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    Nonfiction
    Most of Me: Sur­viv­ing My Med­ical Meltdown
    Robyn Michele Levy
    Nonfiction
    Just Say Nu: Yid­dish For Every Occa­sion (When Eng­lish Just Won’t Do)
    Michael Wex
    Fiction
    Man­less in Mont­clair; How a Hap­pi­ly Mar­ried Woman Became a Wid­ow Look­ing for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia
    Amy Hol­man Edelman
    Nonfiction
    The Jokes of Sig­mund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jew­ish Identity
    Elliot Oring
    Nonfiction
    Hus­bandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laun­dry: Inside the Minds of Mar­ried Men
    Stephen Fried
    Nonfiction
    We Have Ways of Mak­ing You Laugh: 120 Fun­ny Swasti­ka Cartoons
    S. Gross
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    Laugh for God’s Sake: Where Jew­ish Humor and Jew­ish Ethics Meet
    Stan­ley J. Schachter
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    Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
    Ben Kar­lin, ed.
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    Alan Zweibel
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    Jonathan Gold­stein
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    Micol Ostow; David Ostow, illus.
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    Free-Range Chick­ens
    Simon Rich
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    Make ​‘em Laugh: The Fun­ny Busi­ness of America
    Lau­rence Maslon and Michael Kantor
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    Feed Me Bubbe
    Avrom Honig and Bubbe
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    Car­ol Leifer
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    Not a Hap­py Camper: A Memoir
    Mindy Schnei­der
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    Leave the Build­ing Quickly
    Cyn­thia Kaplan
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    Jack­ie Mason and Raoul Felder
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    Fore­skin’s Lament
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
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