Cheryl Cornwell's Northshire Books Poetry Month Picks for 5/6/08:

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• Wild Birds of the American Wetlands by Rosalie Winard
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• Rising Powers Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy by Michael Klare
• Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
• City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
• All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo by Bryan Mealer


Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 2/5/07:


• And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
• Life Supports by William Bronk
• The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
• The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
• A Child's Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll
• The Willoughby's by Lois Lowry
• American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau edited by Bill McKibben
• Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson
• Myspace/Our Planet: Change is Possible by Myspace Community
• Treehouses of the World by Pete Nelson


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Stanley Hadsell's Marketblock Book picks for 4/15/08:


• Oops! poems by Alan Katz
• Red Bird poems by Mary Oliver
• New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
• Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
• Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll edited by Jonathan Wells
• The Barefoot Book of Classis Poems edited by Jackie Morris
• Here's a Little Poem edited by Jane Yolen
• Ten Poems to Open Your Heart by Roger Housden
• Porn for New Moms and Porn for Women by the Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative
• Were You Raised by Wolves? by Christie Mellor


Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 4/7/08


• The Wolves Are Back by Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor
• Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel by Jean Craighead George
• Nobunny's Perfect by Dewdney, Anna
• The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience by Ann Lauterbach
• Hum by Ann Lauterbach
• Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
• The Poetry of Earth by Roger Rollof
• The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall
• Don't Bump the Glump!: And Other Fantasies by Shel Silverstein
• Oops! by Alan Katz and Edward Koren
• My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson


Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Michael Schiavo's Northshire Books Poetry Month Picks for 4/1/08:


• American Music by Chris Martin
• Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding
• Primitive Mentor by Dean Young
• Drunk By Noon by Jennifer L. Knox
• The Executive Director of the Fallen World by Liam Rector (hardcover)
• Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart (hardcover)
• For Love of Common Words by Steve Scafidi
• Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara (hardcover)


Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop Book Picks for 3/25/08

• L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker
• Judas Horse by April Smith
• At the City's Edge by Marcus Sakey
• City of the Sun by David Levien
• The Telephone Gambit by Seth Shulman
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon


Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Dick Hermans Oblong Books book picks for 3/18/08

• Looking for Work: Industrial Archeology in Columbia County by Peter H. Stott
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• Willing by Scott Spencer
• Benchclearing: Baseball's Greatest Fights and Riots by Spike Vrusho


Oblong Books in Millerton and Rhinebeck, NY

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Marrgie Skinner's Book House book picks for 3/12/08


• The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm
• Confessions of a Falling Woman: And Other Stories (P.S.) by Debra Dean
• Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
• Murder in the Rue De Paradis: An Aimee Leduc Investigation by Cara Black
• World Made by Hand: A Novel by James Howard Kunstler
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
• Obedience: A Novel by Will Lavender
• Crazy School by Cornelia Read
• Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
• We Aren't Who We Are - And This World Isn't Either by Christine Korfhage
• Son of Mountains, My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect by Yassin Aref


The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Picks for 3/4/08


• Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Bruce Chilton
• The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It by Os Guinness
• Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton
• The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics by Annping Chin
• The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark by Tudor Parfitt
• 1812: War with America by Jon Latimer
• Riverine by Laurence Carr
• A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby
• The 6 Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly
• What-The-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
• The Garden of Eve by K. L. Going


Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Karen Frank's Northshire Books Picks for 2/26/08:


• Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney
• Tipperary by Frank Delaney
• The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell
• Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
• Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
• Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
• Pint Sized Ireland by Evan McHugh
• An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
• An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor


Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 2/19/08


• The Pig Did It : A Novel by Joseph Caldwell
• Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
• A Golden Age: A Novel by Tahmima Anam
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• The Reserve by Russell Banks
• Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow by Jim Hightower with Susan DeMarco
• Peace: 50 Years of Protest by Barry Miles


Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 2/5/07:


• All Shall Be Well; And All shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
• Total Chaos by Jean Claude Izzo
• Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
• The Reserve by Russell Banks


Valentine's Day titles:


• Love Poems Everyman's Library
• The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present edited by David Lehman
• Gift of Nothing and Hug Time by Patrick McDonnell


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Susan Taylor's Marketblock Books Book Picks for 1/28/08:
• November Memories by Steve Ference
• Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner by Page Stegner
• Postcards from Ed by Edward Abbey and Divid Peterson
• Mr. & Mrs. Prince by Gretchen Gerzina
• Tipperary by Frank Delaney
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
• Franklin & Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
• Eleanor vs. Ike by Robin Gerber
• Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson
• The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches by Jeff Yeager

