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Your reading this summer may involve brushing the sand off page five — or firing up your Kindle. However you do it, we have some reading suggestions for you, straight from independent booksellers around the country.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with voters in Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, a former manufacturing hub, home to one of the country's most competitive House races.

NPR tours the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally.

Families with trans children in states where gender-affirming care has been banned are deciding whether to uproot to states where care is protected. In those states, some doctors feel overwhelmed.

A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership known as ERIC. Eight Republican-led states have pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win.

President-elect Trump's first stint in the White House included policies and positions that broke with tradition, like threatening to pull out of NATO. What can we expect in his second term?

Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.

Historically, lenders have refused to lend money on Native trust lands for housing, making the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit’s ownership option a rare path to housing equity and intergenerational security for Native nations.

Plus, the federal government is eliminating limits on certain toxic chemicals, but WA officials say that shouldn't stop contamination reduction on the West Plains. Nearly a quarter of Washington business owners surveyed are considering leaving the state. Despite some far-right wins, moderates gained seats overall in Idaho's legislative primaries. A new Idaho law forces cities to eliminate any restriction on short-term rentals, but Sandpoint officials are dragging their feet on complying. Sandpoint City Council defers kratom sale ban after public opposition. And the Spokane Zephyr folds after two seasons.