![]() Viv’s radiant solution will not surprise romance readers. The Council on Books in Wartime and its smart publicist, Vivian Childs, are desperate to keep titles like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn free from Taft’s blitz. The action builds up to 1944, when the United States faces a dangerous censorship challenge, as Republican Senator Taft wants to rid Armed Forces Editions of “pro-FDR” propaganda. Years later, as World War II rages, Hannah finds work in a Brooklyn library where Jewish titles lost to the Nazi pyres are reclaimed. Althea soon heads home, bereft of her lover, while Hannah resists the Nazis by building a Parisian repository of banned books and newspapers. One night, the Nazis torch huge pyres of banned books. ![]() ![]() Together they visit Berlin’s nightclubs, hotbeds of sex and politics where Althea wakens to her sensuality. She wrote all of the characters very well and a great job of switching between characters’ perspectives. I could never quite determine a theory, which I think is the best way to do a mystery. ![]() Enchanted by German nationalism, she attends official events, but for off-hours fun she relies on flirtatious Hannah Brecht. Brianna Labuskes, Her Final Words Brooke’s Thoughts This was a fast, easy read, that kept me guessing. novelist Althea James visits Berlin on a Nazi exchange program. ![]() Labuskes’s fifth stand-alone novel (following Her Final Words) plunges into human relationships and pushes her characters to do not what is easy but what is right. ![]()
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