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Autobiography & Memoir

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Objects of Love and Regret: A Brook­lyn Story
Richard Rabi­nowitz
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Scare Your Soul: 7 Pow­er­ful Prin­ci­ples to Har­ness Fear and Lead Your Most Coura­geous Life
Scott Simon
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Bro­ken Promis­es: The Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in Germany
Bon­nie Suchman
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Womb Of Dia­monds: A True Adven­ture From Child Bride Of Syr­ia To Celebri­ty Busi­ness­woman Of Japan
Ezra Choueke
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Daugh­ter of His­to­ry: Traces of an Immi­grant Girlhood
Susan Rubin Suleiman
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Wis­dom Grows In My Garden
Paul Plotkin
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Like a Drop of Ink in a Down­pour: Mem­o­ries of Sovi­et Russia
Yele­na and Gali­na Lembersky
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Mup­pets in Moscow: The Unex­pect­ed Crazy True Sto­ry of Mak­ing Sesame Street in Russia
Natasha Lance Rogoff
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And Again, It’s You: A Memoir
Jes­si­ca Shorstein
Cover of The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches
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The Mind and the Moon: My Broth­er’s Sto­ry, the Sci­ence of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches
Daniel Bergn­er
Cover of Conquering Learning Disabilities at Any Age: How an ADHD/LD Kid Graduated from Yale and Cambridge, and Became a Marine Officer, Military Historian, Financial Advisor and Caring Father
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Con­quer­ing Learn­ing Dis­abil­i­ties at Any Age: How an ADHD/LD Kid Grad­u­at­ed from Yale and Cam­bridge, and Became a Marine Offi­cer, Mil­i­tary His­to­ri­an, Finan­cial Advi­sor and Car­ing Father
Bryan Mark Rigg
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Jews in the Gar­den: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor, the Fate of His Fam­i­ly, and the Secret His­to­ry of Poland in World War II
Judy Rakowsky
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Over­think­ing About You: Nav­i­gat­ing Roman­tic Rela­tion­ships When You Have Anx­i­ety, OCD, and/​or Depression
Alli­son Raskin
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Seek­ing Shel­ter: Mem­oir of a Jew­ish Girl­hood in Wartime Britain
Cyn­thia Ehrenkrantz
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Burn Rate: Launch­ing a Start­up and Los­ing My Mind
Andy Dunn
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Expe­ri­ence is the Angled Road: Mem­oir of an Academic
R. Bar­bara Gitenstein
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