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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 11/18/08
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable about Restoring Sanity to the Most Important Organization in Your Life by Patrick M. Lencioni
When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist by Chet Raymo
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science by John D. Barrow
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil by Steven Nadler
The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Life by Ursula King
Practicing Peace: A Devotional Walk Through the Quaker Tradition by Catherine Whitmire
Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion: A Conversation Between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman by Paul Ekman and Daniel Goleman
The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jacob Needleman
The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations by James L. Kugel
Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions by Robert McDowell
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Ranger's Apprentice: The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan
Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz
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Neil Novick's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 11/4/08
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
Exposed by Alex Kava
The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 10/28/08:
To Siberia by Per Petterson
Songs of the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
The U.S. Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey; art by Aaron McConnell
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
Old Dogs Are the Best Dogs by Gene Weingarten; photographs by Michael S. Williamson
Izzy and Lenore: Two Dogs, An Unexpected Journey and Me by Jon Katz
The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker with an introduction by Neil Gaiman
Ghost Stories, Everyman's Pocket Classics
Dewey: the Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Marggie Skinner's Book House book picks for 10/21/08
Scandinavian mysteries and/or good reads -
- Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
- The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason
- The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
- The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna
- A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
Narratives -
- Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives compiled and edited by Peter Orner
- Voices of Breast Cancer: The Healing Companion: Stories for Comfort, Courage and Strength edited by Victor Starsia
- The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu
- Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25 and the Search for the American Dream by Adam Shepard
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 10/14/08
Doomwyte: A Novel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
Urso Brunov and the White Emperor by Brian Jacques
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne
Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts for the Ones You Love by Hannah Fettig
Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders by Judith Durant
Everyday Crochet: Wearable Designs Just for You by Doris Chan and Karen Manthey
The Prayer Shawl Companion: 38 Knitted Designs to Embrace, Inspire, and Celebrate Life by Janet Bristow and Victoria Cole-Galo
Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patterns, and Miles of Yarn by Joan Tapper by Gale Zucker
Knitting New Scarves: 27 Distinctly Modern Designs by Lynee Barr, Tyllie Barbosa, Kelly McKaig
When Bad Things Happen to Good Knitters: An Emergency Survival Guide by Marion Edmonds and Ahza Moore
Handknit Holidays: Knitting Year-Round for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Winter Solstice by Melanie Falick, Susan Pittard, and Betty Christiansen
Weekend Knitting: 50 Unique Projects and Ideas by Melanie Falick and Ericka McConnell
Kids Knitting by Melanie Falick, Chris Hartlove, and Kristin Nicholas
Knitspeak: An A to Z Guide to the Language of Knitting Patterns by Andrea Berman and Patti Pierece Stone
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Bill Lewis' Northshire Books Picks for 10/7/08:
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
Going Dutch by Lisa S. Jardine
Waking Giant by David S. Reynolds
Why We Watched by Theodore Hamerow
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horowitz
From Colony to Superpower by George C. Herring
State by State edited by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Joan Grenier and Emily Russo's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 9/30/08
Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma V. Darwin in Small-Town America by Lauri Lebo
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
Serena by Ron Rash
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox's Red Fox Books picks for 9/16/08:
Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad
In the Woods by Tana French
The Likeness by Tana French
The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
The Mayflower (adapted for young people) by Nathaniel Philbrick
The ligher side of election season:
Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle by Mathew Honan
72 Things Younger than John McCain by Joe Quint
Obama and McCain Paper Dolls by Dover Publications
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Stanley Hadsell's Marketblock Book picks for 9/9/08:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Little Book by Selden Edwards
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue
Troy books:
Leslie by Richard Matturro
The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton
Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy by the Center for Land Use Interpretation
Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
Every Move You Make by M. Williams Phelps
Ornamental Ironworks: Two Centuries of Craftsmanship in Albany & Troy, NY by Diana Waite
Beyond Time by Kersten Lorcher and Uta Susse-Krause
Greetings from the 50 States: How They Got Their Names by Sheila Keenan
Market Block Books - Troy, NY
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 9/2/08
The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge: Father of the Motion Picture, Pioneer of Photography, and Murderer by Brian Clegg
The Hudson: America's River by Frances F. Dunwell
A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply by Michael Schacker
Rivers of America by Tim Palmer
Trees & Forests of America by Tim Palmer
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea by Noah Andre Trudeau
Silks by Dick and Felix Francis
