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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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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.

New climate books stress we are already far down the road to a different Earth

New climate books stress we are already far down the road to a different Earth

David Wallace-Wells' "The Uninhabitable Earth" and Nathaniel Rich's "Losing Earth" offer valuable perspectives on climate change -- if we're committed to being adult enough to face the future.
by Adam Frank

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'Sing to It' is worth the wait

'Sing to It' is worth the wait

Amy Hempel's first book of new material in 14 years showcases her immense talents as a fiction writer. It's a powerful collection of stories about uneasy, unmoored, even desperate people.
by Michael Schaub

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'Miranda in Milan:' No woman is an island

'Miranda in Milan:' No woman is an island

Katharine Duckett's new novel picks up where Shakespeare's Tempest left off, following sorceror's daughter Miranda to her new life as a court lady -- a life which proves darker than she'd hoped.
by Elizabeth Graham

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9 first-person perspectives give voice to 'The Other Americans'

9 first-person perspectives give voice to 'The Other Americans'

The narrators in Laila Lalami's new novel have one thing in common: They've all "had the experience of dislocation," Lalami says. Together, they form a mosaic of race and class in America.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

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Coming up: A return to America's Eden

He was personal physician to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, a brilliant professor and the creator of America's first botanical garden. But the fascinating story of David Hosack has largely been lost to history -- until now.
by Stephanie Curtis and Kelly Gordon

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Real life creates a recipe for baker's poetry

Real life creates a recipe for baker's poetry

Master baker Danny Klecko's St. Agnes Bakery was the official bread supplier for the Super Bowl and they had a huge number of orders. Then ICE informed him that 23 of his staff, many of whom he had worked with for two decades, had failed an immigration audit, and would have to leave.
by Euan Kerr

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