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Items with the category:

Autobiography & Memoir

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Sovi­et Daugh­ter: A Graph­ic Revolution
Julia Alek­seye­va
Cover of Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix
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Dirty Wars and Pol­ished Sil­ver: The Life and Times of a War Cor­re­spon­dent Turned Ambassatrix
Lyn­da Schuster
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Crooked
Cathryn Jakob­son Ramin
Cover of Al Franken Giant of the Senate
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Al Franken Giant of the Senate
Al Franken
Cover of Dear Cancer Love Stacy
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Dear Can­cer Love Stacy
Sta­cy Middleman
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The New Old Me
Mered­ith Maran
Cover of Poetry Will Save Your Life
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Poet­ry Will Save Your Life
Jill Bialosky
Cover of My Adventures with God
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My Adven­tures with God
Stephen Tobolowksy
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How Does That Make You Feel?
Sher­ry Ann Amatenstein
Cover of My Glory Was I Had Such Friends
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My Glo­ry Was I Had Such Friends
Amy Sil­ver­stein
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Straight Expec­ta­tions
Peg­gy Cryden
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Down City
Leah Car­roll
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Life­sav­ing for Beginners
Anne Edel­stein
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Dis­tilled: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Sea­gram, Base­ball, and Philanthropy
Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
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Some­thing Beau­ti­ful Hap­pened: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Courage in the Face of Evil
Yvette Manes­sis Corporon
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Chancer — How One Good Boy Saved Another
Don­nie Kan­ter Winokur
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