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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Sacred Housekeeping: A Spiritual Memoir
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    Sacred House­keep­ing: A Spir­i­tu­al Memoir
    Harriet Rossetto; Reeva Hunter Mandelbaum, ed.
    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
    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
    Cover of Kick and Run: Memoir with Soccer Ball
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    Kick and Run: Mem­oir with Soc­cer Ball
    Jonathan Wilson
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    Dossier K.
    Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson, trans.
    Cover of The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
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    The Fam­i­ly: Three Jour­neys into the Heart of the Twen­ti­eth Century
    David Laskin
    Cover of What Made Sammy Run?
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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.
    Cover of Lovesong: Becoming a Jew
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    Lovesong: Becom­ing a Jew
    Julius Lester
    Cover of Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet 1944-1945
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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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