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02723aam a2200469Mi 4500 001 BFA75FCE0F5B11EF8B6CB4874EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240511010017 008 240227t20242024meu ed 000 f eng d 020 $a 9798885798402 035 $a (OCoLC)1428821868 040 $a ETC $b eng $c ETC $d OCLCO $d JST $d SILO 100 1 $a Skeslien Charles, Janet, $e author. 245 10 $a Miss Morgan's book brigade : $b a novel $h [large print] / $c Janet Skeslien Charles. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2024. 300 $a 495 pages (large print) ; $c 22 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 520 $a 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 their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. 650 0 $a Large type books. 600 10 $a Carson, Jessie, $d 1876-1959 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women librarians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Civilian relief $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Americans $z France $v Fiction. 610 20 $a American Committee for Devastated France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children's libraries $z France $v Fiction. 610 20 $a New York Public Library $v Fiction. 650 6 $a Livres en gros caracteÌres. 650 6 $a Femmes bibliotheÌcaires $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 $x Secours aux civils $z France $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a EÌcrivains $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a BibliotheÌques pour enfants $z France $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 7 $a large print books. $2 aat 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l HHPC765 $d 20240511010305.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BFA75FCE0F5B11EF8B6CB4874EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b LRXInitiate Another SILO Locator Search