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The New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of “The Paris Library” returns with a brilliant new novel that charts the lives of two librarians at the New York Public Library across the barrier of decades, based on the true story of the international group of women who rebuilt northern France after World War I.
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 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 librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives of the New York Public Library, 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 the city'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, “Miss Morgan's Book Brigade” is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change.
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 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 librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives of the New York Public Library, 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 the city'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, “Miss Morgan's Book Brigade” is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change.