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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread from MPR 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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'Ninth House' keeps watch over bloody mysteries

'Ninth House' keeps watch over bloody mysteries

Leigh Bardugo's new stand-alone thriller is set at a dark, twisty alternate version of Yale, where the famed secret societies practice world-manipulating magic — with sometimes deadly results.
by Jason Sheehan

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There are wolves beyond these 'Thirteen Doorways' — but also a whole world

There are wolves beyond these 'Thirteen Doorways' — but also a whole world

Laura Ruby's new young adult novel, set just during the Depression, follows a young girl and her sister who are trying to survive a stark orphanage — and attracting the attention of its local ghost.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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Mankato author draws on childhood experience to write YA novel on cults

Mankato author draws on childhood experience to write YA novel on cults

Megan Cooley Peterson says an experience with her family when she was a teenager spurred her interest in cults, and led to her writing her first young adult novel "The Liar's Daughter."
by Euan Kerr

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In 'The Man Who Played with Fire,' Stieg Larsson is brought to life again

In 'The Man Who Played with Fire,' Stieg Larsson is brought to life again

The author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had long been investigating the death of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Journalist Jan Stocklassa convincingly and humbly picks up where he left off.
by Ilana Masad

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In memoir, imprisoned Turkish writer says his longing is 'so naked, so primal'

In memoir, imprisoned Turkish writer says his longing is 'so naked, so primal'

Confined in a tiny cell, Ahmet Altan recoils into his own thoughts; his talent as a writer allows him to communicate his experience in rich, haunting detail in I Will Never See the World Again.
by Gabino Iglesias

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Kerri Miller’s two novels for ‘Downton Abbey’ addicts

Kerri Miller’s two novels for ‘Downton Abbey’ addicts

MPR News host Kerri Miller is still savoring the pleasure of the new “Downton Abbey” movie. This week on The Thread, she brings us two novels with a great “Upstairs, Downstairs” vibe.
by Kerri Miller

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'I've never told anyone': Stories of life in Indian boarding schools

'I've never told anyone': Stories of life in Indian boarding schools

A new book by Ojibwe author Denise Lajimodiere, “Stringing Rosaries,” tells the first-person stories of life for Native American children who were sent to boarding schools designed to purge their language and culture.
by Dan Gunderson

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