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The Roundtable

Book Picks: Green Toad Bookstore and The Bookstore

By Joe Donahue
Published May 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks come from Jim Havener of Green Toad Bookstore in Oneonta, New York and Matt Tannenbaum of The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.

The Bookstore:

  • Ballerina by Patrick Modiano
  • The Girl in the Middle by Martha Stanweiss
  • Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen
  • Eminent Jews by David Denby
  • We Are Free to Change the World by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Green Toad:

  • The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson
  • The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans
  • Friends of the Museum: A Novel by Heather McGowen
  • The Boy from the Sea: A Novel by Garrett Carr
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