The Book Of Lost Names

 Kristin Harmel wrote The Book Of Lost Names, a historical fiction novel about World War Two. In the beginning  the year is 2005 and Eva is in her 80's and working as a librarian in Florida. She is bothered by the condescending attitude she gets from both a coworker and her son about her age and the fact that she is still working. Eva loves books and she loves libraries. She sees a photograph in a newspaper about a rare book that was stolen from a church in France by the Nazi's. The book is now in a library in Berlin. In the book is a code which no one can figure out. Eva immediately buys an airline ticket for Berlin to see the book. In the 1940's Eva was a graduate student of literature in Paris. When her father is taken by the Nazi's she and her mother travel to a small town in the free part of France. Eva had forged some papers to create a new identity for herself and her mother. Many of the people in this town in France were helping Jewish children escape to Switzerland. Eva is recruited to work at a local church forging papers for the children. She worries though that some of the children are too young to remember their real names. With the help of her co-forger, Remy, they come up with a plan. Using the Fibonacci sequence the name of each child is entered in the book along with the new name starting from the back of the book. The story of Eva and her courageous decisions was very entertaining.