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Book Picks - Oblong Books And Music

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published February 4, 2020 at 11:13 AM EST
Book covers for the books listed below on this page

  This week's Book Picks come from Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books in Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York.

List:

"Such a Fun Age" by Kiley Reid

"The Resisters" by Gish Jen

"Get a Life, Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert

"The Unwilling" by Kelly Braffet (event Tues 2/18 at Murray's in Tivoli, NY w/ Erin Morgenstern)

"Weather" by Jenny Offill (event Thurs 2/27 at Murray's in Tivoli, NY)

"Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA" by Amaryllis Fox

"The Third Rainbow Girl" by Emma Copley Eisenberg (event Weds, 2/5 in Rhinebeck)

"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson
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