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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    The Astor Orphan: A Memior
    Alexan­dra Aldrich
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    My New Orleans, Gone Away
    Peter Wolf
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    The Crooked Mir­ror: A Mem­oir of Pol­ish-Jew­ish Reconciliation
    Louise Stein­man
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    What Do You Buy the Chil­dren of the Ter­ror­ist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Mem­oir of Jerusalem
    David Har­ris-Ger­shon
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    Life­Jour­ney Books Do-It-Your­self Mem­oir Workbook
    Deborah Fineblum & Naomi Grossman
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    The Good Girls Revolt
    Lynn Povich
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    Cross­ing Cairo: A Jew­ish Wom­an’s Encounter with Egypt
    Ruth Sohn
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    Girl with the Crooked Smile…Stuck in a Moment
    Darah Zele­don
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    Con­fes­sions of a Wor­ry­wart: Hus­bands, Lovers, Moth­ers, and Others
    Susan Orlins
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    Danc­ing with the Ene­my: My Fam­i­ly’s Holo­caust Secret
    Paul Glaser
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    Rock and Roll Stories
    Lynn Gold­smith
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    The Last Pilgrimage
    Lin­da Daly
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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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