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Autobiography & Memoir

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

…
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
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The Sto­ry of a Life
Aharon Appelfeld; Aloma Halter, trans.
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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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The Doc­tor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer with Pierre A. Lehu
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The Sev­en Good Years
Etgar Keret; Silverston, Shlesinger, Cohen, and Berris, trans.
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Frank: A Life in Pol­i­tics from the Great Soci­ety to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank
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My Father’s Gui­tar & Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Stories
Joseph Ski­bell
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I Was A Child
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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White School­days: Com­ing of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Isme Ben­nie
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