The librarians of Rue de Picardie / Janet Skeslien Charles.
By: Skeslien Charles, Janet.
Publisher: London : Headline Review, 2024Description: 400 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781035417889 (hbk.) :; 103541788X (hbk.) :; 9781035417896 (pbk).Subject(s): Carson, Jessie, 1876-1959 -- Fiction | General | General Fiction | France | New York | True stories: general | Modern & contemporary fiction | First World War fiction | France -- History -- 1914-1940 -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction.Summary: 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.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Newton-le-Willows Library Novels | Ordered |
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.