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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Only As Good As Your Word: Writing Lessons From My Favorite Literary Gurus
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    Only As Good As Your Word: Writ­ing Lessons From My Favorite Lit­er­ary Gurus
    Susan Shapiro
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    Morn­ings at the Stan­ton Street Shul: A Sum­mer on the Low­er East Side
    Jonathan Boyarin
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    The Life of the Skies
    Jonathan Rosen
    Cover of A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
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    A Schol­ar’s Tale: Intel­lec­tu­al Jour­ney of a Dis­placed Child of Europe
    Geoffrey Hartman
    Cover of Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz
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    Stop For­get­ting to Remem­ber: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Wal­ter Kurtz
    Peter Kuper
    Cover of The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism
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    The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism
    Edward I. Koch with Rafael Medoff
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    The Rab­bi’s Daughter
    Reva Mann
    Cover of Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration
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    Wait­ing for Amer­i­ca: A Sto­ry of Emigration
    Max­im D. Shrayer
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    The Com­man­dant
    Rudolph Hoess; Jurg Amann, ed.; Ian Buruma aftwd.
    Cover of Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied The Holocaust
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    Four Girls From Berlin: A True Sto­ry of a Friend­ship That Defied The Holocaust
    Marianne Meyerhoff
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    Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
    Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
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    The Hunger Artist: A Sub­ur­ban Childhood
    Joanne Jacobson
    Cover of Husbandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laundry: Inside the Minds of Married Men
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    Hus­bandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laun­dry: Inside the Minds of Mar­ried Men
    Stephen Fried
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    The Road to Fati­ma Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbol­lah and The Iran­ian War Against Israel
    Michael J. Totten
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    The Invis­i­ble Wall: A Love Sto­ry That Broke Barriers
    Harry Bernstein
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    Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
    Ben Karlin, ed.
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