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    Autobiography & Memoir

    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.)
    Cover of Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust
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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
    Cover of For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
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    For Small Crea­tures Such As We: Rit­u­als for Find­ing Mean­ing in Our Unlike­ly World
    Sasha Sagan
    Cover of Intermission: How Fervor, Frienships and Faith Took Me to the Second Act
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    Inter­mis­sion: How Fer­vor, Frien­ships and Faith Took Me to the Sec­ond Act
    Mindie Bar­nett
    Cover of Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
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    Com­ing of Age: My Jour­ney to the Eighties
    Madeleine Kunin
    Cover of Lost and Found in Spain: Tales of An Ambassador's Wife
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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
    Cover of My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist
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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
    Cover of The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
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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
    Cover of Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story
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    Shores Beyond Shores: From Holo­caust to Hope, My True Story
    Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway
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