Miss Morgan's book brigade [large print] / Janet Skeslien Charles.
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TextPublisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2025]Copyright date: ©2024 [Waterville, Maine] : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Edition: Large print editionDescription: 493 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781420522990
- 142052299X
- Ms. Morgan's book brigade
- Carson, Jessie, 1876-1959 -- Fiction
- American Committee for Devastated France -- Fiction
- New York Public Library -- Fiction
- Women librarians -- Fiction
- Women philanthropists -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- France -- Fiction
- Americans -- France -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- Children's libraries -- France -- Fiction
- Large type books
- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- LP Charles LP Charles
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Wasatch County Library First Floor | Large Print From State Library | LP 30677 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34301002103085 |
Published in 2025 by arrangement with Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Includes bibliographical references (page 485-486).
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, and their paths will converge in surprising ways"--