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merrit Bookstore Picks for 1/22/08:


• A Northern Light and The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
• Sam's Sandwich by David Pelham
• Et Tu, Brute?: The Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination by Greg Woolf
• Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts--According to Schoolkids by Alexander Abingdon and Dr. Seuss
• Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--And the Threats That Now Put It at Risk by Michael J. Novacek
• Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor
• Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History by Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, and Charles Driscoll
• Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers by Gary Kowalski
• Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts by Maureen C. Geiger
• Little Book of Big Ideas: Economics by Mathew Forstater and James Rollo
• The Death of Socrates by Emily R. Wilson



Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Louise Jones Northshire Regionally Themed Books Picks for 1/15/08:


• Still As Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Vermont author / setting)
• To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming (books take place in the Adironoacks)
• Chat by Archer Mayor (Vermont author / setting)
• Silence by Thomas Perry
• A Little White Death by John Lawton


Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 1/8/08


• 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter
• Second Shot by Zoe Sharpe
• Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
• Person of Interest by Theresa Schwegel
• Down River by John Hart
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett


**Special over-all author recommendation: Dennis Lehane**

Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 12/18/07:


• The Chronicles of Narnia Pop-Up by Robert Sabuda, based on the books by C.S. Lewis
• Moby Dick: A Pop-Up Book by Sam Ita
• Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
• The Annotated Christmas Carol: The Christmas Carol in Prose by Charles Dickens, Michael Patrick Hearn, and John Leech
• The Annotated Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
• Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
• To Those We Hold So Dear: Letters to Our Beloved Pets edited by Patricia Carte
• The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky by by Joe Garden, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Anita Serwacki
• How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Stanley Hadsell's Marketblock Book picks for 12/11/07:


• When You Were Me by Robert Rodi
• See How It's Made by Dorling-Kindersly
• Chester by Melanie Watt
• Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
• Awakenings: Asian Wisdom for Every Day by Danielle & Olivier Follmi
• One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit by Don Gerrard
• The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
• Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation by John Daido Loori

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Scott Meyer's Holiday Book Picks for 12/4/07:
• The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
• The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
• Fabian Escapes by Peter McCarty
• The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity by Stefan Klein
• Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
• Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
• I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau with notes by Jeffrey S. Cramer
• A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field by George B. Schaller,
• Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor by Sarah Miller Caldicott and Michael J. Gelb
• The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them by David Ruelle
• Blue Moo: Deluxe Illustrated Songbook; 17 Jukebox Hits from Way Back Never (with audio CD) by Sandra Boynton
• The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups by A. A. Milne
• Tricks with Trees: Growing, Manipulating and Pruning by Richard Rosenfeld, Ivan Hicks, and Jo Whitworth
• Newport: A Lively Experiment 1639-1969 by Rockwell Stensrud
• Bunny Williams' Point of View: Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses by Bunny Williams
• Enclosure by Andy Goldsworthy



Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Stan Hynds' Northshire Bookstore books-as-gifts picks for 11/27/07:
• Birds Songs from Around the World by Les Beletsky, illustraged by avid Nurney
• Obsessed With Baseball: Test Your Knowledge of America’s Pastime by the Baseball Guys
• Enclosure by Andy Goldsworthy
• 30,000 Years of Art by the Editors of Phaidon
• 1080 Recipes by Simone and Ines Ortega
• How To Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman
• The War by Ken Burns



• Animal Portraiture titles:
• Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg
• Creature by Andrew Zuckerman
• Animal House by Catherine Ledner
• Gallop! : A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 11/20/07:

• Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein


• Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco


• Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson


• Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes form a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters


• Look me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s By John Elder Robison


• Shakespeare’s Genealogies: Plots & Illustrated Family Trees for all 42 Works by Vanessa James


• The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree of Greek Myth from the first Gods to the Founders of Rome by Vanessa James


Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 11/13/07:


• How to Make Books by Esther Smith


• Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan


• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett


• The Art of Simple Foodby Alice Waters


• White Rapids by Pascal Blanchet


• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost and Susan Jeffers


• Loose Balls by Terry Pluto


• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron


• The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Susan Taylor's Marketblock Books book picks for 11/6/07:

• Good to be Here by Judith Barnes
• Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
• Cooperative Village by Frances Madeson
• Mack McGinn's Big Win by Coleen Murtagh Paratore
• A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
• Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks by Ian Fieggen
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• World Without End by Ken Follett
• Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
• Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
• Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 10/30/07:



• Trespass by Valerie Martin
• The Nutcracker by Susan Jeffers
• Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara by James Gurney
• Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present by Cynthia Stokes
• Brown The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World by Phillip F. Schewe
• Archimedes Codex by Reviel Netz
• The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe
• American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel
• Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton



Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Bill Lewis' Northshire Bookstore picks for 10/23/07:


• For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions (available October 30) by James R. Gaines
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph Ellis
• FDRby Jean Edward Smith
• Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
• The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Ninenteenth Century by Martha Hodes


Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Susan Taylor's Marketblock Books book picks for 10/16/07:


• By Naomi Novik:
• Empire of Ivory ^New!
• His Majesty's Dragon
• Throne of Jade
• Black Powder War
• By Sondra Boynton:
• Blue Moo ^New!
• Philadelphia Children
• New by others:
• Slam by Nick Hornby
• The Ghost by Robert Harris (to be released 10/23/07)
• Troy: Then and Now by Don Rither
• World of Dumplings
• The Pantry
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs
• Pretending You Care by Norm Fenti
• New in paberback:
• Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
• The 13^th Tale by Diane Setterfield

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 10/9/07:


• The Arrival by Shaun Tan


• Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys by Candace Savage


• The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey


• Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger


• My Brother's Madness by Paul Pines


• One Drop by Bliss Broyard


• Night Shift by Jessie Hartland


• Leni by Steven Bach


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Book Picks for 9/25/07:



Book events:

Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 10:00 AM Millbrook
The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Hedgie Blasts Off! by Jan Brett
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale by Jan Brett
The First Dog by Jan Brett

Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 02:00 PM Millbrook
The Lemonade Club by Patricia Polacco

Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM Millbrook
Historic Courthouses of the State of New York: A Study in Postcards by Julia and Albert Rosenblatt

Other books:

Gracie by Suzanne Weyn, Andrew Shue, and Ken Himmelman
Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis


Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Alden Graves' Northshire Bookstore picks for 9/18/07:



• Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo


• When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake, by Brian Hicks


• Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, by Ron Hansen


• The Memory of Old Jack, by Wendell Barry


• When the Light Goes, by Larry McMurtry


• Prairie Home Companion, DVD directed by Robert Altman


Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 9/11/07:

• Bridge of Sighs- Richard Russo
• Free Food for Millionaires- Min Jin Lee
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Juno Diaz
• The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop- Francisco Goldman


Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 9/4/07:


• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Why Kerouac Matters by John Leland
• Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollan
• Agate: Waht Good Is a Moose? by Joy Morgan Dey & Nikki Johnson
• What Happens on Wednesdays? by Emily Jenkins and Lauren Castillo
• Route 22 by Benjamin Swett
• My Travels with Clara by Mary Tavener Holmes
• Candyfloss by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
• Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O'Connell


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Marggie Skinner's Book House picks for 8/28/07:


• Stoner by John Williams
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot
• Nine Ways to Cross a River by Akiko Busch
• The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
• Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
• The Great Neighborhood Book by Jay Walliasper with a free bonus- The Alley Improvement Project 2006, Troy, NY
• Akk Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones
• The Elements of Style (illustrated) by Strunk, White and Kalman

The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 8/21/07:


• A Model Summer By Porizkova, Paulina
• The Secret Servant By Silva, Daniel
• Doodles and Daydreams: Your Passport for Becoming an Escape Artist By Zimmerman, Bill
• Ike: An American Hero By Korda, Michael
• The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt By Ray, John
• The Orvis Book of Cabins By Smith, A.
• The Book of Draft Horses: The Gentle Giants That Built the World By Smith, Donna Campbell
• Trout Fishing in the Catskills By Van Put, Ed
• Gardening with Woodland Plants By Junker, Karan
• Gardens to Go: Creating and Designing a Container Garden By Eddison, Sydney
• 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die By Spencer-Jones, Rae
• The Land of the Silver Apples By Farmer, Nancy
• The Lost Files of Nancy Drew By Keene, Carolyn
• Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf By Sierra, Judy
• The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing the Sheep in Wolf's Clothing By Lester, Helen
• The Voyageurs Paddle By Wargin, Kathy-Jo

Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Stan Hynd's Northshire Bookstore picks for 8/14/07:


• Lay of the Land (paperback), by Richard Ford
• Seaworthy (paperback), by T. R. Pearson
• Stoner (paperback), by John Williams
• Stumbling on Happiness (paperback), by Daniel Gilbert
• Miracle of Catfish (hardcover), by Larry Brown
• Five Skies (hardcover), by Ron Carlson
• Last Child in the Woods (paperback), by Richard Louv
• Dirty Work (paperback), by Larry Brown

Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 8/7/07:


• Free Fire by CJ Box
• Yesterday’s Fatal by Jan Brogan
• Gun Shy by Ben Rehder
• Night Ferry by Michael Robotham
• The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke


Top five summer paperbacks:

• Blindfold Game by Dana Stabenow
• Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver
• Triptych by Karin Slaughter
• Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
• Oblivion by Peter Abrahams

Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Taylor's Market Block Book picks for 7/31/07:

Post-Potter Depression Antidotes

• By Rick Riordan: The Lightening Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse
• By Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials Series- The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass


New Picks

• By Shannon Hale: Austenland
• By Karen Abbott: Sin in the 2nd City: Madams, Ninisters, Playboyz, and the Battle for America’s Soul


Fun for the Summer

• By Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind with new forward by Pat Conroy
• By Michael Malone: Handling Sin
• By Julia Spencer-Fleming: In the Bleak Midwinter, A Fountain Filled with Blood, Out of the Deep I Cry, To Darkness and to Death, All Mortal Flesh


New in September

• By Tom Schrek: On the Ropes: A Duffy Dumbrowski Mystery

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Susan Novatny's Book House picks for 7/24/06:


• Staggerford by Jon Hassler
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
• Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• American Gods by Neil Gaimon
• Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt
• Independent People by Halldor Laxness

The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 7/17/07:


• The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to AAA, AA, A, and Independent League Stadiums by Josh Pahigian
• Bat Boy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees by Matthew McGough
• Baseball Haiku: American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball by Cor van der Heuvel and Nanae Tamura
• The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles
• David Beckham's Soccer Skills by David Beckham
• Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell
• How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer by Vic Darkwood
• Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
• Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency by Michel Conan
• Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations and Cultural Change by Michel Conan and W. John Kress
• Old Wives' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells by Mary Chamberlain
• The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
• Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley
• Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research That Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
by Stephen Post and Jill Neimark

Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Erik Barnum's Northshire Bookstore picks for 7/10/07:


• Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones (to be published 7/31/07)
• The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson,
• Mad Dogs by James Grady
• The Royal Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Complete Works, edited by Jonathan Bate & Erik Rasmussen
• Politics Lost by Joe Klein
• God Laughs and Plays by David James Duncan
• Dissent in America edited by Ralph F. Young

Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 7/3/07:


• Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia by Camilo Mejia
• Animal Mineral Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
• Yurts: Living in the Round by Becky Kemery
• On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• Main Street Series Book 1: Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann M. Martin
• The Blessing of the Beasts written by Ethel Pochocki with engravings by Barry Moser

Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts



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Mark Ouillette's Book Loft picks for 06/26/07:


• At Large & At Small by Ann Fadiman
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
• White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
• Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Edmund & Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Marggie Skinner's Book House picks for 6/19/07:


• They Take Our Jobs and 20 other myths about immigration by Aviva Chomsky
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
• Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney
• Death of a Dutch Uncle by M. E. Kemp
• Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi
• Still Life with Chickens by Catherine Goldhamer
• Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 6/12/07:


• James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin
• Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape by Linda Ferber
• Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here by Akiko Busch
• Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke
• The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
• Little Tiny Teeth by Aaron Elkins
• Saint Iggy by K. L. Going
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse - Book 3 By Rick Riordan
• If: A Father's Advice to His Son by Kipling, Rudyard Charles R. Smith Jr.
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Nancy Scheemaker's Northshire Bookstore picks for 5/29/07:


• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz
• A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• The River Wife by Jonis Agee
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell
• On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Million
• Nightingales by Susan Straight
• Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichi Chimamanda
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont

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Stanley Hadsell's Market Block Book picks for 5/22/07:


• The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes
• Echoing Silence : Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing - Robert Inchausti (Editor)
• A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton, Kathleen Deignan (Editor),
• Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• Dog Years by Mark Doty
• Chaos: A novella & Stories by Edmund White
• Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
• McSweeney's 23 by McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Dave Eggers, Editor)
• The Monk Upstairs by Tim Farrington
• The Kids' Book Club Book by Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp
• No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire And Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin with Eric Denker, cicerone
• Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession by Corey Sandler
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• The Great American Hot Dog : Recipes and Side Dishes from Across America by Becky Mercuri
Market Block Books - Troy, New York

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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 5/15/07:


• Back Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
• Boomsday by Chrtopher Buckley
• On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith
• Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler
• Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig The Overlook by Michael Connelly
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 5/8/07:


• Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham By Carolyn Brown
• On the Porch By James M. Crisp
• Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters By Patricia C. McKissack
• George Kennan: A Study of Character By John Lukacs
• The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization By Daniel Manus Pinkwater
• Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire By Diana Preston
• Eating Like a King: A History of Royal Recipes By Michele Brown
• The Elvis Impersonation Kit: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the King By Laura Lee
• The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship By Klaus Brinkbaumer
• Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science By David Lindley
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Eric Wilska's Book Loft picks for 5/1/07:


