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    The G.I.‘s Rab­bi: World War II Let­ters of David Max Eichhorn
    Greg Palmer; Mark Zaid, eds.
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    Who She Was: My Search for my Moth­er’s Life
    Samuel G. Freedman
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    Com­mu­ni­ty, Covenant, and Com­mit­ment: Select­ed Let­ters and Communications
    Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Nathaniel Helfgot, ed.
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    A Sense of the Mys­te­ri­ous: Sci­ence and the Human Spirit
    Alan Light­man
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    Mau­rice Sendak
    Charlotte Guillain
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    The Life and Times of George Gershwin
    Jim Whiting
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    The Life and Times of Leonard Bernstein
    Jim Whiting
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    The Jour­ney That Saved Curi­ous George: The True Wartime Escape of Mar­gret and H.A. Rey
    Louise Borden; Allan Drummond, illus.
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    Genius: A Pho­to­bi­og­ra­phy of Albert Einstein
    Marfé Ferguson Delano
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    Anne Frank: Young Diarist
    Ruth Ashby
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    Anne Frank: Hope in the Shad­ows of the Holocaust
    Spring Hermann
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    In the Promised Land: Lives of Jew­ish Americans
    Doreen Rappaport; Cornelius Van Wright; Ying- Hwa Hu Harper, illus.
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    A Titan­ic Love Sto­ry: Ida and Isidor Straus
    June Hall McCash
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    Rec­ol­lect­ing Freud
    Isidor Sadger
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    R.L. Stine: Cre­ator of Creepy and Spooky Stories
    Michelle Parker-Rock
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    Blood Rela­tion
    Eric Konigsberg
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