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    Galantiere: The Lost Gen­er­a­tion’s For­got­ten Man
    Mark Lurie
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    He Could Make Words Sing: An Ordi­nary Man Dur­ing Extra­or­di­nary Times
    David Greene
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    Glo­ri­a’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Glo­ria Steinem
    Aura Lewis
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    A Sur­vivor’s Duty
    Gabriel Laufer
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    Kafka’s Last Tri­al: The Case of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
    Ben­jamin Balint
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    Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
    Paul M. Kaplan
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    Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Tam­my Bottner
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    Eli’s Sto­ry: A Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Jew­ish Life
    Meri-Jane Rochel­son
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    Seltzer­topia: The Extra­or­di­nary Sto­ry of an Ordi­nary Drink
    Bar­ry Joseph
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    The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mys­te­ri­ous Euro­pean Show­man Saved Thou­sands of Amer­i­can Babies
    Dawn Raf­fel
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    Oba­ma: An Oral History
    Bri­an Abrams
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    We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Sto­ry in Letters
    Eliz­a­beth L. Fox
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    Left to the Mer­cy of a Rude Stream: The Bar­gain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
    Stan­ley Goldman
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    Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler
    Rick Rich­man
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    Res­cue Board: The Untold Sto­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
    Rebec­ca Erbelding
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    Ran­di Hut­ter Epstein
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