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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. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II-an experience Eva remembers well-and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. She freezes it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in more than sixty years-a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. Įva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue ) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker's Wife. "A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten." -Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday My history of Carthage is full of amusing anecdotes. He was a very sound historian, and the last of the Romans. Pollio used to get attentive audiences by giving expensive dinners. And good books too, thirty-five years' hard work in them. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. I was thinking, 'So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! 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Why do we eat the same thing for breakfast every day, but seek out novelty at lunch and dinner? How has streaming changed the way Netflix makes recommendations? Why do people think the music of their youth is the best? How can you spot a fake review on Yelp? Our preferences and opinions are constantly being shaped by countless forces - especially in the digital age with its nonstop procession of "thumbs up" and "likes" and "stars." Tom Vanderbilt, bestselling author of Traffic, explains why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what all this tell us about ourselves. Believing that peace in Italy could be achieved only if the Pope, then living in France, returned to Rome, Catherine boldly traveled to Avignon to meet with Pope Gregory XI. The intensity of her prayer, sacrifice, and service to the poor won her a reputation for holiness and wisdom, and she was called upon to make peace between warring nobles. 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