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The Roundtable

Book Picks: The Book House and Northshire Bookstore

By Joe Donahue

Published January 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM EST

This week's Book Picks come from Cheryl McKeon from the Book House in Albany, NY & Market Block Books in Troy, NY and Jess Hunsicker from Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs, NY and Manchester Center, VT.

Cheryl:

The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Every Tom, Dick and Harry by Elinor Lipman
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
Dear Miss Perkins: the Story of Frances Perkins’ Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany – by Rebecca Brenner Graham
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America by Will Bardenwerper

Jess:

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past by Nate DiMeo
Good Girl by Aria Aber
Andromeda by Therese Bohman
Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer

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