{"id":142745,"date":"2020-01-20T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142745"},"modified":"2020-01-16T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:56:44","slug":"patron-recommendation-city-of-thieves-david-benioff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142745","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: City of Thieves &#8211; David Benioff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142746 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/city-of-thieves-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/city-of-thieves-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/city-of-thieves.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>A patron thought <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2700644?locg=11\"><strong>City of Thieves<\/strong><\/a> was a &#8220;good read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the Nazis\u2019 brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter\u2019s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.<\/p>\n<p>By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, the <i>New York Times <\/i>bestseller <i>City of Thieves<\/i> is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patron thought City of Thieves was a &#8220;good read.&#8221; &#8220;During the Nazis\u2019 brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":142746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/city-of-thieves.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-B8l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142747,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142745\/revisions\/142747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}