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Book Picks - The Bookstore

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published December 19, 2017 at 11:14 AM EST
Book Cover - Spy of the First Person

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

List:
"The Mouse and His Child" by Russell Hoban
"Devotions" by Patti Smith
"Spy of the First Person" by Sam Shepard
"Good Things Happen Slowly" by Fred Hersch
"Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters"
"Women and Power" by Mary Beard
"Silence In the Age of Noise" by Erling Kagge
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