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Week of February 29, 1976

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ANGELS
Billy Graham
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ANGELS

by Billy Graham · Doubleday

14 wks on list
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THE RELAXATION RESPONSE
Herbert Benson, M.D

THE RELAXATION RESPONSE

by Herbert Benson, M.D · William Morrow and Company

17 wks on list

An updated health handbook outlines techniques of concentration designed to reduce physiological stress and presents scientific data indicating the effectiveness of similar systems of relaxation. Reprint.

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WORLD OF OUR FATHERS
Irving Howe, with Kenneth Libo
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WORLD OF OUR FATHERS

by Irving Howe, with Kenneth Libo · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

1 wks on list

A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.

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MY LIFE
Golda Meir
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MY LIFE

by Golda Meir · Putnam's

9 wks on list

The former Israeli Prime Minister recounts her life and times, describing her troubled early childhood in Russia, her years in America, her Zionist and socialist activities, and her life in Israel as wife, mother, and key political figure.

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MEMOIRS
Tennessee Williams
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Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.