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The Librarian Spy
A Historical Fiction Novel by Madeline Martin
Subgenres:
- World War II,
- Espionage,
- Resistance
This book is for you if you're into...
- Library espionage and undercover missions in World War II
- Women breaking barriers in resistance movements
- Coded messages connecting unlikely allies across borders
From Little Stack
Our final stop on our around-the-world-tour is the place I first went abroad to when I was ten years old: Portugal.
Librarian Ava is happy working at the Library of Congress. But when she is asked to serve her country she finds herself in Lisbon posing as a librarian but working undercover as a spy to gather intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press secretly run by the Resistance. When a young mother and her son need help fleeing the Nazis, the two women find themselves connecting through coded messages to try and help them.
Based on a true story, this moving, uplifting and suspenseful novel reminds us that hope and light can exist even in the darkest of times.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II.
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence.
Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.
As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war.
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