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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Nonfiction American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption Gabrielle Glaser
Fiction It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories Laura Silverman Katherine Locke
Nonfiction Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust Tammy Bottner
Excerpt Who Got an American Any Longer? Excerpt from Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman.Maya had been early to pick up Max the day he didn’t come home with the school bus. Usually she was still powering up… Boris Fishman March 3, 2016
Nonfiction My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.
Nonfiction More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia Claude Knobler
Essay Reading Like a Senator, Loving Like a Grandparent This week, Claude Knobler— the author of More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia blogs… Claude Knobler January 20, 2015