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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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Reporters dig into Justice Kavanaugh's past, allegations of misconduct against him

Reporters dig into Justice Kavanaugh's past, allegations of misconduct against him

A new book by The New York Times' Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly extends the investigation into the SCOTUS justice's history, chases down sexual misconduct allegations and considers his years since.
by Terry Gross

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In 'Wildhood,' scientists see similarities in adolescent humans and other animals

In 'Wildhood,' scientists see similarities in adolescent humans and other animals

Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own — and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.
by Barbara J. King

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Fall books for your must-read list

Fall books for your must-read list

Fall brings big books. MPR’s Kerri Miller, Stephanie Curtis and Tracy Mumford share the titles on their must-read lists this season.
by MPR News Staff

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3 crackling young adult reads to welcome fall

3 crackling young adult reads to welcome fall

Time to put down the beach reads and pick up some substantive, immersive new young adult books — from a monstrous fantasy, to a refugee's tale, to a story that brings new meaning to haunted houses.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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'The Divers' Game' depicts an unimaginably unjust, all too believably cruel

'The Divers' Game' depicts an unimaginably unjust, all too believably cruel

In author Jesse Ball's universe, which runs too closely parallel to our own, human worth has been reduced, negated, argued out of existence. But it has left an echo, one with a haunting symphony.
by Jason Heller

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You'll want to open every one of 'The Ten Thousand Doors of January'

You'll want to open every one of 'The Ten Thousand Doors of January'

Alix E. Harrow's debut novel, about a young woman growing up in a mysterious mansion at the turn of the last century, will lead you on a journey through books within books and worlds within worlds.
by Jessica P. Wick

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Why fashion expert Tan France nearly turned down 'Queer Eye'

Why fashion expert Tan France nearly turned down 'Queer Eye'

"The thought of being one of the very first openly gay South Asian men on a major show. ... That pressure was so hard to handle," France says of his role on the Netflix makeover series.
by Terry Gross

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