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Ask a Bookseller

Minnesota Public Radio

Looking for your next great read? Ask a bookseller! Join us to check in with independent bookstores across the U.S. to find out what books they’re excited about right now. One book, two minutes, every week. From the long-running series on MPR News, hosted by Emily Bright. Whether you read to escape, feel connected, seek self-improvement, or just discover something new, there is a book here for you.

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Old School Indian’ by Aaron John...

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2025/06/14

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Anne Holman of The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah, recommends the novel “Old School Indian” by Aaron John Curtis.Holman calls it a powerful coming-of-age story, when you come of age later in your life in an important way.The novel follows Abe, who, like the author, is an enrolled member of the Mohawk tribe. We first

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00:02:11

Ask a Bookseller: ‘No One Was Supposed to Die at This...

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2025/06/07

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.School is out (or soon-to-be-out) across Minnesota, and that means it’s time for summer reads! But just because you bring a book to the lake, that doesn’t mean it can’t be smart as well as a fun escape. To that end, Julia Green of Front Street Books in Alpine, Texas recommends the lighthearted whodunit, “No One Was Supposed to Die at

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00:02:18

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The River Has Roots’ by Amal...

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2025/05/17

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Sarah Jackson of The Book and Cover in Chattanooga, Tenn., says she was immediately hooked and fully delighted by Amal El-Mohtar's fantasy novella, “The River Has Roots.” Readers may recognize El-Mohtar as the sci-fi and fantasy columnist for the New York Times and as co-author of the award-winning novel “This is How You Lose the Time

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘My Friends’ by Fredrik Backman

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2025/05/10

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Lori Virelli of Harvey's Tales of Geneva, Ill., has eagerly been awaiting the release this week of Fredrik Backman’s new novel “My Friends.” The Swedish author of “A Man Called Ove,” the “Beartown” hockey series, “Anxious People” and others offers a new novel about friendship and found family. Eighteen-year-old Louisa, an aspiring

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00:02:07

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ by...

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2025/05/03

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Has Ryan Coogler’s recently released horror film “Sinners” got you in the mood for more vampire books? Ben Mayne of Tattered Cover Book Store in Littleton, Colo., recommends “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones. Mayne says the book gives “Interview with a Vampire” vibes. The vampire is a Blackfeet man named Good Stab,

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00:02:09

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Antidote’ by Karen Russell

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2025/04/25

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Participating indie bookstores across Minnesota and the country will offer special events or deals. We celebrate with particular gusto in the Twin Cities metro, where this year, 37 bookstores are participating in the Independent Bookstore Passport created by Rain Taxi.Pick up your passport and get

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00:02:26

Ask a Bookseller: ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky’ by...

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2025/04/19

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. We finish up our Books of Hope series with a sweeping novel that interconnects lives across time through a single drop of water. The book is “There Are Rivers in the Sky” by award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak. Meghan Hayden of River Bend Bookshop in Glastonbury and West Hartford, Conn., says she hasn’t been able to

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00:02:18

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Black Liturgies’ by Cole Arthur Riley

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2025/04/05

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. When asked for a recommendation for our ongoing Books of Hope series, China Reevers of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Mont., turned to a book on her shelf that she’s gifted many times: Cole Arthur Riley’s “Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human.” “I think it is just a beautiful text that is so rich.” Reevers,

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00:01:54

Ask a Bookseller: ‘We Will Be Jaguars’ by Nemonte...

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2025/03/29

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. This week, as our series on books of hope and connection continues, Laynee Wessel with Bliss Books & Bindery in Stillwater, Okla., recommended a memoir about our ties to the natural world. The book is “We Will be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People” by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson. Nemonte Nenquimo is a climate activist who lives

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00:02:11

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ...

