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020    9780063259287 
020    0063259281 
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092    |fF|aLABUSKES 
100 1  Labuskes, Brianna,|eauthor. 
245 14 The lost book of Bonn /|cBrianna Labuskes. 
264  1 New York :|bWilliam Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins 
       Publishers,|c[2024] 
264  4 ©2024. 
300    374 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    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.  
650  0 Librarians|vFiction. 
650  0 Rare books|vFiction. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xDestruction and pillage|zGermany
       |vFiction. 
651  0 Germany|xHistory|y1945-|vFiction.