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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.
    Cover of Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker
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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
    Cover of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
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    In Search of Mem­o­ry: The Emer­gence of a New Sci­ence of Mind
    Eric R. Kandel
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    Com­ing of Age: My Jour­ney to the Eighties
    Madeleine Kunin
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    Lost and Found in Spain: Tales of An Ambas­sador’s Wife
    Susan Solomont
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    On The Run In Nazi Berlin
    Bev Saltz­man Lewyn
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    My Life through My Dress­es: Grow­ing Up Socialist
    Mari­na Berkovich
    Cover of Buried Rivers: A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust
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    Buried Rivers: A Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney into the Holocaust
    Ellen Kor­man Mains
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    The Sur­vivors: A Sto­ry of War, Inher­i­tance, and Healing
    Adam P. Frankel
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    Mah Jongg Mon­days: A Mem­oir About Friend­ship, Love and Faith
    Fern Bern­stein
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