Janet Skeslien Charles
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a powerful, moving wartime page-turner based on real events
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a powerful, moving wartime page-turner based on real events
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Based on the true story of Jessie Carson, an American librarian who brought books to children in war-torn France, The Paris Library is a powerful and moving novel by Janet Skeslien Charles. The book follows Jessie's journey from establishing children's libraries in France during World War I to her disappearance in 1918, and then to the present day when a librarian discovers her story and tries to uncover her fate. The novel celebrates the power of books to inspire, rescue, and restore, and is filled with remarkable characters and heart-in-mouth moments.
Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library returns with a powerful, moving new novel based on the extraordinary true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France. An instant USA Today and Booklist bestseller.
This is hands down my book of 2024. A rich, glorious life-affirming ode to the power of books and female solidarity. Simply unforgettable!
KATE THOMPSON
A wonderful story about the power books have not only to inspire, but also to rescue and restore. The characters are so richly drawn... I absolutely loved it.
RUTH HOGAN
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book.
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, a group of women determined to 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 obsession, 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.
Published under the title Miss Morgan's Book Brigade in the US.
An astonishing novel with the beating heart of courageous women who risked everything to bring hope and healing to children in the darkest of times.
Weight: 552g
Dimension: 164 x 244 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035417889
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