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

Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Josh Hames recommends local writer Jacqueline Holland, new novel, "The God of Endings." It's an unconventional vampire story, Hames says, that's a "genuinely felt human tale as much as it is inhuman."
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Evelyn Bauer of Papercuts Bookshop recommends “The Poetics of Wrongness” by poet Rachel Zucker. She challenges outdated paradigms of motherhood, feminism and poetics.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

The novel is a fairly direct retelling of “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens, set in the 1980s in Appalachia — familiar territory for rural Kentucky-born Kingsolver.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Here Goes Nothing'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Here Goes Nothing'

"Here Goes Nothing" by Steve Toltz has whispers of the 1990 film "Ghost" and the NBC comedy "The Good Place," rolled up in an original and humorous tale.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: A mother-daughter story of travel and art

Ask a Bookseller: A mother-daughter story of travel and art

The recommendation comes from Shannon Daniels of Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich., who says Jessica Au's novel "Cold Enough for Snow" was her top staff pick this year.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Measure'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Measure'

This novel asks, "What if you knew exactly how many days you had left?"
by Emily Bright

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Ask A Bookseller: 'Upgrade' blends sci-fi and thriller genres

Ask A Bookseller: 'Upgrade' blends sci-fi and thriller genres

Colby Faulkner says his store has "Upgrade" shelved in the Science Fiction section, but with its fast-paced plot, it could easily belong with the Thrillers.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'River, Sing Me Home'

Yani Rodriguez of Copperfish Books in Punta Gordo, Fla., was quick to share her staff pick with Ask a Bookseller. She loves the historical fiction novel “River, Sing Me Home,” by Eleanor Shearer.
by Emily Bright

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