Kristin Harmel is the #1 international bestselling and USA Today bestselling author of THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES, THE WINEMAKER’S WIFE, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into numerous languages and sold all over the world.Ī former reporter for PEOPLE magazine, Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s.

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.Īn engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. Only Eva holds the answer-but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?Īs a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. (Feb.Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from-or what the code means.

Though the book is sometimes overly sentimental, its lessons about family, friendship, loss, and the enduring power of love should stick with readers. For Lacey, a relationship with a boy named Sam helps her confront her feelings and finally begin to move forward. Her depictions of the forms grief takes are realistically wide-ranging, including self-blame, anger, and alcohol abuse. Magazine, where she is a longtime contributor, which inspired this book. When a classmate's mother dies, Lacey is inspired to start a club for students whose parents have passed away. What's more, her focus on her family has prevented her from dealing with her own emotions or forgiving herself. Well-meaning Lacey wants to help her mother and brothers cope, but the family is disconnected in their grieving. “A hundred times a day, I thought about how different life would be if I hadn't insisted on taking those extra moments in the bathroom,” she thinks. This bittersweet book follows 16-year-old Lacey Mann, who feels responsible for the car accident that killed her father 10 months earlier.

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