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Biography

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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mys­te­ri­ous Euro­pean Show­man Saved Thou­sands of Amer­i­can Babies
Dawn Raf­fel
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Galantiere: The Lost Gen­er­a­tion’s For­got­ten Man
Mark Lurie
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Irv­ing Berlin: The Immi­grant Boy Who Made Amer­i­ca Sing
Nancy Churnin; James Rey Sanchez, illus.
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Cal­i­for­nia Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & The Papas
Pénélope Bagieu; Nanette McGuinness, trans.
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The Untold Jour­ney: The Life of Diana Trilling
Natalie Robins
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The Eddie Can­tor Sto­ry: A Jew­ish Life in Per­for­mance and Politics
David Wein­stein
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Julius Rosen­wald: Repair­ing the World (Jew­ish Lives)
Hasia R. Diner
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Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cook­book of Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles; Rich, MacNaughton, Millman & Popova, eds.
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The Netanyahu Years
Ben Caspit; Ora Cummings, trans.
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Marx, Freud & Ein­stein: Heroes of the Mind
Corinne Maier; Anne Simon, illus.
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Amer­i­can Dream­er: A Look Into the Life of My Father, Joe Baby
Bill Sefekar
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Ita­mar Rabi­novich: A Pro­file of the Author of a New Rabin Biography

Maron L. Waxman
July 10, 2017
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Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Mas­sell, Atlanta’s First Minor­i­ty Mayor
Charles Mcnair
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The Kel­log­gs
Howard Markel
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Ten Dol­lars to Hate
Patri­cia H. Bernstein
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The World Broke in Two
Bill Gold­stein
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