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    Cover of One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular
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    One and the Same: My Life as an Iden­ti­cal Twin and What I’ve Learned About Every­one’s Strug­gle to Be Singular
    Abi­gail Pogrebin
    Cover of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer
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    The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Tele­vi­sion Writer
    Rita Lakin
    Cover of The Best Boy in the United States Of America: A Memoir of Blessings and Kisses
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    The Best Boy in the Unit­ed States Of Amer­i­ca: A Mem­oir of Bless­ings and Kisses
    Ron Wolf­son
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    A Purge to Pre­serve the Myth of Spot­less Escape

    Excerpt­ed from Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind by Sarah Wild­man, now avail­able in paper­back from River­head Books.It was some years after his…
    Sarah Wild­man
    October 13, 2015
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    The Strangers We Became
    Cyn­thia Kaplan Shamash
    Cover of Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
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    Ally: My Jour­ney Across the Amer­i­can-Israeli Divide
    Michael Oren
    Cover of On the Move: A Life
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    On the Move: A Life
    Oliver Sacks
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    Mus­cle Beach

    Excerpt­ed from On the Move: A Life by Oliv­er Sacks.When I final­ly made it to New York in June of 1961, I bor­rowed mon­ey from a cousin and bought…
    Oliv­er Sacks
    August 30, 2015
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    33 Days
    Léon Werth; Austin Denis Johnston, trans.
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    Mis­sis­sip­pi, Mon Amour

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    Mar­i­one Ingram
    August 20, 2015
    Cover of When Europe Was A Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941
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    When Europe Was A Prison Camp: Father and Son Mem­oirs, 1940 – 1941
    Otto Schrag and Peter Schrag
    Cover of The Story of a Life
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    The Sto­ry of a Life
    Aharon Appelfeld; Aloma Halter, trans.
    Cover of Eight Questions of Faith: Biblical Challenges that Guide and Ground Our Lives
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    Eight Ques­tions of Faith: Bib­li­cal Chal­lenges that Guide and Ground Our Lives
    Niles Elliot Goldstein
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    Pedi­gree
    Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti, trans.
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    Child­hood
    Jona Oberski; Ralph Manheim, trans.
    Cover of Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
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    Rywka’s Diary: The Writ­ings of a Jew­ish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
    Rywka Lipszyc and Anita Friedman
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