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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Plums, Paprika & Ghosts: Our Trip to the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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    Plums, Papri­ka & Ghosts: Our Trip to the Aus­tro-Hun­gar­i­an Empire
    A.J. Sidran­sky
    Cover of Return to the Place I Never Left
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    Return to the Place I Nev­er Left
    Tobias Schiff; Dani James, trans.
    Cover of Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together
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    Chil­dren of the Book: A Mem­oir of Read­ing Together
    Ilana Kur­shan
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    Mag­i­cal Think­ing and My Grandfather’s Story

    Aman­da J. Rothschild
    August 4, 2025
    Cover of The Survivor of the Holocaust
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    The Sur­vivor of the Holocaust
    Jack Eis­ner
    Cover of Hello (And Goodbye) To All That: A Memoir of a Changing New York in the 21st Century
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    Hel­lo (And Good­bye) To All That: A Mem­oir of a Chang­ing New York in the 21st Century
    Jonathan Lieb­son
    Cover of The Courtyard: A Memoir
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    The Court­yard: A Memoir
    Ben­jamin Parket
    Alexa Mor­ris
    Cover of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
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    The End is the Begin­ning: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of My Mother
    Jill Bialosky
    Cover of Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life As a Failed Child Star
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    Cry for Me, Argenti­na: My Life As a Failed Child Star
    Tama­ra Yajia
    Cover of My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
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    My Child­hood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Com­e­dy, a Skok­ie Elegy
    Edward Hirsch
    Cover of Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story
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    Fron­tier: A Mem­oir and a Ghost Story
    Eri­ca Stern
    Cover of Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues
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    Danc­ing with Mud­dy: Mud­dy Waters, Eric Clap­ton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues
    Jer­ry Portnoy
    Cover of Too Much Of Nothing: Notes on Feminism, Identity, and Womanhood
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    Too Much Of Noth­ing: Notes on Fem­i­nism, Iden­ti­ty, and Womanhood
    Car­la Stockton
    Cover of Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile
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    Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
    Elio Zarmati
    Cover of So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
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    So We Died: A Mem­oir of Life and Death in the Ghet­to of Šiau­li­ai, Lithuania
    Levi Shalit; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
    Cover of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt
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    What Remains: The Col­lect­ed Poems of Han­nah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt; Genese Grill, trans.
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