Lisa Barr, author of THE GODDESS OF WARSAW - a ticketed event

Milwaukee Reads and Boswell Book Company present a special evening featuring Lisa Barr, author of The Goddess of Warsaw. This event will take place at Shully’s A.T.S. (Across the Street), 143 Green Bay Rd in Thiensville.

Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct a picture about Lena’s life—but the legendary actor’s murky past turns out to be even darker than Sienna dreamed. Before she was a Living Legend, Lena Browning was Bina Blonski, a Polish Jew whose life and family were destroyed by the Nazis.

Warsaw, 1943. Determined to fight back against the brutal Nazis, the beautiful, blonde Aryan-looking Bina becomes a spy, gaining information and stealing weapons outside the ghetto to protect her fellow Jews. While Lena accomplishes amazing feats of bravery, she sacrifices much in the process. Over a decade after escaping the horrors of the ghetto, Bina, now known as Lena, rises to fame in Hollywood. Her power and fame as a movie star offer Lena the chance to right the past’s wrongs... and perhaps even find the happy ending she never had.

From Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society: "Unrelentingly immersive and suspenseful to the very end, The Goddess of Warsaw spins a haunting tale of the cost of survival, sacrifice, and the long-denied secrets of the past.”

Lisa Barr is the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, The Unbreakables, and the award-winning historical thriller Fugitive Colors. She has served as an editor for The Jerusalem Post, managing editor of Today's Chicago Woman and Moment magazine, and as an editor and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. She has appeared on Good Morning America and Today for her work as an author, journalist, and blogger.

Tickets cost $50 plus tax and ticket fee and include admission, a glass of wine, light refreshments, and a paperback copy of The Goddess of Warsaw, to be picked up at the event. Reception starts at 7, followed by the author talk at 7:30.

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