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yeah, I can see why. Horrific!
Lance wrote: "Jennifer, here are the ones I am picking for you:The World Played Chess
The Nineties
..."Interesting selection!!! I'll keep you posted.
Winner of the Moderator Recommends Poll for June 2022 The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open 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 discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
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 Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.
An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.
The Book of Lost Names. Kristin Harmel
〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "I am in for two please.https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."
Beth, I'm picking
and
for you. I hope you enjoy!
Jami wrote: "I'll have to try this one; I wasn't crazy about their first 2 books, but this is getting good reviews."I thought The Wife Between Us was all right but the premise of An Anonymous Girl turned me off so much I didn't bother with it.
Lindsey wrote: "Here are my picks: 
"I have "Lincoln" and "Last House" on my TBR -- curious to see what you think!
Lance wrote: "
- if this can pass for silver"It absolutely can. Sorry for delay: I was out of state for a few days.
Laurel wrote: "I'll be reading 
The Summer Queen"I liked this book a lot. I hope you do too! I have one left in this series, I think.
Rhonda wrote: "I am going with 
[bookcover:Unstoppable! God's Grand Purpose Through the Life of John and Betty Ba...""Last Garden" is on my TBR -- interested to see what you think!
Bonnie wrote: "Let me try 
, 
, and 
as I'm travelling some in June (beach trip) and have 2 of these..."I've read "Fire and Ice" and "Lending a Paw" and both were good.
Bonnie wrote: "Just got the first Vampire Knitting Club cozy and looking forward to it- it's not green though :)I'm lodging a complaint with the publisher! LOL
Eileen wrote: "I want to read 
""Nearly Normal" was a good read. I hope you enjoy it!
Jackie wrote: "
"Jackie, I loved "Evelyn Hugo." Waiting to see what you think!
Diana, I pick Jennifer Ryan for you. I loved "Chilbury."
My June titles:
My June authorsFannie Flagg
Carolyn Brown
Trisha Ashley
WHEN YOU POST YOUR AUTHORS PLEASE ALSO POST TWO BOOKS BY THAT AUTHOR THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING READINGMost people are probably familiar with "series interactive" challenges, where someone posts multiple outstanding books from several series they are reading, and another participant picks which series they will read from in the following month, with the purpose of edging us all closer to being caught up in our favorite series.
This is the same idea, except we're doing it for authors who write multiple books that are stand-alones and **NOT** part of a series. Examples would be Marie Benedict, Jodi Picoult, Ron Chernow, etc. I find I get so focused on series books (in part because of challenges) that I forget to read these others and they pile up! I can't be the only person in this situation. :-)
How this works: on or about the 19th of the month (we're starting late but typically the 19th will be used), participants will be invited to post a list of three authors that they have at least two unread books by. On or about the 25th of the month, pairs will be posted. Everyone will pick the next month's "featured author" for the person they're assigned. I will pick for anyone who does not have a pick by the 30th if I cannot reach the member who is assigned the pick via PM.
The following month, participants should read at least one book by their chosen author. (If you don't get to it and have to backfill or skip it, that's fine -- the point is to whittle down that TBR and have fun!)
Books can be any length, and can be fiction or non-fiction -- they just CANNOT be part of a series, and you need at least two books by an author for that author to qualify for this challenge.
Come join us for June!
June Pairs:
Jennifer picks for Diana S
Joy D picks for Vikki
Denise picks for Joanne
Diana S picks for Jennifer
Vikki picks for Joy D.
Joanne picks for Denise
