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The Roundtable

Book Picks - The Bookloft and Open Door Bookstore

By Joe Donahue

Published March 26, 2024 at 11:30 AM EDT

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This week's Book Picks come from Giovanni Boivin from The Bookloft in Great Barrington, MA and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, NY for our selections this week.

Giovanni:

Diavola, by Jennifer Thorne
Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Naylor
Floating Hotel, by Grace Curtis
Anita de Monte Laughs Last, by Xochitl Gonzalez
Grief is for People, by Sloane Crosley
The Divorcees, by Rowan Beaird

Lily:

The Titanic Survivors Book Club, by Timothy Schaffert
James, by Percival Everett
Unbound: Native Art of the Plains, by Emil Her Many Horses (ed.)
Clear, by Carys Davies
The American Daughters, by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Soren's Seventh Song, by Dave Eggers

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