Ask a bookseller

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

December 24, 2022 8:00 AM

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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December 17, 2022 4:00 AM

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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December 13, 2022 3:03 PM

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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December 2, 2022 8:33 AM

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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November 26, 2022 11:23 AM

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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November 19, 2022 8:20 AM

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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November 11, 2022 12:39 PM

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