Senior Book Club: Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Mon Nov 17 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm UTC-07:00

Joe C Montoya Senior Center | Flagstaff

Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library
Publisher/HostFlagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library
Senior Book Club: Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
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Welcome!
The Senior Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of every month at the Joe C. Montoya Community and Senior Center, located at 245 N Thorpe Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001.
All books provided are large print books for easier reading.
If you need to check out the current book, call 928-213-2380 or email [email protected]. You can also stop by the library and get your book there.
Next meeting books will be available at the Joe C. Montoya Community Center to check out after the meeting. You can also return the previous book then.
This month we are reading:
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
by Janet Skeslien Charles

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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