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Dog Flowers
by Danielle Geller
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Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race
by Richard Askwith
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Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
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In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
by Miranda Seymour
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Edison
by Edmund Morris
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Children of the Land
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
by  Amaryllis Fox
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Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Géraldine Schwarz
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Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss
by Rachel Clarke
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The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
by Sara Seager
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The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place
by David Sheff
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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Francoise Frenkel
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Memorial Drive
by Natasha Trethewey
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When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted
by Jim McCloskey, Philip Lerman
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Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
by Heather Lende
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Hollywood Park
by Mikel Jollett
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by Sonia Purnell
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
by Sarah Ramey
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Shout
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
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Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes)
by Boris Fishman
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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
by  Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by Dani Shapiro
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
by Bridgett M. Davis
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Solitary
by Albert Woodfox
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Code Name Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
by Larry Loftis
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by Lindsey Hilsum
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In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado
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Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
by Dovey Johnson Roundtree , Katie McCabe
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