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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.

'Tram Car 015' is a delightful ride

'Tram Car 015' is a delightful ride

P. Djeli Clark's novella about about two supernatural investigators on the trail of a malign spirit in a magical alternate Cairo packs wonderful characters into a thoughtfully-built world.
by Amal El-Mohtar

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A chance meeting changes lie in Sophie Kinsella's latest

A chance meeting changes lie in Sophie Kinsella's latest

The author of the bestselling Shopaholic series is back, with a new novel about a woman who's addicted not to shopping but to fixing the lives of the people around her -- at the expense of her own.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

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In 'The City in the Middle of the Night,' big ideas lead to big upheavals

In 'The City in the Middle of the Night,' big ideas lead to big upheavals

Charlie Jane Anders' new novel, set on an inhospitable alien planet, is about rebels, smugglers and lobster-like monsters, but also about how grand political ideas break down -- and who that hurts.
by Jason Sheehan

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Aspirations come up against economic hardship in 'Sounds Like Titanic'

Aspirations come up against economic hardship in 'Sounds Like Titanic'

In Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman's debut, she doesn't shrink from the systemic issues of an unfair economic system, but her personal story, with its unexpected twists, makes this memoir memorable.
by Martha Anne Toll

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