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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.


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


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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
  • 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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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    Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 11/24/09

  • Thomas Edison [With 11 Plastic Pieces Animation Machine,12 Filmstrips] by Dennis Schatz
  • Bravura!: Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre by Alex C. Ewing
  • All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse by Ann E. Burg
  • Bill Pennant, Babe Ruth, and Me by Timothy Tocher
  • School Spirit by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
  • King of the Screwups by K.L. Going
  • Wish You Were Dead by Todd Strasser
  • The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan
  • Nerds: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (Book One) by Michael Buckley
  • Crocodile Tears: An Alex Rider Adventure by Anthony Horowitz
  • The Word Snoop by Ursula Dubosarsky
  • The Ghosts of Stony Clove by Eileen Charbonneau
  • Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  • The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo by Jean Craighead George
  • Tree Castle Island by Jean Craighead George


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    Stan Hynds' Northshire Books Picks for 11/17/08:

    Gift Books:
  • The National Parks: America's Best Idea by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
  • White On White: The Churches of Rural New England by Steve Rosenthal
  • Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds edited by Billy Collins; illustrations by David Sibley
  • Along Route 7: A Journey Through Western New England by Stephen Donaldson
  • The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography by David Hempleman-Adams, Emma Stuart, and Sophie Gordon


  • Cookbooks/Food Lit:
  • I Know How to Cook by Ginette Mathiot
  • The Veselka Cookbook by Tom Birchard
  • Lee Bros.: Simple, Fresh, Southern by Ted and Matt Lee


  • Stocking stuffers: Stan's favorite novels of the year:
  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
  • The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
  • Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby


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    Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 11/10/09

  • Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street by Louise A. Gikow
  • Read My Pins by Madeleine Albright
  • Last Words by George Carlin
  • The Bedside Book of Beasts by Graeme Gibson
  • The Unknown Rockwell by James A. "Buddy" Edgerton & Nan O'Brien
  • Matchless by Gregory Maguire
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Wag! by Patrick McDonnell


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    Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 11/3/09:

  • Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose
  • The Principles of Uncertainly by Maira Kalman
  • The Woman Who Can't Forget by Jill Price and Bart Davis
  • The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb by R. Crumb
  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
  • The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
  • It's a Secret by John Burningham
  • Touch the Art Series by Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo: Feed Matisse's Fish, Pop Andy Warhol's Top, Brush Mona Lisa's Hair, and Make Van Gogh's Bed


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    Matt Tannenbaum's The Book Store Book Picks for 10/27/09

  • Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
  • Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
  • Archie and the Pirates by Marc Rosenthal
  • Simple Shelters published by Walker and Company,
  • Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet by Seth Rogovoy


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    Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 10/21/09

    Picture Books
    • Otis by Loren Long
    • Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
    • The Christmas Magic by Lauren Thompson, illustrated by Jon Muth
    Middle Grade
    • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
    • The Secret Science Alliance & the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis
    • The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
    Young Adult
    • Going Bovine by Libba Bray
    • The Amanda Project: invisible i by Stella Lennon

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    Oblong Books and Music - Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York

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    Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 10/13/09

  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
  • Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
  • Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
  • Still Alice by Lisa Genova
  • World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

  • *Note: The above titles comprise the short list for Schenectady's next One County, One Book. Those in Schenectady County can help select the next book by voting online, at any Schenectady County Public Library, or at Opem Door Bookstore, until November 21st. For more info or to vote online, visit www.scpl.org.

  • Poisons of Caux by Susannah Appelbaum
  • Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve Jenkins


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    Neil Novick's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 9/29/09

  • Lisey's Story (audio book) by Stephen King,read by Mare Winningham
  • Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
  • Undone by Karen Slaughter
  • Last Known Address by Theresa Schwegel
  • Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly


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    Bill Lewis' Northshire Books Picks for 9/15/09:

  • Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of The Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
  • The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
  • Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 by Jackson Lears
  • Abigail Adams: A Life by Woody Holton
  • In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb by Daniel Myerson
  • Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon Wood
  • Lake Champlain: An Illustrated History by by Adirondack Life, forward by Senator Patrick Leahy, introduction by Christopher Shaw.


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    Ellen Shapiro's Golden Notebook Picks for 9/8/09:

  • It's Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
  • The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
  • Genesis by Bernard Beckett
  • After by Amy Efaw
  • This is How by M.J. Hyland
  • Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow


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    Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 9/1/09:

  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
  • Homer and Langely by E.L. Doctorow
  • Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding
  • Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen
  • Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz
  • Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer by Tim Stark
  • Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist by Bonnie Christensen
  • The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pickney


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    Matt Tannenbaum's The Book Store Book Picks for 8/25/09

  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
  • Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry
  • The 38 Million Dollar Smile by Richard Stevenson
  • Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
  • The Devil's Trill by Gerald Elias
  • Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens


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    Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 8/18/09

  • Little Bee by Chris Cleave
  • Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
  • The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
  • The Film Club by David Gilmour
  • Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
  • Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  • 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 8/11/09

  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
  • Cooperstown Confidential by Zev Chafets
  • This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
  • A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All by Luke Dempsey
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  • Have I Got a Book For You by Melanie Watt


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    Emily Russo Murtaugh's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 8/4/09

  • Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa


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    Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 7/27/09

  • The Bolter by Frances Osborne
  • First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer
  • Traveling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
  • The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent by Michael Frassetto
  • The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All by Pete Linebaugh
  • The Adult Rider: A Practical Guide for First-Time Equestrians and Adults Getting Back in the Saddle by Sarah Montague
  • Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings by Suzie Gilbert
  • Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
  • Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences by Andrew Chaikin
  • Where Did Pluto Go?: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the "New" Solar System by Paul Sutherland
  • King of the Screwups by K. L. Going
  • Star of the Show by Della Ross Ferreri
  • Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty
  • The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen


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    Chris Morrow's Northshire Books Picks for 7/22/09:

  • Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten
  • Age of the Unthinkable by Josh Ramo
  • Come Home America by William Greider
  • The Bridge at the Edge of the World by James Gustave Speth
  • Shantaram by Greg Brooks
  • Ultimatum by Matthew Glass


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    Ellen Shapiro's Golden Notebook Picks for 7/14/09:

  • The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
  • Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
  • Wanting by Richard Flanagan
  • Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
  • The Believers by Zoe Heller
  • A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
  • Uncle Andy's Cats by James Warhola


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    Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 7/7/09:

  • Border Songs by Jim Lynch
  • The Night of the Gun by David Carr
  • Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around by Cheryl Wagner
  • The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist and Marlaine Delargy
  • A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
  • The Thing Itself by Richard Todd
  • Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
  • The Joseph Cornell Box by Joan Sommers and Ascha Drake


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    Matt Tannenbaum's The Book Store Book Picks for 6/30/09

  • Four Freedoms by John Crowley
  • Seven Pleasures by Willard Spiegelman
  • From Square One by Dean Olsher
  • Mile High Fever by Dennis Drabelle
  • Old Flame by by Ira Berkowitz


  • The Book Store - Lenox, Massachusetts

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    Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 6/23/09

  • The 39 Clues Series Various Authors
  • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Hoot, Flush, and Scat by Carl Hiaasen
  • The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
  • Genesis by Bernard Beckett
  • Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
  • Suzanna's Children's Book Blog

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    Amy Lane's Open Door Bookstore Picks for 6/16/09

  • Home Game by Michael Lewis
  • The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
  • East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
  • Either You're in or You're in the Way by Noah and Logan Miller
  • Woodstock Vision by Elliott Landy
  • High Peaks by Tim Rowland
  • The Frogs and Toads All Sang by Arnold Lobel


  • Open Door Bookstore - Schenectady, New York

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    Neil Novick's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 6/9/09

  • The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
  • Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  • The Last Child by John Hart
  • Fault Line by Barry Eisler

  • Summer reading paperbacks:
  • Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
  • The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
  • Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
  • LA Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker
  • Blindfold Game by Dana Stabenow


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    Ellen Shapiro's Golden Notebook Picks for 5/12/09:

  • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
  • What I Forgot by Elina Hirtvonen
  • The God of War by Marisa Silver
  • Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
  • Swash by Paul Elisha
  • Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal


  • The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York

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    Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 5/5/09:

  • The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
  • Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
  • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
  • Mother: Portraits by 40 Great Artists by Juliet Heslewood
  • The Artist's Mother: The Greatest Painters Pay Tribute to the Women Who Rocked Their Cradles intro by Judith Thurman
  • Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts by Joseph Horowitz
  • Book of Cities Piero Ventura
  • Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening by Black Dog Publishing
  • What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio


  • Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, New York

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    Matt Tannenbaum's The Book Store Book Picks for 4/28/09

  • Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
  • Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
  • The Summer Book by Tove Janssen
  • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
  • String Too Short to be Saved by Donald Hall
  • Clara's War by Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz
  • Talking Animals and Others: The Life and Work of Walter R. Brooks, Creator of Freddy The Pig by Michael Cart


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    Suzanna Hermans Oblong Books and Music Book Picks for 4/21/09

  • Life List by Olivia Gentile
  • The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
  • Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric Sanderson, illustrations by Markley Boyer
  • A Walk in New York by Salvatore Rubbino
  • Sergio Saves the Game! by Edel Rodriguez
  • The Enemy: A Book About Peace by Davide Cali & Serge Bloch
  • Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • 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 4/14/09

  • Flotsametrics and the Floating World by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano
  • So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
  • A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
  • Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud edited by Robert Pinsky
  • If I Stay by Gayle Forman
  • Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Scott Magoon
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith


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    Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 4/7/09

  • A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats by Spike Carlsen
  • Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra
  • Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry by Elaine Bleakney
  • My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way. by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
  • All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse by Ann E. Burg
  • Boy on the Lion Throne: The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel; Intro by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
  • Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada by James P. Delgado
  • The Dakota Cipher: An Ethan Gage Adventure by William Deitrich


  • Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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    Joan Grenier and Emily Russo Murtaugh's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 3/31/09

  • The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
  • Darling Jim by Cristian Moerk
  • The Weight of Heaven by Thrity umrigar
  • The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Dwoney
  • The Backyard Homestead edited by Carleen Madigan
  • Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness by Gail A. Hornstein


  • Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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    Alden Graves' Northshire Books Picks for 3/24/09:

  • Columbine by Dave Cullen
  • Desperate Passage by Ethan Rarick
  • The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Story of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
  • Frankly, My Dear by Molly Haskell
  • Dangerous Laughter by Steven Milhauser
  • Titanic's Last Secrets by Brad Matsen
  • The Devil's Tickets by Gary M. Pomerantz
  • The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks


  • Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont

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    Ellen Shapiro's Golden Notebook Picks for 3/17/09:

  • Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
  • A Long Stone's Throw by Alphie McCourt
  • A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
  • The Secret Scripture
  • The All of It by Jeanette Haien
  • The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
  • Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato: an Irish Folktale by Tomie dePaolo
  • Brooklyn by Colm Toibin


  • The Golden Notebook - Woodstock, New York

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