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Biography

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Bar­bie and Ruth: The Sto­ry of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Cre­at­ed Her
Robin Gerber
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Marie Syrkin: Val­ues Beyond the Self
Carole S. Kessner
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Mai­monides
Sherwin B. Nuland
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Why This World: A Biog­ra­phy of Clarice Lispector
Ben­jamin Moser
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Kaf­ka: A Biography
Nicholas Murray
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The Mirador: Dreamed Mem­o­ries of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter
Elisabeth Gille
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Mar­cel Marceau: Mas­ter of Mime
Gloria Spielman; Manon Gauthier, illus.
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Isaac B. Singer: A Life
Florence Noiville; Catherine Temerson, trans.
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Abra­ham: A Jour­ney to the Heart of Three Faiths
Bruce Feiler
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The Per­fect Nazi: Uncov­er­ing My Grandfather’s Secret Past
Martin Davidson
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King David
Louise Chipley Slavicek
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We All Wore Stars: Mem­o­ries of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
Theo Coster
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shimon Peres with David Landau
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Emma Gold­man: Rev­o­lu­tion as a Way of Life
Vivian Gornick
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The Long Night: William L. Shir­er and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Steve Wick
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Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
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