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Biography

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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rival­ry in 1920s Paris
Mark Braude
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A Bless­ing, Not a Bur­den: My My Par­en­t’s Remark­able Holo­caust Sto­ry and My Fight to Keep Their Lega­cy Alive
Alex Kor
Gra­ham Honaker
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Bernar­dine’s Shang­hai Salon: The Sto­ry of the Doyenne of Old China
Susan Blum­berg-Kason
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Pre­scrip­tion for Pain: How a Once-Promis­ing Doc­tor Became the ​“Pill Mill Killer”
Philip Eil
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Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
Bon­ni Goldberg
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Evitch­ka: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope and Love
Lawrence P. Levitt
Stephanie Smartschan
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Elling­ton, Louis Arm­strong and Count Basie Trans­formed America
Lar­ry Tye
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Dream by Dream: The Sto­ry of Rab­bi Isaac May­er Wise
Geri Kolesar; Sofia Moore, illus.
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Gol­da Meir: Israel’s Matriarch
Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
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Hank on First!: How Hank Green­berg Became a Star On and Off the Field
Stephen Krensky; Alette Straathof, illus.
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Becom­ing Ezra Jack Keats
Vir­ginia McGee Butler
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My Left Skate
Anna Ros­ner
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It’s Her Sto­ry: Ire­na Sendler
Margaret Littman; Sara Luna, illus.
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Madame Alexan­der: The Cre­ator of the Icon­ic Amer­i­can Doll
Sarah Goldman Rubin; Sarah Dvojack, illus.
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Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bob­by Fischer
Julian Voloj; Wagner Willian, illus.
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Leonard Cohen, Untold Sto­ries: That’s How the Light Gets In
Michael Pos­ner
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