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    Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Autho­rized Graph­ic Biography
    Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
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    Per­fect Rig­or: A Genius and the Math­e­mat­i­cal Break­through of the Century
    Masha Gessen
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    Frances Brent
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    Soros: The World’s Most Influ­en­tial Investor
    Robert Slater
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    In Her Father’s Eyes: A Child­hood Extin­guished by the Holocaust
    Béla Weichherz; Daniel H. Magilow, trans. and ed.
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    After Etan: The Miss­ing Child Case That Held Amer­i­ca Captive
    Lisa R. Cohen
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    Betray­al: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff
    Andrew Kirtzman
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    Yehu­da Halevi
    Hillel Halkin
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    Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller
    Ira B. Nadel
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    What Papa Told Me
    Felice Cohen
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    Burnt Books: Rab­bi Nach­man of Bratislav and Franz Kafka
    Rodger Kamenetz
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    An Edu­cat­ed Man: A Dual Biog­ra­phy of Moses and Jesus
    David Rosen­berg
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    The Rebbe: The Life and After­life of Mena­hem Mendel Schneerson
    Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman
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    Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Stat­ue of Liberty
    Linda Glaser; Claire A Nivola, illus.
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    Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mys­tic, Poet
    Seth Rogov­oy
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    Hil­lel: If Not Now, When?
    Joseph Telushkin
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