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Every Tuesday after Regional News in the 10 o'clock hour we invite an independent bookseller from our listening area in to suggest books for you - our listeners! For your convenience we post the lists on this webpage - to hear these segments click here.
Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 1/31/11:
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Country of the Bad Wolfes by James Carlos Blake
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
The French Slow Cooker by Michele Scicolone
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
A Ball for Daisy written and illustrated by Chris Raschka
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 1/17/12:
Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
The Postmortal by Drew Magary
Red Means Run by Brad Smith
Then Again by Diane Keaton
The Sun's Heartbeat by Bob Berman
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Making a Friend by Alison McGhee with Illustrations by Marc Rosenthal
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Jacqueline Kellachan's Golden Notebook Book Picks for 1/10/12:
Hedy's Folly by Richard Rhodes
Fug You (An Informal History of the Peace Eye Booksstore, The F*** You Press, the Fugs, and the Counterculture of The Lower East Side) by Ed Sanders
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
The Emporer of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherje
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Beneath Cold Seas by David Hall
The Beuaty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 1/3/12:
Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Saturday, 1/7 at 4pm)
The Demon Lover by Juliet Dark (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Sunday, 1/22 at 4pm)
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz
The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James Ransome (launch party at Oblong Rhinebeck on Saturday, 1/14 at 6pm)
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Alden Graves' Northshire Books Picks for 12/13/11:
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Death In the City of Light by David King
Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schdenberger
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Marggie Skinner's Market Block Books Book Picks for 12/6/11:
Searching for Sgt. Bailey by James Breig
Barrels and Drams The History of Whisk(e)y in Jiggers and Shots by William M. Dowd
When People Wrote Letters A Family Chronicle by Martha Tuck Rozett
Cain by Jose Saramago
The Obits Annual 2012 edited by William McDonald
Bethlehem by Susan Leath (Images of America Series)
America's Great Railroad Stations by Ed Breslin and Hugh Van Dusen
Market Block Books - Troy, New York
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 11/29/11:
The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own by Jenna Woginrich
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
America's Great Railroad Stations by Roger Strauss, Hugh Van Dusen, and Ed Breslin
Mourad: New Moroccan by Mourad Lahlou
Cook School by Amanda Grant, photographs by Susan Bell
Home for Christmas by Jan Brett
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 11/22/11:
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie
When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks by Harvey Araton
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter
Dignifying Dementia: A Caregiver's Struggle by Elizabeth Tierney
Persephone Books
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 11/15/11:
Pie by Sarah Weeks
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
Food Rules by Michael Pollan, illustrated by Maira Kalman
The Silver Spoon (new edition)
Aelian's On the Nature of Animals by Gregory McNamee
Menagerie by Sharon Montrose
The Best of the Rejection Collection by The New Yorker
Red-Robed Priestess by Elizabeth Cunningham (Event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Saturday, 11/19)
The 50 Funniest American Writers by Andy Borowitz (Event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Saturday, 12/3)
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 11/8/11:
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
It Chooses You by Miranda July
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Goodnight iPad by Ann Droyd
Lala Salama: A Tanzanian Lullaby written by Patricia Maclachlan and illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Jacqueline Kellachan's Golden Notebook Book Picks for 11/1/11:
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Fathermucker by Greg Olear
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus
Everything is An Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson by Kevin Avery
The Butch Bakery Cookbook by David Arrick with Janice Kollar
Food Rules: Eaters Manual by Michael Pollan with illustrations by Maira Kalman
The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy by Priscilla Gilman
The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York
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Joan Grenier and Emily Crowe's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 10/25/11:
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein by Julie Salamon
The Marriage Plot: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 10/4/11:
Red White Black and Blue by Richard Stevenson
Ill Met by Moonlight by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Steve Wick
