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    Biography

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    Woody: The Biography
    David Evanier
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    Proust: The Search
    Benjamin Taylor
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    Peg­gy Guggen­heim: The Shock of the Modern
    Francine Prose
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    Lit­tle Cae­sar: A Biog­ra­phy of Edward G. Robinson
    Alan L. Gansberg
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    The Inge­nious Mr. Pyke: Inven­tor, Fugi­tive, Spy
    Henry Hemming
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    Chil­dren’s
    Marx: An Illus­trat­ed Biography
    Corinne Maier; Anne Simon, illus.
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    Freud: An Illus­trat­ed Biography
    Corinne Maier; Anne Simon, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Robert Moses: The Mas­ter Builder of New York City
    Pierre Christin; Olivier Balez, illus.
    Cover of Sydney and Violet: A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis
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    Syd­ney and Vio­let: A Mod­ernist Pow­er Cou­ple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Hux­ley, Mans­field, Picas­so and the Excru­ci­at­ing­ly Iras­ci­ble Wyn­d­ham Lewis
    Stephen Klaid­man
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    Ghet­to Broth­er: War­rior to Peacemaker
    Julian Voloj
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    Ein­stein: His Space and Times
    Steven Gim­bel
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    Unlike­ly War­rior: A Paci­fist Rab­bi’s Jour­ney from the Pul­pit to Iwo Jim
    Lee Man­del
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    Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was
    Arlene Alda
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    Char­lie Mike: A True Sto­ry of War and Find­ing the Way Home
    Joe Klein
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    An Improb­a­ble Friend­ship: The Remark­able Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Pales­tin­ian Raymonda
    Antho­ny David
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    Made­line Kahn: Being the Music: A Life
    William V. Madison
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