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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story
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The Sev­en, A Fam­i­ly Holo­caust Story
Ellen G. Friedman
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A Sur­vivor’s Duty
Gabriel Laufer
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Los­ing the Nobel Prize: A Sto­ry of Cos­mol­o­gy, Ambi­tion, and the Per­ils of Sci­ence’s High­est Honor
Bri­an Keating
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Wal­ter’s Wel­come: The Inti­mate Sto­ry of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Flight from the Nazis to Peru
Eva Neiss­er Echenberg
Cover of White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
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White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
Alexan­dra Silber
Cover of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
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Lit­tle Pan­ic: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious Life
Aman­da Stern
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Lost and Found: Sur­viv­ing Dis­place­ment, Find­ing Love, Uncov­er­ing Secrets
Ann Avram Huber
Cover of Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
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Left to the Mer­cy of a Rude Stream: The Bar­gain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
Stan­ley Goldman
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Eli’s Sto­ry: A Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Jew­ish Life
Meri-Jane Rochel­son
Cover of Counting on America: A Holocaust Memoir of Terror, Chutzpah, Romance and Escape
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Count­ing on Amer­i­ca: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Ter­ror, Chutz­pah, Romance and Escape
Kurt Reiner and Gary Reiner
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Can’t Help Myself: Lessons & Con­fes­sions from a Mod­ern Advice Columnist
Mered­ith Goldstein
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War Wid­ow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life
Ziva Bak­man Flamhaft
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If You Could See Me: Life, Moth­er­hood, and the Pur­suit of Sanity
Erin Mahone
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Thanks, Oba­ma: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
David Litt
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Struck: A Hus­band’s Mem­oir of Trau­ma and Triumph
Dou­glas Segal
Susan Segal
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
Joyce May­nard
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