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02011aam a2200277 4500 001 D932411E9DAF11EBB64BA8A730ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210415010010 020 $a 1982134917 020 $a 9781982134914 040 $d SILO 100 $a Charles, Janet Skeslien, 245 $a The Paris library / Janet Skeslien Charles. 264 1 $a New York, NY $b Simon & Schuster $c 2021. 300 $a 351 p. $c 23 cm. $e Author's notes on background 520 $a Paris, 1939. Odile Souchet is obsessed with books and the Dewey Decimal System, which makes order out of chaos. She soon has it all a handsome police officer beau, an English best friend, a beloved twin, and a job at the American Library in Paris, a thriving community of students, writers, diplomats, and book lovers. Yet when war is declared, there's also a war on words. 520 $a Montana, 1983. Widowed and alone, Odile suffers the solitary confinement of small-town life. Though most adults are cowed by her, the neighbor girl will not let her be. Lily, a lonely teenager yearning to break free of Froid is obsessed by the older French woman who lives next door and wants to know her secrets. 520 $a As the two become friends, Odile sees herself in Lily the same love of language, the same longings, the same lethal jealousy. The Paris Librarys dual narratives explore the relationships that make us who we are family and friends, first loves and favorite authors in the fairy tale setting of the City of Light. It also explores the geography of resentment, the consequences of unspeakable betrayal, and what happens when the people we count on for understanding and protection fail us. 655 $a Historical fiction $x Fiction. 651 $a Paris, 1939 $x Fiction. 650 $a Female friendship $x Fiction. 648 $a WWII-Paris 008 s2021 941 $a 1 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20210415010302.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D932411E9DAF11EBB64BA8A730ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search