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    Part II: Take a Skele­ton Out of the Clos­et and Dance with it

    Talia Carn­er
    September 2, 2019
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    The Unfath­omable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power
    Peter Ross Range
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    The Genius of Women: From Over­looked to Chang­ing The World
    Jan­ice Kaplan
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    No Past Tense: Love and Sur­vival in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    D. Z. Stone
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    Ver­i­tas: A Har­vard Pro­fes­sor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
    Ariel Sabar
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    Mak­ing Peace with the Uni­verse: Per­son­al Cri­sis and Spir­i­tu­al Healing
    Michael Scott Alexander
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    Here She Is: The Com­pli­cat­ed Reign of the Beau­ty Pageant in America
    Hilary Lev­ey Friedman
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    The Betray­al of the Duchess: The Scan­dal That Unmade the Bour­bon Monar­chy and Made France Modern
    Mau­rice Samuels
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    Seek­ing Sanc­tu­ary: 125 Years of Syn­a­gogues on Long Island
    Brad Kolod­ny
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    Law and the Arab-Israeli Con­flict: The Tri­als of Palestine
    Steven E. Zipperstein
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    9/12: The Epic Bat­tle of the Ground Zero Responders 
    William H. Groner
    Tom Tei­cholz
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    Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occu­pied Paris
    Arthur J. Magida
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    Young Heroes of the Sovi­et Union: A Mem­oir and a Reckoning
    Alex Hal­ber­stadt
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    OMG WTF Does the Con­sti­tu­tion Actu­al­ly Say?: A Non-Bor­ing Guide to How Our Democ­ra­cy is Sup­posed to Work
    Ben Shee­han
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    Hid­den Recipes: A Holo­caust Memoir
    Eva Mor­ei­mi
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    Why Can’t Moth­er Vote?: Joseph Hanover and the Unfin­ished Busi­ness of Democracy
    Bill Hal­tom
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