The Fathers by Alan Tate
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 9/20/11:
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD
The Orchard: A Memoir by Theresa Weir
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die by Jon Katz
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
Otis and the Tornado by Loren Long
Bumble-ardy by Maurice Sendak
Mary and Her Little Lamb by Will Moses
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 9/13/11:
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
Ashes by Ilsa Bick
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Friday, 9/16)
A Year and Six Seconds by Isabel Gillies (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Saturday, 9/17)
My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir by Susan Fox Rogers (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on Friday, 9/23)
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 9/6/11:
The Way of the Hen: Zen and the Art of Raising Chickens by Clea Danaan
The Illustrated Guide to Chickens: How to Choose Them, How to Keep Them by Celia Lewis
On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves) by Jonnie Hughes
Stagestruck: A Peter Diamond Investigation by Peter Lovesey
What Caesar Did for My Salad: The Curious Stories Behind Our Favorite Foods by Albert Jack
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Jacqueline Kellachan's Golden Notebook Book Picks for 8/30/11:
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
The Submission: A Novel by Amy Waldman
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman
Symphony City by Amy Martin
We Need a Horse by Sheila Heti and Clare Rojas
The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 8/23/11:
The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
I Married you for Happiness by Lily Tuck
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
Between by Jessica Warman
Substitute Creature by Chris Gall
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Marika McCoola's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 8/16/10:
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brogsol
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School by David Mackintosh
Bad Island by Doug Tennapel
Wiener Wolf by Jeff Crosby
The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children by Keith McGowan
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Bill Lewis' Northshire Books Picks for 8/9/11:
Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff
The Civil War of 1812 by Alan Taylor
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
Johnny Appleseed by Howard Means
1861 by Adam Goodheart
The Crimean War by Orlando Figes
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
Turn Right at Manchu Pichu by Mark Adams
Ethan Allen: His Life and Times by Willard Sterne Randall
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 8/1/11:
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Maine by Courtney Sullivan
Touch by Alexi Zentner
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good by David J. Linden
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
Miss Peregrines's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Skippyjon Jones: Class Action by Judith Byron Schachner
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Susan and Naftali's Red Fox Books picks for 7/25/11:
A Short History of the Civil War by James L. Stokesbury
Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
Dog Hikes in The Adirondacks: 20 Trails to Enjoy With Your Best Friend edited by Eddie Stoltie and Elisabeth Ward
Five-Star Trails in the Adirondacks by Tim Starmer
25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks: Road Adventures in the East's Largest Wilderness by Bill McKibben, Sue Halpern, and Mitchell Hay
Kids' Summer Reading Classics:
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol
Great Expectations (Puffin Classics edition) by Charles Dickens and Roddy Doyle
Tales of Ancient Egypt (Puffin Classics edition) by Roger Lancelyn Green and Michael Rosen
Grimm's Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics edition) by Grimm Brothers and Matt Haig
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 7/19/11:
The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael Sims
One Man's Meat by E.B. White
White on White Joel and E.B. White audio
Time of Gifts and Between Woods and Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Jamali Kamali: A Tale of Passion in Mughal India by Karen Chase
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 7/12/11:
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Dark Life by Kat Falls
Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Trapped by Michael Northrop
Heist Society & Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 7/5/11:
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
The Lotus Eaters by Tatijana Soli
Bossypants by Tina Fey
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Unlikely Friendships by Jennifer Holland
The House That Mouse Built by Maggie Rudy and Pam Abrams, with photographs by Bruce Wolf
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Jacqueline Kellachan's Golden Notebook Book Picks for 6/28/11:
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle
The Butcher's Guide To Well Raised Meat by Jessica and Joshua Applestone
Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life Work At Age 72 by Molly Peacock
Mrs. Delaney And Her Circle - Yale Center For British Art.
Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter by Patricia Albers
Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Leven
Red On Red by Edward Conlon
The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York
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Joan Grenier and Diana Gurske's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 6/21/10:
Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
We the Animals by Justin Torres
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Faith: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh
"There are Things I Want You to Know" about Steig Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America by Hannah Nordhaus
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan and Naftali's Red Fox Books picks for 5/31/11:
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
Moonlight Downs: An Emily Tempest Investigation by Adrian Hyland
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar edited by Richard Ford
Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast by Hank Shaw
Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators by Jim Arnosky
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 5/24/11:
The Passage: A Novel by Justin Cronin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Me ... Jane by Patrick McDonnell
Fuddles by Frans Vischer
Marty McGuire by Kate Messner, illustrated by Brian Floca
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 5/10/11:
Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System by Richard S. Ostfeld
Patience: Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration by Akiko Busch
Dragon Castle by Joseph Bruchac
The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith
The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden by Page Dickey
Playdate by Thelma Adams
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older by Sydney Eddison
Odd Ball: Hilarious, Unusual, & Bizarre Baseball Moments by Timothy Tocher
The Lonely Phone Booth by Peter Ackerman
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
Almost a Family: A Memoir by John Darnton
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 5/3/11:
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees that Inspired Famous American Writers by Richard Horan
Spiral by Paul McEuen
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
LaRue Across America by Mark Teague
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Jacqueline Kellachan's Golden Notebook Book Picks for 4/26/11:
Pym by Mat Johnson
Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm
The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking by Yin-Yin Chang
Meet The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz
Rockin Steady: A Guide to Basketball and Cool by Walt Frazier
Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Break The Glass by Jean Valentine
The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York
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Louise Jones's Northshire Books Picks for 4/19/11:
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
The School of Night by Louis Bayard
Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (pub date April 26)
The Informant by Thomas Perry (pub date May 5)
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
Battlecry of Freedom by James McPherson
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Marika McCoola's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 4/12/10:
Manners Mash-Up: A Goofy Guide to Good Behavior
Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
The Queen of France written by Tim Wadham, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
Lost and Found by Shaun Tan
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie by Julie Sternberg, illustrations by Matthew Cordell
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Fox and Hen Together by Beatrice Rodriguez
Madeline at the White House by John Bemelmans Marciano
The Book with a Hole by Herve Tullet
The Crows of Pearblossom written by Aldous Huxley, illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Say Hello to Zorro! by Carter Goodrich
Clink manufactured by Kelly DiPucchio & Matthew Myers
The LOUD Book! written by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Renata Liwska
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox's Red Fox Books picks for 4/5/11:
Dog Stories Everyman's Pocket Classics
Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens by Jenna Woginrich and Mars Vilaubi
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older by Sydney Eddison
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull, illustrated by Sarah Young
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 3/29/11:
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Galore by Michael Crummey
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart by Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon, MD
Grow the Good Life by Michele Owens (Event: Sunday, 4/17/2011, 4pm)
Let's Take the Kids - Great Places to go in New York's Hudson Valley by Joanne Michaels
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 3/22/11:
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by Elizabeth Bishop and Joelle Biele
Anterooms: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
J. D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski
Branch Rickey by Jimmy Breslin
All Clear by Connie Willis
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 3/15/11:
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Where's Walrus by Stephen Savage (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on 4/2 as part of the grand opening of our expanded children's section)
Strings Attached by Judy Blundell (event at Oblong Rhinebeck on 3/27)
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Warriors series by Erin Hunter (event at Oblong Millerton on 4/11)
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 3/8/11:
E=mc2: Simple Physics: Why Balloons Rise, Apples Fall and Golf Balls Go Awry by Jeff Stewart
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager
Timeriders by Alex Scarrow
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Time Loops and Space Twists: How God Created the Universe by Fred Alan Wolf
The Leaves of Fate by Robert George Minkoff
Cloud Collector's Handbook by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Personal Space Travel by Piers Bizony
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Susan Fox's Red Fox Books picks for 3/1/11:
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work by Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot
Papertoy Monsters by Brian Castleforte
Brownie Groundhog and the February Fox by Susan Blackaby and Carmen Segovia
Great Poems for Grandchildren by Celestine Frost and Brian Cronin
A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost and Grandma Moses
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Jacqueline Kellachan's Golden Notebook Book Picks for 2/22/11:
Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
Radioactive by Lauren Rednniss
Harlem Is Nowhere by Sharifa Rhodes Pitts
Captain Asks For a Show Of Hands by Nick Flynn
Deadly Choices by Paul Offit
Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit: A Book of Changing Seasons by Il Sung Na
The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York
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Joan Grenier and Emily Crowe's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 2/15/11:
The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Open City by Teju Cole
The Three Weissmans of Wesport by Cathleen Schine
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
West of Here by Jonathan Evison
American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
Townie: A Memoir by Andrew Dubus III
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 1/25/11:
The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
West of Here by Jonathan Evison
The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
American Rose by Karen Abbott
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Leo and Diane Dillon
I Must Have Bobo! by Eileen Rosenthal and Marc Rosenthal
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 1/18/11:
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals by Una McGovern and Paul Jenner
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Toibin
Odetta: The Queen of Folk by Stephen Alcorn (illustrator)and Samantha Thornhill (poet)
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Erin E. Stead (illustrator) and Philip C. Stead (author)
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 1/11/11:
Tinkers by Paul Harding
New Yorker Stories by Anne Beattie
Three Ladies Beside the Sea by Rhoda Levin, Illustrated by Edward Gorey
The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop, Illustrated by Robert McCloskey
The Bear That Wasn't by Frank Tashlin
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 1/4/11:
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury
Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm by Kurdo Baksi
Good Eggs by Pheobe Potts
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Penny Dreadful by Laurel Snyder
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Matched by Ally Condie
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 12/28/10:
Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
The Great Divorce by Ilyon Woo
The Secret Gift by Ted Gup
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Boy and the Moon by James Christopher Carroll
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Neil Novick and Elizabeth Crowell's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 12/21/10:
Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer
100 Portraits by Barry Moser
Atlantic by Simon Winchester
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
Wine Trials 2011 by Robin Goldstein
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Chris Morrow's Northshire Books Picks for 12/14/10:
Christmas Orphan by James Howard Kunstler
My Bread: The Revolutionary No-work, No-knead Method by Jim Lahey
Perseverance by Margaret Wheatley
The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century Sustainability Crisis edited by Richard Heinberg
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story by Willem Lange
It's A Book by Lane Smith
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Susan Fox's Red Fox Books picks for 12/7/10:
One Big Table by Molly O'Neill
The Gourmet Cookie Book by Gourmet Magazine
Teen Cuisine by Matthew Locricchio
Beautiful Cows by Val Porter, Jeremy Hopley, and Andrew Perris
Small, Medium, and Large by Jane Monroe Donovan
Old Bear and His Cub by Olivier Dunrea
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
Tinsel: The Search for America's Christmas Present by Hank Stuever
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 11/30/10:
Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Rose in a Storm by Jon Katz (Event - 12/14/10, Hubbard Hall, 7 pm)
Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Fannie's Last Supper: Recreating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook by Chris Kimball
The Wild Table by Connie Green and Sarah Scott
The Classic Treasury of Childhood Wonders: Favorite Adventures, Stories, Poems, and Songs for Making Lasting Memories by Susan H. Magsamen
The Miracle Jar by Audrey Penn
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 11/23/10:
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy
Hail Hail Euphoria by Roy Blount
Be Love Now by Ram Dass
Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
Unexpected Elegies: "Poems of 1912-13" and Other Poems About Emma by Thomas Hardy and Claire Tomalin
Talk Show by Dick Cavett
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 11/16/10:
The Essential New York Times Cookbook by Amanda Hesser
Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
Beautiful Oops by Barney Salzberg
Everything But the Horse by Holly Hobbie
The Memory Bank by Carolyn Coman and Rob Shepperson
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 11/9/10
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
Fragments by Marilyn Monroe
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Long, Last, Happy by Barry Hannah
Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
Waiting for Winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Emily Crowe and Marika McCoola's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 11/2/10
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
At Home by Bill Bryson
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto edited by Joan Reardon
100 Portraits by Barry Moser
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion by Mo Willems
The Odious Ogre by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Lane Smith
Dust City by Robert Paul Weston
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
Shadow by Suzy Lee
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Taylor's Market Block Books Book Picks for 10/26/10:
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor edited by Charlotte Mosley
Wait for Me!: Memoirs by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire and Charlotte Mosley
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford, preface by Jane Smiley
Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford
Blackout by Connie Willis
All Clear by Connie Willis
Change by Judith Barnes & Erick James, illustrated by Jeff Grader
Comeback Love by Peter Golden
The Heroes of Olympus: Book 1: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
Market Block Books - Troy, New York
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Susan Fox's Red Fox Books picks for 10/19/10:
Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace by Frank M. Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan
Lost Ski Areas of Southern Vermont by Jeremy K. Davis
And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Zen Ghosts by Jon J. Muth
