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Biography

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Admi­ral Hyman Rick­over: Engi­neer of Power
Marc Wortman
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Frank, Who Liked to Build: The Archi­tec­ture of Frank Gehry
Deborah Blumenthal, Maria Brzozowska (Illustrator)
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Look­ing for Ali­cia: The Unfin­ished Life of an Argen­tin­ian Rebel
Marc Raboy
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George Soros: A Life In Full
Peter Osnos (Editor)
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Arthur Szyk Pre­served: Insti­tu­tion­al Col­lec­tions of Orig­i­nal Art
Irvin Ungar and Samantha Lyons, eds.; 
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Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Mat­ti Friedman
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Titan of Tehran: From Jew­ish Ghet­to to Cor­po­rate Colos­sus to Fir­ing Squad – My Grand­fa­ther’s Life
Shahrzad Elghanayan
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Years of Glo­ry: Nel­ly Benatar and the Pur­suit of Jus­tice in Wartime North Africa
Susan Gilson Miller
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For­give­ness: The Sto­ry of Eva Kor, Sur­vivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
Joe Lee
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Albert Ein­stein: Genius of Space and Time! (Show Me History!)
Mark Shulman, Kelly Tindall (Illustrator)
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The Dress­mak­ers of Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of the Women Who Sewed to Survive 
Lucy Adlington
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The Rab­bi and the Painter
Shoshona Weiss, Jennifer Kirkham (Illustrator)
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The Baron: Mau­rice de Hirsch and the Jew­ish Nine­teenth Century
Matthias B. Lehmann
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The Van­ished Collection
Pauline Baer de Perignon; Natasha Lehrer, trans.
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It’s My Whole Life: Char­lotte Salomon: An Artist in Hid­ing Dur­ing World War II
Susan Wider
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Pow­er­ful True Sto­ry of Hope and Survival
Thomas Geve
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