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Book Picks - The Bookstore

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published August 9, 2016 at 10:10 AM EDT
Book Cover - The Violet Hour

  Today's Book Picks come from Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox.

List:
Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe
Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding by Douglas Brooks
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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