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    The Mav­er­ick: George Wei­den­feld and the Gold­en Age of Publishing
    Thomas Hard­ing
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    Mor­gen­thau: Pow­er, Priv­i­lege, and the Rise of an Amer­i­can Dynasty
    Andrew Meier
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    Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
    Robert Alter
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    Defend­er of the Faith­ful: The Life and Thought of Rab­bi Levi Yit­shak of Berdychiv
    Arthur Green
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    Bet­ty Friedan: Mag­nif­i­cent Disrupter
    Rachel Shteir
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    One Last Shot: Based on a True Sto­ry of Wartime Heroism
    Kip Wil­son
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    Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rival­ry in 1920s Paris
    Mark Braude
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    A Bless­ing, Not a Bur­den: My My Par­en­t’s Remark­able Holo­caust Sto­ry and My Fight to Keep Their Lega­cy Alive
    Alex Kor
    Gra­ham Honaker
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    Bernar­dine’s Shang­hai Salon: The Sto­ry of the Doyenne of Old China
    Susan Blum­berg-Kason
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    Pre­scrip­tion for Pain: How a Once-Promis­ing Doc­tor Became the ​“Pill Mill Killer”
    Philip Eil
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    Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
    Bon­ni Goldberg
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    Evitch­ka: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope and Love
    Lawrence P. Levitt
    Stephanie Smartschan
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    The Jazzmen: How Duke Elling­ton, Louis Arm­strong and Count Basie Trans­formed America
    Lar­ry Tye
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    Fam­i­ly Declas­si­fied: Uncov­er­ing My Grand­fa­ther’s Jour­ney from Spy to Chil­dren’s Book Author
    Kather­ine Fennelly
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    Father Vers­es Sons: A Cor­re­spon­dence in Poems
    Ari Gold
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    Dream by Dream: The Sto­ry of Rab­bi Isaac May­er Wise
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