Book Picks - The Book House and Open Door Bookstore

By Sarah LaDuke

Published December 10, 2024 at 11:35 AM EST

This week's Book Picks come from Cheryl McKeon from The Book House in Albany, New York and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, New York.

Cheryl:

Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Against the Grain by Peter Lovesey
Bel Canto (annotated edition) by Ann Patchett
The Verts by Ann Patchett; illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
Baking In the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories (A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking by Anne Byrn
Red and Lulu by Matt Tavares

Lily:

Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa
Pony Confidential by Christian Lynch
Night Magic by Leigh Ann Henion
How Women Made Music edited by Alison Fensterstock
Toto by A.J. Hackwith
Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood by Barry Sonnenfeld
Cher: The Memoir, Part One

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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