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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Waiting: Selected Nonfiction
    Non­fic­tion
    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
    Cover of The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
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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
    Cover of Out of the Depths: From Buchenwald to Jerusalem: A Memoir
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    Out of the Depths: From Buchen­wald to Jerusalem: A Memoir
    Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
    Cover of A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
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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
    Cover of Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel
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    Out­sider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel
    Nissim Rejwan University of Texas Press
    Cover of Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, The Story of a Nation
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    Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
    Marina Benjamin
    Cover of Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
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    Sala’s Gift: My Moth­er’s Holo­caust Story
    Ann Kirschn­er
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    Auschwitz Report
    Pri­mo Levi
    Cover of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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    The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
    Daniel Mendelsohn 
    Cover of American Parent: My Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland
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    Amer­i­can Par­ent: My Sur­pris­ing Adven­tures in Mod­ern Babyland
    Sam Apple
    Cover of On The Road With Rabbi Steinsaltz
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    On The Road With Rab­bi Steinsaltz
    Arthur Kurzweil
    Cover of Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel
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    Com­ing Togeth­er, Com­ing Apart: A Mem­oir of Heart­break and Promise in Israel
    Daniel Gordis
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    Sur­prised by God: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Religion
    Danya Rut­ten­berg
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