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In February, 55 bookstores with names like Oblong, Whale of a Tale, Innisfree, Odyssey, Yellow Brick Road and Wild Rumpus each received grants of between $2,000 and $15,000 from bestselling author James Patterson. This was the first round of a million dollars in grants to independent bookstores from Patterson, earmarked for a wide variety of projects ranging from the replacement of worn store carpeting to the provision of staff bonuses to the sharing of recorded events with authors online to the purchase of a bookmobile.
