Fort Bragg Library Mendocino County, California
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Adult Book Club on ZOOM
July 24, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fort Bragg Library
Adult Book Club
Thursday, July 30, 2020, 4 pm
via ZOOM
This month’s selection:
In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson
Join the Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9748647159
Hope to see you there!
Synopsis:
Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.
Professional reviews:
*Starred Review* In 1933 William E. Dodd led a comfortable but not altogether satisfying existence as a history professor at the University of Chicago. What he longed for was a position that would pay well but also allow him time to complete his masterwork, a four-volume history of the Old South. After offering the position to several other candidates who declined, (read more)
Simultaneous release with the Crown hc (125,000-copy first printing), which was an Editors’ Spring Pick, LJ 2/15/11; Stephen Hoye reads. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
