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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of The Winter's Journey of My Youth: A Memoir
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    The Win­ter’s Jour­ney of My Youth: A Memoir
    Helen Studley
    Cover of The Center of the Universe: A Memoir
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    The Cen­ter of the Uni­verse: A Memoir
    Nancy Bachrach
    Cover of Remember Us: My Journey From the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
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    Remem­ber Us: My Jour­ney From the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
    Martin Small and Vic Shayne
    Cover of One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child's Journey Through France
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    One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jew­ish Child’s Jour­ney Through France
    Fred Gross
    Cover of I Have My Mother's Eyes: A Holocaust Memoir Across Generations
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    I Have My Moth­er’s Eyes: A Holo­caust Mem­oir Across Generations
    Barbara Ruth Bluman
    Cover of Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)
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    Amen, Amen, Amen: Mem­oir of a Girl Who Could­n’t Stop Pray­ing (Among Oth­er Things)
    Abby Sher
    Cover of Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
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    Dan­ger Pay: Mem­oir of a Pho­to­jour­nal­ist in the Mid­dle East, 1984 – 1994
    Carol Spencer Mitchell; Ellen Spencer Susman, ed.
    Cover of Of Exile and Music: A 20th Century Life
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    Of Exile and Music: A 20th Cen­tu­ry Life
    Eva Mayer Schay
    Cover of A Ship in the Harbor: Mother and Me, Book II
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    A Ship in the Har­bor: Moth­er and Me, Book II
    Julian Padowicz
    Cover of My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World
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    My Foot­print: Car­ry­ing the Weight of the World
    Jeff Garlin
    Cover of A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
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    A Promise at Sobi­bor: A Jew­ish Boy’s Sto­ry of Revolt and Sur­vival in Nazi-Occu­pied Poland
    Philip Bialowitz with Joseph Bialowitz
    Cover of Becoming Alice: A Memoir
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    Becom­ing Alice: A Memoir
    Alice Rene
    Cover of House Rules: A Memoir
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    House Rules: A Memoir
    Rachel Sontag
    Cover of A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy
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    A Child Al Con­fi­no: The True Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Boy and His Moth­er in Mus­solin­i’s Italy
    Eric Lamet
    Cover of Evading the Nazis: The Story of a Hidden Child in Normandy
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    Evad­ing the Nazis: The Sto­ry of a Hid­den Child in Normandy
    Leo Michel Abrami
    Cover of Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
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    Beg, Bor­row, Steal: A Writer’s Life
    Michael Greenberg
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