BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Barrie Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Barrie Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5838f157-997e-43b5-8837-81cff93e201d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260804T080104Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231214T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231214T194500 SUMMARY: Roberta Rich LOCATION:Online\nOnline X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Online;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X -TITLE=Online:geo:0,0 GEO:0;0 DESCRIPTION:Ramara Public Library is your host as we gather for an evening of conversation online with author Roberta Rich\, author of The Jazz Club Spy.\nhttps://barrielibrary.libnet.info/event/9441128 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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About R oberta Rich:
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Roberta Rich \;is the #1 bestselling author of \;The Midwife of Venice\, which was published in thirteen countries\, \;The Harem Midwife\, and& nbsp\;A Trial in Venice. She divides her time between Vancouver\, British Columbia\, and Colima\, Mexico. Visit her at \;RobertaRich.com.
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About The Jazz Club Spy: \;
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A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who fi nds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War II--from the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice .
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New York\, 1939 - \;Giddy Brodsky knows she's lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club\, but she dreams of opening her own beauty shop a nd lifting her family out of poverty. The Brodskys have lived cheek to jow l in the Lower East Side tenements since they came to America nineteen yea rs ago\, fleeing a deadly pogrom in their Russian village. But they contin ue to face prejudice\, especially with the rise of the fascist organizatio n the American Bund.
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Yet Giddy is focused on the future--until she recognizes one of the Cossacks who irrevocably changed her life and the p ast comes flooding back. Determined to get justice\, she enlists the help of Carter van der Zalm\, a regular at the jazz club who also happens to be the director of the Department of Immigration at Ellis Island. When Carte r discloses that the Cossack is an "undesirable" and may be of interest to the government\, Giddy agrees to moonlight as a spy for him.
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Not everyone is who they appear to be\, and after a shocking betrayal\, Giddy finds herself embroiled in a political conspiracy that could bring America into the war in Europe.
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From the gritty tenements to the glitteri ng jazz clubs of 1930s New York\, The Jazz Club Spy is a thrilling histori cal novel about a brash young woman who must use all her wits to save the ones she loves.
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Simcoe Author Talk Series : \;The Barrie Public Library has joined literary forces with nine oth er libraries (Clearview\, Collingwood\, Essa\, Innisfil ideaLab\, Midland\ , New Tecumseth\, Penetanguishene\, Ramara\, and Wasaga) to offer a 2023 v irtual author talk series.
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