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The Roundtable

Book Picks - Battenkill Books

By Joe Donahue
Published May 23, 2023 at 11:13 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks come from Heather Boyne of Battenkill Books in Cambridge, New York.

List:
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox
The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin (Pub 6/6)
Big, illustrated and written by Vashni Harrison
We Are Starlings: Inside the Mesmerizing Magic of a Murmuration by Robert Furrow and Donna Jo Napoli, illustrated by Marc Martin

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