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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of How's Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
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    How’s Your Faith?: An Unlike­ly Spir­i­tu­al Journey
    David Gre­go­ry
    Cover of The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
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    The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Trea­sures Stolen by the Nazis
    Simon Good­man
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    Sur­ren­der­ing Oz: A Life in Essays
    Bon­nie Friedman
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    The Out­skirts of Hope: A Mem­oir of the 1960s Deep South
    Jo Ivester
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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 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
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    The Men­tal Yentl: Sto­ries From A Life­long Stu­dent of Crazy
    Sal­ly Fingerett
    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
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    Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, an Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, an Israeli Story
    Dina Elen­bo­gen
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    Here and There: Leav­ing Cha­sidism, Keep­ing my Family
    Chaya Deitsch
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    I Did­n’t Tell Them Any­thing: The Wartime Secrets of an Amer­i­can Girl
    Aleena Rieger
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    It Takes a Lit­tle Crazy to Make a Difference
    Dafna Michaelson Jenet
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    Blood, Sweat & My Rock ​‘n Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?
    Steve Katz
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    Screen­ing Room: Fam­i­ly Pictures
    Alan Light­man
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    Year of the Dunk: A Mod­est Defi­ance of Gravity
    Ash­er Price
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