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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Ernest Hemingway ,

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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Secondhand Time

By Svetlana Alexievich , Bela Shayevich ,

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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
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Working

By Studs Terkel ,

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A Brief History of Seven Killings
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A Brief History of Seven Killings

By Marlon James ,

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Edie: American Girl
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Edie

By Jean Stein ,

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Japan at War: An Oral History
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Japan at War

By Haruko Taya Cook , Theodore F. Cook ,

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Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
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Blood of Spain

By Ronald Fraser ,

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Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War
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Memories of War

By Lin Poyer , Laurence Marshall Carucci , Suzanne Falgout

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Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
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Holocaust Testimonies

By Lawrence L. Langer ,

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Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
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Windows on the Past

By DruAnna Williams Overbay ,

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Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests
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Live from New York

By James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales ,

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Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
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Alright, Alright, Alright

By Melissa Maerz ,

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Gone Shopping: The Story of Shirley Pitts - Queen of Thieves
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Gone Shopping

By Lorraine Gamman ,

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Joe Gould's Teeth
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Joe Gould's Teeth

By Jill Lepore ,

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Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945
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Invisible Immigrants

By Marilyn Barber , Murray Watson ,

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Red Earth, White Lies
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Red Earth, White Lies

By Vine Deloria, Jr. ,

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Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History
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Telling Stories

By Mary Jo Maynes , Jennifer L. Pierce , Barbara Laslett

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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
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Hard Times

By Studs Terkel ,

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Bound By a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920
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Bound By a Mighty Vow

By Diana B. Turk ,

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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
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Listening Is an Act of Love

By Dave Isay (editor) ,

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