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The Roundtable

Book Picks - Odyssey Bookshop

By Joe Donahue
Published May 17, 2023 at 11:13 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks come to us from Joan Grenier of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

List:
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Killingly by Katharine Beutner
Jamie MacGilllvray: The Renegade’s Journey by John Sayles
We could have been Friends: My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

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