02879cam a2200457 i 4500 1235856523 TxAuBib 20240421120000.0 231206s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023039813 9781668008980 HRD 28.99 166800898X HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Skeslien Charles, Janet, author. The librarians of Rue de Picardie. Miss Morgan's book brigade : a novel / Janet Skeslien Charles. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024. 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Simultaneously published in Great Britain under the title: The librarians of Rue de Picardie. Includes bibliographical references. "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. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen--children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, but she has no idea that their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. Based on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire ... [this work] is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change"-- Provided by publisher. 20240429. jz. Carson, Jessie, 1876-1959 Fiction. American Committee for Devastated France Fiction. New York Public Library Fiction. Women librarians Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Civilian relief France Fiction. Americans France Fiction. Children's libraries France Fiction. Authors Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.