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    Autobiography & Memoir

    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 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
    Cover of Loves of Yulian: Mother and Me, Part III
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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 American Parent: My Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland
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    Amer­i­can Par­ent: My Sur­pris­ing Adven­tures in Mod­ern Babyland
    Sam Apple
    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
    Cover of On The Road With Rabbi Steinsaltz
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    On The Road With Rab­bi Steinsaltz
    Arthur Kurzweil
    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
    Cover of Auschwitz Report
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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 Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
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    Sur­prised by God: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Religion
    Danya Rut­ten­berg
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    Lone­ly Soldier
    Adam Harmon
    Cover of Somewhere in Germany
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    Some­where in Germany
    Stefanie Zweig; Marlies Comjean, trans.
    Cover of My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
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    My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
    Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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