Our WAMC Book Picks
Dianne Ortmann’s and Carrie Knudsen’s Book Picks
May 2017
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (Houghton Mifflin)
Letters to a Young Farmer – Compiled by Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture; Martha Hodgkins, Editor (Princeton Architectural Press)
Hop Grower’s Handbook – Laura TenEyck and Dietrich Gehring (Chelsea Green Publishing)
Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison – Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (New Press)
Red, White and Que – Karen Adler and Judith Fertig (Running Press)
One is Not a Pair – Britta Teckentrup (Big Picture Press)
Grow Your Own for Kids – Chris Collins and Lia Leendertz (Hachette)
Out of the Box – Jemma Westing ( Dorling Kindersley)
Walk in the Forest – Maria Dek (Princeton Architectural Press)
Our next visit will be Tuesday, October 17th
OCTOBERFEAST!
Saturday, October 7
11 am-11 pm
Celebrate the Chatham community with great local food and drink at Chatham’s annual OctoberFeast!
Main Street Activities 11 am-4 pm
Chatham Brewing 4pm-11
Pick up your Chili Contest entry form and pan at the bookstore.
Celebrate the Chatham Bookstore’s 40th year! Enter a raffle to win a $40.00 Gift Certificate to the Bookstore. All proceeds will benefit the Chatham & Ghent Food Pantries.
Nonfiction Book Group
The Chatham Bookstore hosts a nonfiction book group focusing on current affairs, history and biography. They meet at the store on the second Monday of the month at 7 pm and they are open to new members.
The next book pick is Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Picketty (translated, Arthur Goldhammer). They will read Parts 1 and 2 for the September meeting and complete the book in October.
For more information, contact Karen Kaczmar at 518-755-0392 or email Karen.