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A Dif­fi­cult Woman: The Chal­leng­ing Life and Times of Lil­lian Hellman
Alice Kessler-Harris
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Vik­tor Fran­kl: A Life Worth Living
Anna Redsand
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Elie Wiesel: Mes­sen­ger for Peace
Heather Lehr Wagner
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Chil­dren’s
Who Was Anne Frank?
Ann Abramson; Nancy Harrison, illus.
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Epis­tolophil­ia: Writ­ing the Life of Ona Šimaitė
Julija Šukys
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All Gov­ern­ments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Jour­nal­ist I. F. Stone
Myra MacPherson
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Lover of Unrea­son: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hugh­es’ Doomed Love
Yehuda Koren; Eilat Negev
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The Girl With the Gallery: Edith Gre­gor Halpert and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Art Market
Lindsay Pollock
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Anna Hal­prin: Expe­ri­ence as Dance
Janice Ross
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Har­vey Kurtzman
The Comics Journal Library
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The Rad­i­cal Enlight­en­ment of Solomon Mai­mon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy
Abraham P. Socher
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The Res­cuer
Dara Horn
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When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews
Jonathan D. Sarna
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of Amer­i­ca’s Banana King
Rich Cohen
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Gol­da
Elinor Burkett
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The Quest for Authen­tic­i­ty: The Thought of Reb Simhah Bunim
Michael Rosen
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