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    The Year of Liv­ing Biblically
    A.J. Jacobs
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    Not a Hap­py Camper: A Memoir
    Mindy Schneider
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    Abra­ham’s Chil­dren: Race, Iden­ti­ty, and the DNA of the Cho­sen People
    Jon Entine
    Cover of Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
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    Spir­i­tu­al Rad­i­cal: Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel in Amer­i­ca, 1940 – 1972
    Edward K. Kaplan
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    Wit­ness
    Ruth Gruber; Richard Holbrooke, fwd.
    Cover of Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
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    Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
    Jennifer Anne Moses
    Cover of The Accidental Zionist: What a Priest, a Pornographer and a Wrestler Named Chainsaw Taught Me About Being Jewish, Saving the World, and Why Israel Matters to Both
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    The Acci­den­tal Zion­ist: What a Priest, a Pornog­ra­ph­er and a Wrestler Named Chain­saw Taught Me About Being Jew­ish, Sav­ing the World, and Why Israel Mat­ters to Both
    Ian Pear
    Cover of Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry
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    Get­ting Our Groove Back: How to Ener­gize Amer­i­can Jewry
    Scott A. Shay
    Cover of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
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    Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle Word of the Bible
    David Plotz
    Cover of My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
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    My Jesus Year: A Rab­bi’s Son Wan­ders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
    Benyamin Cohen
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    The Col­ors of Jews: Racial Pol­i­tics and Rad­i­cal Diasporism
    Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
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    Peace Meals: Can­dy-Wrapped Kalash­nikovs and Oth­er War Stories
    Anna Badkhen
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    In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unin­ten­tion­al Lessons in Happiness
    Jim Axelrod
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    Life of the Par­ty: A Polit­i­cal Press Tart Bares All
    Lisa Baron
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    Blas­phe­my: How the Reli­gious Right is Hijack­ing Our Dec­la­ra­tion of Independence
    Alan Der­showitz
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    Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century
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