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    "annotation": "<P>\nImagine you could hide a secret. Emmett is summoned to begin an apprenticeship working for a Bookbinder, learning to craft beautiful volumes, within each capturing a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. Then Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it.<br></P>",
    "description": "<p>Imagine you could erase your grief.<br /> Imagine you could forget your pain.<br /> Imagine you could hide a secret.<br /> Forever.<br /><br /> Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.<br /><br /> He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.<br /><br /> In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded.<br /><br /> Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it.<br /><br /><em>The Binding</em> is an unforgettable, magical novel: a boundary-defying love story and a unique literary event.</p>",
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