Brianna Labuske is the author of The Librarian Of Banned Books, a historical fiction novel about three women. The story is told by the three women. Althea is a writer from Maine. Her debut novel went well so she is invited to Germany by Joseph Goebbels to participate in a culture exchange program. St first her impression of the Nazi party is a good one. She is assigned a handler who keeps close tabs on her and makes sure she sees only good things. Eventually she runs into someone who shows her the other side of the story. Hannah has escaped Berlin and is living in Paris in 1936. She was part of the resistance party to the Nazi's but she is finding almost as much antisemitism and hatred in France. The third woman is Vivian who lives in New York City in 1945. Her husband, Edward, was killed fighting the Nazi's. She is working with the council of book publishers. She is fighting a senator who wants to censor the books that get sent to the service men and women overseas. Vivian arranges that Althea and Hannah meet to change the senator's mind. This was an interesting book about people who can change their minds when the learn new facts. Not everyone can do that.
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