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Book Picks - Green Toad Bookstore and The Book House of Styuvesant Plaza

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This week's Book Picks come from Jim Havener from Green Toad Bookstore in Great Barrington, MA and Cheryl McKeon from The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, NY.

Jim:

  • Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
  • Clear by Carys Davies
  • Wild Ground by Emily Usher
  • No Road Leading Back by Chris Heath
  • Our Kindred Creatures by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy
  • The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

Cheryl McKeon:

  • There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Knopf)
  • Silence by Julia Park Tracey (Sibylline Press) Sept. 24
  • A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family by Debra Bruno (Three Hills - Cornell University Press) Oct. 15
  • The Trackers by Charles Frazier (Ecco) -paperback
  • The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Macmillan) Oct. 1
  • Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature, edited by John McMurtrie (Princeton University Press) September 10, 2024
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