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    Autobiography & Memoir

    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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    Non­fic­tion
    Signs of Sur­vival: A Mem­oir of the Holocaust
    Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene
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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
    Visu­al Arts
    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
    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
    Cover of Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression
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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
    Cover of Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
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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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