Three Little Dassies by Jan Brett
Natural History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth by DK Publishing
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 10/12/10
Fancy Nancy and the Fabulous Fashion Boutique by Jane O'Connor
River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers by Nina Shengold
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Soccerland by Beth Choat
The Classics: All You Need to Know, from Zeus's Throne to the Fall of Rome by Caroline Taggart
The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide by Richard A. Muller
Patience: Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration by Akiko Busch
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 9/28/10
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
The Typewriter if Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
Stuck Rubber Baby: A Graphic Novel by Howard Cruse
Please Take Me Off the Guest List by Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez and Stay Wakefield
Cockeyed: A Donald Strachey Mystery
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 9/21/10:
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Witch of Hebron by James Howard Kunstler - Event: Thursday, November 11th, 6:30 pm
Outlander by Gil Adamson - Event - Book Club: Thursday, October 7th, 6:30 pm
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng - Event - Kids' Book Club: Tuesday, October 12th, 2:45 pm
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
The Locavore Way by Amy Cotler
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 9/14/10
Food Heroes by Georgia Pellegrini (Event Weds., 9/15, 7:30pm at Oblong in Rhinebeck)
Georgia's Kitchen by Jenny Nelson (Event Fri., 9/17, 7:30pm at Oblong in Rhinebeck)
It's a Book by Lane Smith (Event Sat., 9/18, 12pm at Oblong in Millerton)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Bells by Richard Harvell
Wave by Susan Casey
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 9/7/10
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage
Field of Screams by Mickey Bradley
Great Inventors of New York's Capital District by Timothy Starr
The Geometry of Pasta by Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy
Playing with Books by Jason Thompson
The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller
Even Monsters Need Haircuts by Matthew McElligott
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Neil Novick's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 8/31/10
Last Talk With Lola Faye by Thomas H. Cook
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
Inside Out by Barry Eisler
61 Hours by Lee Child
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Sarah Knight's Northshire Books Picks for 8/24/10:
The Debba by Avner Mandelman
The Man with the Baltic Stare by James Church
Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer
Layover in Dubai by Dan Fesperman
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith
Faithful Place by Tana French
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 8/17/10:
Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern
Winnie and Wolf by A.N. Wilson
Kids Picks:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Inga Moore
First Light by Rebecca Stead
Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates
How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 8/10/10:
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
Fur, Fortune and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin
Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront by Nathan Ward
Saratoga in Bloom by Janet Loughrey
Drawn to the Land: The Romance of Farming by Elizabeth J. Cockey and Barton M. Cockey
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Sisters Grimm series (The Fairy Tale Detectives) by Michael Buckley
Wishing for Tomorrow: The Sequel to A Little Princess by Hilary McKay
My Kindergarten by Rosemary Wells
The Pirate's Guide to First Grade by James Preller, Illustrated by Greg Ruth
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 8/4/10
A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage
The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
Stash by David Klein
Agents of Treachery edited by Otto Penzler
The Devil's Trill by Gerry Elias
The Complete Review compiled by Michael Orthofer (website)
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 7/27/10
One Day by David Nicholls
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
The Fall of the House of Walworth by Geoffrey O'Brien
Awkward Family Photos by Mike Bender an Doug Chernack
Justin Fisher Declares War by James Preller
Dog Love Books by Louise Yates
A Kayaker's Guide to New York's Capital Region by Russell Dunn
One Foot Forward: Walks in Upstate New York by Richard B. Frost
Dog Hikes in the Adirondacks Edited by Annie Stoltie and Elisabeth Ward
The Smallbanac: An Opinionated Guide to New York's Capital District by Christine Garretson-Persans
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Joan Grenier and Emily Crowe's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 7/20/10
What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life by Ann Vanderhoof
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green
Put 'em up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling by Sherri Brooks Vinton
Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America's Farmers by Janet Fletchter
The Town that Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food by Ben Hewitt
The Quickening: A Novel by Michelle Hoover
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 7/13/10:
Faithful Place by Tana French
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin and Otto Penzler
Red Rain by Bruce Murkoff
When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus
Stay by Allie Larkin
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Nothing by Janne Teller
Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Jessica Wood's Northshire Books Picks for 7/6/10:
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Over the Rainbow performed by Judy Collins paintings by Eric Puybaret
City dog, Country frog by Mo Willems illustrated by Jon J. Muth
Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones illustrated by Eric Beddows
The Squirrels Birthday & Other Parties by Toon Tellegen
When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham illustrated by Juan Wijingaard
if i stay by Gayle Forman
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
By The Time You Read This, I'll be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 6/29/10
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Double Happiness by Mary-Beth Hughes
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
One Day by David Nicholls
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 6/23/10
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner
Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth by John C. Kricher
In the Catskills by John Burroughs
