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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Chil­dren’s
    Sam­my Spi­der’s First ABC
    Sylvia A. Rouss; Katherine Janus Kahn, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    I Nev­er Promised You a Rose Garden
    Joanne Greenberg
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    Fic­tion
    Pre­tend Plumber: An Adventure
    Stephanie Bar­bé Hammer
    Essay

    The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

    Ruth Behar
    June 13, 2022
    Essay

    From Pro­fes­sor to Pre­tend Plumber: Learn­ing How to Write Like a Reg­u­lar Person

    Stephanie Bar­bé Hammer
    June 13, 2022
    Cover of Creature
    Poet­ry
    Crea­ture
    Michael Duma­n­is
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    Fic­tion
    Meant to Be Mine
    Han­nah Orenstein
    Cover of Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
    Non­fic­tion
    Rais­ing Raf­fi: The First Five Years
    Kei­th Gessen
    Cover of What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures
    Non­fic­tion
    What Makes an Apple?: Six Con­ver­sa­tions about Writ­ing, Love, Guilt, and Oth­er Pleasures
    Amos Oz with Shira Hadad, Jessica Cohen (Translator)
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    Chil­dren’s
    Brand-New Bubbe
    Sarah Aronson, Ariel Landy (Illustrator)
    Poetry

    In the beginning

    Paulette K. Fire
    June 6, 2022
    Interview

    Mar­ti­nis, Mahjong, and Soul­mates: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Han­nah Orenstein

    Simona Zaret­sky
    June 6, 2022
    Cover of My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
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    My Life in the Sun­shine: Search­ing for My Father and Dis­cov­er­ing My Family 
    Nabil Ayers
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    Cult Clas­sic
    Sloane Crosley
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    Shmutz
    Feli­cia Berliner
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    Poet­ry
    The Dis­card­ed Life
    Adam Kirsch
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