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The Thread® - Books and Literary 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.

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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. 

Ojibwe historian Brenda Child explores labor on the reservation

Ojibwe historian Brenda Child explores labor on the reservation

Child's new book tells the stories of the first generation to grow up on the Red Lake Reservation and their struggle to make a living while preserving their culture.

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What decapitation tells us about human nature

What decapitation tells us about human nature

Anthropologist Frances Larson delves into the history of decapitated human heads in her new book, 'Severed.'

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Perry Wallace on breaking barriers in college basketball

Perry Wallace on breaking barriers in college basketball

Wallace, who helped break the color-barrier in college basketball's Southeastern Conference, never set out to be a pioneer.

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How Washington's odd couple transformed welfare

How Washington's odd couple transformed welfare

The new book 'The Professor and the President' looks back at how Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan pushed the Nixon White House to embrace a relatively liberal plan.

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Talking Volumes: Richard Ford on 'Let Me Be Frank With You'

Talking Volumes: Richard Ford on 'Let Me Be Frank With You'

We air Kerri Miller's Dec. 1 conversation with author Richard Ford at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

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Elizabeth Samet on being caught between war and peace

Elizabeth Samet on being caught between war and peace

West Point English Professor Elizabeth Samet's new book explores what the end of the post 9/11-wars means for soldiers, and for the country.

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Book News: Doris Lessing's personal library returns home -- to Zimbabwe

Book News: Doris Lessing's personal library returns home -- to Zimbabwe

More than 3,000 books from British Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's collection have been donated to a library in Zimbabwe. Also: J.K. Rowling promises 12 days of Harry Potter.
by Colin Dwyer

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The 'Purple Rain' story

The 'Purple Rain' story

A low-budget movie with a cast that's never acted before, a first-time director, and a star who refuses to do publicity. That's the story of Prince's iconic 1984 film "Purple Rain."

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Barnes & Noble, Microsoft Part Ways Over The Nook

Barnes & Noble, Microsoft Part Ways Over The Nook

A two-year partnership in the bookseller's troubled e-reader has ended, as Barnes & Noble buys out Microsoft's share.
by Colin Dwyer

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