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Historical Fiction Book Club

Thu, Jul 21

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Leesburg

Join us for The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn, with your host, Hope!

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Historical Fiction Book Club
Historical Fiction Book Club

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Jul 21, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Leesburg, 26 N King St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA

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In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and 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…

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