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    Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
    Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
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    Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Tam­my Bottner
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    Glo­ri­a’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Glo­ria Steinem
    Aura Lewis
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    Kafka’s Last Tri­al: The Case of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
    Ben­jamin Balint
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    Famous Father Girl: A Mem­oir of Grow­ing Up Bernstein
    Jamie Bern­stein
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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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    The Three Escapes of Han­nah Arendt: A Tyran­ny of Truth
    Ken Krim­stein
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    Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
    Paul M. Kaplan
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    Pres­i­dent Carter: The White House Years
    Stu­art E. Eizenstat
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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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