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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany
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    Stranger in My Own Coun­try: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in Mod­ern Germany
    Yascha Mounk
    Cover of Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
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    Cut Me Loose: Sin and Sal­va­tion After My Ultra-Ortho­dox Girlhood
    Leah Vin­cent
    Cover of My Crazy Century: A Memoir
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    My Crazy Cen­tu­ry: A Memoir
    Ivan Klima; Craig Cravens, trans.
    Cover of Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt
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    Sip­ping from the Nile: My Exo­dus from Egypt
    Jean Nag­gar
    Cover of Little Failure: A Memoir
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    Lit­tle Fail­ure: A Memoir
    Gary Shteyn­gart
    Cover of Diary of the Dark Years, 1940- 1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris
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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.
    Cover of Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
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    Look­ing for Strangers: The True Sto­ry of My Hid­den Wartime Childhood
    Dori Katz
    Cover of Miriam's Kitchen
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    Miri­am’s Kitchen
    Elizabeth Ehrlich
    Cover of The Extra
    Chil­dren’s
    The Extra
    Kathryn Lasky
    Cover of Austerlitz
    Non­fic­tion
    Auster­litz
    W.G. Sebald; James Wood, introduction
    Cover of Sacred Housekeeping: A Spiritual Memoir
    Non­fic­tion
    Sacred House­keep­ing: A Spir­i­tu­al Memoir
    Harriet Rossetto; Reeva Hunter Mandelbaum, ed.
    Cover of Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law
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    Tak­ing the Stand: My Life in the Law
    Alan Dershowitz
    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
    Cover of Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story
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    Leav­ing Rus­sia: A Jew­ish Story
    Maxim D. Shrayer
    Cover of Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
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    Breath­less: An Amer­i­can Girl in Paris
    Nancy K. Miller
    Cover of Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx
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    Why Do Only White Peo­ple Get Abduct­ed by Aliens?: Teach­ing Lessons from the Bronx
    Ilana Garon
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