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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television
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    Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Life­time in Television
    Arthur Smith
    Cover of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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    Bit­ter­sweet: How Sor­row and Long­ing Make Us Whole
    Susan Cain
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    Wit­ness to His­to­ry-From Vien­na to Shang­hai: A Mem­oir of Escape, Sur­vival and Resilience
    Jean Hoff­mann Lewanda
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    Crooked Lines: A Sin­gle Mom’s Jew­ish Journey
    Jen­na Zark
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    When Your Fam­i­ly Says No: The Jour­ney To Free­dom Independence
    Laya Mar­tinez
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    Just Human: The Quest for Dis­abil­i­ty Wis­dom, Respect, and Inclusion
    Arielle Sil­ver­man
    Cover of More Than We Expected: Five Years With A Remarkable Child
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    More Than We Expect­ed: Five Years With A Remark­able Child
    James G. Robinson
    Cover of After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief
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    After Effects: A Mem­oir of Com­pli­cat­ed Grief
    Andrea Gilats
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    The Let­ters Project: A Daugh­ter’s Journey
    Eleanor Reis­sa
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    Com­mit­ted: Dis­patch­es from a Psy­chi­a­trist in Training
    Adam Stern
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    In Sick­ness: A Memoir
    Bar­rett Rollins
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    Real Estate: A Liv­ing Autobiography
    Deb­o­rah Levy
    Cover of From Darkness to Light: Testimonies of Six Holocaust Survivors
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    From Dark­ness to Light: Tes­ti­monies of Six Holo­caust Survivors
    Ronald J. Diller
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    The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Rootlessness
    Andrei S. Markovits
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    Sylvie
    Sylvie Kantorovitz
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    For­get Prayers, Bring Cake: A Sin­gle Wom­an’s Guide to Grieving
    Meris­sa Nathan Gerson
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