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    The Library of Author Biogra­phies: Lynne Reid Banks
    Sherri Liberman
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    Nev­er Despair: Six­ty Years in the Ser­vice of the Jew­ish Peo­ple and the Cause of Human Rights
    Gerhart M. Riegner; William Sayers, trans.
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    His­to­ri­ans, Biographers

    Dr. Abi­gail Green is the author of Moses Mon­te­fiore: Jew­ish Lib­er­a­tor, Impe­r­i­al Hero. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
    Abi­gail Green
    May 7, 2012
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    Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Con­tro­ver­sial Hero
    Mordechai Bar-On
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    An Unbro­ken Bond: The Untold Sto­ry Of How The 658 Can­tor Fitzger­ald Fam­i­lies Faced The Tragedy Of 9/11 And Beyond
    Edie Lut­nick
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    Sub­ver­sives: The FBI’s War on Stu­dent Rad­i­cals and Rea­gan’s Rise to Power
    Seth Rosenfeld
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    The Acci­den­tal Fem­i­nist: How Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor Raised Our Con­scious­ness and We Were Too Dis­tract­ed By Her Beau­ty to Notice
    M.G. Lord
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    Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fair­ly Fab­ri­cat­ed Sto­ry of a Pair of Pants
    Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.
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    Road To Val­or: A True Sto­ry of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
    Aili and Andres McConnon
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    A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordi­nary Nazis and the Holocaust
    Mary Ful­brook
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    Men­achem Begin: A Life
    Avi Shilon; Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett, trans.
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    Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
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    A Cen­tu­ry of Wis­dom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Som­mer, the World’s Old­est Liv­ing Holo­caust Survivor
    Caroline Stoessinger
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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
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