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    Bar­bara S. Cohen

    Bar­bara S. Cohen is a tri­al attor­ney in Los Ange­les who spe­cial­izes in child abuse cas­es. She is a mem­ber of NAMI and a sup­port­er of NARSAD, and is an advo­cate for those who suf­fer from men­tal illness.
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    Read­ing Char­lotte Salomon
    Michael P. Steinberg; Monica Bohm-Duchen, eds.
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    Life, Death and Bialys: A Father/​Son Bak­ing Story
    Dylan Schaffer
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    You Made Me Love You
    Joanna Goodman
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    Hid­den
    Victoria Lustbader
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    My Own Vine­yard: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in Krakow Between the Wars
    Miriam Akavia
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    Ter­ror in Black Sep­tem­ber: The First Eye­wit­ness Account of the Infa­mous 1970 Hijackings
    David Raab
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    Alfred Kazin: A Biography
    Richard Cook
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    Paula Amann
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    Joanne Jacobson
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    Ron­na Wineberg
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    Talia Carn­er
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    Judy Lash Balint
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    Harold S. Kushner
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    Amir Gutfreund; Jessica Cohen, trans.
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