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    Gidi: One Chas­ing A Thousand
    Joseph Evron; Philip Simpson, trans.
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    Irv­ing Thal­berg: Boy Won­der to Pro­duc­er Prince
    Mark A. Vieira
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    Lib­er­ty’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Emma Lazarus
    Erica Silverman; Stacey Schuett, illus.
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    Bar­ney Frank: The Sto­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Only Left-Hand­ed, Gay, Jew­ish Congressman
    Stuart E. Weisberg
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    Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
    Robert Gottlieb
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    When Bob Met Woody
    Gary Golio; Marc Burckhardt, illus.
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    Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
    Shmuel Feiner; Anthony Berris, trans.
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    Bon­ho­ef­fer: Pas­tor, Mar­tyr, Prophet, Spy
    Eric Metaxas
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    Ham­merin’ Hank Green­berg: Base­ball Pioneer
    Shelley Sommer
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    Scor­pi­ons: The Bat­tles and the Tri­umphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices
    Noah Feldman
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    Vision & Val­or: An Illus­trat­ed His­to­ry Of The Talmud
    Rabbi Berel Wein
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    Wan­der­ing Soul: The Dyb­buk’s Cre­ator, S. An-sky
    Gabriella Safran
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    Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Sym­phonies Changed Our World
    Norman Lebrecht
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    Lip­man Pike: Amer­i­ca’s First Home Run King
    Richard Michelson; Zachary Pullen, illus.
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    Mod­el Nazi: Arthur Greis­er and the Occu­pa­tion of West­ern Poland
    Catherine Epstein
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    Sheila Isen­berg
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