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    Called Out but Safe: A Base­ball Umpire’s Journey
    Al Clark & Dan Schlossberg
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    My Salinger Year
    Joan­na Rakoff
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    Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind
    Sarah Wild­man
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    Things I Don’t Want to Know
    Deborah Levy
    Cover of Toward Babel: Poems and a Memoir
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    Toward Babel: Poems and a Memoir
    Ilana Shmueli; Susan H. Gillespie, trans.
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    My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Fam­i­ly Mem­oir of Art and War
    Anne Sinclair; Shaun Whiteside, trans.
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    Jour­ney From the Land of No: A Girl­hood Caught in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Iran
    Roya Hakakian
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    In the Land of Oz
    Howard Jacob­son
    Cover of Life Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
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    Life Ani­mat­ed: A Sto­ry of Side­kicks, Heroes, and Autism
    Ron Suskind
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    Lit­tle Miracles
    Abraham Bilcher
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    We Won’t See Auschwitz
    Jérémie Dres; Edward Gauvin, trans.
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    An Amer­i­can Cad­die in St. Andrews: Grow­ing Up, Girls, and Loop­ing on the Old Course
    Oliv­er Horovitz
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    Chap­ters of the Heart: Jew­ish Women Shar­ing the Torah of our Lives
    Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
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    Mea­sure of a Man: From Auschwitz Sur­vivor to Pres­i­dents’ Tailor
    Mar­tin Greenfield
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    Bust­ed: A Tale of Cor­rup­tion and Betray­al in the City of Broth­er­ly Love
    Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker
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    How to Suc­ceed in Busi­ness with­out Real­ly Crying
    Car­ol Leifer
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