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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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    Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosen­wald Helped Change African Amer­i­can Education
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    Wilde in Amer­i­ca: Oscar Wilde and the Inven­tion of Mod­ern Celebrity
    David M. Friedman
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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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    The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
    Kai Bird
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    Rebbe: The Life and Teach­ings of Men­achem M. Schneer­son, the Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bi in Mod­ern History
    Joseph Telushkin
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    A Bro­ken Hal­lelu­jah: Rock and Roll, Redemp­tion and the Life of Leonard Cohen
    Liel Lei­bovitz
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    Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon
    David Landau
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    Men­achem Begin: The Bat­tle for Israel’s Soul
    Daniel Gordis
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    Mem­o­ries of a Giant: Reflec­tions on Rab­bi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt”l
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