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Alma Presses Play
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Anna and the Swallow Man
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The Assignment
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The Berlin Boxing Club
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The Blood Years
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A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life
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Brik
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The City Beautiful
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Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
A moving graphic memoir of a young woman trying to find herself after her mother dies from cancer. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, this is a love letter to the author's mother, and a reminder that when you feel alone in loss, someone in the world understands you.
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Don't Want to Be Your Monster
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The Effects of Pickled Herring
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Eight Dates and Nights
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Eight Nights of Flirting
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Emmett
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Finally Fitz
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From Dust, a Flame
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Going Bicoastal
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Going Bicoastal
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The Hired Girl
Recounted in the form of a diary, lively and intelligent Joan escapes an abusive family and a life of drudgery on the farm for hard work and opportunity in the city. While working as a hired girl in a well-to-do Jewish household, she learns about faith, family, love, and life, all the while holding out hope for a proper education.
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How to Find What You're Not Looking For
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How to Pack for the End of the World
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In the Neighborhood of True
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It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
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Just a Hat
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The Last Words We Said
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The Length of a String
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The Light of the Midnight Stars
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Mapping the Bones
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My Fine Fellow
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Once More With Chutzpah
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The Poetry of Secrets
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Salt and Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, & Tradition
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See You Yesterday
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Someday We Will Fly
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The Summer of Lost Letters
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They Went Left
World War II has just ended and concentration camps have been liberated. 18-year-old Zofia is free but traumatized and malnourished, without a home, money, possessions or family. She is determined to find her missing brother and make a new life for herself. This is a beautifully written historical novel that portrays a young woman who comes to terms with the past, her scars and slowly picks up the pieces of her shattered life.
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This Dark Descent
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Trajectory
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The Way Back
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We Are Not Strangers
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We'll Soon be Home Again
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What the Night Sings
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When the Angels Left the Old Country
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Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero
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Why is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
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Wrath Becomes Her
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