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Book Picks: Oblong Books and Open Door Bookstore

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This week's Book Picks comes from Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books in Rhinebeck and Millerton, New York and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, New York.

Lily Bartels:

  • Ubac and Me: A Life of Love and Adventure With a French Mountain Dog by Cédric Sapin-Dufour, trans. by Adriana Hunter
  • Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
  • Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
  • Beneath Our Feet: Everyday Discoveries Shaping History by Michael Lewis and Ian Richardson
  • Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer

Suzanne Hermans:

  • How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle
  • French Windows by Antoine Laurain, translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie
  • So Far Gone by Jess Walter
  • Codebreaker by Jay Martel
  • Kill Creatures by Rory Power
  • Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel
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