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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy after Heartbreak
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The Bro­ken and the Whole: Dis­cov­er­ing Joy after Heartbreak
Charles S. Sherman
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Chil­dren’s
A Bag of Mar­bles: The Graph­ic Novel
Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
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Alex’s Wake: A Voy­age of Betray­al and a Jour­ney of Remembrance
Mar­tin Goldsmith
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Amidst the Shad­ows of Trees: A Holo­caust Child’s Sur­vival in the Partisans
Miriam M. Brysk; Michael Barenbaum, intro.
Cover of And You Thought Accountants Were Boring: My Life Inside Arthur Andersen
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And You Thought Accoun­tants Were Bor­ing: My Life Inside Arthur Andersen
Lar­ry Katzen
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Blood, Mar­riage, Wine, and Glitter
S. Bear Bergman
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What If Tomor­row Nev­er Comes?
Neil David Schwartz
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The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Sax­on Jew
Sue Silverman
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Free Spir­it: Grow­ing Up On the Road and Off the Grid
Joshua Safran
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Sal­va­tion After My Ultra-Ortho­dox Girlhood
Leah Vin­cent
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Stranger in My Own Coun­try: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in Mod­ern Germany
Yascha Mounk
Cover of My Crazy Century: A Memoir
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My Crazy Cen­tu­ry: A Memoir
Ivan Klima; Craig Cravens, trans.
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Sip­ping from the Nile: My Exo­dus from Egypt
Jean Nag­gar
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Lit­tle Fail­ure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyn­gart
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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940- 1944: Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Resis­tance, and Dai­ly Life in Occu­pied Paris
Jean Guehenno; David Ball, annotator and trans.
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Look­ing for Strangers: The True Sto­ry of My Hid­den Wartime Childhood
Dori Katz
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