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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Girl with the Crooked Smile…Stuck in a Moment
    Darah Zele­don
    Cover of Confessions of a Worrywart: Husbands, Lovers, Mothers, and Others
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    Con­fes­sions of a Wor­ry­wart: Hus­bands, Lovers, Moth­ers, and Others
    Susan Orlins
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    Rock and Roll Stories
    Lynn Gold­smith
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    The Last Pilgrimage
    Lin­da Daly
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    Danc­ing with the Ene­my: My Fam­i­ly’s Holo­caust Secret
    Paul Glaser
    Cover of An American Bride In Kabul: A Memoir
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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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    Stand­ing Up
    Mar­i­on Grodin
    Cover of Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich
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    Exo­dus to Shang­hai: Sto­ries of Escape from the Third Reich
    Steve Hochstadt
    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
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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 My Life in Jewish Renewal: A Memoir
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    My Life in Jew­ish Renew­al: A Memoir
    Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Edward Hoffman
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    Trav­el­ing Heavy: A Mem­oir in between Journeys
    Ruth Behar
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    A For­got­ten Land: Grow­ing Up In The Jew­ish Pale, Based on the Rec­ol­lec­tions of Pearl Unikow Cooper
    Lisa Cooper
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