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    Historical Fiction

    Cover of Exile Music
    Fic­tion
    Exile Music
    Jen­nifer Steil
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    Fic­tion
    Newark Min­ute­men: A True 1930’s Leg­end About a Box­er Who Tries to Save a Nation’s Soul With­out Los­ing His Own
    Leslie K. Barry
    Cover of River
    Fic­tion
    Riv­er
    Shi­ra Nayman
    Cover of The Bomb Squad: Clash of the Patriots
    Fic­tion
    The Bomb Squad: Clash of the Patriots
    Neil Per­ry Gordon
    Cover of Wolf: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Wolf: A Novel
    Alan A. Winter,Herbert J. Stern
    Cover of The Age of Light
    Fic­tion
    The Age of Light
    Whit­ney Scharer
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    Fic­tion
    Ariel Sam­son: Free­lance Rabbi
    MaN­ish­tana
    Essay

    ‘If the Muse comes call­ing’: Jane Yolen on Writing

    Jane Yolen
    July 22, 2019
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    Fic­tion
    In the Neigh­bor­hood of True
    Susan Kaplan Carlton
    Cover of The Brave Princess and Me
    Chil­dren’s
    The Brave Princess and Me
    Kathy Kac­er
    Essay

    ‘Writ­ing Their Ways Toward Hope’: Sur­viv­ing World War II in Shanghai

    Rachel DeWoskin
    July 8, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Sav­ing Han­no: The Sto­ry of a Refugee Dog
    Miriam Halahmy 
    Essay

    Part II: The Lega­cy Continues

    Nadine Epstein
    July 1, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Pic­ture Girl
    Marlene Targ Brill; Michael Sayre, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Guest­house for Gane­sha: A Novel
    Judith Teit­el­man
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    Non­fic­tion
    Green­horns: Stories
    Richard Slotkin
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