Ask a bookseller

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

November 12, 2016 6:00 AM

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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November 5, 2016 4:00 AM

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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October 29, 2016 4:00 AM

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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October 22, 2016 4:00 AM

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.

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October 15, 2016 4:00 AM

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.

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October 8, 2016 4:00 AM

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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October 1, 2016 5:00 AM

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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September 24, 2016 4:00 AM

Ask a bookseller: Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City

Jean Ann Robison has been selling books for more than 20 years, and this month she's excited about a biography of Winston Churchill's early years, which reads like something out of "Indiana Jones," she said.

by Tracy Mumford