The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A GMA Book Club Pick A Novel

Fiona Davis's historical novel features a series of book thefts that plague the iconic New York Public Library, connecting two generations of strong-willed women. In 1913, Laura Lyons lives with her family in an apartment inside the grand library, as her husband is the superintendent . Headstrong and passionate, Laura applies to the Columbia Journalism School, where her world expands to include the bohemian circle of Greenwich Village and the radical, all-female Heterodoxy Club, which encourages her to question her traditional role as a wife and mother. However, when valuable books are stolen from the library, Laura is forced to confront her shifting priorities, risking her home and institution . Eighty years later, in 1993, her granddaughter Sadie Donovan, a curator at the New York Public Library, struggles with the legacy of her famous essayist grandmother . Sadie's dream job becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts and books for her exhibit begin to disappear from the Berg Collection. Determined to save her career, she teams up with a private security expert, but the investigation leads her to unwelcome truths about her family heritage that shed light on the library's greatest tragedy.

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