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Book Picks - The Bookstore in Lenox

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Today's Book Picks come from Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
Before the Flood: Destruction, Community, and Survival in the Drowned Towns of the Quabbin by Elizabeth C. Rosenberg
Among Familiar Shadows by Bruce Coffin
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski

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Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.
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