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    Cover of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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    Los­ing the Nobel Prize: A Sto­ry of Cos­mol­o­gy, Ambi­tion, and the Per­ils of Sci­ence’s High­est Honor
    Bri­an Keating
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    Wal­ter’s Wel­come: The Inti­mate Sto­ry of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Flight from the Nazis to Peru
    Eva Neiss­er Echenberg
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    White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
    Alexan­dra Silber
    Cover of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
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    Lit­tle Pan­ic: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious Life
    Aman­da Stern
    Cover of Lost and Found: Surviving Displacement, Finding Love, Uncovering Secrets
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    Lost and Found: Sur­viv­ing Dis­place­ment, Find­ing Love, Uncov­er­ing Secrets
    Ann Avram Huber
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    Left to the Mer­cy of a Rude Stream: The Bar­gain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
    Stan­ley Goldman
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    Eli’s Sto­ry: A Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Jew­ish Life
    Meri-Jane Rochel­son
    Cover of Counting on America: A Holocaust Memoir of Terror, Chutzpah, Romance and Escape
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    Count­ing on Amer­i­ca: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Ter­ror, Chutz­pah, Romance and Escape
    Kurt Reiner and Gary Reiner
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    Can’t Help Myself: Lessons & Con­fes­sions from a Mod­ern Advice Columnist
    Mered­ith Goldstein
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    War Wid­ow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life
    Ziva Bak­man Flamhaft
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    If You Could See Me: Life, Moth­er­hood, and the Pur­suit of Sanity
    Erin Mahone
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    Thanks, Oba­ma: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
    David Litt
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    Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
    Han­nah Howard
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    Struck: A Hus­band’s Mem­oir of Trau­ma and Triumph
    Dou­glas Segal
    Susan Segal
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    The Best of Us: A Memoir
    Joyce May­nard
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    I Am Not a Spy: An Amer­i­can Jew Goes Deep in the Arab World & Israeli Army
    Michael Bassin
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