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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France and the Stew That Saved My Soul
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Cas­soulet Con­fes­sions: Food, France and the Stew That Saved My Soul
Sylvie Bigar
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One-Legged Mon­goose: Secrets, Lega­cies, and Com­ing of Age in the 1950’s New York
Marc J. Straus
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Din­ners with Ruth: A Mem­oir on the Pow­er of Friendships
Nina Toten­berg
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An Improb­a­ble Life: My Father’s Escape from Sovi­et Russia
Karine Rashkovsky
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Jer­sey Breaks: Becom­ing an Amer­i­can Poet
Robert Pin­sky
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One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Michael Frank
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Lost & Found: A Memoir
Kathryn Schulz
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All About Me! My Remark­able Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks
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I Was Bet­ter Last Night: A Memoir
Har­vey Fierstein
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I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
Minou Mich­lin
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So They Remem­ber: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Sovi­et Ukraine
Maksim Goldenshteyn
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What’s So Fun­ny?: A Car­toon­ist’s Memoir
David Sipress
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The Watch­mak­ers: A Sto­ry of Broth­er­hood, Hope, and Sur­vival Dur­ing the Holocaust
Scott Lenga
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The Boy Who Fol­lowed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Sto­ry Retold for Young Readers
Jere­my Dronfield
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Becom­ing Ordi­nary: A Youth Born of the Holo­caust, A Youth Born of the Holo­caust, What I Kept, What I Let Go…
Michael Fox
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Tears Over Rus­sia: A Search for Fam­i­ly and the Lega­cy of Ukraine’s Pogroms
Lisa Brahin
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