Ask a bookseller

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

'Loaded': A look at the complex history of the Second Amendment
The national conversation around gun control is dominating the news. Bookseller Alyson Jones Turner recommends a title that dives into America's unique historical relationship with firearms.
What does it really take to be a writer?
Bookseller Lacy Simons recommends a novel about a writer who decides the key to her success will be to never have children -- but her plan is challenged.
That time you fell in love with a mutant potato
Rot is a super confident and very friendly mutant potato who is bound and determined to win "The Cutest in the World" contest. Bookseller Moira Koskey said Rot's story is one of her favorite picture books of the year.
A brutal crime and the beginning of the FBI
Bookseller Karen Barros recommends David Grann's book on the murders of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma in the 1920s and 30s: "This book explores those murders, and the birth of the FBI in solving those murders."