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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
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Bad Moth­er: A Chron­i­cle of Mater­nal Crimes, Minor Calami­ties, and Occa­sion­al Moments of Grace
Ayelet Wald­man
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Hous­es of Study: A Jew­ish Woman Among Books
Ilana M. Blumberg
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If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious State
Daniel Gordis
Cover of The Words to Remember It: Memoirs of Child Holocaust Survivors
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The Words to Remem­ber It: Mem­oirs of Child Holo­caust Survivors
Sydney Child Holocaust Survivors Group
Cover of We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
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We All Wore Stars: Mem­o­ries of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
Theo Coster
Cover of Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust
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Waltz­ing with the Ene­my: A Moth­er and Daugh­ter Con­front the After­math of the Holocaust
Rasia Kliot and Helen Mitsios
Cover of A Physician Under the Nazis: Memoirs of Henry Glenwick
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A Physi­cian Under the Nazis: Mem­oirs of Hen­ry Glenwick
Henry Glenwick; David Glenwick, ed.; Thane Rosenbaum, fwd.
Cover of Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
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Kosher Chi­nese: Liv­ing, Teach­ing, and Eat­ing with Chi­na’s Oth­er Billion
Michael Levy
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Loves of Yulian: Moth­er and Me, Part III
Julian Padowicz
Cover of Waiting: Selected Nonfiction
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Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
Elizabeth Swados
Cover of Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
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Chas­ing Shad­ows: A Spe­cial Agen­t’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assas­sin to Justice
Fred Burton and John Bruning
Cover of Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris
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Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burn­er in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris
Lauren Shockey
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The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
Lucette Lagna­do
Cover of The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities
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The Mem­o­ry of All That: George Gersh­win, Kay Swift and My Fam­i­ly’s Lega­cy of Infidelities
Katharine Weber
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Out of the Depths: From Buchen­wald to Jerusalem: A Memoir
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
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A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kind­ness– and a Trove of Let­ters– Revealed the Hid­den His­to­ry of the Great Depression
Ted Gup
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