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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Husbandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laundry: Inside the Minds of Married Men
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    Hus­bandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laun­dry: Inside the Minds of Mar­ried Men
    Stephen Fried
    Cover of Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied The Holocaust
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    Four Girls From Berlin: A True Sto­ry of a Friend­ship That Defied The Holocaust
    Marianne Meyerhoff
    Cover of The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbollah and The Iranian War Against Israel
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    The Road to Fati­ma Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbol­lah and The Iran­ian War Against Israel
    Michael J. Totten
    Cover of The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
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    The Invis­i­ble Wall: A Love Sto­ry That Broke Barriers
    Harry Bernstein
    Cover of Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
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    Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
    Ben Karlin, ed.
    Cover of Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir
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    Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir
    Benjamin Hirsch
    Cover of Please Excuse My Daughter
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    Please Excuse My Daughter
    Julie Klam
    Cover of The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
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    The Jews of Silence: A Per­son­al Report on Sovi­et Jewry
    Elie Wiesel
    Cover of Dough: A Memoir
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    Dough: A Memoir
    Mort Zachter
    Cover of Brotherhood of Warriors
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    Broth­er­hood of Warriors
    Aaron Cohen; Douglas Century
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    Grow­ing Up At Grossinger’s
    Tania Grossinger
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    No Words to Say Goodbye
    Raimonda Kopelnitsky and Kelli Pryor
    Cover of Hurry Down Sunshine
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    Hur­ry Down Sunshine
    Michael Greenberg
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    The Girl From Foreign
    Sadia Shepard
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    Where We Buried The Sun: One Wom­an’s Gulag Story
    Alla Tumanov; Gust Olson, trans.
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    The Dream: A Memoir
    Harry Bernstein
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