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Biography

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Non­fic­tion
J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist
Thomas Beller
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Chil­dren’s
Shel Sil­ver­stein
Molly Kolpin
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Chil­dren’s
Jew­ish Sports Stars: Ath­let­ic Heroes Past and Present
David J. Goldman
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Rav Kook: Mys­tic in a Time of Revolution
Yehudah Mirsky
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Lil­lian Hell­man: An Impe­ri­ous Life
Dorothy Gallagher
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Pri­mo Levi: The Mat­ter of a Life
Berel Lang
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Non­fic­tion
Bernard Beren­son: A Life in the Pic­ture Trade
Rachel Cohen
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Claudia Roth Pierpont
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Mai­monides: Life and Thought
Moshe Halbertal
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Anne Frank: The Biography
Melissa Müller; Rita & Robert Kimber, trans.
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Nor­man Mail­er: A Dou­ble Life
J. Michael Lennon
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Kaf­ka: The Years of Insight
Reiner Stach; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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Super Boys: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of Jer­ry Siegel and Joe Shus­ter – The Cre­ators of Superman
Brad Ricca
Cover of Anne Frank: A Light in the Dark
Chil­dren’s
Anne Frank: A Light in the Dark
Tamara Leigh Hollingsworth
Cover of Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree
Chil­dren’s
Anne Frank’s Chest­nut Tree
Jane Kohuth; Elizabeth Sayles, illus.
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Louis Mar­shall and the Rise of Jew­ish Eth­nic­i­ty in Amer­i­ca: A Biography
M. M. Silver
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