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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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

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.

Ask a Bookseller: A climate-change driven YA sci-fi

Ask a Bookseller: A climate-change driven YA sci-fi

Lauren Abesames of Wind City Books in Casper, Wyo., loves young adult fiction, and first on her list of recent books to recommend was “The Ones We’re Meant to Find” by Joan He.
by Emily Bright

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'Murmuration' — a book that travels from Somalia to Minnesota

'Murmuration' — a book that travels from Somalia to Minnesota

“Murmuration” is a new novel by Sid Balman, Jr. It’s a thriller that travels the globe from West Texas to Somalia and Minnesota. He had help from local businessman and politician Samakab Hussein. Angela Davis talks to the pair about their collaboration.
by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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Jason Reynolds: How can we connect with kids through the written word?

Jason Reynolds: How can we connect with kids through the written word?

Jason Reynolds is an award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. This hour, Jason speaks with Manoush about reaching kids through stories that let them feel understood.
by Manoush Zomorodi, Fiona Geiran, Rachel Faulkner and Sanaz Meshkinpour

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Here are the longlist nominees for this year's National Book Awards

Here are the longlist nominees for this year's National Book Awards

The longlist nominees for this year's National Book Awards are being announced over the course of the next few days — we'll have them all right here in a continuously updated post.
by Petra Mayer

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This thoughtful, profound thriller centers on identity and its many layers

This thoughtful, profound thriller centers on identity and its many layers

Amanda Jayatissa's “My Sweet Girl” is a twisty psychological thriller — but also a nuanced examination of identity as its Sri Lankan American heroine struggles with a murder that may not have happened.
by Swapna Krishna

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Walking through 'The Country of Others'

Walking through 'The Country of Others'

In her new novel, “In the Country of Others,” Leila Slimani explores what it means to be an outsider. Her characters fight to establish their own identities while their country, Morocco, does the same.
by Leah Donnella

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Talking Volumes: Lauren Groff on 'Matrix'

Host Kerri Miller kicked off the fall season of Talking Volumes with a conversation with novelist Lauren Groff, whose latest book is “Matrix.”
by Kerri Miller

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Colson Whitehead's latest gives readers a half-crook you'll wholly love

Colson Whitehead's latest gives readers a half-crook you'll wholly love

The versatile novelist moves away from the heavier themes that won him a brace of Pulitzer Prizes in Harlem Shuffle, a heist caper starring a mostly-upright furniture salesman with a criminal streak.
by Denny S. Bryce

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Monkey thieves, drunk elephants — Mary Roach reveals a weird world of animal 'crime'

Monkey thieves, drunk elephants — Mary Roach reveals a weird world of animal 'crime'

Roach researched animal misbehaviors for her new book, “Fuzz.” Though animals are all but charged with crimes when they run afoul of human values, she learns, they often have the last laugh.
by Dave Davies

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