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    Month­ly Picks

    Each month we rec­om­mend one fic­tion and one non­fic­tion book for book clubs. Check back for new selec­tions, and browse past picks to find your next read.

    May 2020

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    Fic­tion
    The Tenth Muse
    Cather­ine Chung
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
    Ilan Sta­vans

    April 2020

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    Fic­tion
    The Ger­man Girl
    Arman­do Lucas Correa
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    I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holo­­caust Memoir
    Esther Safran Foer

    March 2020

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    Fic­tion
    Naamah
    Sarah Blake
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    What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
    Nao­mi B. Sokoloff and Nan­cy E. Berg 

    Feb­ru­ary, 2020

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    Calm Sea and Pros­per­ous Voy­age: Select­ed Stories
    Bette How­land
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    The Col­or of Love: A Sto­ry of a Mixed Race Jew­ish Girl
    Mar­ra B. Gad

    Jan­u­ary 2020

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    Fly Already
    Etgar Keret
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    The Guard­ed Gate: Big­otry, Eugen­ics, and the Law That Kept Two Gen­er­a­tions of Jews, Ital­ians, and Oth­er Euro­pean Immi­grants Out of America
    Daniel Okrent
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