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    Cover of An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen
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    An Espe­cial­ly Good View: Watch­ing His­to­ry Happen
    Peter Osnos
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    Bar­tal­i’s Bicy­cle: The True Sto­ry of Gino Bar­tali, Italy’s Secret Hero
    Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)
    Cover of By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream
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    By the Grace of the Game: The Holo­caust, a Bas­ket­ball Lega­cy, and an Unprece­dent­ed Amer­i­can Dream
    Dan Grun­feld
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    The Bas­ket­ball Game: A Graph­ic Novel
    Hart Snider
    Jews and the Olympics
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    The Joy of Miss­ing Out

    Tra­cy Brown
    March 1, 2021
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    The Untold Sto­ry of the Box­ers and Mob­sters who Defend­ed Amer­i­ca against Hitler’s Nazi Empire

    Leslie K. Barry
    February 10, 2021
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    Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
    Sarah Kapit
    Cover of Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
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    Games of Decep­tion: The True Sto­ry of the First US Olympic Bas­ket­ball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
    Andrew Maraniss
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    The Cap­tain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thur­man Munson
    Dan Epstein
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    Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
    R. D. Rosen
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    A Jew­ish-Pales­tin­ian Children’s Book: How Daniel and Ismail Came to Be

    Ilan Sta­vans
    August 12, 2019
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