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Meet Author Katherine Reay

2023-06-20 19:00:00 2023-06-20 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author Katherine Reay Join us when author Katherine Reay visits to discuss her historical novel, <i>A Shadow in Moscow</i>. Middleburg Heights Branch - Meeting Room A/B (120)

Tuesday, June 20
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-06-20 19:00:00 2023-06-20 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author Katherine Reay Join us when author Katherine Reay visits to discuss her historical novel, <i>A Shadow in Moscow</i>. Middleburg Heights Branch - Meeting Room A/B (120)

Middleburg Heights Branch

Meeting Room A/B (120)

Join us when author Katherine Reay visits to discuss her historical novel, A Shadow in Moscow.

About the author:

Katherine Reay is the national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels, including Dear Mr. Knightley, The Printed Letter Bookshop and The London House. She holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University and lives outside Chicago, IL. When not writing, Katherine hosts the What the Dickens Book Club on Facebook and chats with authors and booksellers weekly @The10MinuteBookTalk on Instagram. And — if it’s sunny and she’s in Montana — Katherine also loves fly fishing and hiking.

In A Shadow in Moscow, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet spy and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive.

Vienna, 1954.
After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker, following him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Upon her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and trusts — Britain, the country of her mother’s birth — and starts passing along intelligence to MI6, navigating a world of secrets and lies, and light and shadow.

Washington DC. 1980.
Part of the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at Georgetown University and boards her flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and paranoid Soviet regime at the height of the Cold War. When the KGB murders her best friend, Anya picks sides and contacts the CIA. Working in a military research lab, Anya passes along Soviet military plans and schematics in an effort to end the 1980s arms race.

Alternating between points of view, the past catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery in 1985 threatens all undercover agents operating within the Soviet Union and both women find themselves in a race against time and the KGB.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.

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Tue, Oct 03, 10:30am - 11:00am
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Tue, Oct 03, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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Wed, Oct 04, 10:00am - 10:25am
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Wed, Oct 04, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Thu, Oct 05, 6:30pm - 6:50pm
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Thu, Oct 05, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Fri, Oct 06, 10:30am - 11:30am
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Sat, Oct 07, 11:00am - 11:30am
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Wed, Oct 11, 10:00am - 10:25am
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Thu, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Thu, Oct 12, 6:30pm - 6:50pm
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Thu, Oct 12, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Fri, Oct 13, 10:30am - 11:30am
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Sat, Oct 14, 11:00am - 11:30am
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A music program for families and their children (ages 0-6) who are struggling in an area of development. Join us for a hands-on program designed to teach families how to use music to improve skills. Register

Mon, Oct 16, 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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Mon, Oct 16, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
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Read and then come to discuss A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley. Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk one month in advance. Registration requested.

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Wed, Oct 18, 10:00am - 10:25am
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Wed, Oct 18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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Compete against other teens in our haunted house themed toy brick building challenge and see if you have what it takes to be Brick Master! Prizes awarded.

Thu, Oct 19, 6:30pm - 6:50pm
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Thu, Oct 19, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Join certified yoga instructor Joni Romito, RYT200, as she leads us through a relaxing chair yoga session. Registration required. Sponsored by Friends of Middleburg Heights Library.
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Fri, Oct 20, 10:30am - 11:30am
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Sat, Oct 21, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Play games, tinker, make art, and just hang out at our inclusive monthly meet-up. For tweens of all abilities in grades 4-6. 

Mon, Oct 23, 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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Mon, Oct 23, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Chat with other entrepreneurs in this laid-back get together while enjoying a free refreshing smoothie. Presented in conjunction with the Middleburg Heights Chamber of Commerce.

Tue, Oct 24, 10:30am - 11:00am
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Wed, Oct 25, 10:00am - 10:25am
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Wed, Oct 25, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Discover and create beautiful flowers hidden in every pine cone! Registration is required. Sponsored by the Friends of Middleburg Heights Branch Library.
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Wed, Oct 25, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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We will have everything you need to turn Barbie into a brain-eating zombie doll.
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Thu, Oct 26, 6:30pm - 6:50pm
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Fri, Oct 27, 10:30am - 11:30am
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Sat, Oct 28, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Raisin' Canes returns with another great musical variety show. Registration required. Sponsored by the Friends of the Middleburg Heights Library.

Mon, Oct 30, 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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Tue, Oct 31, 10:30am - 11:00am
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Thu, Nov 02, 6:30pm - 6:50pm
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Thu, Nov 02, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Learn how to turn scrap paper into miniature books. Registration required.