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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of Letters to Talia
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Let­ters to Talia
Dov Indig; Yehuda Burdman, trans.
Cover of Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir
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Saul Bel­low’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir
Greg Bellow
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Search­ing for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
Emi­ly Raboteau
Cover of Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son
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Fol­low­ing Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gum­by, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extra­or­di­nary Son
Tom Fields-Mey­er
Cover of The Scientists: A Family Romance
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The Sci­en­tists: A Fam­i­ly Romance
Marco Roth
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The Force of Things: A Mar­riage in War and Peace
Alexan­der Stille
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An Armen­ian Sketchbook
Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler, trans.
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Russ & Daugh­ters: Reflec­tions and Recipes from the House That Her­ring Built
Mark Russ Federman
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Red Brick, Black Moun­tain, White Clay: Reflec­tions on Art, Fam­i­ly, and Survival
Christopher Benfey
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Broth­ers Emanuel: A Mem­oir of an Amer­i­can Family
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story
Jill Soloway
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Sat­ur­day Peo­ple, Sun­day Peo­ple: Israel through the Eyes of a Chris­t­ian Sojourner
Lela Gilbert
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Oral Plea­sure: Kosin­s­ki as Storyteller
Jerzy Kosinski; Kiki Kosinski and Barbara Tepa Lupack, eds.
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Bar­ry Son­nen­feld, Call Your Moth­er: Mem­oirs of a Neu­rot­ic Filmmaker
Bar­ry Sonnenfeld
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Fran­ci’s War: A Wom­an’s Sto­ry of Survival 
Franci Rabinek Epstein (auth.), Helen Epstein (fwd.)
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Tran­scend­ing Dark­ness: A Girl’s Jour­ney Out of the Holocaust
Estelle Glaser Laughlin
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