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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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Children of the Land
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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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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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Francoise Frenkel
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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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Edison
by Edmund Morris
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
by  Amaryllis Fox
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A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
by Kurt Eichenwald
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
by Deborah Heiligman
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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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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by Sarah Smarsh
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
by Karen Piper
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I Will Be Complete: A Memoir
by Glen David Gold
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Small Fry
by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
by Kate Harris
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Calypso
by David Sedaris
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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
by Allison Pataki
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Call Me American: A Memoir
by Abdi Nor Iftin
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by Tessa Fontaine
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The Art of the Wasted Day
by Patricia Hampl
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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 Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya
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I Found My Tribe: A Memoir
by Ruth Fitzmaurice
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by Maggie O'Farrell
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