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2025/03/22

Ask a Bookseller is focusing this season on books of hope and connection. Asked to recommend a book of hope, Beth Rusk of Magers & Quinn Booksellers went straight to the novels of TJ Klune. “Under the Whispering Door” is one of her favorites. It’s a cozy fantasy set in a tea shop, which also happens to be a waystation for the dead. When Wallace, a successful lawyer, dies of a heart attack, he tries unsuccessfully to negotiate his way out of what he views as an unpleasant turn of

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00:02:05

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Dream Count’ by Chimamanda Ngozi...

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2025/03/15

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. As we continue our focus on books of hope and connection, Lori Virelli of Harvey’s Tales in Geneva, Ill., wanted to recommend Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel “Dream Count.”It’s Adichie’s first novel in over 10 years. Virelli called it “a beautifully written book about lovely, flawed characters.”The novel moves among the points of

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00:02:12

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Dictionary of the Undoing’ by John...

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2025/03/08

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.For the next few weeks, Ask a Bookseller will focus on books that emphasize hope and connection. Booksellers will point to everything from romance to science fiction to nonfiction in various forms.This week, John Evans of Camino Books: For the Road Ahead in Del Mar, Calif., recommends a book of essays, “Dictionary of the Undoing” by

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00:01:59

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Notes from the Porch: Tiny True...

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2025/03/01

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.For the next few weeks, Ask a Bookseller will feature books of hope and connection. Independent booksellers across the country have recommended titles that span the realms of fiction and nonfiction, celebrating connections with others. Elizabeth Bluemle of The Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne, Vt., recommends a book of very short

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00:02:17

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Practice, The Horizon and the...

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2025/02/22

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.For the next few weeks on Ask a Bookseller, we’ll be doing something a little different: focusing on books of hope. Danielle King of Left Bank Books in St Louis, Mo., knew right away what she wanted to recommend: Sofia Samatar’s sci-fi novel “The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain.” Weighing in at 128 pages, this short novel packs a

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00:02:06

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Blob: A Love Story’ by Maggie Su

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2025/02/15

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Theresa Phung works at Yu & Me Books in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She recommends “Blob: A Love Story” by Maggie Su. Su tells of Vi Liu, a young Taiwanese-American woman, who discovers a sentient blob and attempts to mold it into her ideal partner, leading to unexpected consequences.Theresa says: The blob, as it watches TV, starts to

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Black Woods, Blue Sky’ by Eowyn Ivey

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2025/02/08

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Eowyn Ivey launched onto the literary scene in 2012 with her New York Times Bestselling debut “The Snow Child,” which grounds the fairy tale of a couple who makes a child out of snow in the hard reality of a 1920 Alaska homestead. Ivey weaves a world that feels both real and magical at the same time. Thirteen years later, Ivey is out

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘A More Perfect Party‘ by Juanita...

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2025/02/01

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Makkah Abdur Salaam of Black Garnet Books in St. Paul recommends the nonfiction book “A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics” by Juanita Tolliver. Abdur Salaam describes it as a “roadmap” for cultivating community. Chisholm and Carroll both claimed important firsts for Black women. In

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Serviceberry' by Robin Wall...

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2025/01/18

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Fans of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass” were looking forward to her new collection of short essays “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” which was published shortly before Thanksgiving. Beth Hartung of Pearl Street Books in La Crosse, Wis., says it was at the top of her list of favorite books

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Wealth of Shadows’ by Graham...

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2025/01/11

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Lovers of little-known history, get ready: We’ve got a book that lifts a real-life Minnesota tax attorney out of WWII obscurity and into the limelight with an out-of-the-box plan to defeat the Nazis without ever going to war. The book is Graham Moore’s meticulously researched novel, “The Wealth of Shadows,” and Rona Brinlee of The

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna...

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2025/01/04

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Part of the superpower of stories is to create spaces for empathy: Between the pages of the book, we get to step into the lives of other people, real or fictional. That’s what Stefanie Chow of Stillwater Books in West Warwick, R.I., loves about Coco Mellors’ novel “Blue Sisters.” “It's a very messy story,” Chow says, “but it’s

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