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    Leav­ing Cleveland
    Steven H. Begleiter
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    Artists Under Fire: The BDS War against Celebri­ties, Jews, and Israel
    Lana Mel­man
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    The Real Mrs. Tobias
    Sal­ly Koslow
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    My Mushy Matzah Ball
    Ari­an­na Brooks
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    Lumi­nous: An Artist’s Sto­ry as a Guide to Rad­i­cal Creaticity
    Lin­da Frimer
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    Bal­loon Dog
    Daniel Pais­ner
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    Mup­pets in Moscow: The Unex­pect­ed Crazy True Sto­ry of Mak­ing Sesame Street in Russia
    Natasha Lance Rogoff
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    Berlin: A Jew­ish Ode to the Metropolis
    Jason Langer
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    Dul­cinea
    Ana Veciana-Suarez
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    Under The Radar: 30 Notable Cana­di­an Jew­ish Musicians
    David Eisen­stadt
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    The Lioness of Boston
    Emi­ly Franklin
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    Spe­cial Top­ics In Being A Human: A Queer and Ten­der Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Car­ing For Peo­ple, Includ­ing Myself.
    S. Bear Bergman
    Saul Freed­man-Law­son
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    Not From Here: The Song of America
    Leah Lax
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    Bit­ter­sweet: How Sor­row and Long­ing Make Us Whole
    Susan Cain
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    A Snake, a Flood, a Hid­den Baby: Bible Sto­ries for Children
    Meir Shalev, Ilana Kurshan (Translator), Emanuele Luzzati (Illustrator)
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