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Autobiography & Memoir

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Total­ly Unof­fi­cial: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin; Donna-Lee Frieze, ed.
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Unfin­ished Busi­ness: One Man’s Extra­or­di­nary Year of Try­ing to Do the Right Things
Lee Kravitz
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Cross­ing Man­del­baum Gate: Com­ing of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956 – 1978
Kai Bird
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The Beg­gar King and the Secret of Hap­pi­ness: A True Story
Joel Ben Izzy
Cover of 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your Life
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1,000 Mitz­vahs: How Small Acts of Kind­ness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your Life
Lin­da Cohen
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Buzz: A Year of Pay­ing Attention
Kather­ine Ellison
Cover of Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination
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Land­scapes of the Metrop­o­lis of Death: Reflec­tions on Mem­o­ry and Imagination
Otto Dov Kulka; Ralph Mandel, trans.
Cover of Boy 30529: A Memoir
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Boy 30529: A Memoir
Felix Weinberg
Cover of Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers - A Cultural Memoir
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Out of Brownsville: Encoun­ters with Nobel Lau­re­ates and Oth­er Jew­ish Writ­ers — A Cul­tur­al Memoir
Jules Chametzky
Cover of Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, With Recipes
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Sto­ry, With Recipes
Eliz­a­beth Bard
Cover of My Mother’s Wars
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My Mother’s Wars
Lillian Faderman
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Let­ting It Go
Miriam Katin
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Shocked: My Moth­er, Schi­a­par­el­li, and Me
Patricia Volk
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Fame Shark
Royal Young
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My Family’s Reac­tion to Fame Shark

Roy­al Young​’s debut mem­oir Fame Shark will be released June 2013 from Heliotrope Books. Young con­tributes to Inter­view Mag­a­zine, New York Post, BOMB Mag­a­zine and The Lo…
Roy­al Young
June 10, 2013
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Lis­ten­ing to God: Inspi­ra­tional Sto­ries for My Grandchildren
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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