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    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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    Unlocked: A Jour­ney From Prison to Proust
    Louis Ferrante
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    The Red Leather Diary
    Lily Koppel
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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 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
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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
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    Where You Left Me
    Jennifer Gardner Trulson
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    In the Sands of Sinai: A Physi­cian’s Account of the Yom Kip­pur War
    Itzhak Brook
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    Fierce Joy: A Memoir
    Ellen Schecter
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    A Schol­ar’s Tale: Intel­lec­tu­al Jour­ney of a Dis­placed Child of Europe
    Geoffrey Hartman
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    Stop For­get­ting to Remem­ber: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Wal­ter Kurtz
    Peter Kuper
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    The Life of the Skies
    Jonathan Rosen
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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
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