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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
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A Sense of Direc­tion: Pil­grim­age for the Rest­less and the Hopeful
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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Gab­by: A Sto­ry of Courage and Hope
Jeffrey Zaslow
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Sido­nia’s Thread: The Secrets of a Moth­er and Daugh­ter Sewing a New Life in America
Hanna Perlstein Marcus
Cover of The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
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The For­get­ting Riv­er: A Mod­ern Tale of Sur­vival, Iden­ti­ty, and the Inquisition
Doreen Car­va­jal
Cover of Half the House -- My Life In and Out of Jerusalem
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Half the House — My Life In and Out of Jerusalem
Rachel Berghash
Cover of Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
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Tan­gles: A Sto­ry About Alzheimer’s, My Moth­er, and Me
Sarah Leav­itt
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Israel: The Will to Prevail
Danny Danon
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You Saved Me, Too: What a Holo­caust Sur­vivor Taught Me About Liv­ing, Dying, Lov­ing, Fight­ing and Swear­ing in Yiddish
Susan Resnick
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Mir­a­cles and Fate on 78: A 9/11 Sto­ry of Inspiration
Ari Schon­brun
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Love Is Nev­er Past Tense…
Jan­na Yeshanova
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Loose Diamonds…and Oth­er Things I’ve Lost (and Found) Along the Way
Amy Ephron
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Extra­Or­di­nary: An End of Life Sto­ry With­out End
Michele Tamaren and Michael Wittner
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Through a Still Imper­fect Lens: A True Sto­ry of Per­son­al Growth and Rela­tion­ship from a Psy­chos­pir­i­tu­al Perspective
Elliot Tal­en­feld
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1111 Days in My Life Plus Four
Ephraim F. Sten; Moshe Dor, trans.; Foreword by Myra Sklarew
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Moth­er and Me: Escape From War­saw 1939
Julian Padowicz
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I Was A Child of Holo­caust Survivors
Bernice Eisenstein
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