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This week's book picks come from Heather Boyne of Battenkill Books in Cambridge, New York and Connie Brooks and Cathy Taylor of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont and Saratoga, New York.

This week's Book Picks come from Phil Lewis from Bennington Bookshop in Bennington, Vermont and Kira Wizner from Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, New York.

This week's Book Picks comes from Mike Hare of Northshire Books in Saratoga Springs and Manchester Center, VT and Robin Glossner of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA.

Taxidermy is becoming more popular amongst a certain crowd — not only for preservation or adornment, but also to create fantasy animals.Laura Securon Palet wrote about it for the online magazine Ozy.

On Thursday, residents of parts of Kansas heard thunder and saw lightning as heavy snow fell. Laura Lorson of Kansas Public Radio describes the storm, while meteorologist Lee Grenci of the blog Weather Underground tells us that thundersnow is not rare. He points out that it just means that the snowflakes that always occur in the upper atmosphere during a storm reach the ground.

The Arete Project in Southeast Alaska brings very different students from around the world together to learn from nature and each other, and earn college credit along the way.

Laura Fitzpatrick photographed life in her Brooklyn neighborhood at its best. Her images now comprise a new exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Laura Seidel reports from New York on the extradition to Oklahoma of convicted double murderer Thomas Grasso. Grasso had been serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York--a state with no death penalty--but is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma early tomorrow morning.

Laura Ziegler (f) reports that today marks the final installment of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It's creator Bill Waterson has decided to end the strip after more than 10 years, because he wants to be free of deadline pressure when drawing his cartoons.

Laura Sydell of member station WNYC reports on the three-year anniversary of the ship The Golden Venture running aground near Queens, NY. The ship was carrying nearly 300 illegal Chinese immigrants and brought the problem of such smuggling operations to wide attention. Just what has changed since then?