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Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
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Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
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Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
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A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty
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The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine
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How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
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Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna
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Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918 – 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
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Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People
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Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers
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The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle
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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists