Books For Breakfast: The Book of Lost Names

Books for Breakfast meets on the 3rd Tuesday every month at 9:30 am. 

In {month} 2025 we will discuss The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel - A semi-retired librarian named Eva is shelving books in Florida one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine. She freezes; it's of a book she hasn't seen in 65 years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II.  One book housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don't know where it came from or how to read it. Back in 1942, as a Jewish refugee Eva had found work forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But  Eva and a friend named Remy decided they must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.

For people who attend the group regularly, a hold will be placed for you each month in time for the next month's book to arrive by our meeting date. If you are not a regular attender, please place a hold yourself or contact the library to place a hold for you.