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    Hap­pi­er End­ings: A Med­i­ta­tion on Life and Death
    Erica Brown
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    Jew­ish Mega­trends: Chart­ing the Course of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Future
    Rabbi Sidney Schwarz
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    Amer­i­can Moses
    Stephen Witt
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    The Kosher Sutras: The Jew­ish Way in Yoga & Meditation
    Marcus J Freed
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    Don’t Get Me Started
    David Suissa
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    From the Shahs to Los Ange­les: Three Gen­er­a­tions of Iran­ian Jew­ish Women between Reli­gion and Culture
    Saba Soomekh
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    Activists Speak Out
    Marie Cieri and Claire Peeps, eds.
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    Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story
    Jill Soloway
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    Rev­o­lu­tion of Jew­ish Spirit
    Rabbi Baruch HaLevi and Ellen Frankel
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    Shar­ing the Jour­ney: The Hag­gadah for the Con­tem­po­rary Family
    Alan S. Yoffie; Mark Podwal, illus.
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    The Bronf­man Haggadah
    Edgar M. Bronfman; Jan Aronson, illus.
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    Dav­en­ing: A Guide to Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Prayer
    Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Joel Segel; Kushner, fwd.
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    Kugel and Fri­joles: Lati­no Jews in the Unit­ed States
    Lau­ra Limonic
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    Glob­al Health Impacts of Nan­otech­nol­o­gy Law: A Tool for Stake­hold­er Engagement 
    Ilise Feit­shans
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    Wounds into Wis­dom: Heal­ing Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jew­ish Trauma
    Tirzah Fire­stone
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    Get­ting Good at Get­ting Older
    Richard Siegel (z'l) and Rabbi Laura Geller
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