Janet Skeslien Charles – The Paris Library
Based on a true story of the Second World War, Janet Skeslien Charles’ The Paris library is a delightful novel celebrating a love of books and libraries and their ability to change lives. In Paris 1939, book-obsessed Odile Souchet gets a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When war is declared the library is determined to stay open but tenth Nazis arrived and change everything. Several decades later in Montana 1983, Lily is a lonely teenager desperate to escape a small town but who soon discovers secrets from her neighbor Odile mysterious past.