Come discuss "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel, on April 11 at our monthly book club!
The book club will be held here at the Coy Public Library, Thursday, April 11th from 5:00pm-6:30pm.
This month's book is "The Book of Lost Names", written by Kristin Harmel. You can request this item through our digital catalog, or by calling the library at 717-532-4508.
"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." - Publisher
The Friends of the New Cumberland Public Library will hold their annual plant sale on Saturday, April 26 from 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM on the lawn area of Foundation House located across the shared parking lot from the Library. The plant sale will feature annuals, vegetables, herbs, perennials, and hanging baskets at bargain basement prices! All proceeds benefit the New Cumberland Public Library. At 10:00 am, Keys to Bees will give a free presentation about Gardening with Honey Bees. Join Master Beekeeper and Honeybee Educator Tiffany Ayres as she discusses how to attract Honeybees to your yard and garden (Sponsored by Members 1st Federal Credit Union).
2nd Floor Meeting Room
What's better than books and food? NOTHING! Join us for an exciting book group that combines both!
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