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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    These are the Devel­op­ments of the Human
    Ethan Daniel Davidson
    Cover of The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben's Mission to Dismantle Hate
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    The Upstander: How Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mis­sion to Dis­man­tle Hate
    Jori Epstein
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    Let­ter to a Young Female Physi­cian: Notes from a Med­ical Life
    Suzanne Koven
    Cover of Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
    Poet­ry
    Asy­lum: A per­son­al, his­tor­i­cal, nat­ur­al inquiry in 103 lyric sections
    Jill Bialosky
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    Excerpt — When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers

    Ken Krim­stein
    November 15, 2021
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    Signs of Sur­vival: A Mem­oir of the Holocaust
    Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene
    Cover of From Africa to Zion: The Shepherd Boy Who Became Israel's First Ethiopian-Born Journalist
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    From Africa to Zion: The Shep­herd Boy Who Became Israel’s First Ethiopi­an-Born Journalist
    Dan­ny Abebe
    Cover of The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
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    The Lost Café Schindler: One Fam­i­ly, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
    Meriel Schindler
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    Year­book
    Seth Rogen
    Essay

    Los­ing My Spanish

    Judy Bolton-Fas­man
    October 18, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    Boy From Buchenwald
    Robbie Waisman, Susan McClelland
    Cover of The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago
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    The Flow­er­ing: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Judy Chicago
    Judy Chicago
    Cover of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature
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    Book­ends: A Mem­oir of Love, Loss, and Literature
    Zib­by Owens
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    My Life In Dog Years: A Memoir
    Rita Rud­ner
    Cover of Powered by Grief: My Adventures as a Scientist, Artist, and Activist
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    Pow­ered by Grief: My Adven­tures as a Sci­en­tist, Artist, and Activist
    Bar­ton Rubenstein
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    Berlin: A Jew­ish Ode to the Metropolis
    Jason Langer
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