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    The Telling Image: Shapes of Chang­ing Times
    Lois Far­fel Stark
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    Pres­i­dent Carter: The White House Years
    Stu­art E. Eizenstat
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    The Sev­en, A Fam­i­ly Holo­caust Story
    Ellen G. Friedman
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    The Cho­sen Wars: How Judaism Became an Amer­i­can Religion
    Steven R. Weisman
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    Touch­ing on Place: Archi­tec­tur­al Ele­ments in Israel
    Chaim Beza­lel
    Yon­nah Ben Levy
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    Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
    Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
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    Sav­ing Mona Lisa: The Bat­tle to Pro­tect the Lou­vre and its Trea­sures from the Nazis
    Ger­ri Chanel
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    Seduced by Mrs. Robin­son: How ​“The Grad­u­ate” Became the Touch­stone of a Generation
    Bev­er­ly Gray
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    Asperg­er’s Chil­dren: The Ori­gins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    Edith Shef­fer
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    Galantiere: The Lost Gen­er­a­tion’s For­got­ten Man
    Mark Lurie
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    He Could Make Words Sing: An Ordi­nary Man Dur­ing Extra­or­di­nary Times
    David Greene
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    Glo­ri­a’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Glo­ria Steinem
    Aura Lewis
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    A Sur­vivor’s Duty
    Gabriel Laufer
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    Kafka’s Last Tri­al: The Case of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
    Ben­jamin Balint
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    Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
    Paul M. Kaplan
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    Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Tam­my Bottner
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