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The Girl in the Mid­dle: Grow­ing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
Anais Granofsky
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Lily’s Promise: Hold­ing On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Sto­ry for All Generations
Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
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The Long Corner
Alexander Maksik
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The Choice: A Nov­el of Love, Faith, and Talmud
Mag­gie Anton
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See You Yesterday
Rachel Lynn Solomon
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Mr. Mintz’s Blintzes
Leslie Kimmelman, Esther Hernando (Illustrator)
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The End of Her: Rac­ing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder
Wayne Hoff­man
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You Are a Star, Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
Dean Robbins, Sarah Green (Illustrator)
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Plant­i­ng Friend­ship: Peace, Salaam, Shalom
Callie Metler, Melissa Stoller, Kate Talbot (Illustrator)

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Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
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Morn­ing­side Heights: A Novel
Joshua Henkin
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Recipes for a New Begin­ning: Tran­syl­van­ian Jew­ish Sto­ries of Life, Hunger, and Hope
Kinga Júlia Király
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The Rab­bi Who Prayed with Fire
Rachel Sharona Lewis
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Wolf Lamb Bomb
Aviya Kush­n­er

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