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    Diary of a Dying Girl
    Mal­lo­ry Smith
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    Insti­ga­tor of Joy: Becom­ing my own fairy godmother
    Nan­cy C. Illman
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    The Inher­i­tance (Yurusha): An Autobiography
    Israel Rosen Edited by Elliot Rosen
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    Good Work, Grit & Grat­i­tude: The Bit­ter­sweet Lessons of the Lemon­ade Generation
    Adri­an Dubow
    Lau­ra Koffsky
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    Duplic­i­ty: My Moth­ers’ Secrets
    Don­na Freed
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    Won’t Be Silent — Don’t Stop ​’til It Mat­ters: Embrac­ing my super­pow­ers of humor and opti­mism to sur­vive being sec­ond-gen­er­a­tion Holo­caust, com­ing out, addic­tion, and end­less unbe­liev­able obstacles
    Abe Gurko
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    3…2…1…We’re On The Air: A Net­work Pro­duc­er’s Inside Look at Sports, Tele­vi­sion, Jour­nal­ism, and Gen­der Equity
    Robert Ste­in­feld
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    Out There: A Mem­oir of an Israeli soldier
    Omri Ginzburg
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    Evitch­ka: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope and Love
    Lawrence P. Levitt
    Stephanie Smartschan
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    A Tourist From Petach Tik­va: Grow­ing Up Along­side the Cre­ation of the State of Israel
    Aubrey Kagan
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    The Last Year of My Life: Ten Lead­er­ship Tools That Trans­formed a Dead­ly Diag­no­sis into a Path of Renewal
    Eeki Elner
    Joshua T. Adams
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    Heart. Soul. Pen.: Find Your Voice on the Page and In Your Life
    Robin Finn
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    Out­side Voic­es: A Mem­oir of the Berke­ley Revolution
    Joan Gelfand
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    Fam­i­ly Declas­si­fied: Uncov­er­ing My Grand­fa­ther’s Jour­ney from Spy to Chil­dren’s Book Author
    Kather­ine Fennelly
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    All The Ways You Taught Us: A Mem­oir of Abil­i­ty, Dis­abil­i­ty, and the Pur­suit of Meaning
    Janet R. Gordon
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