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50 years of Memories – another riveting ghost story

by Lynn Following Oprah’s initiative, in 2003 we launched our first Community Read. It had been done before in Chicago, when the entire city—media, government, library and school system—got together to encourage everybody in Chicago to read the same book during the same summer. It worked wonderfully! People spoke about entering [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T19:05:04+02:00Tags: ABC Birthday, Anecdotes, Fiction, Lynn, The Lovely Bones|

ABC Ghost Stories

by Lília Our Halloween reading list It’s that time of year again: jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts and black cats hiding under flaming autumn leaves. Why not get in the mood? From ghost stories to thrillers, we’ve got your ghoulish literary cravings covered. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier A newlywed arrives [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T19:03:36+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Halloween, Lauren, Lília, Lynn|

ABC Staff Picks: September 2022

written by Lília Nothing beats curling up on the couch with a blanket, book and (hot) beverage in the autumn months. We’ve got some great new titles for you spanning the genres—starting with true story-based fiction, passing through pure romantic escapism and falling finally into the magical world of translation. (You’ll [...]

Sophie2026-08-09T15:13:19+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Bella, Bob, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Lília, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie, Staff Picks, Young Adult|

Hardship in Picture Books: Raising Awareness

by Tatia Gruenbaum Tatia Gruenbaum is a lecturer and researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and co-founder of PEPELT (Picturebooks in European Primary English Language Teaching). October 17 is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, established in 1992 by the UN General Assembly and officially [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T19:01:15+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, PEPELT|

Kids’ books I would have loved to read while growing up

by Lília When I was a kid, I could never find books that whet my appetite, even though I loved all kinds of stories. I wanted to read about adventure, mysteries, dragons and fairy tales. Unfortunately for me, there were not many of those stories around, especially translated [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T13:42:35+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Juvenile Fiction, Kids Books, Lília|

Conversations with customers: Peter and Lotte

Peter and Lotte Longtime customer Peter introduced his wife, Lotte, to ABC. But that was only the beginning of their love story. Read on to see how they gave new meaning to the phrase “book lovers” (with a little help from Covid, timing and ABC staff). [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T19:00:08+02:00Tags: ABC Birthday, Conversations with Customers, Interviews, Lília|

The truth about cats and dogs (and snakes, parrots and rabbits, too)

by MariaS October 4th is World Animal Day, an internationally-recognized celebration promoting animal rights and welfare held on the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. Being kind to your pets, giving them the best life possible and making sure they are never abandoned all fall under [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T18:59:15+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book recommendations, MariaS, World Animal Day|

Bring on the banned books!

by Lauren Book banning in the US is on the rise. According to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans, there were 2,532 book-banning incidents concerning 1,648 titles in the US from July 2021 to June 2022—almost half of them young adult books. The most banned books by far contain LGBTQ+ [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T18:57:29+02:00Tags: Banned Books, banned books week, Best of Lists, Jitse, Lauren, Lília, Lynn, Natalia, Pleun|

ABC: Kids and BookTok

If you lead teens to #BookTok, you won’t have to make them read. (Hint: they’ll do it on their own!) by Lauren As a lifelong reader, I always found it disheartening that my daughters didn’t take to the written word. They inherited other, less desirable behavioral traits, but [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T18:56:24+02:00Tags: BookTok, Interviews, Lauren|

Greek geeks: Natalia’s Top 5 Greek Mythology Retellings

by Natalia The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles, currently one of our bestsellers, is inspired by Greek mythology and one of my favorite contemporary versions of Homer’s The Iliad. Even though the events of the Trojan war are part of our collective memory, [...]

Sophie2026-08-08T18:55:24+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Greek Mythology, Natalia|

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