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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of The Red Leather Diary
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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
    Cover of Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It
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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
    Cover of My Father's Secret War: A Memoir
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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.
    Cover of Unlocked: A Journey From Prison to Proust
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    Unlocked: A Jour­ney From Prison to Proust
    Louis Ferrante
    Cover of Twice Dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, The Ethics of Memory, and the Treblinka Revolt
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    Twice Dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, The Ethics of Mem­o­ry, and the Tre­blin­ka Revolt
    Yoram Lubling
    Cover of Where You Left Me
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    Where You Left Me
    Jennifer Gardner Trulson
    Cover of In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War
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    In the Sands of Sinai: A Physi­cian’s Account of the Yom Kip­pur War
    Itzhak Brook
    Cover of Fierce Joy: A Memoir
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    Fierce Joy: A Memoir
    Ellen Schecter
    Cover of Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown
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    Most of Me: Sur­viv­ing My Med­ical Meltdown
    Robyn Michele Levy
    Cover of The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond
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    The Scat­tered Tribe: Trav­el­ing the Dias­po­ra from Cuba to India to Tahi­ti & Beyond
    Ben G. Frank
    Cover of Rather Laugh Than Cry: Stories From a Hassidic Household
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    Rather Laugh Than Cry: Sto­ries From a Has­sidic Household
    Malka Zipora
    Cover of The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
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    The Mas­cot: Unrav­el­ing the Mys­tery of My Jew­ish Father’s Nazi Boyhood
    Mark Kurzem
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