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Welcome to
Oblong Books & Music!
Best Bookstore in the Hudson Valley
as chosen by Hudson Valley Magazine
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Check out our events for 2009!
Title of Event: SEYMOUR CHWAST - Seymour
When: Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:00 PM
Location: Oblong Millerton,26 Main Street,Millerton,NY 12546
Description: This event will be held at 3pm in Millerton and at 7:30pm in Rhinebeck.
Seymour Chwast is one of ...
Title of Event: SEYMOUR CHWAST - Seymour
When: Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:30 PM
Location: Oblong Rhinebeck,6422 Montgomery St. (Rt. 9),Rhinebeck,NY 12572
Description: This event will be held at 3pm in Millerton and at 7:30pm in Rhinebeck.
Seymour Chwast is one o...
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Check out our staff's current favorite books:
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Genesis
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Beckett, Bernard
Recommended by Lisa &Suzanna:
I felt the hairs rise on the back of my neck as I began to suspect where this New Zealand sci-fi was going. Set on an isolated island in a post-plague world, this gem doesn't waste a word. |
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Oblong took its name from a disputed territory
between New York and Connecticut created in
colonial times when both states suveyed a
line 20 miles east of the Hudson River. Until
the dispute was settled in about 1730, maps
referred to the narrow strip of land as "The
Oblong."
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Check out our top books!
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Mudbound
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Jordan, Hillary
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not-charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion. |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Hurry Down Sunshine
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Greenberg, Michael
A haunting memoir of a father and wife dealing with a daughter's sudden psychotic breakdown. Filled with brilliant imagery and the strain her illness brought to her family, this is an important book that will bring some element of understanding to such painful situations.--Amy Ellis, Front Street Books (Alpine, TX) |
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