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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Land­slide: True Stories
    Minna Proctor
    Essay

    A Year of Memoirs

    Tova Mirvis
    September 8, 2017
    Cover of The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered
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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
    Cover of My Sister's Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II
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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.
    Cover of No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
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    No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imag­i­na­tion, and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel
    Shimon Peres
    Cover of Get Up: The Art of Perseverance
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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
    Cover of What Language Do I Dream In?
    Non­fic­tion
    What Lan­guage Do I Dream In?
    Elena Lappin
    Cover of Straight Expectations
    Non­fic­tion
    Straight Expec­ta­tions
    Peg­gy Cryden
    Cover of How Does That Make You Feel?
    Non­fic­tion
    How Does That Make You Feel?
    Sher­ry Ann Amatenstein
    Cover of My Glory Was I Had Such Friends
    Non­fic­tion
    My Glo­ry Was I Had Such Friends
    Amy Sil­ver­stein
    Cover of Down City
    Non­fic­tion
    Down City
    Leah Car­roll
    Cover of Lifesaving for Beginners
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    Life­sav­ing for Beginners
    Anne Edel­stein
    Cover of Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy
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    Dis­tilled: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Sea­gram, Base­ball, and Philanthropy
    Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
    Cover of Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
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    Some­thing Beau­ti­ful Hap­pened: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Courage in the Face of Evil
    Yvette Manes­sis Corporon
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