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Autobiography & Memoir

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Bill the Boy Won­der: The Secret Co-Cre­ator of Batman
Marc Tyler Nobleman
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Through the Eyes of a Sur­vivor: A Liv­ing His­to­ry of Nina Morec­ki From Pre-World War II Poland to Mod­ern America
Colette Waddell
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One Must Also Be Hungarian
Adam Biro; Catherine Tihanyi, trans.
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Let Me Cre­ate a Par­adise, God Said to Him­self: A Jour­ney of Con­science From Johan­nes­burg to Jerusalem
Hirsh Goodman
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A Daugh­ter of Two Mothers
Miriam Cohen; Sandy Bloom, trans.; Chana D. Sklar, ed.
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Man Seeks God: My Flir­ta­tions with the Divine
Eric Wein­er
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Ter­ror in Black Sep­tem­ber: The First Eye­wit­ness Account of the Infa­mous 1970 Hijackings
David Raab
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Feed­ing Eden: The Tri­als and Tri­umphs of a Food Aller­gy Family
Susan Weiss­man
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In This Day and Age?! A Com­mu­ni­ty at the Cross­roads of Reli­gion and Homosexuality
Isaac Nam­dar
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Unlocked: A Jour­ney From Prison to Proust
Louis Ferrante
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The Red Leather Diary
Lily Koppel
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Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went From Brook­lyn to Hol­ly­wood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair
Gary David Goldberg
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Break­ing News: A Stun­ning and Mem­o­rable Account of Report­ing from Some of the Most Dan­ger­ous Places in the World
Mar­tin Fletcher
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What­ev­er It Is, I Don’t Like It
Howard Jacob­son
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Shut Up, I’m Talk­ing: And Oth­er Diplo­ma­cy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Gov­ern­ment: A Memoir
Gre­go­ry Levey
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My Father’s Secret War: A Memoir
Lucin­da Franks
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