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    Cover of No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
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    No One Would Lis­ten: A True Finan­cial Thriller
    Harry Markopolos
    Cover of Backing into Forward: A Memoir
    Non­fic­tion
    Back­ing into For­ward: A Memoir
    Jules Feif­fer
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    Noth­ing Like Sun­shine: A Sto­ry in the After­math of the MLK Assassination
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    Work­ing with Bern­stein: A Memoir
    Jack Gottlieb
    Cover of Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood
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    Two Cents Plain: My Brook­lyn Boyhood
    Mar­tin Lemelman
    Cover of How To Make Peace In The Middle East In Six Months Or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment
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    How To Make Peace In The Mid­dle East In Six Months Or Less With­out Leav­ing Your Apartment
    Gregorey Levey
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    Make Me a Woman
    Vanessa Davis
    Cover of My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing up Under Apartheid in South Africa
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    My Race: A Jew­ish Girl Grow­ing up Under Apartheid in South Africa
    Lorraine Lotzof Abramson
    Cover of Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind
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    Blows to the Head: How Box­ing Changed My Mind
    Binnie Klein
    Cover of The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
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    The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Fam­i­ly’s Cen­tu­ry of Art and Loss
    Edmund de Waal
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    How to Under­stand Israel in 60 Days or Less
    Sarah Glidden
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    Every­thing is Going to be Great: An Under­fund­ed and Over­ex­posed Euro­pean Grand Tour
    Rachel Shuk­ert
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    Life on Sandpaper
    Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans.
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    An Exclu­sive Love: A Memoir
    Johanna Adorjan; Anthea Bell, trans.
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    My Times & Life: A His­to­ri­an’s Progress Through a Con­tentious Age
    Morton Keller
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    If a Tree Falls: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard
    Jen­nifer Rosner
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