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Novel Ideas Book Club

Fiction Book Club
2026-02-09 18:00:00 2026-02-09 19:00:00 America/Chicago Novel Ideas Book Club Please join us for a discussion of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict Zablocki Branch - Community Room

Monday, February 09
6:00pm - 7:00pm

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Zablocki Branch

Community Room

Please join us for a discussion of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict  Tells the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a brilliant and ambitious woman who became J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian in the early 1900s. While curating one of the world’s most important art and manuscript collections, Belle hides a powerful secret—she is a Black woman passing as white in a segregated America.

AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Club/Discussion |

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