All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Notes on Grief
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Andre Agassi |
Open; An Autobiography
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Madeleine Albright |
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
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Eben Alexander |
Proof of Heaven; A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Infidel
Nomad; From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
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Simon Armitage |
Walking Home; A Poet's Journey
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Ibtisam Barakat |
Balcony on the Moon; Coming of Age in Palestine
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Julian Barnes |
Levels of Life.
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
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Pietro Bartolo |
Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
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Yousef Bashir |
The Words of My Father; Love and Pain in Palestine
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Jean-Dominique Bauby |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson |
Harry Belafonte: My Song
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Emily Bernard |
Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
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Bertice Berry |
The Ties That Bind; A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption
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Asia Bibi |
Blasphemy: A Memoir. Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water
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Marcus Borg |
Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
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Anthony Bourdain |
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kate Bowler |
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
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Anne Boyer |
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
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Rick Bragg |
All Over But the Shoutin'
Ava's Man
The Prince of Frogtown
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David Brooks |
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
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Bill Bryson |
A Walk in the Woods
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John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney |
God Grew Tired of Us; A Memoir
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Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, |
Holy Hunger; A Woman's Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment
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Will D. Campbell |
Brother to a Dragonfly
Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir
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Robert A. Caro |
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
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David Chang |
Eat a Peach: A Memoir
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Veronica Chater |
Waiting for the Apocalypse; A Memoir of Faith and Family
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Joan Chittister |
Called to Question; A Spiritual Memoir
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Eric Clapton |
Clapton: The Autobiography
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Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt |
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
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LaDoris Hazzard Cordell |
Her Honor: My Life on the Bench... What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It
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Dennis Covington |
Revelation; A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World
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Lindsey Crittenden |
The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray
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Bill Cunningham |
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
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Shulem Deen |
All Who Go Do Not Return
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Dieter Dengler |
Escape from Laos
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Joan Didion |
The Year of Magical Thinking
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Dion DiMucci with Mike Aquilina |
Dion: The Wanderer Talks Truth; Stories, Humor & Music
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Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed |
Mother Teresa; Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
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Ruth Everhart |
Ruined
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Eric Fair |
Consequence: A Memoir
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Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna and Emily Holland |
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
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Tina Fey |
Bossypants
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William Finnegan |
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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Suzanne Woods Fisher |
Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World
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Simon Fitzmaurice |
It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
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Richard Ford |
Between Them: Remembering My Parents
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Jim Forest |
At Play in the Lion's Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan
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Anne Frank |
Anne Frank: The Collected Works
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James Frey |
A Million Little Pieces
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Alexandra Fuller |
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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Nora Gallagher |
Practicing Resurrection; A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace
Things Seen and Unseen; A Year Lived in Faith
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Roxane Gay |
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers |
Mighty Be Our Powers, A Memoir: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
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Nicci Gerrard |
The Last Ocean; A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
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Rob Gieselmann |
A Walk Through The Churchyard; Toward a Spirituality of Christian Death
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Valerie Gilpeer |
I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope
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Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed, with Patricia Edmonds |
Gifts from the Poor; What the World's Patients Taught One Doctor About Healing
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Andy Goldsworthy |
Andy Goldsworthy: Projects and Ephemeral Works: 2004–2014
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David Gregory |
How's Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
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Hank Haney |
The Big Miss; My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
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Blaine Harden |
Escape From Camp 14; One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Michele Harper |
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
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Rachel Held Evans |
Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions
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Judith Heumann |
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
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Christopher Hitchens |
Mortality
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Arthur J. Ammann, with Barbara McLennan |
(in)Visible: From Obscure to Valuable
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Rhoda Janzen |
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress; A Memoir of Going Home
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Margo Jefferson |
Negroland; A Memoir
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Elton John |
Me
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Cleve Jones |
When We Rise; My Life in the Movement
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Paul Kalanithi |
When Breath Becomes Air
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish |
Little Heathens; Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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Mary Karr |
Lit: A Memoir
Now Go Out There: (and Get Curious)
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Matthew Kepnes |
Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
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Mary-Ann Kirkby |
I Am Hutterite
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Phil Knight |
Shoe Dog; A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
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David Koker |
At the Edge of the Abyss; A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943–1944
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Anne Lamott |
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
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Mitch Landrieu |
In the Shadow of Statues; A White Southerner Confronts History
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Eric Lax |
Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey
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Marceline Loridan-Ivens |
But You Did Not Come Back
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Édouard Louis |
Who Killed My Father
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Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer |
Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
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Andrea D. Lyon |
Angel of Death Row; My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
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Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon |
How Will You Measure Your Life?
