TY - BOOK AU - Eskens,Allen TI - The quiet librarian SN - 9780316566315 PY - 2025/// CY - New York PB - Mullholland Books/Little, Brown and Company KW - Librarians KW - Fiction KW - Secrecy KW - Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 KW - Bosnia and Herzegovina KW - Militia movements KW - Best friends KW - Crimes against KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Minnesota KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N1 - "A novel"--Jacket N2 - "Hana Babic is a quiet middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her--a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosniauntil Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter her entire family before her eyes. The events of that day thrust Nura into the war, leading her to join a band of militia fighters, where she became not only a fierce warrior but a legend: the deadly Night Mora. But a shattering final act forced Nura to flee to the United States with a bounty on her head. Now, someone is hunting Hana"-- ER -