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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of I Was A Child
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    I Was A Child
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    Cover of White Schooldays: Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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    White School­days: Com­ing of Age in Apartheid South Africa
    Isme Ben­nie
    Cover of Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
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    Hold Fast to Dreams: A Col­lege Guid­ance Coun­selor, His Stu­dents, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
    Beth Zasloff
    Josh Steck­el
    Cover of Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust
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    Some­where There Is Still a Sun: A Mem­oir of the Holocaust
    Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy
    Cover of The Year My Mother Came Back: A Memoir
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    The Year My Moth­er Came Back: A Memoir
    Alice Eve Cohen
    Cover of Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts
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    Read­ing Claudius: A Mem­oir in Two Parts
    Car­o­line Heller
    Cover of How's Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
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    How’s Your Faith?: An Unlike­ly Spir­i­tu­al Journey
    David Gre­go­ry
    Cover of The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
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    The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Trea­sures Stolen by the Nazis
    Simon Good­man
    Cover of Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays
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    Sur­ren­der­ing Oz: A Life in Essays
    Bon­nie Friedman
    Cover of The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South
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    The Out­skirts of Hope: A Mem­oir of the 1960s Deep South
    Jo Ivester
    Cover of White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
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    White Mat­ter: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly and Medicine
    Janet Stern­burg
    Cover of This Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir
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    This Is Not a Love Sto­ry: A Memoir
    Judy Brown
    Cover of Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking
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    Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Sto­ry of Com­fort, Desire, and the Art of Sim­ple Cooking
    Elis­sa Altman
    Cover of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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    The Gram­mar of God: A Jour­ney into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
    Aviya Kush­n­er
    Cover of The Mental Yentl: Stories From A Lifelong Student of Crazy
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    The Men­tal Yentl: Sto­ries From A Life­long Stu­dent of Crazy
    Sal­ly Fingerett
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    Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, an Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, an Israeli Story
    Dina Elen­bo­gen
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