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    Count­ing on Amer­i­ca: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Ter­ror, Chutz­pah, Romance and Escape
    Kurt Reiner and Gary Reiner
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    Can’t Help Myself: Lessons & Con­fes­sions from a Mod­ern Advice Columnist
    Mered­ith Goldstein
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    War Wid­ow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life
    Ziva Bak­man Flamhaft
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    If You Could See Me: Life, Moth­er­hood, and the Pur­suit of Sanity
    Erin Mahone
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    Thanks, Oba­ma: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
    David Litt
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    Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
    Han­nah Howard
    Cover of Struck: A Husband's Memoir of Trauma and Triumph
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    Struck: A Hus­band’s Mem­oir of Trau­ma and Triumph
    Dou­glas Segal
    Susan Segal
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    The Best of Us: A Memoir
    Joyce May­nard
    Cover of I Am Not a Spy: An American Jew Goes Deep in the Arab World & Israeli Army
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    I Am Not a Spy: An Amer­i­can Jew Goes Deep in the Arab World & Israeli Army
    Michael Bassin
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    A Sur­vivor’s Duty
    Gabriel Laufer
    Cover of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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    Los­ing the Nobel Prize: A Sto­ry of Cos­mol­o­gy, Ambi­tion, and the Per­ils of Sci­ence’s High­est Honor
    Bri­an Keating
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    The Sev­en, A Fam­i­ly Holo­caust Story
    Ellen G. Friedman
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    Lit­tle Pan­ic: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious Life
    Aman­da Stern
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    Wal­ter’s Wel­come: The Inti­mate Sto­ry of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Flight from the Nazis to Peru
    Eva Neiss­er Echenberg
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    White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
    Alexan­dra Silber
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    Dis­armed: Uncon­ven­tion­al Lessons from the World’s Only One-Armed Spe­cial Forces Sharpshooter
    Izzy Eza­gui
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