365 Books: The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth

Human memory is an amazing thing. The great influenza that occurred during WWI is common knowledge now. But one of the things that historians and disease-hunters found surprising when looking back in retrospect, was how thoroughly people had blotted the memory out of their minds. This was no flash in the pan, like the Legionnaires …

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365 Books: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

What stories do you tell yourself? This book is, more than anything else, a book about stories. There are the stories that the other 10-year-olds make up about Pia after her grandmother dies in an Advent wreath accident one nightmarish Christmas season, stories meant to hurt and drive away someone that makes them feel uncomfortable …

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