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    Autobiography & Memoir

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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.
    Cover of Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
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    Russ & Daugh­ters: Reflec­tions and Recipes from the House That Her­ring Built
    Mark Russ Federman
    Cover of Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
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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
    Cover of Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner
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    Sat­ur­day Peo­ple, Sun­day Peo­ple: Israel through the Eyes of a Chris­t­ian Sojourner
    Lela Gilbert
    Cover of Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller
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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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    Bo, Jen­ny, and I
    Huguette Herrmann
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    In Search of Mem­o­ry: The Emer­gence of a New Sci­ence of Mind
    Eric R. Kandel
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    This Real­ly Isn’t About You
    Jean Han­nah Edelstein
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    Sound­Ma­chine
    Rachel Zucker
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