Ask a bookseller

Jennifer Jubenville of the Bookstore at Fitger’s in Duluth says there’s nothing like a good thriller for a summer read, and she recommends checking out Joshua Moehling’s debut, “And There He Kept Her.”

Part of the fun of talking with independent bookstores is hearing about great books from smaller, independent presses. Today's recommendation combines both.

This week's recommendation comes from Emi Lim Morison of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Montana.

Amy Erickson of Bluebird Bookshop in Detroit Lakes, Minn., recommended a novel that she called “very much an up-north book.”

Shelby Devitt of BookPeople in Austin, TX recommends a contemporary fantasy YA novel, “Blood Debts” by Terry J. Benton-Walker.

Josh Hames recommends local writer Jacqueline Holland, new novel, "The God of Endings." It's an unconventional vampire story, Hames says, that's a "genuinely felt human tale as much as it is inhuman."

Evelyn Bauer of Papercuts Bookshop recommends “The Poetics of Wrongness” by poet Rachel Zucker. She challenges outdated paradigms of motherhood, feminism and poetics.

The novel is a fairly direct retelling of “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens, set in the 1980s in Appalachia — familiar territory for rural Kentucky-born Kingsolver.

Michael Bennett's "Better the Blood” is a fast-paced thriller that delves into longstanding injustices against the Māori people in New Zealand.

"You Be Mommy" is a children’s book where moms can see their own journey reflected.