{"id":48458,"date":"2023-09-01T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=48458"},"modified":"2023-08-12T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:30:29","slug":"online-reading-challenge-september-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-september-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – September"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welcome Readers!<\/p>\n

This month the Online Reading Challenge travels to New York City. Our Main title for September is The Lions of Fifth Avenue <\/em><\/strong><\/a>by Fiona Davis. (This book takes place partly in the New York Public Library!) Here\u2019s a quick summary from the publisher.<\/p>\n

In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis\u2019s latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn\u2019t ask for more out of life\u2014her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village\u2019s new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club\u2014a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women\u2019s rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. And when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she\u2019s forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she\u2019s wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie\u2019s running begin disappearing from the library\u2019s famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-averse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage\u2014truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library\u2019s history.<\/em><\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print and as a Libby eBook.<\/a><\/p>\n

As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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