injury
- Living in the labyrinth : a personal journey through the maze of Alzheimer's
- Living with Leonardo : fifty years of sanity and insanity in the art world and beyond
- Living with emetophobia : coping with extreme fear of vomiting
- Lobbyist for the people : a record of fifty years
- Long hard road : NCO experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Long time, no see
- Lord Kingsdown's recollections of his life at the bar and in Parliament
- Losing a life : a daughter's memoir of caregiving
- Lost lullaby
- Loyal dissent : memoir of a Catholic theologian
- Lucky bastard : my life, my dad, and the things I'm not allowed to say on TV
- Lucky me : my sixty-five years in baseball
- MASH : an army surgeon in Korea
- Madame Chair : a Political Autobiography of an Unintentional Pioneer
- Madeleine Leininger
- Maggots, murder, and men : memories and reflections of a forensic entomologist
- Mahatma Gandhi at work : his own story continued
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Main Street lawyer
- Make trouble : standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
- Making choices, taking chances : nurse leaders tell their stories
- March, Book three
- March, Book two
- Margaret Newman
- Margaret Sanger : an autobiography
- Martha Rogers
- Match day : one day and one dramatic year in the lives of three new doctors
- Maud
- Mayday! : a physician as patient
- Med school : a collection of stories about medical school 1951-1955
- Memoir of Henry Billings Brown : late Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States : consisting of an autobiographical sketch, with additions to his life
- Memoir of William Going : formerly keeper of the state prison, Charlestown, Mass
- Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne : a pensioner of the navy of the revolution
- Memoirs of Orange Jacobs : containing many interesting, amusing and instructive incidents of a life of eighty years and more, fifty-six years of which were spent in Oregon and Washington
- Memoirs of a man's maiden years
- Memoirs of an old physician : with a portrait of the author by Franz Lenbach and a preface to the English translation by Dr. Gert Berger
- Memoirs of the life of Sir Samuel Romilly
- Memorials of Albert Venn Dicey : being chiefly letters and diaries
- Memorials of his time
- Memory pieces
- Minority leader : how to lead from the outside and make real change
- Mission-driven leadership : my journey as a radical capitalist
- Missouri lawyer
- Models of achievement : reflections of eminent women in psychology
- Modern nature
- Monkey mind : a memoir of anxiety
- More than ramps : a guide to improving health care quality and access for people with disabilities
- Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
- Mostly true : a memoir of family, food, and baseball
- Murder in the heartland
- Muslim girl : a coming of age
- My 28 years as an Army nurse
- My Isl@m : how fundamentalism stole my mind--and doubt freed my soul
- My Life, My Love, My Legacy
- My autistic awakening : unlocking the potential for a life well lived
- My autobiography
- My breast : one woman's cancer story
- My love story
- My name is Iran : a memoir
- My name is Jody Williams : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize
- My own country : a doctor's story
- My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey
- My turn to speak : Iran, the revolution & secret deals with the U.S.
- Myra Levine
- Narcotics Anonymous
- Narrative based health care : sharing stories : a multiprofessional workbook
- Narrative of the arrest, trial, & condemnation of Colonel Türr, showing how Austria respects international law
- Negroland : a memoir
- Never a native
- Never look an American in the eye : a memoir : flying turtles, colonial ghosts, and the making of a Nigerian American
- Next to nothing : a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with an eating disorder
- Night fishing : stingrays, Goya and the singular life : a memoir in essays
- No Lamb for slaughter : an autobiography
- Noah Adams on "All things considered" : a radio journal
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Normal sucks : how to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines
- Not Hitler's child : Christa-Maria's (extra)ordinary life, early childhood to 2000 : memoirs, part I
- Not without honor : the Nazi POW journal of Steve Carano : with accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon
- Notes of me : the autobiography of Roger North
- Nursing in the storm : voices from Hurricane Katrina
- Nursing students with disabilities : change the course
- Of water and the spirit : ritual, magic, and initiation in the life of an African shaman
- Old & rare : thirty years in the book business
- Older adults, in sickness and health
- Older adults, looking back
- Older adults, the last home
- Older adults, the loss of a spouse
- On all fronts : the education of a journalist
- On being a doctor
- On being a doctor 2 : voices of physicians and patients
- On being a doctor 3
- On being an oncologist : reflections on the personal aspects of cancer care
- On call : a doctor's days and nights in residency
- On doctor[i]ng : stories, poems, essays
- On doctor[i]ng : stories, poems, essays
- On the Freud watch : public memoirs
- On the ledge : a doctor's stories from the inner city
- One child reading : my auto-bibliography
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- One man's medicine
- One ranger : a memoir