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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: The Learned Owl in Hudson, Ohio

Ask a bookseller: The Learned Owl in Hudson, Ohio

Bookstore owner Kate Schlademan recommends this young adult novel for the holiday season: "It's one of those books that just really pulls at your heartstrings."
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Atomic Books in Baltimore

Ask a bookseller: Atomic Books in Baltimore

Benn Ray, one of the owners of Atomic Books, recommends a book about the Satanism paranoia that swept the country in the 1980s.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Rediscovered Books in Boise

Ask a bookseller: Rediscovered Books in Boise

Bruce Delaney gave up his career as a physicist to open the bookstore. He normally reads a lot of history and science fiction, but a new YA book has caught his attention.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Square Books in Oxford, Miss.

Ask a bookseller: Square Books in Oxford, Miss.

Bookseller Cody Morrison is excited that a pioneer woman's first-person account of life in the Mississippi Delta in the late 1800s has been put back into print.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Ask a bookseller: Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The owner of the Literati Bookstore recommends a book that traces the aftermath of a marketplace bombing in northern India: "It explores the indiscriminate nature of terror, which is extremely timely today."
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Left Bank Books in St. Louis

Ask a bookseller: Left Bank Books in St. Louis

Bookseller Shane Mullen has two eerie, unsettling reads for your October book list. The first deals with a horror film gone awry in the Amazon and the second revolves around the mysterious disappearance of young twin girls.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Phinney Books in Seattle

Ask a bookseller: Phinney Books in Seattle

Tom Nissley says the hardest request he gets as a bookseller is when people say: "I want a happy book." But a newly released book fits that bill.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Mont.

Ask a bookseller: Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Mont.

Debut novelists don't always get the respect they deserve, but bookseller Carson Evans is a fan of first-timers. Her fall book pick is "The Mothers" by Brit Bennett.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, N.C.

Ask a bookseller: Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, N.C.

Bookseller Samantha Flynn can't stop raving about "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles. The novel follows a Russian aristocrat who is sentenced to house arrest, for life, in an elegant hotel.
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