"Lions of Fifth Avenue" by Fiona Davis. What a gift to read such a beautifully written book by a new to me author! I look forward to many more hours of reading her work. The writing, the story, all will stay with me. As an aside, I was so touched by the suggestion for all women to "own at least 4 bed jackets, one of quilted silk and another in velvet". My mother and I always had bed jackets in the 50s and 60s and wore them as we were reading in bed. Hadn't thought of that in years and it will stay with me now for a long time.

At Columbia, her professor mocks Greenwich Village radicals, but Laura is drawn to them. She discovers the real historical *Heterodoxy Club* - a radical, all-female debate club in Greenwich Village where women like Charlotte Perkins Gilman loudly discuss things that are taboo in 1913: women's suffrage, birth control, equal rights.

For the first time, Laura finds her voice. She starts writing essays and questioning her traditional marriage.

At the same time, disaster hits the library: priceless, rare first editions are disappearing from the stacks. Jack becomes the prime suspect and could lose his job and their home. Laura must confront what she wants more: her ambition, or her family.

Laura will go on to become the famous feminist essayist *Laura Lyons*.

*1993 - 80 years later, her granddaughter:*

*Sadie Donovan* is a quirky, book-loving rare books curator who finally gets her dream job at the NYPL: curator of the *Berg Collection* (the library's famous collection of literary manuscripts).