02256cam a2200409 i 4500 1296396015 TxAuBib 20240601120000.0 240227s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798885798402 hardcover alk. paper (OCoLC)1428821868 TxAuBib rda Skeslien Charles, Janet, author. Miss Morgan's book brigade : a novel / Janet Skeslien Charles. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©2024. 495 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print top shelf "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"-- Back cover. 20240601. Carson, Jessie, 1876-1959 Fiction. American Committee for Devastated France Fiction. New York Public Library Fiction. Large type books. fast Women librarians Fiction. Women philanthropists Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Civilian relief France Fiction. Americans France Fiction. Authors Fiction. Children's libraries France Fiction. France Social conditions 20th century Fiction. Thorndike Press large print top shelf.