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Autobiography & Memoir

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Be the Hero of Your Story
Richard Krevolin and Eliana Barbosa
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My Moth­er’s Spice Cup­board: A Jour­ney from Bagh­dad to Bom­bay to Bondi
Elana Ben­jamin
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And the Bridge is Love
Faye Moskowitz
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Unbro­ken Spir­it: A Hero­ic Sto­ry of Faith, Courage and Survival
Yosef Mendelevich
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Reboot­ing in Bev­er­ly Hills
Mar­cy Miller
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The Watch­mak­er’s Daughter
Sonia Taitz
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Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio
Carol Miller
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Dan Gets a Mini­van: Life at the Inter­sec­tion of Dude and Dad
Dan Zevin
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What­ev­er is Con­tained Must Be Released: My Jew­ish Ortho­dox Girl­hood, My Life as a Fem­i­nist Artist
Helène Aylon
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I Suck at Girls
Justin Halpern
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The Bar Mitz­vah and The Beast: One Fam­i­ly’s Cross-Coun­try Ride of Pas­sage by Bike
Matt Biers-Ariel
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Odd­ly Nor­mal: One Fam­i­ly’s Strug­gle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
John Schwartz
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Mon­key Mind: A Mem­oir of Anxiety
Daniel Smith
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Unortho­dox: The Scan­dalous Rejec­tion of My Hasidic Roots
Deborah Feldman
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Jour­nal of the Plague Year
Lloyd Constantine
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Din­ner: A Love Story
Jenny Rosenstrach
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