Shelf Indulgence - Wake Forest Library

Favorite books shared by members of Shelf Indulgence at the Wake Forest Community Library

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Book cover for "The forest of vanishing stars"
Star rating for The forest of vanishing stars
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
A "coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis--until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
Book cover for "The book of lost names"
Star rating for The book of lost names
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Notes:
2/1/2023
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The Paris architect"
Star rating for The Paris architect
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
2/1/2023
Description:
A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a cause he is ambivalent towards, until a personal failure brings home their suffering.
Book cover for "Resistance women"
Star rating for Resistance women
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
2/1/2023
Description:
After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...