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    Cover of Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn, and Some Really Bad Dates
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    Grow­ing Up Golem: How I Sur­vived My Moth­er, Brook­lyn, and Some Real­ly Bad Dates
    Don­na Minkowitz
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    The FabY­OUList
    Susan Camp­bell Cross
    Cover of Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny
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    Per­il: From Jack­boots to Jack Benny
    Pearl Good­man
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    Forgery of the Month Club
    Kei­th T Alexander
    Cover of Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
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    Law­ful­ly Wed­ded Hus­band: How My Gay Mar­riage Will Save the Amer­i­can Family
    Joel Derfn­er
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    Replace­ment Child
    Judy L. Mandel
    Cover of Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior
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    War­rior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maa­sai Warrior
    Mindy Bud­gor
    Cover of Painting Zaidy's Dream: Memoir of a Searching Soul
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    Paint­ing Zaidy’s Dream: Mem­oir of a Search­ing Soul
    Miri­am Karp
    Cover of The Mom Who Took Off On Her Motorcycle: Life Lessons on the Road to Alaska
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    The Mom Who Took Off On Her Motor­cy­cle: Life Lessons on the Road to Alaska
    Diana Blet­ter
    Cover of Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
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    Sons of Abra­ham: A Can­did Con­ver­sa­tion about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
    Rabbi Marc Schneier & Imam Shamsi Ali
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    Stum­bling Through the Dark
    Thel­ma Zirkelbach
    Cover of The Bohemian Love Diaries
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    The Bohemi­an Love Diaries
    Slash Cole­man
    Cover of Crash: A Mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief
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    Crash: A Moth­er, a Son, and the Jour­ney from Grief
    Car­olyn Roy-Bornstein
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    I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
    Mar­i­anne Szegedy-Maszak
    Cover of Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital
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    Dead­lines and Dis­rup­tion: My Tur­bu­lent Path from Print to Digital
    Stephen Shep­ard
    Cover of Faith Unravels: A Rabbi's Struggle with Grief and God
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    Faith Unrav­els: A Rab­bi’s Strug­gle with Grief and God
    Daniel Grey­ber
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