EAN: 9780063259287

THE LOST BOOK OF BONN - BRIANNA LABUSKES KARTON...

Germany  1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of
Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog
precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work
may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners  but for Emmy  who sees the
personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of pages  it feels
just as important. On Emmy's first day at work  she finds a poetry collection by Rainer Maria
Rilke  and on the title page is a handwritten dedication: To Annelise  my brave Edelweiss
Pirate. Emmy is instantly intrigued by the story behind the dedication and becomes determined
to figure out what happened. The hunt for the rightful owner of the book leads Emmy to two
sisters  a horrific betrayal  and an extraordinary protest against the Nazis that was held in
Berlin at the height of the war. Nearly a decade earlier  hundreds of brave women gathered in
the streets after their Jewish husbands were detained by the Gestapo. Through freezing rain and
RAF bombings  the women faced down certain death and did what so few others dared to do under
the Third Reich. They said no. Emmy grapples with her own ghosts as she begins to wonder if
she's just chasing two more. What she finds instead is a powerful story of love  forgiveness 
and courage that brings light to even the darkest of postwar days--

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