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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
    Willis Barn­stone
    Cover of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
    Non­fic­tion
    How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
    Danny Goldberg
    Cover of Danger on My Doorstep: The Anita Flora Powitzer Story
    Chil­dren’s
    Dan­ger on My Doorstep: The Ani­ta Flo­ra Pow­itzer Story
    Linda Schubert; Mary Beatty-Brooks, illus.
    Chil­dren’s
    I Will Plant You Like a Lilac Tree: A Mem­oir of a Schindler’s List Survivor
    Laura Hillman
    Cover of Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir
    Poet­ry
    Body of Dimin­ish­ing Motion: Poems and a Memoir
    Joan Seliger Sidney
    Cover of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
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    Jerusalem: Chron­i­cles from the Holy City
    Guy Delisle
    Cover of My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
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    My Fathers’ Hous­es: Mem­oir of a Family
    Steven V. Roberts
    Cover of With a Yellow Star and a Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto
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    With a Yel­low Star and a Red Cross: A Doc­tor in the Lodz Ghetto
    Arnold Mostowicz; Antony Polonsky, fwd.; Henia and Nochem Reinhartz, trans.
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    Love in a World of Sor­row: A Teenage Girl’s Holo­caust Memoirs
    Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
    Cover of The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
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    The Tiger in the Attic: Mem­o­ries of the Kinder­trans­port and Grow­ing Up English
    Edith Milton
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    Clas­sic Feyn­man: All the Adven­tures of a Curi­ous Character
    Richard P. Feynman; Ralph Leighton, ed.
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    Black Sea­sons
    Michal Glowinski; Marci Shore, trans.
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    On Aus­tri­an Soil: Teach­ing Those I Was Taught to Hate
    Sondra Perl
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    Har­vey Pekar’s Cleveland
    Harvey Pekar; Joseph Remnant, illus.
    Cover of On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870-1900)
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    On Long Win­ter Nights: Mem­oirs of a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in a Gali­cian Town­ship (1870−1900)
    Hinde Bergner; Justin Cammy, trans. and ed.
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    Atta Girl! A Memoir
    Genie Zeiger
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