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Adult Book Discussion at Lawrence

Join us in-person for our next book discussion. We will discuss "The Personal Librarian" by Marie Benedict (2021).

The Personal Librarian is available as a print book, an e-book, a downloadable audiobook, a large print book, an audiobook CD, and as a Book Club Kit in The Library's collection. Copies will be available at the Lawrence Branch Information desk after June 1st.

"In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs."

Subject and Genre

Pierpont Morgan Library — Fiction.
African American women — Fiction.
Women librarians — Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) — History — 1898-1951 — Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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