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Teen mom

a journal
Presents the real-life diary of a teenage girl who became pregnant with twins half way through her junior year of high school in which she shares her thoughts about her difficult pregnancy, family and relationship issues, and the future.
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Boots on the ground

a month with the 82nd Airborne in the battle for Iraq
The author, a correspondent for "The National Review, " describes his experiences as an embedded reporter with the 82nd Airborne Division.
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The diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942

Presents the writings and drawings of teenager, Petr Ginz, who died in 1944 at Auschwitz, recording his life under Nazi occupation, his transport to and life at Thereisenstadt concentration camp at fourteen, ending just prior to his transport to Auschwitz.
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Home front girl

a diary of love, literature, and growing up in wartime America
Diary of Joan Wahlen Morrison, collected from her writings during the years of World War II, offering insights to how a normal American girl lived and thought during that time.

The second kind of impossible

the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter
Curious geometric patterns inspired physicist Paul Steinhardt to hypothesize the impossible: matter made of quasicrystals. His quest for a sample took decades, and led him to the ends of the Earth.

This is going to hurt

secret diaries of a junior doctor
As soon as Adam Kay set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realised there's quite a lot they don't teach you at medical school ... His diaries from the NHS front line - scribbled in secret after long nights, endless days and missed weekends - are hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns. This Is Going to Hurt is everything you wanted to know about being a junior doctor, and more than a few things you really didn't. And yes, it may leave a scar.

The day will pass away

the diary of a Gulag prison guard, 1935-1936
2017
"Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this... diary is one of the few first-person accounts to survive the sprawling Soviet prison system. At the back of these exercise books there is a blurred snapshot and a note, "Chistyakov, Ivan Petrovich, repressed in 1937-38"--Jacket flap.

Fire in my heart, ice in my veins

a journal for teenagers experiencing a loss
2002
A journal that provides pages for expressing grief and other feelings related to a specific death, thoughts and feelings about the person who has died, and for memorializing that person.

A Confederate girl

the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate south in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era.

Annie's baby

the diary of Anonymous, a pregnant teenager
A day-by-day account of the life of a fourteen-year-old pregnant teenager who struggles with the decision of whether or not to keep her baby and her feelings for the father of the unborn child.

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