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Book Picks - Oblong Books and Battenkill Books

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This week's Book Picks come from Suzanna Hermans from Oblong Books in Rhinebeck and Millerton, NY and Connie Brooks & Heather Boyne from Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY.

Suzanna:

  • All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
  • The Examiner by Janice Hallett
  • The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford
  • Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music by Franz Nicolay (event 9/26)
  • A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga
  • Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot by Preeti Chhibber
  • Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho

Connie: 

  • The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
  • Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
  • Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, with illustrations by Ashley MacKenzie
  • The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
  • The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues by Beth Lincoln

Heather: 

  • The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
  • A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri
  • This Book is a Planetarium and Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions by Kelli Anderson
  • The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood
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