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Nonfiction A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust Rachelle Unreich
Fiction Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II: A Graphic Novel Ralph Shayne; Tatiana Goldberg, illus.
Children’s Harboring Hope: The True Story of How Henny Sinding Helped Denmark’s Jews Escape the Nazis Susan Hood
Nonfiction Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams? Daniel Gordis
Nonfiction What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures Amos Oz with Shira Hadad, Jessica Cohen (Translator)