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Book Picks - Green Toad Bookstore

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published May 15, 2018 at 11:12 AM EDT
Book Cover - The Feather Thief

Today's Book Picks come from Jim Havener of Green Toad Bookstore in Oneonta, NY.

List:
"The Overstory: A Novel" by Richard Powers
"The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath" by Leslien Jamison
"Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
"Spring" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
"The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century" by Kirk Wallace Johnson
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