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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: ‘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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Ask a Bookseller: ’Bite by Bite: Nourishments and...

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2024/12/21

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Let Us Descend’ by Jesmyn Ward

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2024/12/14

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Modern Poetry’ by Diane Seuss

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2024/12/07

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘No Two Persons’ by Erica Bauermeister

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2024/11/30

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘North Woods’ by Daniel Mason

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2024/11/23

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Just Us’ by Minnesota author Molly...

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2024/11/16

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Smothermoss’ by debut author Alisa...

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2024/11/09

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Colored Television’ by Danzy Senna

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2024/11/02

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Scrap’ by Calla Henkel

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2024/10/26

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Spellshop’ by Sarah Beth Durst

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2024/10/19

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Penance' by Eliza Clark

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2024/09/27

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Everything We Never Had’ by Randy...

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2024/09/20

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Attack of the Black Rectangles’ by...

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2024/09/13

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Tree. Table. Book.‘ by Lois Lowry

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2024/09/07

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00:58:26

Minnesota booksellers talk recommendations, BookTok...

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2024/09/03

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