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Book Picks - Merritt Bookstore

By Joe Donahue
Published November 26, 2024 at 12:06 PM EST
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This week's Book Picks come from Kira Wizner from Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook NY.

Kira:

  • Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishoi
  • Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
  • Twenty-Four Seconds from Now by Jason Reynolds
  • The Elements of Baking: Making any recipe gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free or vegan by Katarina Cermelj
  • Glamour: An Extraordinary History: 85 Years of Women Breaking Boundaries by Natasha Pearlman, Ruhama Wolle, and Anna Moeslein
  • The Wedding People: A Novel by Alison Espach
  • Marina Abramovic Turned Herself Into Art and Wasn't Sorry by Fausto Gilberti
  • Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
  • Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel by Susan Rieger
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

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