1913. Laura Lyons's husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building. She discovers the Heterodoxy Club, a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan works as a curator at the New York Public Library. When rare manuscripts, notes, and books begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection, Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage.
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