IP Finds 🔎: If You Like 'Inventing Anna', 'You' and 'King Richard'...
...you'll love this week's picks, which also feature a book whose option with Netflix JUST EXPIRED (jump in now!) and a very hot sports story
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Last week’s column can be found here and contains some great non-fiction about journalists blowing the lid off coverups, a deliciously creepy horror tale for fans of It, and a whole lotta cops (good and bad).
Now on to this week's picks. To start, we’ve got two amazing and inspirational sports stories.