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Broke in Amer­i­ca: See­ing, Under­stand­ing and End­ing US Poverty
Joanne Gold­blum
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Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodi­gies to Late Bloomers
Clau­dia Kalb
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Twelve Tribes: Promise and Per­il in the New Israel
Ethan Michaeli
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Irma’s Pass­port: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Lega­cy of Courage
Cather­ine Ehrlich
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The Note Through the Wire: The Incred­i­ble True Sto­ry of a Pris­on­er of War and a Resis­tance Heroine
Doug Gold
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Com­pet­ing With Idiots: Her­man and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
Nick Davis
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The His­to­ry of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle
Wayne Fed­er­man
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What Does the Con­sti­tu­tion Say?: A Kid’s Guide to How Our Democ­ra­cy Works
Ben Shee­han
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Jew­ish Pride: Rebuild­ing a People
Ben M. Freeman
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The Out­lier: The Unfin­ished Pres­i­den­cy of Jim­my Carter
Kai Bird
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Mahjong: A Chi­nese Game and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Amer­i­can Culture
Annelise Heinz
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The Lind­bergh Kid­nap­ping Sus­pect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away
Lise Pearl­man
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999: The Extra­or­di­nary Young Women of the First Offi­cial Jew­ish Trans­port to Auschwitz
Heather Dune Macadam
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The Rat­line: The Exalt­ed Life and Mys­te­ri­ous Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Philippe Sands
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How Magi­cians Think: Mis­di­rec­tion, Decep­tion, and Why Mag­ic Matters
Joshua Jay
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A Bet­ter Life for Their Chil­dren: Julius Rosen­wald, Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America
Andrew Feil­er
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