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    Balm in Gilead: A Sto­ry from the War
    John L. Withers II
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    Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Nar­ra­tive, and Fate
    Daniel Mendel­sohn
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    ‘Touched with Fire’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David E. Lowe

    Edward Shapiro
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    The Cap­tain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thur­man Munson
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    Anne Seb­ba
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    Unstop­pable: The Incred­i­ble Jour­ney of Sig­gi B. Wilzig, the Auschwitz Sur­vivor who Over­came All Odds and Became a Wall Street Legend
    Joshua Greene
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    The Lind­bergh Kid­nap­ping Sus­pect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away
    Lise Pearl­man
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    The Out­lier: The Unfin­ished Pres­i­den­cy of Jim­my Carter
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    Irma’s Pass­port: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Lega­cy of Courage
    Cather­ine Ehrlich
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