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    Cover of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
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    Bad Moth­er: A Chron­i­cle of Mater­nal Crimes, Minor Calami­ties, and Occa­sion­al Moments of Grace
    Ayelet Wald­man
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    What We Now Know About Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion: Per­spec­tives on Research for Practice
    Robert Louis Goodman, Paul Flexner, and Linda Dale Bloomberg, eds.
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    Cel­e­brat­ing the Jew­ish Year: The Spring and Sum­mer Holidays
    Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.
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    The Din in the Head: Essays
    Cyn­thia Ozick
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    Jew­topia: The Cho­sen Book for the Cho­sen People
    Bryan Fogel; Sam Wolfson
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    Chick­en Soup for the Jew­ish Soul
    Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, eds.
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    Dig­ni­ty Beyond Death: The Jew­ish Prepa­ra­tion for Burial
    Rochel U. Berman; Rabbi Irving Greenberg, fwd.
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    Chris­tians & Jews in Dia­logue: Learn­ing in the Pres­ence of the Other
    Mary C. Boys; Sara S. Lee
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    The Chang­ing Face of Anti-Semi­tism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
    Walter Laqueur
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    God’s To-Do List: 103 Ways to be an Angel and do God’s Work on Earth
    Dr. Ron Wolfson
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    Over­com­ing Life’s Disappointments
    Harold S. Kushner
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    Visu­al Arts
    A Time­less Peo­ple: Pho­to Album of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
    Saul H. Landa
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    Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
    Shimon Peres with David Landau
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    Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
    Elizabeth Swados
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    The Mod­ern Men’s Torah Com­men­tary: New Insights from Jew­ish Men on the 54 Week­ly Torah Portions
    Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
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    Vivian Gornick
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