| International Standard Book Number |
9781668008980 : $28.99
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| International Standard Book Number |
166800898X : $28.99
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20231207
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| Personal Name |
Skeslien Charles, Janet, author.
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| Title Statement |
Miss Morgan's book brigade : a novel / Janet Skeslien Charles.
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| Edition Statement |
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Atria Books, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
318 p. illustrations ; Hardcover 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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, The Librarians of Rue de Picardie) 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.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Carson, Jessie, 1876-1959 Fiction.
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| Subject |
American Committee for Devastated France Fiction.
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| Subject |
New York Public Library Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Americans Fiction. France
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women librarians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1914-1918 Fiction. Civilian relief France
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Children's libraries Fiction. France
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Skeslien Charles, Janet. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2024 Miss Morgan's book brigade (DLC) 2023039814 9781668009000
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