The Lost Book of Bonn

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books. Germany,1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful ownersbut for Emmywho sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of pagesit feels just as important. On Emmy’s first day at workshe finds a poetry collection by Rainer Maria Rilkeand on the title page is a handwritten dedication: \