While we may not be able to meet in person
right now, book clubs are still a great way to connect socially and stay
engaged!
After you have read this month's choice,
join us for a great discussion. Each month we will read a new title from a
variety of genres and authors. New members are always welcome.
Registration required.
In May, we will be discussing The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. This
title is available as an ebook or an audiobook from DownloadLibrary.
1940. As England
prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to
mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train
to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has
everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her
roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her
fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious
self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary
codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially
advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local
village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with
puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park's few female
cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear
the three apart.
1947. As the royal
wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a
fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted
letter—the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed
their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious
traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now
Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code
together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger—and their
true enemy—closer...
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