Virtual Author Talk: Pam Jenoff

Join us for an exciting trip through time as we chat with New York Times bestselling historical fiction author Pam Jenoff about her newest book Code Name Sapphire! 

In this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, a woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz.

It’s 1942 and Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to escape occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.  Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network.

About the Author: Pam Jenoff was born in Maryland and raised outside Philadelphia. Upon receiving her master’s in history from Cambridge, she worked s Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and later at the State Department. Pam left the Foreign Service in 1998, attended law school at the University of Pennsylvania, and now teaches law school at Rutgers.

Pam is the NYT bestselling author of The Woman With the Blue Star, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Orphan’s Tale, The Kommandant’s Girl, and other books.

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