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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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    A Daugh­ter of Two Mothers
    Miriam Cohen; Sandy Bloom, trans.; Chana D. Sklar, ed.
    Cover of Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience From Johannesburg to Jerusalem
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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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    The Grand Sur­prise: The Jour­nals of Leo Lerman
    Stephen Pascal, ed.
    Cover of Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
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    Man Seeks God: My Flir­ta­tions with the Divine
    Eric Wein­er
    Cover of Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings
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    Ter­ror in Black Sep­tem­ber: The First Eye­wit­ness Account of the Infa­mous 1970 Hijackings
    David Raab
    Cover of Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family
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    Feed­ing Eden: The Tri­als and Tri­umphs of a Food Aller­gy Family
    Susan Weiss­man
    Cover of In This Day and Age?! A Community at the Crossroads of Religion and Homosexuality
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    In This Day and Age?! A Com­mu­ni­ty at the Cross­roads of Reli­gion and Homosexuality
    Isaac Nam­dar
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    The Red Leather Diary
    Lily Koppel
    Cover of Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
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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
    Cover of Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went From Brooklyn to Hollywood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair
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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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    What­ev­er It Is, I Don’t Like It
    Howard Jacob­son
    Cover of Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government: A Memoir
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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
    Cover of The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin
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    The Forg­er: An Extra­or­di­nary Sto­ry of Sur­vival in Wartime Berlin
    Cioma Schonhaus; Alan Bance, trans.
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