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Book Picks - Odyssey Bookshop

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published April 11, 2017 at 11:12 AM EDT
Book Cover - The Twelve Bullets of Samuel Hawley

  This week's Book Picks come to us from Emily Crowe at The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA.

List:
American War by Omar El Akkad
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Kinship of Clover by Ellen Meeropol
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Do Fairies Bring the Spring by Liza Gardner Walsh and Hazel Mitchell
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