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Items with the category:

Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of The Choice: Embrace the Possible
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
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Non­fic­tion
Can­dies from Heaven
Gil Hovav
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Moun­tain Lines: A Jour­ney through the French Alps
Jonathan Arlan
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In the Province of the Gods (Liv­ing Out: Gay and Les­bian Autobiog)
Ken­ny Fries
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A Crime in the Family
Sacha Batthyány; trans. Anthea Bell
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Man’s Search For Mean­ing: Young Adult Edition
Viktor E. Frankl
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Land­slide: True Stories
Minna Proctor
Essay

A Year of Memoirs

Tova Mirvis
September 8, 2017
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The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered
Benjamin Taylor
Essay

Hold­ing Each Oth­er’s Sto­ries: Why Per­son­al Writ­ing Matters

Tova Mirvis
September 5, 2017
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My Sis­ter’s Eyes: A Fam­i­ly Chron­i­cle of Res­cue and Loss Dur­ing World War II
Joan Arnay Halperin; Mordecai Paldiel, fwd.
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No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imag­i­na­tion, and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel
Shimon Peres
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Get Up: The Art of Perseverance
Adam Green­berg
Interview

Inter­view: Annette Gendler

Annette Gendler’s mem­oir Jump­ing Over Shad­ows pulls read­ers into the dra­ma of World War II with its fam­i­ly tale of an ill-fat­ed mar­riage between a Jew­ish man,…
Amy Spun­gen
June 27, 2017
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What Lan­guage Do I Dream In?
Elena Lappin
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Last Things
Marissa Ann Moss
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