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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
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    Clara’s War: One Girl’s Sto­ry of Survival
    Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz
    Cover of Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
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    Good Liv­ing Street: Por­trait of a Patron Fam­i­ly, Vien­na 1900
    Tim Bonyhady
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    Meta­Maus: A Look Inside a Mod­ern Clas­sic, Maus
    Art Spiegelman
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    Tales of a The­atri­cal Guru
    Danny Newman
    Cover of This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz
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    This Has Hap­pened: An Ital­ian Fam­i­ly in Auschwitz
    Piera Sonnino
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    A Fam­i­ly of Strangers
    Deborah Tall
    Cover of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
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    Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle Word of the Bible
    David Plotz
    Cover of Foreskin's Lament
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    Fore­skin’s Lament
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
    Cover of My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
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    My Jesus Year: A Rab­bi’s Son Wan­ders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
    Benyamin Cohen
    Cover of The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Personal Stories of Life in the Promise Land
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    The Ethiopi­an Jews of Israel: Per­son­al Sto­ries of Life in the Promise Land
    Len Lyons
    Cover of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
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    My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for his Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq
    Ariel Sabar
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    Life of the Par­ty: A Polit­i­cal Press Tart Bares All
    Lisa Baron
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    I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doc­tor’s Last Sac­ri­fice on the Road to Peace
    Izzeldin Abuelaish
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    The Mem­o­ry Palace
    Mira Bartok
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    The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews
    Michael Good
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    10 British Pris­on­ers of War Saved My Life
    Hannah Rigler
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