Book Group: A Woman of No Importance

Program Type:

Online/Virtual, Literature

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

Join us for the Pacific Beach Library's monthly book discussion!  Our group meets in a hybrid format, so you can choose whether you'd prefer to join us in-person in the PB Library's Community Room or virtually (please send an email to cwainwright@sandiego.gov for this year's Zoom login info).  April's selection is A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II  by Sonia Purnell.

Description:  In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." That spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman—rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg—who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare," and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France. Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story remains untold.

If you'd like to check out a print copy of the book, they are available 1 month before each discussion at the Pacific Beach Library's Circulation Desk.  Please call 858-581-9934 x0 before coming to pick it up so that staff may confirm availability.

 

Book Discussion Calendar

  • March 14: Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps During World War I  by Jennifer Chiaverini
  • April 11: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II  by Sonia Purnell
  • May 9: Mecca  by Susan Straight
  • June 13: Searching for Home: An Immigrant's Journey from Ukraine to the USA  by Judythe Roberts
  • July 11: Salt: A World History  by Mark Kurlansky
  • August 8: The Nightingale  by Kristin Hannah
  • September 12: Trust  by Hernan Diaz
  • October 10: Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations  by William McRaven
  • November 14: One Book, One San Diego selection (to be announced)
  • December 12: The Covenant of Water  by Abraham Verghese
  • January 9, 2025: Select titles to discuss in 2025
  • February 13, 2025: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store  by James McBride

Accessibility

Need disability-related modifications or accommodations? Information and program content can be made available in alternative formats upon request by emailing JFRogers@sandiego.gov.