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Kristin Hannah at the Elm Grove Woman's Club on Wed, April 26

We are pleased to sponsor Kristin Hannah at the Elm Grove Woman's Club, as part of the Friends of the Elm Grove Library "Elm Grove Reads" program. This appearance is in conjunction for the paperback release of the #1 bestselling novel "The Nightingale."

Tickets for this event are $5 (plus tax and fees). The event is held at the Elm Grove Woman's Club, 13885 Watertown Plank Rd, Elm Grove, WI 53122. You can purchase a ticket here or at the Elm Grove Library. This ticket is for admission to the event only - we are limited to 300 attendees. Here's a little more about the book.

FRANCE, 1939.

In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. As danger escalates, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.

"The Nightingale" tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Kristin Hannah is "The New York Times" bestselling author of 22 novels. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

This event is cosponsored by Boswell Book Company, the Elm Grove Public Library, and Friends of the Elm Grove Library.