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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 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.

Women take fall in Nobel scandal for man's alleged misdeeds

Women take fall in Nobel scandal for man's alleged misdeeds

The ugly internal feud has already reached the top levels of public life in the Scandinavian nation known for its promotion of gender equality, with the prime minister, the king and the Nobel board weighing in.
by Associated Press

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'And Now We Have Everything' charts the emotional extremes of an ordinary pregnancy

'And Now We Have Everything' charts the emotional extremes of an ordinary pregnancy

Memoirs now tend towards the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Megan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.
by Annalisa Quinn

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Drunken chaos, pointless destruction, great music: The Replacements roadie talks

Drunken chaos, pointless destruction, great music: The Replacements roadie talks

Bill Sullivan had a front row seat to all the action and occasional self-destruction. His new book "Lemon Jail: On the Road with The Replacements" offers a fresh view on one of rock's most notorious bands.
by Jim Bickal

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