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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of The Seven Good Years
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    The Sev­en Good Years
    Etgar Keret; Silverston, Shlesinger, Cohen, and Berris, trans.
    Cover of Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
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    Frank: A Life in Pol­i­tics from the Great Soci­ety to Same-Sex Marriage
    Barney Frank
    Cover of I Was A Child
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    I Was A Child
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    Cover of White Schooldays: Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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    White School­days: Com­ing of Age in Apartheid South Africa
    Isme Ben­nie
    Cover of Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
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    Hold Fast to Dreams: A Col­lege Guid­ance Coun­selor, His Stu­dents, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
    Beth Zasloff
    Josh Steck­el
    Cover of Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust
    Chil­dren’s
    Some­where There Is Still a Sun: A Mem­oir of the Holocaust
    Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy
    Cover of The Year My Mother Came Back: A Memoir
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    The Year My Moth­er Came Back: A Memoir
    Alice Eve Cohen
    Cover of Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts
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    Read­ing Claudius: A Mem­oir in Two Parts
    Car­o­line Heller
    Cover of My Father's Guitar & Other Imaginary Things: True Stories
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    My Father’s Gui­tar & Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Stories
    Joseph Ski­bell
    Cover of White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
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    White Mat­ter: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly and Medicine
    Janet Stern­burg
    Cover of This Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir
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    This Is Not a Love Sto­ry: A Memoir
    Judy Brown
    Cover of Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking
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    Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Sto­ry of Com­fort, Desire, and the Art of Sim­ple Cooking
    Elis­sa Altman
    Cover of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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    The Gram­mar of God: A Jour­ney into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
    Aviya Kush­n­er
    Cover of The Mental Yentl: Stories From A Lifelong Student of Crazy
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    The Men­tal Yentl: Sto­ries From A Life­long Stu­dent of Crazy
    Sal­ly Fingerett
    Cover of Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story
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    Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, an Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, an Israeli Story
    Dina Elen­bo­gen
    Cover of Here and There: Leaving Chasidism, Keeping my Family
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    Here and There: Leav­ing Cha­sidism, Keep­ing my Family
    Chaya Deitsch
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