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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
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    Claim­ing My Place: Com­ing of Age in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
    Cover of Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
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    Hunt­ing the Truth: Mem­oirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
    Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld; Sam Taylor, trans.
    Cover of Myopia: A Memoir
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    Myopia: A Memoir
    Phyl­lis M. Skoy
    Cover of A Marriage in Dog Years: A Memoir
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    A Mar­riage in Dog Years: A Memoir
    Nan­cy Balbirer
    Cover of The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
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    The Wid­ow­er’s Note­book: A Memoir
    Jonathan Sant­lofer
    Cover of War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life
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    War Wid­ow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life
    Ziva Bak­man Flamhaft
    Cover of If You Could See Me: Life, Motherhood, and the Pursuit of Sanity
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    If You Could See Me: Life, Moth­er­hood, and the Pur­suit of Sanity
    Erin Mahone
    Cover of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
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    Thanks, Oba­ma: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
    David Litt
    Cover of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
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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
    Cover of The Best of Us: A Memoir
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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
    Cover of A Survivor's Duty
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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
    Cover of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
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    Lit­tle Pan­ic: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious Life
    Aman­da Stern
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