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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Arti­fi­cial: A Love Story
    Amy Kurzweil
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    Dwell Time: A Mem­oir of Art, Exile, and Repair
    Rosa Lowinger
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    Return­ing to Cuba: Art Con­ser­va­tion and Fam­i­ly History

    Rosa Lowinger
    October 9, 2023
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    The Box with the Sun­flower Clasp
    Rachel Meller
    Cover of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
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    The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lako­ta, and an Amer­i­can Inheritance
    Rebec­ca Clarren
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    The Bal­le­ri­na of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edi­tion of The Choice
    Dr. Edith Eva Eger
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    Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stal­in, and the Mirac­u­lous Sur­vival of My Family
    Daniel Finkel­stein
    Cover of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
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    Strangers to Our­selves: Unset­tled Minds and the Sto­ries That Make Us
    Rachel Aviv
    Cover of A Tourist From Petach Tikva: Growing Up Alongside the Creation of the State of Israel
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    A Tourist From Petach Tik­va: Grow­ing Up Along­side the Cre­ation of the State of Israel
    Aubrey Kagan
    Cover of The Last Year of My Life: Ten Leadership Tools That Transformed a Deadly Diagnosis into a Path of Renewal
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    The Last Year of My Life: Ten Lead­er­ship Tools That Trans­formed a Dead­ly Diag­no­sis into a Path of Renewal
    Eeki Elner
    Joshua T. Adams
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    Heart. Soul. Pen.: Find Your Voice on the Page and In Your Life
    Robin Finn
    Cover of Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution
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    Out­side Voic­es: A Mem­oir of the Berke­ley Revolution
    Joan Gelfand
    Cover of Family Declassified: Uncovering My Grandfather's Journey from Spy to Children's Book Author
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    Fam­i­ly Declas­si­fied: Uncov­er­ing My Grand­fa­ther’s Jour­ney from Spy to Chil­dren’s Book Author
    Kather­ine Fennelly
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    All The Ways You Taught Us: A Mem­oir of Abil­i­ty, Dis­abil­i­ty, and the Pur­suit of Meaning
    Janet R. Gordon
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    Pro­files in Men­tal Health Courage
    Stephen Fried
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    Leav­ing Bacon Behind: A How to Guide to Jew­ish Conversion
    Melvin S. Marsh
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