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    Cover of Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
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    Shocked: My Moth­er, Schi­a­par­el­li, and Me
    Patricia Volk
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    Fame Shark
    Royal Young
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    My Family’s Reac­tion to Fame Shark

    Roy­al Young​’s debut mem­oir Fame Shark will be released June 2013 from Heliotrope Books. Young con­tributes to Inter­view Mag­a­zine, New York Post, BOMB Mag­a­zine and The Lo…
    Roy­al Young
    June 10, 2013
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    Lis­ten­ing to God: Inspi­ra­tional Sto­ries for My Grandchildren
    Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
    Cover of It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead…And Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader
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    It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead…And Oth­er Essen­tial Advice from a Self-Made Leader
    Morton L. Mandel with John A. Byrne
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    You Say Toma­to, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
    Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
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    Steal­ing History
    Ger­ald Stern
    Cover of The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
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    The Pen­du­lum: A Grand­daugh­ter’s Search for Her Fam­i­ly’s For­bid­den Nazi Past
    Julie Lin­dahl
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    The Price of Truth: A True Sto­ry of Child Sex­u­al Abuse in the Ortho­dox Jew­ish World — and One Girl’s Courage to Sur­vive and Heal
    Genendy Rad­off
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    Lies About My Family
    Amy Hoff­man
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    My 15 Grandmothers
    Genie Mil­grom
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    The Astor Orphan: A Memior
    Alexan­dra Aldrich
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    My New Orleans, Gone Away
    Peter Wolf
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    The Crooked Mir­ror: A Mem­oir of Pol­ish-Jew­ish Reconciliation
    Louise Stein­man
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    What Do You Buy the Chil­dren of the Ter­ror­ist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Mem­oir of Jerusalem
    David Har­ris-Ger­shon
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    Deborah Fineblum & Naomi Grossman
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