The Book of Names

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But also those that were murdered in the shooting pits, and in the gas chambers, by collaborators in hiding places, deserve to be remembered,” Dayan said. After feeling less than emotionally invested for the first 80%, I shed a few tears at the end which was a pleasant surprise. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Gayle Lynds, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Last Spymaster" "The Book of Names grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go.

Including 5,000 names from English-speaking countries, this goes deep into each name’s history – this is actually more accurately a reference book for anyone interested in history and etymology rather than exclusively expectant parents. On the run with her devastated mother and on the way to neutral Switzerland she finds a modicum of safety in a small town south of Paris.You can expect to find names from as far back as 1700 – we were impressed with Pickering’s attention to detail and witty explanations. The underground were sssooooo lucky to have her, if they said this once they said it a hundred times. It seems impossible that someone could just pick up the trade of forgery and excel at it but that is exactly what some real life resistant fighters did to save thousands of people. The introduction is short and to the point before the names are rolled out – each with the country of origin and a definition. Before the uprising and the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Archive was buried for safekeeping.

She was forging documents for the French resistance and along with her love interest Remy, helped to save many Jewish children by smuggling them into Switzerland. I wouldn’t recommend this book if you’re looking for something new and refreshing in this subgenre especially since this isn’t based on specific true events (at least the forging part).

One day, she realizes that these children are given assumed names and their real identities will be forever lost. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears. They're collected in themes - months of the year, flowers, colours and food - and there's Julia's whimsy as well as rhythm and rhyme to enjoy. Eva carefully wrote the coded names into the pages of the 18th-century religious text that is pictured in the magazine article. the premise of this story about Eva, a young woman working with the French Resistance forging identity documents to assist people, especially Jewish children, escape to Switzerland, is quite intriguing!

Eva becomes increasingly important to the resistance movement, but things become tricky as she forms relationships with the other members.

Weaving together the Kabbala, the tarot, and the forces of good and evil, this chilling thriller has a self-assured voice and all the right elements to make for a nonstop, nail-biting read. This book is too much of a romance for me with characters that are magnified in a way that isn't very likely.