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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section
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    Invis­i­ble Labor: The Untold Sto­ry of the Cesare­an Section
    Rachel Somer­stein
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    South of My Dreams: Find­ing My Amer­i­can Home, A Memoir
    F. K. Clementi
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    Fam­i­ly Trea­sures Lost and Found
    Karen A. Frenkel
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    Remem­ber Us to Life: A Graph­ic Memoir
    Joan­na Rubin Dranger
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    Woe & Awe
    Lisa M. Miller
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    Mak­ing the Best of What’s Left: When We’re Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered
    Judith Viorst
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    Stand­ing on the Crack: The Lega­cy of Five Jew­ish Fam­i­lies from Seat­tle’s Gild­ed Age
    Karen Treiger
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    Final­ly the Bride: Find­ing Love After Walk­ing Down Every­one Else’s Aisle
    Jen Glantz
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    Roy­al Edge
    Michael Pep­per
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    Mil­dred’s Mind­set: Wis­dom From a Woman Centenarian
    Gayle Kirschen­baum
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    Sud­den­ly Jew­ish: The Life and Times of My Jew­ish Mother
    Joan Moran
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    Find­ing Ruby: The Bright and Dark Sides of a Family’s Fer­vent Idealism
    Richard Roth­man
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    Sav­ing Abi­gail: The True Sto­ry of the Abduc­tion and Res­cue of a Three-Year-Old Hostage
    Liz Hirsh Naftali
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    Ani­ma­tion Nation: How We Built a Car­toon Empire
    Michael Hirsh
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    No Jews Live Here
    John Lor­inc
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    My Moth­er’s War: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Trib­ute to an Extra­or­di­nary Woman
    Michael Fryd
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