• The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• Long Time Leaving by Roy Blount, Jr.
• Window Poems by Wendell Berry
• Soaring With Fidel by David Gessner
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Paper Trails by Pete Dexter
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Susan Taylor's Book House picks for 4/24/07:


• The Big Turnoff by Ellen Currey-Wilson
• Digital Destiny by Jeff Chester
• Waging Peace by Scott Ritter
• Target Iran by Scott Ritter
• Maxed Out by James Scurlock
• Dead Money by Rudy Stegemoeller
• Apartment Therapy by Max Gillingham-Ryan
• Mapping the World of Harry Potter by Mercedes Lackey
• Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7 by Mugglenet.com
• The End of Harry Potter by David Langford
• Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 4/17/07:


• Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds by Robert Burleigh, Illustrator Mike Wimmer
• Map: Satellite by Philip Eales
• Why Beauty Is Truth: The Story of Symmetry by Ian Stewart
• Marshes: The Disappearing Edens by William Burt
• Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide by Rick Cech
• A Natural History of North American Trees by Donald Culross Peattie
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
• Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Illustrator Robert Ingpen
• The Dowry: A Novel of Ireland by Walter Keady
• Poetry Speaks to Children with CD (Audio) by Elise Paschen
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 4/10/07:


• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
• Astrid and Veronika by Lina Olsson
• Finn by John Clinch
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• An Inconvenient Truth: the Crisis of Global WarmingbyAdapted for a New Generation (for kids) by Al Gore
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Laurie Weatherbee's Book Loft picks for 4/3/07:


• Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (Newbery Award Winner)
• Flotsam by David Wiesner(Caldecott Award Winner)
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson (National Book Award Winner)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman (Golden Kite Award)
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Printz Award)
• Alabama Moon by Watt Key (E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers)
• Houndsley and Catina by James Howe (E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books)
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Susan Novatny's Book House picks for 3/27/06:


• Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook by Albert Bates
• Don't Call the Thrift Shop by Susannah Ryder
• Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things by Reader's Digest
• Twinkie Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Roma by Steven Saylor
• The Book of Art and Shadows by Michael Gruber
• Food Not Lawns by H.C. Flores
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 3/20/07:


• Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to KnowbyAnd Doesn't By Stephen Prothero
• Napoleon's Pyramids By William Dietrich
• Turning the Solomon Key: George Washington, the Bright Morning Star, and the Secrets of Masonic Astrology By Robert Lomas
• Turning the Hiram Key: Rituals of Freemasonry Revealed By Robert Lomas
• Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 By Dominic Green
• The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair By Peter Mandler
• The Last Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalization By Mark London
• National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Iraq: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Iraq's Past By Beth Gruber
• Never Tease a Weasel By Jean Conder Soule illustrated by George Booth
• David Beckham's Soccer Skills By David Beckham
• Build Your Own Stonehenge with Book
• The Day My Mother Left By James Prosek
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 3/13/07:


• What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• The Watchman by Robert Crais
• By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt
• The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas H. Cook
• Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams
• The Analyst by John Katzenbach
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Marggie Skinner's Book House picks for 2/27/07:


• Words of a Feather by Murray Suid
• Traveler by Ron McLarty
• Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
• A Day Apart by Chris Ringwald
• Failing America's Faithful by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
• American Fascists by Chris Hedges
• Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong
• Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
• The Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 2/20/07:


• Baby Steps by Peter McCarty
• Moon Plane by Peter McCarty
• The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists by Gregory Curtis
• Secret Societies: Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds
• The Secret Life of Cows by Glen Wexler
• The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
• Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Dog by Matthew Van Fleet
• Encyclopedia of Hardy Plant: Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts by Derek Fell
• Kai Meyer and the DARK REFLECTIONS trilogy
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 2/13/07:


• Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration by Deepa Fernandes
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
• The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell
• The Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin & Stanley Kunitz by Jeanne Braham with engravings by Barry Moser
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 1/23/07:


• Wisdom in the Telling: Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold By Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi
• The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems By Robert Frost
• Where I Lived, and What I Lived for By Henry David Thoreau
• Walden and Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau
• Henry Climbs a Mountain By Donald B. Johnson
• Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation By L. David Mech
• Never Cry Wolf By Farley Mowat
• How Will I Ever Sleep in This Bed? By Della Ross Ferreri
• The Human Fly and Other Stories By T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The Navigator By Eoin McName
• My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between By Anne Burt
• Hurty Feelings By Helen Lester
• Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth By Douglas Palmer
• The Personal Organizing Workbook: Solutions for a Simpler, Easier Life by Meryl Starr
• The Home Organizing Workbook: Clearing Your Clutter, Step by Step by Meryl Starr
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 1/16/07:


