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Nonfiction The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities Katharine Weber
Nonfiction A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup
Nonfiction Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion Michael Levy
Nonfiction Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice Fred Burton and John Bruning
Nonfiction Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris Lauren Shockey
Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado
Nonfiction Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel Nissim Rejwan University of Texas Press
Nonfiction Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, The Story of a Nation Marina Benjamin
Nonfiction Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel Daniel Gordis