The Resource The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel, Fiona Davis
The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel, Fiona Davis
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The item The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel, Fiona Davis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she finds herself drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club-a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-adverse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage-truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 354 pages
- Note
-
- Good Morning America book club
- Book club information from jacket
- Isbn
- 9781524744618
- Label
- The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel
- Title
- The lions of Fifth Avenue
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Fiona Davis
- Subject
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- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
- FICTION / Sagas
- Fiction
- Grandmothers
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Book thefts
- Libraries
- Libraries -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History | 20th century | Fiction
- New York Public Library
- New York Public Library -- Fiction
- New York Public Library -- Fiction
- Women -- New York (State) | New York | Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Book thefts -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she finds herself drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club-a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-adverse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage-truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davis, Fiona
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3604.A95695
- LC item number
- L56 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- New York Public Library
- Grandmothers
- Libraries
- Book thefts
- New York Public Library
- FICTION / Historical / General
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
- FICTION / Sagas
- Book thefts
- Grandmothers
- Libraries
- Women
- New York Public Library
- New York (N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel, Fiona Davis
- Note
-
- Good Morning America book club
- Book club information from jacket
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1126551806
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 354 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524744618
- Lccn
- 2019057269
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1126551806
- Label
- The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel, Fiona Davis
- Note
-
- Good Morning America book club
- Book club information from jacket
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1126551806
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 354 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524744618
- Lccn
- 2019057269
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1126551806
Subject
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
- FICTION / Sagas
- Fiction
- Grandmothers
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Book thefts
- Libraries
- Libraries -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History | 20th century | Fiction
- New York Public Library
- New York Public Library -- Fiction
- New York Public Library -- Fiction
- Women -- New York (State) | New York | Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Book thefts -- Fiction
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