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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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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

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. 

‘Always truth in their story’: How one author talks across political divides

‘Always truth in their story’: How one author talks across political divides

Author Mónica Guzmán says she’s the proud, liberal daughter of conservative parents. She wrote a book about how she navigates challenging political discussions — and how the rest of us can use the same techniques to preserve important relationships. 
by Catharine Richert

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’

Donna Garban of Little City Books in Hoboken, N.J., recommends a memoir that’s perfect for March Madness. It’s called “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib.
by Emily Bright

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What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it

What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it

Journalist Susan Casey descended to some of the deepest parts of the ocean in tiny submersibles while researching her new book, “The Underworld.” What she saw is astounding.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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‘Ban on book bans’ introduced in Minnesota Legislature

‘Ban on book bans’ introduced in Minnesota Legislature

New legislation would prohibit banning books in public and school libraries based on content or subjective objections.
by Peter Cox

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Christine Blasey Ford aims to own her story with ‘One Way Back’

Christine Blasey Ford aims to own her story with ‘One Way Back’

In an interview with NPR, Ford says it was only a couple of years ago that she felt ready to revisit how her life was upended by Brett Kavanaugh's rise to a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.
by Reena Advani

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Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Bullet Swallower’

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Bullet Swallower’

Kara Thom of Excelsior Bay Books in Excelsior recommends a multi-generational novel, “The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.
by Emily Bright

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In ‘The Manicurist's Daughter,’ a refugee family goes on after its matriarch’s death

In ‘The Manicurist's Daughter,’ a refugee family goes on after its matriarch’s death

Author Susan Lieu transforms her acclaimed 2019 one-woman show — “140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother” — into a memoir of her family after the death of her mother due to botched plastic surgery.
by Thúy Đinh

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How memory works

How memory works

Why is music so evocative? Why do some memories stick and others fade? How important is slow-wave sleep to the way memory works? One of the country’s leading neuroscientists joins MPR News host Kerri Miller on Big Books and Bold Ideas this week to talk about why memory isn’t so much who we were as who we are.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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