• Pure Evil by Greg Iles
• The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
• In the Rain by SJ Rozan
• The Second Mouse by Archer Mayor
• The Killing Moon by Chuck Hogan
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Eric Wilska's Book Loft picks for1/10/07:


• The Lenox School of Jazz, by Jeremy Yudken
• The Road Washes out in Spring, by Baron Wormser
• Unformed Landscape, by Peter Stamm
• After the Flood: Photos of Post-Katrina New Orleans by photographer Robert Polidori
• In My Blood, Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family by John Sedgwick
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Stanley Hadsell's Market Block Book Picks for 1/3/07:


• Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Equith
• Chasing Rumi: A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden
• Solitude: Poems selected by Carmela Ciuraru(in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
• Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington (in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
• Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists by the Editors of McSweeney's
Market Block Books - Troy, New York

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 12/26/06:


• The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades and Horrible Blunders by Josephine Ross
• The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know by Andrea Barham
• Late Youth: An Anthology Celebrating the Joys of Being Over Fifty by Susanna Johnston
• Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World by Anthony Julian Huxley
• Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler
• Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by F. B. M. De Waal
• The Rise and Fall of the Taconic Mountains: A Geological History of Eastern New York
• Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd
• The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone,Among Other Surprising by Andrew Robinson
• 1066 and All That by Walter Carruthers Sellar
• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Sturgeon: And Other Wrong Things Kids Write by Gini Graham Scott
• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
• John James Audubon and "The Birds of America": A Visionary Achievement in Ornithology Illustration by Lee A. Vedder
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 12/19/06:


• The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
• Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
• Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• Genuis of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism by John Nichols
• The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere
• A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005 Annie Leibowitz
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Laurie Weatherbee's Book Loft picks for 12/12/06:


• Little Tree by e.e. cummings
• Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky
• The Old Shepherd's Tale by Christopher Nye
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville, illlustrated by Patrick Benson
• Flotsam by David Wiesner Mommy by Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorinks and Matthew Reinhart
• The Wandmaker's Guidebook by Ed Masessa
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Susan Taylor's Book House picks for 12/11/06:


• Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
• The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
• The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
• The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
• Decca by Jessica Mitford
• Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
• Selected Letters of E. B. White by E. B. White
• Theories of Everything by Roz Chast
• Empire by Orson Scott Card
• Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
• (Waiting, Raising Blaze, About My Sisters) His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
• Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 11/28/06:


• Willy and Friends by Don Estes
• A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz
• Fish: 77 Great Fish of North America by Ford Flick
• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E O Wilson
• The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
• Classification Phylogenetique Du Vivant by Guillaume Lecointre
• Emily Dickinson's Herbarium by Emily Dickinson
• Rivers of America by Tim Palmer
• Historical Atlas of the United States by Derek Hayes
• The Essential Hybrid Car Handbook: A Buyer's Guide by Nick Yost
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Mark Ouillette's Book Loft picks for 11/21/06:


• The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
• The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb
• R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country by R. Crumb
• The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb by R. Crumb
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction - by Joan Didion
• The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 11/14/06:


• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
• The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• The Second Mouse by Archer Mayor
• The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
• Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song by Les Beletsky
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Marggie Skinner's Book House picks for 11/7/06:


• Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
• Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
• Portrait of War by Peter Krass
• Monique and the Mango Rains: two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• Birth by Tina Cassidy
• Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Trandforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass
• Mom Are You Listening by Kathy Cohen
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Silence of the Grave by arnaldur indridason
• Static by Amy and David Goodman
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 10/31/06:


• A Kids Guide to Giving by Freddi Zeiler
• Us and World in One Polybag by American Map Corporation
• World Almanac Notebook Atlas by Hammond World Atlas
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
• The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
• Make Your Own President by Amy Pastan
• Spy: The Funny Years by Kurt Andersen, George Kalogerakis, Graydon Carter
• The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• The American Congress: The Building of Democracy by Julian E. Zelizer
• World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored & Explained by John Bowker
• The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong
• The Electoral College by Suzanne LeVert
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• Blue Moo ^New!
• Philadelphia Chickens
• New by others:
• Slam by Nick Hornby
• The Ghost by Robert Harris (to be released 10/23/07)
• Troy: Then and Now by Don Rither
• World of Dumplings
• The Pantry
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs
• Pretending You Care by Norm Fenti
• New in paberback:
• Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
• The 13^th Tale by Diane Setterfield

