Let's Talk About Books "Miss Morgan's Book Brigade"
A Monthly Book Club for Adults
Tuesday, August 18
10:30am - 11:30am
Southwest Regional Library
Everglades RoomThis novel is about Jessie Carson, the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France written by Janet Skeslien Charles.
Join Southwest Regional Librarians as we discuss current and relevant books of our time.
Registration is required.
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
Good Reads:
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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AGE GROUP: | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Outreach | Discussion/Lecture | Class | Books |
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