Play2min 00secA hard-boiled crime novel with a heavy dose of historyJanuary 14, 2017 4:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordBookstore owner Frank Reiss recommends "Darktown," a crime novel set in the weeks after the Atlanta Police Department hired its first black officers.
Play1min 57secYes, he's cranky. Yes, he's a little bitter. But 'Ove' is a hitJanuary 7, 2017 4:00 AMBy Tracy Mumford"When I sell this book, I like to tell people: Keep an open mind, and don't judge him," says Peggy Stout, co-owner of Prairie Pages in Pierre, S.D.
Play1min 45secWeekend reading: A teenage girl stumbles into an arson clubDecember 31, 2016 6:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller Jason Foose, of Tempe, Ariz., recommends a novel that's part thriller, part coming-of-age story.
Play1min 56secAsk a bookseller: Print in Portland, MaineDecember 10, 2016 12:04 AMBy Tracy MumfordJosh Christie's recommendation of the moment is for "the first book that's a deep dive into the activists of the Black Lives Matter movement and the police on the other side of these conflicts."
Play1min 58secAsk a bookseller: The Writer's Block in Las VegasDecember 3, 2016 6:00 AMBy Tracy Mumford and Manda LillieJames Collins is excited about a new novel that offers a glimpse into modern Beijing.
Play1min 53secAsk a bookseller: The Learned Owl in Hudson, OhioNovember 26, 2016 6:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordBookstore owner Kate Schlademan recommends this young adult novel for the holiday season: "It's one of those books that just really pulls at your heartstrings."
Play2min 00secAsk a bookseller: Atomic Books in BaltimoreNovember 19, 2016 6:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordBenn Ray, one of the owners of Atomic Books, recommends a book about the Satanism paranoia that swept the country in the 1980s.
Play2min 05secAsk a bookseller: Rediscovered Books in BoiseNovember 12, 2016 6:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordBruce 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.
Play2min 09secAsk a bookseller: Square Books in Oxford, Miss.November 5, 2016 4:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller 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.
Play1min 57secAsk a bookseller: Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich.October 29, 2016 4:00 AMBy Tracy MumfordThe 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."