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    My Mother’s Wars
    Lillian Faderman
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    Let­ting It Go
    Miriam Katin
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    Shocked: My Moth­er, Schi­a­par­el­li, and Me
    Patricia Volk
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    Lis­ten­ing to God: Inspi­ra­tional Sto­ries for My Grandchildren
    Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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    Fame Shark
    Royal Young
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    My Family’s Reac­tion to Fame Shark

    Roy­al Young​’s debut mem­oir Fame Shark will be released June 2013 from Heliotrope Books. Young con­tributes to Inter­view Mag­a­zine, New York Post, BOMB Mag­a­zine and The Lo…
    Roy­al Young
    June 10, 2013
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    It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead…And Oth­er Essen­tial Advice from a Self-Made Leader
    Morton L. Mandel with John A. Byrne
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    You Say Toma­to, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
    Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
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    Steal­ing History
    Ger­ald Stern
    Cover of The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
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    The Pen­du­lum: A Grand­daugh­ter’s Search for Her Fam­i­ly’s For­bid­den Nazi Past
    Julie Lin­dahl
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    The Price of Truth: A True Sto­ry of Child Sex­u­al Abuse in the Ortho­dox Jew­ish World — and One Girl’s Courage to Sur­vive and Heal
    Genendy Rad­off
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    An Amer­i­can Bride In Kab­ul: A Memoir
    Phyl­lis Chesler
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    Moth­er Daugh­ter Me
    Katie Hafn­er
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    Exo­dus to Shang­hai: Sto­ries of Escape from the Third Reich
    Steve Hochstadt
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    Stand­ing Up
    Mar­i­on Grodin
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    Grow­ing Up Golem: How I Sur­vived My Moth­er, Brook­lyn, and Some Real­ly Bad Dates
    Don­na Minkowitz
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