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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Surviving
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    Sur­viv­ing
    Akira Ohiso and Ellie Ohiso
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    A Sense of Pur­pose: Recollection
    Suzy Eban
    Cover of Devotion: A Memoir
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    Devo­tion: A Memoir
    Dani Shapiro
    Cover of Here, There Are No Sarahs
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    Here, There Are No Sarahs
    Sonia Shainwald Orbuch And Fred Rosenbaum
    Cover of Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
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    Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
    Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
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    Gertru­da’s Oath
    Ram Oren; Barbara Harshav, trans.
    Cover of The Aristocrat: The Life and Legacy of Hillel Menashe Sutton
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    The Aris­to­crat: The Life and Lega­cy of Hil­lel Menashe Sutton
    Abraham Sutton
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    Cur­ricu­lum Vitae
    Yoel Hoffmann; Peter Cole, trans.
    Cover of The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah
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    The 188th Cry­ba­by Brigade: A Skin­ny Jew­ish Kid From Chica­go Fights Hezbollah
    Joel Chas­noff
    Cover of The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresientstadt
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    The Girls of Room 28: Friend­ship, Hope, and Sur­vival in Theresientstadt
    Hanalore Brenner; John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch, trans.
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    Eat­ing Animals
    Jonathan Safran Foer
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    The New Jew: An Unex­pect­ed Conversion
    Sally Srok Friedes
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    My Father’s Bonus March
    Adam Langer
    Cover of Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
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    Let­ters from the Lost: A Mem­oir of Discovery
    Helen Waldstein Wilkes
    Cover of Backing into Forward: A Memoir
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    Back­ing into For­ward: A Memoir
    Jules Feif­fer
    Cover of Everything Is Possible: Life and Business Lessons From a Self-Made Billionaire and the Founder of Slim-Fast
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    Every­thing Is Pos­si­ble: Life and Busi­ness Lessons From a Self-Made Bil­lion­aire and the Founder of Slim-Fast
    S. Daniel Abraham with Joseph Telushkin
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