Let's Talk About Books: The Diamond Eye

Join Let's Talk About Books, a monthly book club that meets on Zoom. The meeting is free and open to everyone interested, whether they have read the book or not.

December's title is The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn.  Copies will be available at the main desk for checkout one month ahead of the meeting. 

The title is also available on The Palace Project as an eBook or audiobook. The Palace Project is a free library app available in both Google Play and the App Store. Also available on the Libby app, as an eBook or audiobook. 

Synopsis:

In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the Eastern Front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC--until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila's past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.