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalanotto
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Bruce Anderson's Northshire Books Picks for 8/27/08:
Sea Change by Jorie Graham
The Lemur by Benjamin Black [aka John Banville]
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Paradiso by Dante [translation by Hollander]
Will by Christopher Rush
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Neil Novick's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 8/19/08
Good People by Marcus Sakey
Empire of Lies by Andrew Klavan
Takeover by Lisa Black
Don't Tell a Soul by David Rosenfelt
Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 8/12/08:
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life His Own by David Carr
The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Saving the Family Cottage: A Guide to Succession Planning by Stuart Hollander
The Second Home Book by Marylouise Oates
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Time Wearing Out Memory: Schoharie County by Steve Gross and Susan Daley
Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information about Your Body by Francesca Gould
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman
This Land is Your Land: 10th Anniversary Edition Words by Woody Guthrie. Illustrated by Kathy Jakobsen
Vote! by Eileen Christelow
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 7/29/08
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
Writing and Selling the YA Novel by K.L. Going
Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business by Sarah Beth Aubrey
The Medieval Flower Book by Celia Fisher
Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock by Judy Pangman
Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration by Tim Matson
Zen & the Art of Pond Building by D.J. Herda
Rain Gardens: Managing Rainwater Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape by Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden
The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food by Tanya L.K. Denckla and Stephen Alcorn
Garden Your Way to Health and Fitness: Exercise Plans, Injury Prevention, Ergonomic Designs by Bunny Guinness and Jacqueline Knox
Food Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide by Ben-Erik Van Wyk
Bird Songs from Around the World by Les Beletsky and David Nurney
Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition by Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish, and John Dixon Hunt
Killer View by Ridley Pearson
Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town by Witold Rybczynski
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Linda Ellingsworth's Northshire Books Picks for 7/22/08:
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
In the Company of Horses by Kathleen Lindley
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat by Lawrence Scanlan
Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch by Charles Leerhsen
What Horses Say: How to Hear, Help and Heal Them by Anna Clemence and Julie Dicker
Kids Books
My Chincoteague Pony by Susan Jeffers
Riding School by Catherine Saunders
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Joan Grenier and Emily Russo's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 7/15/08
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A Blackmon
The God of War by Marisa Silver
The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 7/8/08:
What Was Lost: A Novel by Catherine O'Flynn
Outer Banks: Three Early Novels by Russell Banks
American Masala: 125 Classics from My Home Kitchen by Suvir Saran
25 Short Hikes and Interesting Walks in the Lake George Region by Michael Carpenter and Roger Fulton
25 Short Hikes and Interesting Walks in the Saratoga Springs Region by Michael Carpenter and Roger Fulton
25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks: Road Adventures in the East's Largest Wilderness by Bill McKibben, Sue Halpern, Mitchell Hay, and Barbara Lemmel
The Civility Solution: What to Do When People are Rude by P.M. Forni
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
United Tweets of America: 50 State Birds and Their Stories, Their Glories by Hudson Talbott
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Susan Taylor's Book House picks for 7/1/08:
This Land is their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
Poo Log A Record Keeper by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth
Traffic: Why we Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About US) by Tom Vanderbilt
The Beautiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 6/24/08
Lady Liberty: A Biography by Doreen Rappaport
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon by Jeffrey Brodie, Kathleen Kendrick, and Lonn Taylor
Americana Adventure by Michael Garland
My Chincoteague Pony by Susan Jeffers
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going
George Washington's Secret Navy by James L. Nelson
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau edited by Bill McKibben
How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics by James D. Stein
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
Imperial Capitals of China by Arthur Cotterell
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Sarah Knight's Northshire Books Picks for 6/17/08:
McMafia: Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi
In the Woods by Tanya French
Simon Serrailler Series - Various Haunts of Men, Pure in Heart, Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 6/10/08
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- The Reapers by John Connolly
- The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
- Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 5/27/08:
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
People's History of the American Empire by Howard Zinn
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Sports Book DK Publlishing
Serving up the Harvest by Andrea Chesman
Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets by Deborah Madison
Pet at the Amet by Don Freeman
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Marggie Skinner's Book House book picks for 5/20/08
For Graduation -
- What Now? by Ann Patchett
- Dreaming up America by Russell Banks
For Fathers Day -
- Remember Me Notebook by Tom Daly
For Anytime -
- Disappearing Destinations by Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen
- Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
- Tales from the Town of Widows by James Canon
- The Painter from Shaghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- The Calling by Inger Wolfe
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 5/13/08
On May 16 and 17, the village of Millbrook will host its first book festival, Spring into Books.
