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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. 

Talking Volumes: Abraham Verghese on 'Covenant of Water'

A sold-out crowd welcomed Dr. Abraham Verghese to the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater for the kick-off of the 2023 Talking Volumes series.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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'Just Breathe' honors stories of health care workers in one hospital's COVID-19 unit

'Just Breathe' honors stories of health care workers in one hospital's COVID-19 unit

Nurse Lisa Kilgard and her colleagues wrote a book to help people remember what the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was like for health care providers on the front lines.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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'Wellness' is a perfect novel for our age, its profound sadness tempered with humor

'Wellness' is a perfect novel for our age, its profound sadness tempered with humor

Nathan Hill's stunning new novel about the stories we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time, is both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.
by Michael Schaub

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'The Care and Keeping of You,' American Girl's guide to puberty, turns 25

'The Care and Keeping of You,' American Girl's guide to puberty, turns 25

“The Care and Keeping of You” from American Girl eased the adolescent anxieties of the millennial and Gen Z girls who read it. Now the book is marking its 25th anniversary.
by Tilda Wilson

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Bathe the Cat'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Bathe the Cat'

This week's book is a “phenomenal read-aloud,” according to Jessica Palacios of Once Upon a Time Bookstore in Montrose, Calif.
by Emily Bright

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Healing from trauma in the northern Wisconsin woods

Healing from trauma in the northern Wisconsin woods

Novelist Carol Dunbar set “A Winter’s Rime” in rural Wisconsin so her main character can both howl and heal the generational trauma that has shaped her life.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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