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The book of lost names, Kristin Harmel

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Author
Summary
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 Râemy, 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 Râemy 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?
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Extent
388 pages, 6 unnumbered pages
Note
  • Includes Book Club Favorites Reader's Guide (6 unnumbered pages)
  • "Includes an excerpt from Kristin Harmel's next novel, The Forest of Vanishing Stars." -- Back cover
Isbn
9781982131906
Instance
Label
The book of lost names
Title
The book of lost names
Statement of responsibility
Kristin Harmel
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 Râemy, 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 Râemy 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?
Cataloging source
AU@
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Harmel, Kristin
Dewey number
813.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3608.A745
LC item number
B66 2021
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Librarians
  • Women librarians
  • Code and cipher stories
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Jews
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • France
  • Librarians
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust
  • Code and cipher stories
  • Jews
  • Underground movements, War
  • Women librarians
  • France
Label
The book of lost names, Kristin Harmel
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Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Includes Book Club Favorites Reader's Guide (6 unnumbered pages)
  • "Includes an excerpt from Kristin Harmel's next novel, The Forest of Vanishing Stars." -- Back cover
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Extent
388 pages, 6 unnumbered pages
Isbn
9781982131906
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)1200171504
Label
The book of lost names, Kristin Harmel
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Includes Book Club Favorites Reader's Guide (6 unnumbered pages)
  • "Includes an excerpt from Kristin Harmel's next novel, The Forest of Vanishing Stars." -- Back cover
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Extent
388 pages, 6 unnumbered pages
Isbn
9781982131906
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)1200171504

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