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Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. 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. 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. 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. Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war? As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears. An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable. While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere” ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people. Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his? The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.

De savnede. De glemte. De modige … Kvinderne. Fra mesterskildreren Kristin Hannah, den #1 New York Times-bestsellerforfatter til Nattergalen og De fire vinde, kommer fortællingen om en turbulent, omvæltende tid i Amerika: 1960’erne. Kvinderne er den sjældneste slags roman – på én gang et intimt portræt af en kvinde, der bliver voksen i en farlig tid, og en episk fortælling om en nation splittet af krig og knust af politik, om en generation, der både næres af drømme og går tabt på slagmarken. "Kvinder kan også være helte." Da den tyveårige sygeplejestuderende Frances "Frankie" McGrath hører disse uventede ord, bliver det en åbenbaring. Hun er vokset op på den idylliske ø Coronado, beskyttet af sine konservative forældre, og har altid været stolt af at gøre det rigtige og være en god pige. Men i 1965 er verden under forandring, og pludselig forestiller hun sig et andet valg for sit liv. Da hendes bror bliver sendt ud for at gøre tjeneste i Vietnam, melder hun sig impulsivt til hærens sygeplejekorps og følger i hans fodspor. Lige så uerfaren og uprøvet som mændene, der sendes til Vietnam for at kæmpe, overvældes Frankie af krigens kaos og ødelæggelser og af det uventede traume ved at vende hjem til et forandret Amerika, der er politisk splittet. Kvinderne er fortællingen om én kvinde, der drager i krig, men den kaster lys over historien om alle de kvinder, der satte sig selv i fare for at hjælpe andre. Kvinder, hvis opofrelse og engagement for deres land alt for ofte er blevet glemt. En roman med brændende indsigt og lyrisk skønhed, Kvinderne er en dybt følelsesladet, rigt tegnet fortælling med en mindeværdig heltinde, hvis ekstraordinære idealisme og mod under beskydning definerer en generation.