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The Librarian Spy: A Novel of WWII

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The Librarian Spy: A Novel of WWII Madeline Miller Publication date: July 26, 2022 by Hanover Square Press Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 4 🍷🍷🍷🍷 Summary:  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...