Be a part of a live, interactive conversation with author Kristin Harmel to discuss her latest book, inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, capturing the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.

International bestselling author Kristin Harmel showcased her gift for sharing stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things in her bestselling novels The Room on Rue Amelie and The Winemaker’s Wife. Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, Harmel takes readers back to France for an unforgettable story of a woman who risks her life to help hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in The Book of Lost Names (to be released on July 21, 2020)

Eva Traube Abrams, a librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. 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. Highlighted is a religious text now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library. It appears to contain some sort of code, though researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. But Eva does...

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