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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread from MPR News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

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Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. Listen to Ask a Bookseller to find your next favorite book.

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‘When I Think of You’ could be a ripped-from-the-headlines Hollywood romance

‘When I Think of You’ could be a ripped-from-the-headlines Hollywood romance

Myah Ariel’s debut is like a fizzy, angsty mash-up of Bolu Babalola and Kennedy Ryan as the challenges of doing meaningful work in Hollywood threaten two young lovers’ romantic reunion.
by Carole V. Bell

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The feminists who built America

The feminists who built America

Many of their names are unknown, but early American feminists fought hard for the freedoms that are cornerstones to democracy. This week on Big Books and Bold Ideas, historian Elizabeth Cobbs and our new series, “Big Books, Bold Americans.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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In ‘Like Happiness,’ a woman struggles to define a past, destructive relationship

In ‘Like Happiness,’ a woman struggles to define a past, destructive relationship

Ursula Villarreal-Moura’s debut novel movingly portrays its protagonist coming to terms with an imbalanced, difficult, and sometimes harmful friendship that was also a key part of her life for years.
by Ilana Masad

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‘The Familiar’ is a romance, coming-of-age tale, and a story about fighting for more

‘The Familiar’ is a romance, coming-of-age tale, and a story about fighting for more

In her new novel, Leigh Bardugo drags readers into a world of servitude, magic, power struggles, and intrigue — one where there isn’t a single character that doesn’t have a secret agenda.
by Gabino Iglesias

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Civil rights leader Ethel Ray Nance to be honored in Duluth and in new biography

Civil rights leader Ethel Ray Nance to be honored in Duluth and in new biography

Nance was the first Black woman to work as a stenographer at the state legislature, an executive secretary for W.E.B DuBois and one of the first Black policewomen in Minnesota. Her granddaughter tells her story in a new book.
by Cathy Wurzer and Aleesa Kuznetsov

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Minnesota author’s book is being shot for star studded film adaptation ‘Nuremberg’

Minnesota author’s book is being shot for star studded film adaptation ‘Nuremberg’

Minnesota historian Jack El-Hai is seeing a book he published more than ten years ago turned into a Hollywood film and a stage play. His book “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” tells the story of a young army doctor whose job was to evaluate top-ranking Nazi officials — and decide whether they were fit to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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