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael A. Hiltzik
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 6/15/10
The Passage by Justin Cronin
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Rocky Road by Rose Kent
Firehouse! by Mark Teague
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 6/1/10
The Storis of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeeare by James Shapiro
How To Do Nothing All By Yourself With Nobody Else by Robert Paul Smith
The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
The Infinities by John Banville
Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy by John Freely
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 5/25/10:
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Chef by Jasprett Singh
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
Coop: A Family, A Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg by Michael Perry
Animal Factory by David Kirby
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Adult book club)
The Roar by Emma Clayton (YA book club)
The Name of This Books is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch(Third/fourth grade book club)
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 5/18/10
War by Sebatian Junger
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
I'll Mature When I'm Dead by Dave Barry
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood, Illustrated by Renata Liwska
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Neil Novick's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 5/11/10
Innocent by Scott Turow
The Terrorist by Peter Steiner
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box
Shoot to Thrill by P.J. Tracy
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
Caught by Harlan Coben
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Bill Lewis' Northshire Books Picks for 5/4/10:
Flight From Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War by Michael Kranish
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G. J. Meyer
George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: The Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda Carter
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn
As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupations of Boston and the Origins of Revolution by by Richard Archer
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by by Max Hastings
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World, A New History by Nick Bunker
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 4/27/10:
Lost by Alice Lichtenstein
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
A Field Guide to Fields by National Geographic
Garden Wisdom and Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest by the Editors of Rodale Books and Judy Pray
Bird Watching by Paula McCartney
Mimi's Dada Catifesto by Shelley Jackson
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer and Josee Massee
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 4/20/10:
The Lotus-Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
Mapping New York from Black Dog Publishing
Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy from The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials by Michael Kammen
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (Battenkill Book Club pick for adults)
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester (Battenkill Book Club pick for 3rd and 4th graders)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Battenkill Book Club pick for young adults)
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 4/13/10
Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Kids' & YA
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 4/6/10
The Southpaw by Mark Harris
The Celebrant by Rolfe Greenberg
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign-stealing, and Bench-clearing Brawls by Jason Turbow
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 3/30/10
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Rodeo in Joliet by Glenn Rockowitz
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark L. Gardner
All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin, Illustrated by James Dean
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Joan Grenier and Rebecca Fabian's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 3/23/10
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq by Christina Asquith
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
The Girl who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Picture books:
- Wendel's Workshop by Chris Riddell
- Forever Friends by Carin Berger
- Extraordinary Pets by Barroux
Middle Grade:
- Sluggers (series, formerly known as Barnstormers) by Loren Long and Phil Bildner
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
- The Birthday Ball by Lois Lowry, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Teen or Young Adult:
- The Devil's Breath by David Gilman
- Heist Society by Ally Carter
- Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
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Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Sarah Knight's Northshire Books Picks for 3/16/10:
The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
Among Thieves by David Hosp
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein
New York's Unique & Unexpected Places
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
The Midnight House by Alex Berenson
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 3/9/10:
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
Fun with Problems by Robert Stone
The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire Mysteries) by Craig Johnson
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews, Christopher Hirsheimer, and Darina Allen
Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition compiled by Russell Ash and Bernard Higton
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
Dogs by Emily Gravett
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 3/2/10
Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock by Sue Weaver
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Henry Aaron's Dream by Matt Tavares
My People by Langston Hughes with illustrations by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Bag in the Wind by Ted Kooser
Sea Change; Overlord: Poems; Swarm; Never: Poems by Jorie Graham
Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 by Peter C. Muir
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 2/23/10
A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories by Justin Taylor
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell
A Very Big Bunny by Marisabina Russo
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Ultimate Guide by Rick Riordan
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
Suzanna's Children's Book Blog
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Bookstore Book Picks for 2/16/10
