01854cam a2200373 i 4500 1171831770 TxAuBib 20240319120000.0 u 230327s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593500385 Hardcover 0593500385 Hardcover TxAuBib rda Ryan, Jennifer, author. The underground library : a novel / Jennifer Ryan. First edition. New York, NY : Ballantine Books, 2024. 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent z rdamedia zu rdacarrier On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. Sofie Baumann, a Jewish refugee without any family to lean on, finds comfort and friendship in Bethnal Green's quickly growing literary community and escapes to the library every chance she gets. But tragedy after tragedy strikes, threatening to unmoor the women and sever the ties of their community. Will Juliet, Kate, and Sofie be able to overcome their own troubles to save the library? Or will the beating heart of their neighborhood be lost forever? 20240319. Librarians Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Women Fiction. Historical fiction. Jewish refugees Fiction. London (England) Fiction. BSBPL