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Roundtable Weekly Book Picks


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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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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    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


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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
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    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


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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 Westerfeld
  • Audio:

  • 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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