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History & Mystery with Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin

Join us when authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin visit to discuss their new historical fiction novel for middle grades, The Bletchley Riddle.

About the authors:

Ruta Sepetys is an internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages. Her novels Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, Salt to the Sea, The Fountains of Silence, and I Must Betray You have won or been shortlisted for more than forty book prizes, and are included on more than sixty state award lists.  Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Ruta is passionate about the power of history and literature to foster global awareness and connectivity. She has presented to NATO, to the European Parliament, in the United States Capitol, and at embassies worldwide. Ruta was born and raised in Michigan and now lives with her family in Tennessee. 

Steve Sheinkin is the acclaimed author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories, including Impossible Escape, Fallout, Undefeated, Born to Fly, The Port Chicago 50, and Bomb. His accolades include a Newbery Honor, three Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, a Sibert Medal and Honor, and three National Book Award finalist honors. Steve is also the creator and host of the popular YouTube Series, Author Fan Face-Off, a book game show where famous authors go head-to-head with super-fans on questions from the author's best loved books. He lives with his family in Saratoga Springs, New York. 

The Bletchley Riddle takes place in summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II—Britain’s eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchley’s top minds to crack the Nazi's Enigma cipher, fourteen-year-old Lizzie embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of their mother.

The Battle of Britain rages and Hitler’s invasion creeps closer. And at the same time, baffling messages and codes arrive on their doorstep while a menacing inspector lurks outside the gates of the Bletchley mansion. Are the messages truly for them, or are they a trap? Could the riddles of Enigma and their mother's disappearance be somehow connected? Jakob and Lizzie must find a way to work together as they race to decipher clues which unravel a shocking puzzle that presents the ultimate challenge: How long must a secret be kept?

Registration for this event is FREE. VIP tickets are also available for purchase.

Each VIP ticket ($20) includes:

• A copy of The Bletchley Riddle
• VIP seating at the event
• A donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation
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Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry.