Meet the Author - Margie Bucheit

Author Margie Bucheit will visit the library to discuss her novel We Chose Resistance. Buy a copy of the book and get it signed by the author! Support our wonderful local bookstore! Representatives of Innisfree Bookshop will be at the library during the event so you can buy your own copy and have Margie sign it for you. You can also buy the book at Innisfree ahead of time and bring it with you that day. About the Novel The spring of 1944, D-Day approaches, but will the Allies be successful? To swing the odds in their favor, Renard, the recalcitrant Jesuit leader of a hardened Resistance band, is thrown into an uninvited, chaotic working relationship with one of Churchill's notorious special agents, a woman code-named Crow. A young boy - shy, courageous Martin, whose father supports the occupying Reich and not a free France - soon becomes an unlikely ally to both agent and Resister. We Chose Resistance takes readers into the heart of rural France during wartime, where a courageous and poorly armed volunteer "army" stubbornly defies the occupying enemy each day to win back France. But victory and betrayal go hand in hand, and a price will be paid. Friendships will realign, and long-held beliefs will be thrown aside. Vive la Rèsistance. About Margie Bucheit Margie Bucheit, a journalist and history enthusiast, has penned her first work of fiction titled We Chose Resistance, a novel set it in World War II France. Bucheit lives half of each year in a region of the Loire Valley known as La Sologne, where once a defiant Resistance movement stood strong against the Nazi occupation of World War II. For the writing of her book, she spent five years digging into the region’s rich history and conducted personal interviews with the elderly relatives of friends who were children during the occupation. She has worked as a journalist for several New England newspapers and also served at educational institutions and non-profits. Several of her published articles were recognized with awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Her curiosity about the happenings in La Sologne during World War II led to research that uncovered a wealth of large and small Resistance actions that occurred throughout the Loire Valley region in the months before and after D-Day. In addition to being a journalist for four local newspapers in Rhode Island, she wrote and edited articles for a monthly national property/casualty insurance trade magazine and worked as an assistant editor for the former Seabury Press in NYC. Bucheit also developed science-related educational programs for adults as well as educators in the K-12 Rhode Island teaching community, through the University of Rhode Island. The science-based Project Discovery Program, developed by her and two other colleagues, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article. Bucheit earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from Fairfield University, an MS in Biology from Antioch University, and a BA in American and English Literature form Union College. Raised in Youngstown, Ohio, she now splits her time between France and New England, with her husband.