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Lily Brooks-Dalton, author of "The Light Pirate"

Indie Next List #1 Pick for December

“Indie bookstores are the gateway to the story drug for a lot of people, myself included. I remember going to the local bookstore when I was growing up, which was probably thirty minutes away, and feeling like I was visiting some mythical landscape.” --Lily Brooks-Dalton, author of The Light Pirate

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