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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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Feminist health guide 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' will stop publishing

Feminist health guide 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' will stop publishing

The groundbreaking book was first released in the early 1970s. It gave women frank information about then-taboo topics like masturbation, birth control and female sexual anatomy.
by Neda Ulaby and Evie Stone

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Birds open bottles and catfish hunt pigeons when 'Darwin Comes to Town'

Birds open bottles and catfish hunt pigeons when 'Darwin Comes to Town'

volutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen's new book is a breezy (sometimes too breezy) account of the ways animals have adapted to city life, and the staggering impact humans have had on evolution.
by Genevieve Valentine

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'The Recovering' chronicles addiction

'The Recovering' chronicles addiction

Author Leslie Jamison's new memoir of her years of alcoholism walks in the paths of drunken icons like Raymond Carver and John Cheever, describing the effects of intoxicants with gorgeous, exact care.
by Annalisa Quinn

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