Wednesday, February 19 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

In 1946 New York, newly widowed legal secretary Grace Healy stumbles upon a suitcase labeled with the name Trigg containing a dozen photos of women with only first names and no other identifiers.  She learns it belongs to Eleanor Trigg, an outsider with a painful past and the leader of a group of secret female agents sent from London into occupied Europe during the war.  These young women, who posed as radio operators, were charged with sabotaging the Germans and arming the citizens.  Grace feels a connection to Eleanor and the girls, yearning to discover why they never made it home, and creating an element of mystery to the story.  She's especially drawn to single-mother Marie, who was sent to Paris and served in Trigg's Vesper circuit under the direction of roguishly handsome Julian.  In the City of Light, passion and heartache greet the brave patriot.  Copyright 2019 Library Journal. 

Books will be available at the Circulation Desk beginning Wednesday, January 22nd.

Wednesday, March 25 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Greenwood (Rust & Stardust) delivers an unabashed heart-tugger.  The year is 1969 when housewife Ginny Richardson, of Dover, Mass., gives birth to a baby girl named Lucy, who has Down syndrome.  Her lawyer husband, Abbott Jr., and his overbearing lawyer father, Abbott Sr., convince her to have the newborn institutionalized.  But two years later, after the institute is exposed on TV as a hellhole of neglect and mistreatment, a guilt-ridden Ginny spirits Lucy out of the place and hits the road with her daughter, unaware that she gave up parental rights and could be wanted for kidnapping.  Accompanied by her six-year-old son, Peyton, and best friend, Marsha, Ginny drives to Florida to hide out with Marsha’s sister, a mermaid performer at Weeki Wachee Springs.  On the way, Ginny tries to make up for lost time with Lucy.  But she knows a reckoning with Abbott Jr., Abbott Sr., and the law is inevitable.  The author makes Ginny’s transformation from timid housewife to empowered guardian an affecting one.  And in Ginny’s road trip from Massachusetts to Florida by way of Atlantic City and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Greenwood explores a country caught between traditional values and the societal changes of the 1960s and ’70s.  This is a moving depiction of the primal power of a mother’s love.  Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly Annex. 

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