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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of Just Parenting: Building the World One Family at a Time
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Just Par­ent­ing: Build­ing the World One Fam­i­ly at a Time
Julie Green­berg
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Vod­ka Shot, Pick­le Chas­er: A True Sto­ry of Risk, Cor­rup­tion, and Self-Dis­cov­ery Amid the Col­lapse of the Sovi­et Union
David A Kalis
Cover of An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
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An Amer­i­can Cad­die in St. Andrews: Grow­ing Up, Girls, and Loop­ing on the Old Course
Oliv­er Horovitz
Cover of Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives
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Chap­ters of the Heart: Jew­ish Women Shar­ing the Torah of our Lives
Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
Cover of Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
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Mea­sure of a Man: From Auschwitz Sur­vivor to Pres­i­dents’ Tailor
Mar­tin Greenfield
Cover of Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
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Bust­ed: A Tale of Cor­rup­tion and Betray­al in the City of Broth­er­ly Love
Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker
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How to Suc­ceed in Busi­ness with­out Real­ly Crying
Car­ol Leifer
Cover of Pilgrim: Risking the Life I Have to Find the Faith I Seek
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Pil­grim: Risk­ing the Life I Have to Find the Faith I Seek
Lee Kravitz
Cover of Daring: My Passages
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Dar­ing: My Passages
Gail Shee­hy
Cover of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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Mas­ter­ing the Art of Sovi­et Cook­ing: A Mem­oir of Food and Longing
Anya Von Bremzen
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Unstill Life: A Daugh­ter’s Mem­oir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Gabrielle Selz
Cover of My Iran: Memories, Mysteries & Myths
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My Iran: Mem­o­ries, Mys­ter­ies & Myths
Isaac Yomtov­ian
Cover of Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
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Not Fade Away: A Mem­oir of Sens­es Lost and Found
Rebecca Ann Alexander
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Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?
Richard Cohen
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A Back­pack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vod­ka: A Memoir
Lev Golinkin
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I Believe in Zero: Learn­ing from the World’s Children
Caryl Stern
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