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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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

Big Books and Bold Ideas is a weekly series hosted by Kerri Miller every Friday at 11 a.m., featuring conversations about books and other literary ideas. Listen to Big Books and Bold Ideas here.

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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Find reviews for new releases, as well as hidden gems you may have missed.

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.

A Type-A teen and a spontaneous royal outrun chaos in 'The Prince & The Apocalypse'

A Type-A teen and a spontaneous royal outrun chaos in 'The Prince & The Apocalypse'

Nothing goes right for American Wren Wheeler during a trip to London. And that's before the overthinking 18-year-old meets a prince — and they both learn a comet is hurtling toward Earth.
by Alethea Kontis

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'Fragile Cargo' chronicles the quest to save China's Forbidden City treasures from war

'Fragile Cargo' chronicles the quest to save China's Forbidden City treasures from war

A book recounts how precious works of art thousands of years old were taken to safety as Japan began its invasion of China in the 1930s — a part of China's history largely unknown outside Asia.
by Vincent Ni

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A lost world comes alive in 'Through the Groves,' a memoir of pre-Disney Florida

A lost world comes alive in 'Through the Groves,' a memoir of pre-Disney Florida

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her memoir evokes a land of perfect citrus, and the cruel costs of its harvest.
by Maureen Corrigan

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20 novels in 20 years: The recipe behind author David Housewright's private-eye series

20 novels in 20 years: The recipe behind author David Housewright's private-eye series

David Housewright of St. Paul has received national recognition for his tales of murder and mayhem set in Minnesota. MPR News regional editor Euan Kerr talked with Housewright about his secret for keeping the same character interesting, book after book.
by Cathy Wurzer, Euan Kerr and Emily Bright

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An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

There are overdue library books. Then there's “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity,” which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.
by The Associated Press

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Rachel Louise Snyder's memoir is as beautifully complex as her life.

Rachel Louise Snyder's memoir is as beautifully complex as her life.

The award-winning author of “No Visible Bruises,” Rachel Louise Snyder returns to share her own story of childhood violence within within a fundamentalist evangelical sect.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Two new feel-good novels about bookstores celebrate the power of reading

Two new feel-good novels about bookstores celebrate the power of reading

Most novels set in bookshops are heartwarming paeans to bonds forged among readers. The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa are no exception.
by Heller McAlpin

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