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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
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Kar­ma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Man­gos, Bol­ly­wood and Water Buffalo
Jen­ny Feldon
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Leav­ing Rus­sia: A Jew­ish Story
Maxim D. Shrayer
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Breath­less: An Amer­i­can Girl in Paris
Nancy K. Miller
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Why Do Only White Peo­ple Get Abduct­ed by Aliens?: Teach­ing Lessons from the Bronx
Ilana Garon
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Kick and Run: Mem­oir with Soc­cer Ball
Jonathan Wilson
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Dossier K.
Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson, trans.
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The Fam­i­ly: Three Jour­neys into the Heart of the Twen­ti­eth Century
David Laskin
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What Made Sam­my Run?
Sam Silberberg; adapted by Carolyn Buan
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Open Heart
Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel, trans.
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Lovesong: Becom­ing a Jew
Julius Lester
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Reign of Ter­ror: The Budapest Mem­oirs of Valde­mar Lan­glet 1944 – 1945
Valdemar Langlet
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Coun­try of Ash: A Jew­ish Doc­tor in Poland, 1939 – 1945
Edward Reicher; Magda Bogin, trans.
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Sea­son to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way
Mol­ly Birnbaum
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I’m New at Being Old
Lucy Rose Fischer
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What We Have: A Memoir
Amy Boesky
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Total­ly Unof­fi­cial: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin; Donna-Lee Frieze, ed.
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