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    Balm in Gilead: A Sto­ry from the War
    John L. Withers II
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    David Nasaw on the Last Million

    David Nasaw
    September 15, 2020
    Essay

    Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

    Cather­ine Fletcher
    September 14, 2020
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    The Bib­li­cal Hero: Por­traits in Nobil­i­ty and Fallibility
    Elliot Rabin
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    Games of Decep­tion: The True Sto­ry of the First US Olympic Bas­ket­ball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
    Andrew Maraniss
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    What Does the Con­sti­tu­tion Say?: A Kid’s Guide to How Our Democ­ra­cy Works
    Ben Shee­han
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    Jew­ish Pride: Rebuild­ing a People
    Ben M. Freeman
    Cover of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
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    The Out­lier: The Unfin­ished Pres­i­den­cy of Jim­my Carter
    Kai Bird
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    Mahjong: A Chi­nese Game and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Amer­i­can Culture
    Annelise Heinz
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    The Lind­bergh Kid­nap­ping Sus­pect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away
    Lise Pearl­man
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    999: The Extra­or­di­nary Young Women of the First Offi­cial Jew­ish Trans­port to Auschwitz
    Heather Dune Macadam
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    The Rat­line: The Exalt­ed Life and Mys­te­ri­ous Death of a Nazi Fugitive
    Philippe Sands
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    How Magi­cians Think: Mis­di­rec­tion, Decep­tion, and Why Mag­ic Matters
    Joshua Jay
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    A Bet­ter Life for Their Chil­dren: Julius Rosen­wald, Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America
    Andrew Feil­er
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    The Sis­ters of Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of Two Jew­ish Sis­ters’ Resis­tance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
    Rox­ane van Iperen
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    Jef­frey Veidlinger
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