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Lunch Time Book Club with the HCPL
June 20 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Let’s make lunchtime literary! 📚🥪
Join us for a relaxed lunchtime book club! Feel free to bring your lunch and enjoy a casual discussion about our monthly book pick. Plus, most 3rd Thursday’s there will be a food truck in the North Corner of the parking lot!
June
The Diamond Eye
By: Kate Quinn
In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.
Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.
Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.
January: The Tobacco Wives
February: Me Before You
March: The Forgotten 500
April: Happy-Go-Lucky
May: Trust
June: The Diamond Eye
July: Wild
August: Maid
September: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
October: Not a Happy Family
November: Betty Crocker Complete Thanksgiving Cookbook
December: The Christmas Joyride
Need a copy of the book? No worries! Extra copies are available at the library. Prefer digital? Grab the eBook or eAudio version on Libby. No need to register, just read the book and drop by. We’re excited to see you there!
📍Main Library: 455 McKinney Pkwy, Lillington, NC 27546
Date:
Thursday, June 20, 2024 Show more dates