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The Roundtable

Book Picks - Battenkill Books

By Joe Donahue
Published November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM EST
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This week's Book Picks comes from Connie Brooks and Suzanne Kulick from Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY.

Suzanne Kulick:

  • The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
  • Sonora by Jenni L. Walsh
  • That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers
  • The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions: How To Make Decisions Without Losing Your Mind by Joseph Nguyen
  • School of Monsters Series by Sally Rippin
  • The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake by Devin Elle Kurtz

Connie Brooks:

  • Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
  • The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
  • The Woodcutter’s Christmas by Brad Kessler, with photos by Dona Ann McAdams
  • At Midnight Comes the Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
  • Old Sleigh by Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey
  • Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection - Edited by Amanda Zehnder and David Brinley
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