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Ask a bookseller

Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment.

Ask a Bookseller: LA crime fiction at its best 

Ask a Bookseller: LA crime fiction at its best 

Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona, which specializes in mysteries, and the crime novel he’s been waiting for finally hit the shelves this month. It’s “Everybody Knows” by Edgar-award winning author Jordan Harper. 
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: Laziness does not exist

Ask a Bookseller: Laziness does not exist

Bookseller Whit Robinson of Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia recommends one of her top reads: The nonfiction book “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Dr. Devon Price. 
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year' from April 2022

Ask a Bookseller: 'Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year' from April 2022

Shannon Brown of Wishing Tree Books in Spokane recommends Nina Hamza's debut novel, "Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year." "I love that the story doesn't talk down to children about the hard times they are going through," said Brown.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Inheritance'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Inheritance'

Nathan McDowell of Two Dollar Radio Headquarters — an indie bookstore and press in Columbus, Ohio — recommends Taylor Johnson’s poetry book “Inheritance.”
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Fathers, Sons and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Fathers, Sons and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball'

Ask a Bookseller features bookstores all over the country, and this week is a Minnesota triple play of bookstore, author and publisher.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: "Another Appalachia"

Alissa Brown of “The Inner Geek” in Huntington, W.V. recommends the memoir “Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place” by Neema Avashia.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: Hide

Ask a Bookseller: Hide

Sam Halter-Rainey at the Book Loft at German Village in Columbus, Ohio, knew right away what his book recommendation of the year was: the novel “Hide” by Kiersten White.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: a novel of friendship, food and love 

Kerry Lett of Turn the Page Westfield in Westfield, Indiana recommended “Love and Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love” by Kim Fay.
by Emily Bright

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A YA thriller delves into the post-WWII history of Poland and Ukraine

A YA thriller delves into the post-WWII history of Poland and Ukraine

“The Silent Unseen” is set in Poland in 1944. A 16-year-old girl, returning from forced labor in Nazi Germany, discovers that fighting between Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationals have left her village destroyed.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: "Found Audio" is a creepy fall read

Ask a Bookseller: "Found Audio" is a creepy fall read

The printed novella “Found Audio” sounds very fitting for our radio-based book series. It’s called “Found Audio,” by N. J. Campbell, and it was published by Two Dollar Radio, a small press in Ohio. 
by Emily Bright

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