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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.

Ask a Bookseller

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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Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes is back for its 25th season. Join us at the Fitzgerald Theater for four special events with renowned authors, celebrating our anniversary with a special $25 ticket price for MPR members and Star Tribune subscribers. Buy tickets here.

'I've never told anyone': Stories of life in Indian boarding schools

'I've never told anyone': Stories of life in Indian boarding schools

A new book by Ojibwe author Denise Lajimodiere, “Stringing Rosaries,” tells the first-person stories of life for Native American children who were sent to boarding schools designed to purge their language and culture.
by Dan Gunderson

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An author confronts her rapist in 'Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl'

An author confronts her rapist in 'Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl'

Jeannie Vanasco was raped by a long-time friend. In her new memoir, she recounts approaching the man years later to ask if he will talk with her about it --- and the conversations that result.
by Ilana Masad

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Renia Spiegel's diary survived the Holocaust. People are finally reading it

Renia Spiegel's diary survived the Holocaust. People are finally reading it

Renia's Diary spent decades in a safe deposit box before being published this week in the U.S. It was written by a Jewish teenager in Poland before she was murdered by the Nazis.
by Lynn Neary

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In Meg Cabot's latest, saving animals, finding love, and making 'No Judgments'

In Meg Cabot's latest, saving animals, finding love, and making 'No Judgments'

The heroine of Cabot's new novel, inspired by a real story, tries not to judge the neglectful people who've abandoned their pets after a hurricane batters her Florida home town. Hint: It's difficult.
by Kamrun Nesa

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Tracy Chevalier says 'A Single Thread' can make all the difference

Tracy Chevalier says 'A Single Thread' can make all the difference

Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for themselves — sometimes outside the bounds of convention.
by Petra Mayer

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In 'Imaginary Friend,' Stephen Chbosky squeezes horror from everyday life

In 'Imaginary Friend,' Stephen Chbosky squeezes horror from everyday life

Stephen Chbosky — who wrote the YA classic The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- says his new book takes the familiar scares of childhood, like monsters in the closet, and twists them a little.
by Scott Simon

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A dangerous search for a dozen eggs

A dangerous search for a dozen eggs

Bookseller Holly Brooks recommends a novel that follows two men desperately searching for cake ingredients in the middle of the siege of Leningrad.
by Tracy Mumford

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