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    Nonfiction
    Near­ly Depart­ed: Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences
    Gila Pfef­fer
    Nonfiction
    Just City: Grow­ing Up on the Upper West Side When Hous­ing Was a Human Right
    Jen­nifer Baum
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    Ire­na’s Gift: An Epic WWII Mem­oir of Sis­ters, Secrets, and Survival
    Karen Kirsten
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    See­ing Through: A Chron­i­cle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
    Ricky Ian Gordon
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    They Were Good Ger­mans Once: A Mem­oir: My Jew­ish Émi­gré Family
    Eve­lyn Toynton
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    Replay: Mem­oir of an Uproot­ed Family
    Jor­dan Mechner
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    Lotus Girl: My Life at the Cross­roads of Bud­dhism and America
    Helen Tworkov
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    Kiss­ing Girls on Shab­bat: A Memoir
    Sara Glass
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    My Hijack­ing: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of For­get­ting and Remembering
    Martha Hodes
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    The Most Human: Rec­on­cil­ing With My Father Leonard Nimoy
    Adam Nimoy
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    The Ghost Tattoo
    Tony Bernard
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    Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depres­sion, Psy­chic Tor­ment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
    Jer­ry Stahl
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    Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 41
    Rachel Scheer
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    The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
    Chef Rossi
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    My Life in Fragments
    Zyg­munt Bauman
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    Joan Nathan
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    My Kad­dish: A Child Speaks from the War­saw Ghetto
    Thérèse (Ter­ri) Masson
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    The Brighton Beach Bible
    Joel Sil­ver­stein
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    Escape from Dachau: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Courage, and a Dar­ing Escape in the Face of Unthink­able Evil
    Kathe Mueller Slonim
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    Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Sav­ing Chil­dren in Ger­man-Occu­pied Paris
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