WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. The café with no name: a novel

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Author:
Seethaler, Robert, 1966-
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
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Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
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"Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that the chance to realize his dream has arrived. The place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but for some time now...

2. I seek a kind person: my father, seven children, and the adverts that helped them escape the Holocaust

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Author:
Borger, Julian
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"This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents. In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life...