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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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    Kather­ine Fennelly
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    Ari Gold
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    Gol­da Meir: Israel’s Matriarch
    Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
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    Becom­ing Ezra Jack Keats
    Vir­ginia McGee Butler
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    My Left Skate
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    Joseph Berg­er
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