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Autobiography & Memoir

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My Father’s Bonus March
Adam Langer
Cover of Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
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Let­ters from the Lost: A Mem­oir of Discovery
Helen Waldstein Wilkes
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Back­ing into For­ward: A Memoir
Jules Feif­fer
Cover of Everything Is Possible: Life and Business Lessons From a Self-Made Billionaire and the Founder of Slim-Fast
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Every­thing Is Pos­si­ble: Life and Busi­ness Lessons From a Self-Made Bil­lion­aire and the Founder of Slim-Fast
S. Daniel Abraham with Joseph Telushkin
Cover of No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
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No One Would Lis­ten: A True Finan­cial Thriller
Harry Markopolos
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Mem­o­ries of Eden: A Jour­ney Through Jew­ish Baghdad
Violette Shamash; Mira and Tony Roca, eds.
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Wisen­heimer: A Child­hood Sub­ject to Debate
Mark Oppenheimer
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Noth­ing Like Sun­shine: A Sto­ry in the After­math of the MLK Assassination
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Work­ing with Bern­stein: A Memoir
Jack Gottlieb
Cover of Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood
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Two Cents Plain: My Brook­lyn Boyhood
Mar­tin Lemelman
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How To Make Peace In The Mid­dle East In Six Months Or Less With­out Leav­ing Your Apartment
Gregorey Levey
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Make Me a Woman
Vanessa Davis
Cover of My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing up Under Apartheid in South Africa
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My Race: A Jew­ish Girl Grow­ing up Under Apartheid in South Africa
Lorraine Lotzof Abramson
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Blows to the Head: How Box­ing Changed My Mind
Binnie Klein
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Fam­i­ly’s Cen­tu­ry of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal
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How to Under­stand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Sarah Glidden
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