Time by Eva Hoffman
You Can Do a Graphic Novel by Barbara Slate
Collected Plays and Writings on Theater by Thornton Wilder
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Hapworth 16, 1924 (and other works) collected and uncollected by J D Salinger
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Connie Brooks' Battenkill Books Book Picks for 2/9/10:
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals photographsy by Christopher Payne with an essay by Oliver Sacks
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague
The Home Creamery by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Searching for Ichabod: His Eighteenth-Century Diary Leads Me Home by Julie Foster Van Camp
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
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Susan Fox's Red Fox Books picks for 1/26/10:
It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup edited by Jerry Williams
Dear Old Love: Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, and Ones that Got Away compiled by Andy Selsberg
My Mistresses's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
My Furry Valentine by Deborah Zemke
The Aimee Leduc Investigation series by Cara Black
Pay It Down: Debt Free on $10 a Day by Jean Chatzky
10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget by the writers of Wise Bread
Making the Most of Your Money Now by Jane Bryant Quinn
The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels by Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) and Anne Bronte (Agnes Grey)
Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love by Pat Mora (teens)
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Neil Novick and Emily Crowe's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 1/19/10
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaze Mengiste
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Alice I Have Been by Madeline Benjamin
Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter by A. E. Moorat
Scones and Sensibility by Lindsay Eland
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Bill Lewis' Northshire Books Picks for 1/12/10:
A Country of Vast Designs : James K. Polk , The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry
Sweet Thunder : The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson by Wil Haygood
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Woodrow Wilson : A Biography by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Ten Hills Farm : The Forgotten History of Slavery In the North by C. S. Manegold
The Fourth Part of the World : The Race to the Ends of the Earth and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Name by Toby Lester
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 1/5/10:
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Summer We Fell Apart by Robin Antalek
The Paper Bride: Wedding DIY from Pop-the-Question to Tie-the-Knot and Happily Ever After by Esther K. Smith
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Food Matters by Mark Bittman
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illus. by Mary Azarian
Here Comes Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara
It's Snowing! by Olivier Dunrea
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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Matt Tannenbaum's The Book Store Book Picks for 12/29/09
The Chester Chronicles by Kermit Moyer (Out in Feb. 2010)
A Lucky Irish Lad by Kevin O'Hara (Out in Feb. 2010)
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
Beyond America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East by Stephen P. Cohen
A History of the World in 65 Unfortunate Incidents by Martin Rowson
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress - Smithsonian
The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts
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Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 12/22/09
Adults:
- Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb
Kids & Young Adults:
- The Duchess of Whimsy by Randall & Peter de Seve
- Henry in Love by Peter McCarty
- Nerds by Michael Buckley
- What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
- Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor
Oblong & the Odyssey have autographed books in stock:
Oblong:
- Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs
- James Ellroy, Blood's A Rover
- R.O. Blechman, Talking Lines
- Hudson Talbott, River of Dreams
Odyssey:
- Richard Russo, That Old Cape Magic
- Ken Burns, The National Parks
- Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horse
- Greg Mortenson, Stones into Schools
- Gail Collins, When Everything Changed
Suzanna's Children's Book Blog
Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York
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Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 12/15/09
Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson with Jackie MacMullen
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
Bent Objects by Terry Border
Photojojo! by Amit Gupta with Kelly Jensen
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Need by Carrie Jones
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York
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Joan Grenier and Rebecca Fabian's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 12/8/09
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace, with Books, not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D.Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journeyof American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
Picturebooks:
For Just One Day by Laura Leuck, illustrated by Marc Boutavant
The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen
How the Nobble Was Finally Found by C.K. Williams, illustrated by Stephen Gammell
Novels:
Ottoline Goes to School and Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell Nathaniel Fludd,
Beastologist: Flight of the Phoenix by R.L. LaFevers,illustrated by Kelly Murphy
The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and The Answer by Patrick Ness Leviathan by Scott WesterfeldAudio:
Winnie-The-Pooh-The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, read by Stephen Fry,Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Jane Horrocks & Michael Williams
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 12/1/09:
Gift Ideas:
10,000 Years of Art by Phaidon
New Penguin Hardcover Classics
A Shadow Falls by Nick Brandt, Peter Singer, and Vicki Goldberg
Beautiful Pigs by Andy Case
Dog Hikes in the Adirondacks by Shaggy Dog Press
Cookbooks:
Vefa's Kitchen by Vefa Alexiadou
The Silver Spoon for Children by Phaidon
Northern Comfort: Recipes from Adirondack Life
Andrew Whitley: Bread Matters by Andrew Whitley
Kids:
Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself by Jerry Spinelli and Eileen Spinelli
Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York
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