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 10/9/07:


• The Arrival by Shaun Tan


• Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys by Candace Savage


• The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey


• Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger


• My Brother's Madness by Paul Pines


• One Drop by Bliss Broyard


• Night Shift by Jessie Hartland


• Leni by Steven Bach


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore Book Picks for 9/25/07:



Book events:

Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 10:00 AM Millbrook
The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Hedgie Blasts Off! by Jan Brett
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale by Jan Brett
The First Dog by Jan Brett

Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 02:00 PM Millbrook
The Lemonade Club by Patricia Polacco

Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM Millbrook
Historic Courthouses of the State of New York: A Study in Postcards by Julia and Albert Rosenblatt

Other books:

Gracie by Suzanne Weyn, Andrew Shue, and Ken Himmelman
Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis


Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Alden Graves' Northshire Bookstore picks for 9/18/07:



• Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo


• When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake, by Brian Hicks


• Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, by Ron Hansen


• The Memory of Old Jack, by Wendell Barry


• When the Light Goes, by Larry McMurtry


• Prairie Home Companion, DVD directed by Robert Altman


Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 9/11/07:

• Bridge of Sighs- Richard Russo
• Free Food for Millionaires- Min Jin Lee
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Juno Diaz
• The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop- Francisco Goldman


Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Fox and Naftali Rottenstreich's Red Fox Books picks for 9/4/07:


• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Why Kerouac Matters by John Leland
• Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollan
• Agate: Waht Good Is a Moose? by Joy Morgan Dey & Nikki Johnson
• What Happens on Wednesdays? by Emily Jenkins and Lauren Castillo
• Route 22 by Benjamin Swett
• My Travels with Clara by Mary Tavener Holmes
• Candyfloss by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
• Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O'Connell


Red Fox Books - Glens Falls, NY

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Marggie Skinner's Book House picks for 8/28/07:


• Stoner by John Williams
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot
• Nine Ways to Cross a River by Akiko Busch
• The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
• Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
• The Great Neighborhood Book by Jay Walliasper with a free bonus- The Alley Improvement Project 2006, Troy, NY
• Akk Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones
• The Elements of Style (illustrated) by Strunk, White and Kalman

The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 8/21/07:


• A Model Summer By Porizkova, Paulina
• The Secret Servant By Silva, Daniel
• Doodles and Daydreams: Your Passport for Becoming an Escape Artist By Zimmerman, Bill
• Ike: An American Hero By Korda, Michael
• The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt By Ray, John
• The Orvis Book of Cabins By Smith, A.
• The Book of Draft Horses: The Gentle Giants That Built the World By Smith, Donna Campbell
• Trout Fishing in the Catskills By Van Put, Ed
• Gardening with Woodland Plants By Junker, Karan
• Gardens to Go: Creating and Designing a Container Garden By Eddison, Sydney
• 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die By Spencer-Jones, Rae
• The Land of the Silver Apples By Farmer, Nancy
• The Lost Files of Nancy Drew By Keene, Carolyn
• Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf By Sierra, Judy
• The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing the Sheep in Wolf's Clothing By Lester, Helen
• The Voyageurs Paddle By Wargin, Kathy-Jo

Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Stan Hynd's Northshire Bookstore picks for 8/14/07:


• Lay of the Land (paperback), by Richard Ford
• Seaworthy (paperback), by T. R. Pearson
• Stoner (paperback), by John Williams
• Stumbling on Happiness (paperback), by Daniel Gilbert
• Miracle of Catfish (hardcover), by Larry Brown
• Five Skies (hardcover), by Ron Carlson
• Last Child in the Woods (paperback), by Richard Louv
• Dirty Work (paperback), by Larry Brown

Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 8/7/07:


• Free Fire by CJ Box
• Yesterday’s Fatal by Jan Brogan
• Gun Shy by Ben Rehder
• Night Ferry by Michael Robotham
• The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke


Top five summer paperbacks:

• Blindfold Game by Dana Stabenow
• Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver
• Triptych by Karin Slaughter
• Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
• Oblivion by Peter Abrahams

Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Susan Taylor's Market Block Book picks for 7/31/07:

Post-Potter Depression Antidotes

• By Rick Riordan: The Lightening Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse
• By Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials Series- The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass


New Picks

• By Shannon Hale: Austenland
• By Karen Abbott: Sin in the 2nd City: Madams, Ninisters, Playboyz, and the Battle for America’s Soul


