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Fiction
The Boy and the Lake
Adam Pelz­man
Nonfiction
Amer­i­can Jew­ish Thought Since 1934: Writ­ings on Iden­ti­ty, Engage­ment, and Belief
Edit­ed by Michael Mar­mur and David Ellenson 
Nonfiction
The Unan­swered Let­ter: One Holo­caust Fam­i­ly’s Des­per­ate Plea for Help
Faris Cas­sell
Nonfiction
When Rab­bis Bless Con­gress: The Great Amer­i­can Sto­ry of Jew­ish Prayers on Capi­tol Hill
Howard Mort­man
Nonfiction
Afterlight: In Search of Poet­ry, His­to­ry, and Home
Isa Mil­man
Nonfiction
Pow­er and Emo­tion in Ancient Judaism: Com­mu­ni­ty and Iden­ti­ty in Formation
Ari Mer­mel­stein
Nonfiction
Jew­ish Wom­en’s His­to­ry from Antiq­ui­ty to the Present
Fed­er­i­ca Francesconi and Rebec­ca Lynn Win­er (Edi­tors)
Nonfiction
Invis­i­ble Enlight­en­ers: The Jew­ish Mer­chants of Mod­e­na, from the Renais­sance to the Emancipation
Fed­er­i­ca Francesconi
Nonfiction
The Mem­o­ry Work of Jew­ish Spain
Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Nonfiction
Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
Jaclyn Granick
Nonfiction
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Chal­lenge to Israel
Katell Berth­elot
Nonfiction
Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Studies
Simon J. Bronner
Nonfiction
Hou­di­ni: The Elu­sive American
Adam Beg­ley
Children's
The Polio Pio­neer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
Lin­da Elovitz Mar­shall, Lisa Anchin (illus.)
Poetry
Don’t Touch the Bones
Julia Kolchin­sky Dasbach 
Nonfiction
The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
Cather­ine Fletcher
Nonfiction
The Last Mil­lion: Europe’s Dis­placed Per­sons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw
Nonfiction
The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement
Alan Kadish | Michael A. Shmid­man | Sim­cha Fishbane
Nonfiction
The New Jew­ish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980 – 2015
Yehu­da Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin (eds.) 
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Nicanor’s Gate
Eric A. Kim­mel , Ali­da Mas­sari (illus.)
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