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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of My Salinger Year
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My Salinger Year
Joan­na Rakoff
Cover of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
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Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind
Sarah Wild­man
Cover of Things I Don't Want to Know
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Things I Don’t Want to Know
Deborah Levy
Cover of Toward Babel: Poems and a Memoir
Poet­ry
Toward Babel: Poems and a Memoir
Ilana Shmueli; Susan H. Gillespie, trans.
Cover of My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War
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My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Fam­i­ly Mem­oir of Art and War
Anne Sinclair; Shaun Whiteside, trans.
Cover of Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
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Jour­ney From the Land of No: A Girl­hood Caught in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Iran
Roya Hakakian
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In the Land of Oz
Howard Jacob­son
Cover of Life Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
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Life Ani­mat­ed: A Sto­ry of Side­kicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind
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Lit­tle Miracles
Abraham Bilcher
Cover of We Won't See Auschwitz
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We Won’t See Auschwitz
Jérémie Dres; Edward Gauvin, trans.
Cover of Bless the Bitter and the Sweet: A Sabra Girls's Diary from the Last Days of British Rule and the Rebirth of Israel
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Bless the Bit­ter and the Sweet: A Sabra Girl­s’s Diary from the Last Days of British Rule and the Rebirth of Israel
Nao­mi Har­ris Rosenblatt
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Mid­night In Siberia: A Train Jour­ney into the Heart of Russia
David Greene
Cover of Then Came Life: A Memoir of Living with the Same Courage, Spirit, and Humor That Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer
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Then Came Life: A Mem­oir of Liv­ing with the Same Courage, Spir­it, and Humor That Helped Me Sur­vive Breast Cancer
Ger­a­lyn Lucas
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The Liv­ing Mem­o­ries Project
Meryl Ain, Stewart Ain, and Arthur M. Fischman
Cover of Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Bold Living
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Both Sides Now: A True Sto­ry of Love, Loss, and Bold Living
Nan­cy Sharp
Cover of Maybe Not Such a Good Girl: Reflections on Rupture and Return
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Maybe Not Such a Good Girl: Reflec­tions on Rup­ture and Return
Susan Reimer-Torn
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