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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Lost & Found: A Memoir
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    Lost & Found: A Memoir
    Kathryn Schulz
    Cover of All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
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    All About Me! My Remark­able Life in Show Business
    Mel Brooks
    Cover of I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
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    I Was Bet­ter Last Night: A Memoir
    Har­vey Fierstein
    Cover of I Kept Walking: The Unlikely Story of a Persian Woman with Polio
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    I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
    Minou Mich­lin
    Cover of So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine
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    So They Remem­ber: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Sovi­et Ukraine
    Maksim Goldenshteyn
    Cover of The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust
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    The Watch­mak­ers: A Sto­ry of Broth­er­hood, Hope, and Sur­vival Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Scott Lenga
    Cover of What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir
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    What’s So Fun­ny?: A Car­toon­ist’s Memoir
    David Sipress
    Cover of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story Retold for Young Readers
    Chil­dren’s
    The Boy Who Fol­lowed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Sto­ry Retold for Young Readers
    Jere­my Dronfield
    Cover of Becoming Ordinary: A Youth Born of the Holocaust, A Youth Born of the Holocaust, What I Kept, What I Let Go…
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    Becom­ing Ordi­nary: A Youth Born of the Holo­caust, A Youth Born of the Holo­caust, What I Kept, What I Let Go…
    Michael Fox
    Cover of Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms
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    Tears Over Rus­sia: A Search for Fam­i­ly and the Lega­cy of Ukraine’s Pogroms
    Lisa Brahin
    Cover of Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
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    Rais­ing Raf­fi: The First Five Years
    Kei­th Gessen
    Cover of My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
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    My Life in the Sun­shine: Search­ing for My Father and Dis­cov­er­ing My Family 
    Nabil Ayers
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    The Girl in the Mid­dle: Grow­ing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
    Anais Granofsky
    Cover of Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Story for All Generations
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    Lily’s Promise: Hold­ing On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Sto­ry for All Generations
    Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
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    Mala’s Cat: A Mem­oir of Sur­vival in World War II
    Mala Kacenberg
    Cover of Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
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    Alias Anna: A True Sto­ry of Out­wit­ting the Nazis
    Susan Hood
    Greg Daw­son
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