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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Sam Stroozas rounds up local events and Minnesota book news you may have missed.

Ask a Bookseller

Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where host Emily Bright 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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Big Books and Bold Ideas is a weekly series hosted by Kerri Miller and produced by Kelly Gordon every Friday at 11 a.m., featuring conversations about books and other literary ideas. Listen to Big Books and Bold Ideas here.

Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes is an annual event series featuring notable authors in conversation about their new books. Presented by MPR News and The Minnesota Star Tribune.

How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal

How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal

Grieving is a form of learning, says a scientist who studies the brain's response to loss. When someone you love dies, you have to learn new rules for navigating the world and your brain has to adapt.
by Berly McCoy

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In 'Sea State,' life gets rocky when a journalist gets involved with her subject

In 'Sea State,' life gets rocky when a journalist gets involved with her subject

Tabitha Lasley spent six months in Aberdeen, Scotland, interviewing men who work on offshore oil rigs. Along the way, she had an all-consuming affair with one of the very first men she interviewed.
by Maureen Corrigan

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'Mothers, Fathers, and Others' addresses the realities of motherhood

'Mothers, Fathers, and Others' addresses the realities of motherhood

Siri Hustvedt's essays bring into focus the profound contradictions of motherhood — often eclipsed by the cultural idealization of mothers as the model of self-sacrificing nurturance.
by Sharmila Mukherjee

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In 'The Sour Cherry Tree,' a child keeps memories of her late grandfather close

In 'The Sour Cherry Tree,' a child keeps memories of her late grandfather close

The day after her beloved Baba Bazorg dies, a little girl remembers some of her favorite things about him: his striped slippers, the mints in his pockets and the fig cookies he always shared.
by Samantha Balaban

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Ask a Bookseller: What does it mean to leave a mark on the world? 

The novel is called “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,” but Freya Shrestha of Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska, can’t forget it. 
by Emily Bright

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2022 must-reads from Kerri Miller: 3 memoirs you should not miss

2022 must-reads from Kerri Miller: 3 memoirs you should not miss

Throughout December, Kerri Miller brings you three books she doesn’t want you to look over in a year of so many great reads. First up: Three memoirs that deserve a place on your to-be-read pile.
by Kerri Miller

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