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    Cover of From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
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    From Brook­lyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty Track Coach Mel Rosen
    Craig Darch
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    Stel­la! The Moth­er of Mod­ern Acting
    Sheana Ochoa, forward by Mark Ruffalo
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    The Pianist: The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of One Man’s Sur­vival in War­saw, 1939 – 1945
    Wladyslaw Szpilman
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    The Rad­i­cal Amer­i­can Judaism of Morde­cai M. Kaplan
    Mel Scult
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    Fan­ny von Arn­stein: Daugh­ter of the Enlightenment
    Hilde Spiel
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    Becom­ing Freud: The Mak­ing of Psychoanalysis
    Adam Phillips
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    Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who Invent­ed Beauty
    Michèle Fitoussi; Kate Bignold and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, trans.
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    Anne Frank: Her Life
    Marian Hoefnagel
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    The Book of Job: A Biography
    Mark Larrimore
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    The Box­er’s Sto­ry: Fight­ing for My Life in the Nazi Camps
    Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
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    Rab­bi Shlo­mo Car­lebach: Life, Mis­sion, and Legacy
    Natan Ophir (Offenbacher)
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    Ove­ta Culp Hob­by: Colonel, Cab­i­net Mem­ber, Philanthropist
    Debra L. Winegarten
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    The Impos­si­ble Exile: Ste­fan Zweig at the End of the World
    George Prochnik
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    Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
    Robert Lloyd Howse
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    The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Rose­boro Turned Base­bal­l’s Ugli­est Brawl into a Sto­ry of For­give­ness and Redemption
    John Rosen­gren
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    Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
    Joanne Lip­man
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