Fun for the Summer

• By Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind with new forward by Pat Conroy
• By Michael Malone: Handling Sin
• By Julia Spencer-Fleming: In the Bleak Midwinter, A Fountain Filled with Blood, Out of the Deep I Cry, To Darkness and to Death, All Mortal Flesh


New in September

• By Tom Schrek: On the Ropes: A Duffy Dumbrowski Mystery

Market Block Books - Troy, NY

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Susan Novatny's Book House picks for 7/24/06:


• Staggerford by Jon Hassler
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
• Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• American Gods by Neil Gaimon
• Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt
• Independent People by Halldor Laxness

The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 7/17/07:


• The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to AAA, AA, A, and Independent League Stadiums by Josh Pahigian
• Bat Boy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees by Matthew McGough
• Baseball Haiku: American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball by Cor van der Heuvel and Nanae Tamura
• The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles
• David Beckham's Soccer Skills by David Beckham
• Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell
• How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer by Vic Darkwood
• Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
• Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency by Michel Conan
• Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations and Cultural Change by Michel Conan and W. John Kress
• Old Wives' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells by Mary Chamberlain
• The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
• Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley
• Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research That Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
by Stephen Post and Jill Neimark

Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Erik Barnum's Northshire Bookstore picks for 7/10/07:


• Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones (to be published 7/31/07)
• The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson,
• Mad Dogs by James Grady
• The Royal Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Complete Works, edited by Jonathan Bate & Erik Rasmussen
• Politics Lost by Joe Klein
• God Laughs and Plays by David James Duncan
• Dissent in America edited by Ralph F. Young

Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont



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Joan Grenier's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 7/3/07:


• Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia by Camilo Mejia
• Animal Mineral Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
• Yurts: Living in the Round by Becky Kemery
• On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• Main Street Series Book 1: Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann M. Martin
• The Blessing of the Beasts written by Ethel Pochocki with engravings by Barry Moser

Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts



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Mark Ouillette's Book Loft picks for 06/26/07:


• At Large & At Small by Ann Fadiman
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
• White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
• Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Edmund & Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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Marggie Skinner's Book House picks for 6/19/07:


• They Take Our Jobs and 20 other myths about immigration by Aviva Chomsky
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
• Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney
• Death of a Dutch Uncle by M. E. Kemp
• Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi
• Still Life with Chickens by Catherine Goldhamer
• Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany, NY

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 6/12/07:


• James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin
• Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape by Linda Ferber
• Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here by Akiko Busch
• Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke
• The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
• Little Tiny Teeth by Aaron Elkins
• Saint Iggy by K. L. Going
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse - Book 3 By Rick Riordan
• If: A Father's Advice to His Son by Kipling, Rudyard Charles R. Smith Jr.
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Nancy Scheemaker's Northshire Bookstore picks for 5/29/07:


• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz
• A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• The River Wife by Jonis Agee
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell
• On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Million
• Nightingales by Susan Straight
• Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichi Chimamanda
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont

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Stanley Hadsell's Market Block Book picks for 5/22/07:


• The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes
• Echoing Silence : Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing - Robert Inchausti (Editor)
• A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton, Kathleen Deignan (Editor),
• Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• Dog Years by Mark Doty
• Chaos: A novella & Stories by Edmund White
• Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
• McSweeney's 23 by McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Dave Eggers, Editor)
• The Monk Upstairs by Tim Farrington
• The Kids' Book Club Book by Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp
• No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire And Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin with Eric Denker, cicerone
• Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession by Corey Sandler
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• The Great American Hot Dog : Recipes and Side Dishes from Across America by Becky Mercuri
Market Block Books - Troy, New York

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Neil Novik's Odyssey Bookshop picks for 5/15/07:


• Back Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
• Boomsday by Chrtopher Buckley
• On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith
• Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler
• Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig The Overlook by Michael Connelly
Odyssey Bookshop - South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Scott Meyer's Merritt Bookstore picks for 5/8/07:


• Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham By Carolyn Brown
• On the Porch By James M. Crisp
• Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters By Patricia C. McKissack
• George Kennan: A Study of Character By John Lukacs
• The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization By Daniel Manus Pinkwater
• Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire By Diana Preston
• Eating Like a King: A History of Royal Recipes By Michele Brown
• The Elvis Impersonation Kit: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the King By Laura Lee
• The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship By Klaus Brinkbaumer
• Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science By David Lindley
Merritt Bookstore - Millbrook and Red Hook, New York

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Eric Wilska's Book Loft picks for 5/1/07:


• The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• Long Time Leaving by Roy Blount, Jr.
• Window Poems by Wendell Berry
• Soaring With Fidel by David Gessner
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Paper Trails by Pete Dexter
The Bookloft - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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