This village-wide event promises a fun, free, and family-oriented day of lively panel discussions with award-winning authors, book signings, and events for children.
For more information visit the Millbrook Book Festival website.
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Cheryl Cornwell's Northshire Books Picks for 5/6/08:
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
The Boat by Nam Le
Cinderella's Sisters by Dorothy Ko
Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras
The Post-office Girl by Stefan Zweig
The House of Widows by Askold Melnyczuk
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 4/29/08
- Wild Birds of the American Wetlands by Rosalie Winard
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
- Rising Powers Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy by Michael Klare
- Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
- City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
- All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo by Bryan Mealer
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 4/22/08:
- And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Life Supports by William Bronk
- The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
- The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
- A Child's Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll
- The Willoughby's by Lois Lowry
- American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau edited by Bill McKibben
- Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson
- Myspace/Our Planet: Change is Possible by Myspace Community
- Treehouses of the World by Pete Nelson
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Stanley Hadsell's Marketblock Book picks for 4/15/08:
- Oops! poems by Alan Katz
- Red Bird poems by Mary Oliver
- New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
- Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
- Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll edited by Jonathan Wells
- The Barefoot Book of Classis Poems edited by Jackie Morris
- Here's a Little Poem edited by Jane Yolen
- Ten Poems to Open Your Heart by Roger Housden
- Porn for New Moms and Porn for Women by the Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative
- Were You Raised by Wolves? by Christie Mellor
Market Block Books - Troy, NY
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 4/7/08
- The Wolves Are Back by Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor
- Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel by Jean Craighead George
- Nobunny's Perfect by Dewdney, Anna
- The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience by Ann Lauterbach
- Hum by Ann Lauterbach
- Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
- The Poetry of Earth by Roger Rollof
- The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall
- Don't Bump the Glump!: And Other Fantasies by Shel Silverstein
- Oops! by Alan Katz and Edward Koren
- My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson
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Michael Schiavo's Northshire Books Poetry Month Picks for 4/1/08:
- American Music by Chris Martin
- Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding
- Primitive Mentor by Dean Young
- Drunk By Noon by Jennifer L. Knox
- The Executive Director of the Fallen World by Liam Rector (hardcover)
- Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart (hardcover)
- For Love of Common Words by Steve Scafidi
- Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara (hardcover)
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 3/25/08
- L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker
- Judas Horse by April Smith
- At the City's Edge by Marcus Sakey
- City of the Sun by David Levien
- The Telephone Gambit by Seth Shulman
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Dick Hermans Oblong Books book picks for 3/18/08
- Looking for Work: Industrial Archeology in Columbia County by Peter H. Stott
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Willing by Scott Spencer
- Benchclearing: Baseball's Greatest Fights and Riots by Spike Vrusho
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Marggie Skinner's Book House book picks for 3/12/08
- The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm
- Confessions of a Falling Woman: And Other Stories (P.S.) by Debra Dean
- Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
- Murder in the Rue De Paradis: An Aimee Leduc Investigation by Cara Black
- World Made by Hand: A Novel by James Howard Kunstler
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
- Obedience: A Novel by Will Lavender
- Crazy School by Cornelia Read
- Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
- We Aren't Who We Are - And This World Isn't Either by Christine Korfhage
- Son of Mountains, My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect by Yassin Aref
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 3/4/08
- Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Bruce Chilton
- The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It by Os Guinness
- Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton
- The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics by Annping Chin
- The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark by Tudor Parfitt
- 1812: War with America by Jon Latimer
- Riverine by Laurence Carr
- A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby
- The 6 Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly
- What-The-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
- The Garden of Eve by K. L. Going
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Karen Frank's Northshire Books Picks for 2/26/08:
- Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney
- Tipperary by Frank Delaney
- The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell
- Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
- Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
- Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Pint Sized Ireland by Evan McHugh
- An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
- An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 2/19/08
- The Pig Did It : A Novel by Joseph Caldwell
- Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
- A Golden Age: A Novel by Tahmima Anam
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Reserve by Russell Banks
- Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow by Jim Hightower with Susan DeMarco
