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Also by Janet Skeslien Charles:

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Paris Library, March 2022
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Paris Library, June 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Janet Skeslien Charles

Atria Books
May 2024
On Sale: April 30, 2024
Featuring: Jessie Carson; Wendy Peterson
336 pages
ISBN: 166800898X
EAN: 9781668008980
Kindle: B0CL5G456V
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical | Women's Fiction Time Slip

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman’s World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.

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.

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