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Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado
Nonfiction The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities Katharine Weber
Nonfiction A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup
Nonfiction Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel Daniel Gordis
Nonfiction Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel Nissim Rejwan University of Texas Press
Nonfiction Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, The Story of a Nation Marina Benjamin
Nonfiction Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion Danya Ruttenberg
Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.