The book of lost names
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
Physical Desc
388 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Status
Arcadia Public Library - Book Club Selections
Paperback Harmel
15 available
Paperback Harmel
15 available
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Arcadia Public Library - Book Club Selections | Paperback Harmel | On Shelf |
Arcadia Public Library - Book Club Selections | Paperback Harmel | On Shelf |
Arcadia Public Library - Book Club Selections | Paperback Harmel | On Shelf |
Arcadia Public Library - Book Club Selections | Paperback Harmel | On Shelf |
Arcadia Public Library - Book Club Selections | Paperback Harmel | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes Book Club Favorites Reader's Guide (6 unnumbered pages).
General Note
"Includes an excerpt from Kristin Harmel's next novel, The Forest of Vanishing Stars." -- Back cover.
Description
Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Rémy disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war?
Local note
Adult Book Discussion Group selection for April, 2023.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Ciphers -- Fiction.
Cryptologic fiction.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France.
Jews -- France -- Fiction.
Photographs -- Fiction.
War fiction.
Women librarians -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction.
Cryptologic fiction.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France.
Jews -- France -- Fiction.
Photographs -- Fiction.
War fiction.
Women librarians -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Harmel, K. (2021). The book of lost names . Gallery Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harmel, Kristin. 2021. The Book of Lost Names. Gallery Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harmel, Kristin. The Book of Lost Names Gallery Books, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harmel, Kristin. The Book of Lost Names Gallery Books, 2021.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
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