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Items with the tag:

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Poet­ry
What to Miss When
Leigh Stein
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Lost in Translation

Esther Ami­ni
December 23, 2020
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22 Min­utes of Uncon­di­tion­al Love
Daphne Merkin
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The Paper Girl of Paris
Jor­dyn Taylor
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The Lady with the Books: A Sto­ry Inspired by the Remark­able Work of Jel­la Lepman
Kathy Stinson, Marie Lafrance (illus.)
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The Polio Pio­neer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
Linda Elovitz Marshall, Lisa Anchin (illus.)
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‘Water­shed Moments’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Max Gross

Bob Gold­farb
December 14, 2020
Fiction—From the Journal

The Lit­tle Bottles

Weaver
December 14, 2020
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Excerpt: Now for Some­thing Sweet

Mon­day Morn­ing Cook­ing Club
December 14, 2020
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Poet­ry
Don’t Touch the Bones
Julia Kolchin­sky Dasbach 
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Life and Oth­er Shortcomings
Corie Adj­mi
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The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
Cather­ine Fletcher
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Home for the Hanukkah-Days: For Families

Simona Zaret­sky
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Not Your All-Amer­i­can Girl
Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Made­lyn Rosenberg
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The Last Mil­lion: Europe’s Dis­placed Per­sons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw
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