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Book Picks - Battenkill Books and The Bookstore in Lenox

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This week's Book Picks come from are Connie Brooks and Heather Boyne from Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY and Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, MA.

Connie Brooks:

  • Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messina
  • The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
  • The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn
  • The Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Bel Canto: Annotated Edition by Ann Patchett

 Heather Boyne: 

  • Julia Child's Kitchen: The Design, Tools, Stories, and Legacy of an Iconic Space by Paula J. Johnson with a foreword by Jacques Pépin
  • Stephen Ellcock’s Book of Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection by Stephen Ellcock
  • The World in Books : 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction by Kenneth C. Davis
  • Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the Traditions and Tastes of the World's Sacred Spaces by Jody Eddy

Matt Tannenbaum:

  • The Universe in Verse: 15 Portal to Wonder Through Science & Poetry by Maria Popova
  • Jimmy Breslin, the Man Who Told the Truth by Richard Esposito
  • Village Voices: a Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris 1982 -2012 by Odille Hellier
  • The Gonif by Andy Weinberger
  • Water, Water: Poems by Billy Collins
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