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    Lisa Hanawalt
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    Anoth­er Lit­tle Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Rev­o­lu­tion in the ​‘60s
    Richard Goldstein
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    From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Sur­vival in Nazi Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
    Odd Nansen; Timothy J. Boyce, ed.
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    Heir­looms from Hungary

    Sophie Cook​’s fam­i­ly his­to­ry and child­hood expe­ri­ence of sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Hun­gary inform her first his­tor­i­cal nov­el, Anna & Eliz­a­beth. Sophie…
    Sophie Cook
    June 6, 2016
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    Find­ing Mr. Rightstein
    Nancy Davidoff Kelton
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    Girl: My Child­hood and the Sec­ond World War
    Alona Frankel
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    Lov­ing and Leav­ing Washington
    John Yochelson
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    Cook­book
    Ina’s Kitchen
    Ina Pinkney
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    The Bridge Ladies
    Bet­sy Lerner
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    Toward a Hot Jew
    Miri­am Libicki
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    Wid­ow-Wise
    Alyce Gross
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    Fam­i­ly His­to­ry of Fear
    Aga­ta Tuszynska
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    Liv­ing with a SEAL
    Jesse Itzler
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    Sad Is Not Bad
    Har­ri­et Vogel
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    Dorit Sas­son
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