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Karl Marlantes |
What It Is Like To Go To War
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Henry Marsh |
Do No Harm; Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
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Hisham Matar |
The Return; Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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Paul Maunder |
The Wind at My Back: A Cycling Life
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Tori Murden McClure |
A Pearl in the Storm; How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
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Frank McCourt |
Teacher Man; A Memoir
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David McGlynn |
A Door in the Ocean; A Memoir
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Bill McKibben |
Oil and Honey; The Education of an Unlikely Activist
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Andrew Meredith |
The Removers: A Memoir
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Sara Miles |
City of God; Faith in the Streets
Jesus Freak; Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead
Take this Bread; A Radical Conversion
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Azar Nafisi |
Reading Lolita in Tehran; A Memoir in Books
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Edoardo Nesi |
Story of My People
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Donald Nichols |
A Perspective on Memory: An Artist with Alzheimer's
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Trevor Noah |
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Kathleen Norris |
Acedia and Me; A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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Mary Norris |
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
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Flannery O'Connor |
A Prayer Journal
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Amanda Owen |
The Yorkshire Shepherdess
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Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow |
The Last Lecture
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Tom Phelan |
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
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Erik Reece |
An American Gospel; On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God
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Mark Richard |
House of Prayer No. 2; A Writer's Journey Home.
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Julie Rodgers |
Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story
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Richard Rodriguez |
Darling; A Spiritual Autobiography
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Kevin Roose |
The Unlikely Disciple; A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
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Roger Rosenblatt |
Unless It Moves the Human Heart; The Craft and Art of Writing
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Oliver Sacks |
Gratitude
On the Move: A Life
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Gerda Saunders |
Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
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John Schwartz |
Oddly Normal; One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
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Sara Seager |
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
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Åsne Seierstad, trans. by Ingrid Christopherson |
The Bookseller of Kabul
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Sarah Sentilles |
Breaking Up With God; A Love Story
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Dani Shapiro |
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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Robert C. Sibley |
The Way of the Stars; Journeys on the Camino de Santiago
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
This Child Will Be Great
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Sarah Smarsh |
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
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Lewis B. Smedes |
My God and I; A Spiritual Memoir
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Huston Smith, with Jeffrey Paine |
Tales of Wonder, Adventures Chasing the Divine: An Autobiography
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Bruce Springsteen |
Born to Run
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Bryan Stevenson |
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Victoria Sweet |
God's Hotel; A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
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Barb Brown Taylor |
Leaving Church; A Memoir of Faith
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George Tenet |
At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA
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Mother Teresa |
A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
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Dang Thuy Tram |
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace; The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
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Natasha Trethewey |
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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Sherry Turkle |
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
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J.D. Vance |
Hillbilly Elegy; A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Ed Viesturs, with David Roberts |
No Shortcuts to the Top; Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
The Undocumented Americans
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Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise, editors |
The Long Walk to Freedom; Runaway Slave Narratives
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Helga Weiss |
Helga's Diary; A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
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Tara Westover |
Educated: A Memoir
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Elie Wiesel |
Open Heart
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Jessica Wilbanks |
When I Spoke in Tongues; A Story of Faith and Its Loss
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Garry Wills |
Outside Looking In; Adventures of an Observer
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Diane Wilson |
Holy Roller; Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
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Christian Wiman |
My Bright Abyss; Meditation of a Modern Believer
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Julie Yip-Williams |
The Unwinding of the Miracle
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Neil Young |
Waging Heavy Peace
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Malala Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb |
I am Malala; The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
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