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Book Picks - The Bookstore

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published February 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM EST
Book Cover - Mary Astor's Purple Diary

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

List:
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal
Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 by Ed Sorel
The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano - Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
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