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    Twist, Tum­ble, Tri­umph: The Sto­ry of Cham­pi­on Gym­nast Agnes Kelet
    Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen
    Ker­ry Olitzky
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    The Piano Play­er of Budapest: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope, and Music
    Rox­anne de Bastion 
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    Bar­bra Streisand: A Lit­tle Gold­en Book Biography
    Judy Katschke; Brenna Vaughan, illus.
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    Fam­i­ly Romance: John Singer Sar­gent and the Wertheimers
    Jean Strouse
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    Ira Gersh­win: A Life in Words
    Michael Owen
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    Only in Amer­i­ca: Al Jol­son and The Jazz Singer
    Richard Bern­stein
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    Giant Love, Edna Fer­ber, and Her Jew­ish Convictions

    Julie Gilbert
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    Men­achem Mendel Schneer­son: Becom­ing the Messiah
    Ezra Glin­ter
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    When Cae­sar Was King: How Sid Cae­sar Rein­vent­ed Amer­i­can Comedy
    David Mar­golick
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    One Life: The True Sto­ry of Sir Nicholas Win­ton and the Prague Kindertransport
    Bar­bara Winton
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    Salinger’s Soul: His Per­son­al & Reli­gious Odyssey
    Stephen B. Shepard
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    Zaidy’s Band: The Untold Sto­ries of a Jew­ish Band of Broth­ers in World War II
    Aron Heller
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    Days of Mem­o­ry: Lis­ten­ing to Jew­ish Ital­ians Who Lived Through Fas­cism and the Holocaust
    Judith Monachi­na
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    Remem­ber­ing Ros­alind Franklin: Ros­alind Franklin & the Dis­cov­ery of the Dou­ble Helix Struc­ture of DNA
    Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.
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