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    Cut Me Loose: Sin and Sal­va­tion After My Ultra-Ortho­dox Girlhood
    Leah Vin­cent
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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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    Miri­am’s Kitchen
    Elizabeth Ehrlich
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    The Extra
    Kathryn Lasky
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    Auster­litz
    W.G. Sebald; James Wood, introduction
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    Sacred House­keep­ing: A Spir­i­tu­al Memoir
    Harriet Rossetto; Reeva Hunter Mandelbaum, ed.
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    Tak­ing the Stand: My Life in the Law
    Alan Dershowitz
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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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