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The Roundtable

Book Picks: Odyssey Bookshop and The Book House

By Joe Donahue

Published March 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT

This week's Book Picks come from Joan Grenier the owner of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA and we also welcome Cheryl McKeon from The Book House in Albany, NY.

Joan:

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akka
33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
Isola by Allegra Goodman
To Save the Man by John Sayles
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany by Rebecca Brenner Graham
People the Planet Need Now: Voices for Justice, Science, and a Future Promise by Dudley Edmondson

Cheryl:

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America by Will Bardenwerper
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

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Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.

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