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Nonfiction Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible David Plotz
Nonfiction Caesar’s Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld
Nonfiction Baby Barbells: The Dad’s Guide To Fitness and Fathering Joshua Levitt; Matt Stevens, illus.
Nonfiction The Big Jewish Book for Jews: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Really Jewish Jew Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman
Nonfiction Old Jews Telling Jokes: 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-so-Kosher Laughs Sam Hoffman with Eric Spiegelman
Nonfiction Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero From the Creators of Superman Thomas Andrae and Mel Gordon, eds; Danny Fingeroth, fwd.
Nonfiction Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (Among Other Things) Abby Sher