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Book Picks - Battenkill Books and Rough Draft Bar & Books

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This week's Book Picks comes from Heather Boyne from Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY and Anthony and Amanda Stromoski from Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston, NY.

This week's Book Picks comes from Heather Boyne from Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY and Anthony and Amanda Stromoski from Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston, NY.

Heather:

  • Stitched by Eli McCann
  • Ark: A Visual Treasury of Earth’s Living Wonders by Stephen Ellcock essays by Ellcock, Robert Macfarlane, Sarah Perry, Harriet Rix, Helen Scales, and Stephen Moss
  • Stephen Ellcock's Esoteric Sticker Collection
  • Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide by Debbie Berne
  • Sound Tracks: An Archaeological Journey Through Our Musical Past by Dr. Graeme Lawson
  • The Duck Can’t Sleep written by E.B. White and illustrated by Melissa Sweet
  • Help! I’m Being Eaten by a Bear! A True Story, Except for the Parts I Made Up written by Neil Sharpson and illustrated by Dan Santat
  • The Secret Dragon by Briony May Smith

Anthony and Amanda Stromoski:

  • Voyagers by Meg Charlton 
  • An End In Itself by Terry Fallis 
  • Don't Stop Snowing by Gabriel Bump 
  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, by Lindsey Fitzharris
  • Tales of the Weird, a British Library Series, various authors
  • Annie Proulx Stories: New & Selected, by Annie Proulx
  • The Castle: Adventures in the World of Unraveling Men, Jon Ronson 
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