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The Thread

The Thread from MPR News

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Ask a Bookseller: Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. Listen here.

The Thread newsletter: Get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Find reviews for new releases as well as hidden gems you may have missed. Sent every Friday.

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'Spin the Dawn' stitches up a fabulous fantasy

'Spin the Dawn' stitches up a fabulous fantasy

Elizabeth Lim's new young adult novel follows a girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets off for the emperor's court in place of her ailing father, who's been summoned as an imperial tailor.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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'The Chain' asks: How far would you go for your child?

'The Chain' asks: How far would you go for your child?

In Adrian McKinty's propulsive new thriller, an organization called The Chain kidnaps children, and forces the parents to kidnap another child in turn in order to rescue their own
by Paddy Hirsch

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'Late Migrations' essays create a jeweled patchwork of nature and culture

'Late Migrations' essays create a jeweled patchwork of nature and culture

New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl astonishes with her essays, a woven tapestry that makes one of all the world's beings that strive to live — and, in one way or another, face mortality.
by Barbara J. King

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'Delayed Rays of a Star' sheds light on 3 film legends

'Delayed Rays of a Star' sheds light on 3 film legends

Amanda Lee Koe's new novel was inspired by a famous photograph — Anna May Wong, Marlene Dietrich and the notorious actress and director Leni Riefenstahl, posing together at a Berlin party in 1928.
by Ilana Masad

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3 sisters come of age, dreamily, in 'Three Summers'

3 sisters come of age, dreamily, in 'Three Summers'

Margarita Liberaki's novel, first published in 1946, follows three young women growing up in the Athens countryside alongside a colorful cast of family members, secret-keeping servants and local boys.
by Martha Anne Toll

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'The Cuban Comedy' walks the line between politics and poetry

'The Cuban Comedy' walks the line between politics and poetry

Pablo Medina's novel walks a fine line between poetry and political satire. It follows a woman in rural 1960s Cuba who longs to be a poet, and the troubles she faces when she succeeds.
by Gabino Iglesias

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Enter the quarantine around 'Wilder Girls' at your own risk

Enter the quarantine around 'Wilder Girls' at your own risk

Rory Power's debut novel combines creeping, corrupting body horror with the intense bonds between teenage girls at an isolated school for a post-apocalypse story that's fresh, horrible and beautiful.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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A return to America's Eden

A return to America's Eden

He was the personal doctor of both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and the surgeon behind America's first botanical garden, which he planted for medicinal purposes. But most people have never heard of David Hosack.
by Stephanie Curtis and Kelly Gordon

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'Saturday Night Ghost Club' celebrates the wonders and horrors of being a kid

'Saturday Night Ghost Club' celebrates the wonders and horrors of being a kid

Craig Davidson's new novel follows a group of kids through a strange summer of hunting urban legends -- it's a coming-of-age story that's also about loss, particularly what we lose when we grow up.
by Jason Heller

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