title: My Sister: A Treasury of Companionship (Miniature Editions Pop-up Books)
author:  Running Press 
description: Our Miniature Editions "TM" collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when our first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library!
zlib_text: **STRANGE SISTERS**
  
   **By**
  
   **Fletcher Flora**
  
    
  
  Strange Sisters  
  By Fletcher Flora  
    
  First published in 1954.  
    
  ISBN: 978-1-936456-10-9  
    
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
   **INTRODUCTION**
  
  A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in America—a paperback
  revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute
  books and how people would purchase and read them.
  
  In 1939 a new publishing company—Pocket Books—stormed onto the scene with the
  publication of its first paperbound book. These books were cheaply produced
  and sold in numbers never before seen, in large part due to a bold and
  innovative distribution model that soon after made Pocket Books available in
  drugstores, newsstands, bus and train stations, and cigar shops. The American
  pu