- Peace: 50 Years of Protest by Barry Miles
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 2/5/07:
- All Shall Be Well; And All shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
- Total Chaos by Jean Claude Izzo
- Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
- The Reserve by Russell Banks
Valentine's Day titles:
- Love Poems Everyman's Library
- The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present edited by David Lehman
- Gift of Nothing and Hug Time by Patrick McDonnell
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Susan Taylor's Marketblock Books Book Picks for 1/28/08:
- November Memories by Steve Ference
- Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner by Page Stegner
- Postcards from Ed by Edward Abbey and Divid Peterson
- Mr. & Mrs. Prince by Gretchen Gerzina
- Tipperary by Frank Delaney
- Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
- The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
- Franklin & Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
- Eleanor vs. Ike by Robin Gerber
- Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson
- The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches by Jeff Yeager
Market Block Books - Troy, NY
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Scott Meyer's Merrit Bookstore Picks for 1/22/08:
- A Northern Light and The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
- The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
- Sam's Sandwich by David Pelham
- Et Tu, Brute?: The Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination by Greg Woolf
- Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts--According to Schoolkids by Alexander Abingdon and Dr. Seuss
- Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--And the Threats That Now Put It at Risk by Michael J. Novacek
- Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor
- Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History by Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, and Charles Driscoll
- Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers by Gary Kowalski
- Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts by Maureen C. Geiger
- Little Book of Big Ideas: Economics by Mathew Forstater and James Rollo
- The Death of Socrates by Emily R. Wilson
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Louise Jones Northshire Regionally Themed Books Picks for 1/15/08:
- Still As Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Vermont author / setting)
- To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming (books take place in the Adironoacks)
- Chat by Archer Mayor (Vermont author / setting)
- Silence by Thomas Perry
- A Little White Death by John Lawton
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 1/8/08
- 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter
- Second Shot by Zoe Sharpe
- Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
- Person of Interest by Theresa Schwegel
- Down River by John Hart
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
**Special over-all author recommendation: Dennis Lehane**
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 12/18/07:
- The Chronicles of Narnia Pop-Up by Robert Sabuda, based on the books by C.S. Lewis
- Moby Dick: A Pop-Up Book by Sam Ita
- Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
- The Annotated Christmas Carol: The Christmas Carol in Prose by Charles Dickens, Michael Patrick Hearn, and John Leech
- The Annotated Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
- Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
- To Those We Hold So Dear: Letters to Our Beloved Pets edited by Patricia Carte
- The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky by by Joe Garden, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Anita Serwacki
- How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY
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Stanley Hadsell's Marketblock Book picks for 12/11/07:
- When You Were Me by Robert Rodi
- See How It's Made by Dorling-Kindersly
- Chester by Melanie Watt
- Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
- Awakenings: Asian Wisdom for Every Day by Danielle & Olivier Follmi
- One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit by Don Gerrard
- The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
- Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation by John Daido Loori
Market Block Books - Troy, NY
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Scott Meyer's Holiday Book Picks for 12/4/07:
- The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- Fabian Escapes by Peter McCarty
- The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity by Stefan Klein
- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
- Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
- Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
- I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau with notes by Jeffrey S. Cramer
- A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field by George B. Schaller,
- Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor by Sarah Miller Caldicott and Michael J. Gelb
- The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them by David Ruelle
- Blue Moo: Deluxe Illustrated Songbook; 17 Jukebox Hits from Way Back Never (with audio CD) by Sandra Boynton
- The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups by A. A. Milne
- Tricks with Trees: Growing, Manipulating and Pruning by Richard Rosenfeld, Ivan Hicks, and Jo Whitworth
- Newport: A Lively Experiment 1639-1969 by Rockwell Stensrud
- Bunny Williams' Point of View: Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses by Bunny Williams
- Enclosure by Andy Goldsworthy
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Stan Hynds' Northshire Bookstore books-as-gifts picks for 11/27/07:
- Birds Songs from Around the World by Les Beletsky, illustraged by avid Nurney
- Obsessed With Baseball: Test Your Knowledge of America’s Pastime by the Baseball Guys
- Enclosure by Andy Goldsworthy
- 30,000 Years of Art by the Editors of Phaidon
- 1080 Recipes by Simone and Ines Ortega
- How To Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman
- The War by Ken Burns
- Animal Portraiture titles:
- Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg
- Creature by Andrew Zuckerman
- Animal House by Catherine Ledner
- Gallop! : A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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