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YPL Book Group, led by Leslie Altman, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2 PM. Newcomers always welcome. Meets in the Simpkins Reading Room.
April: Thursday, April 16
at 2 PM A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. ______________ FYI: Past YPL Book Group picks include: April: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell March: The Wedding People by Alison Espach February: Clear by Carys Davies January: How to Read a Book by Monica Wood November: Isola by Allegra Goodman October: Orbital by Samantha Harvey September: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald August: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald or Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton June: Foster by Claire Keegan May: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri ______________ |
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