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    Torn Wide Open: What Ripped Me Apart Also Made Me Whoel
    Lori Karsch
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    Yair Mintzk­er
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    David Eliezrie
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    Andrew Fish­er
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    Wiseguys, Rab­bis, and the FBI: How one man became the biggest loan­shark in New York City, went to prison, and escaped.
    J.A. Schwartz­man
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    Queen of Bohemia Pre­dicts Own Death: Gild­ed-Age Jour­nal­ist Zoe Ander­son Norris
    Eve M. Kahn
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    Nina Will­ner
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    Life Must Go On: The Remark­able Sto­ry of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghet­to, and the Trag­ic Fate of Lithua­ni­a’s Jews
    Bea Lurie
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    Sharon Ann Musher
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