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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365 Books: Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

After Harry Potter artificially inflated sales for several years running, bookstores needed a way to demonstrate continued YOY growth against such unrealistic numbers. Some of them embraced certain books and tried to drum up enough enthusiasm internally that booksellers would generate WOM buzz and the books would catch on fire. So when a colleague came …

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