Bøger af Janet Skeslien Charles

"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 that their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. Based on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire ... [this work] is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change"--

En uforglemmelig fortælling om venskab og sammenhold baseret på den virkelige historie om de heltemodige bibliotekarer på Det amerikanske bibliotek i Paris, som under anden verdenskrig satte sig op mod fjenden og beviste, at litteraturen har en enestående evne til at bringe os sammen i nødens stund.PARIS, 1939. Odile Souchet har netop fået sit drømmejob på Det amerikanske bibliotek i Paris, og hun har tilmed fået en sød kæreste. Men da nazisterne invaderer Paris, er hun i fare for at miste det hele. Sammen med nogle kollegaer slutter hun sig til modstandsbevægelsen og væbner sig med det stærkeste våben, hun har, nemlig bøger. I al hemmelighed smugler kollegaerne biblioteksbøger ud til byens jøder, som er nægtet adgang til biblioteket. Da krigen omsider er ovre, er det dog ikke friheden, der venter hende på den anden side, men et ubeskriveligt svigt. MONTANA, 1983. Teenageren Lily har mistet sin mor i en tidlig alder og er ensom og frustreret. Hendes udlængsel fra lillebyen, hun bor i, bliver vakt af den ældre franske kvinde i nabohuset, og efterhånden som Lily får indblik i mere og mere af naboens mystiske fortid, forstår hun, at de to har mere til fælles, end hun nogensinde kunne have forestillet sig.

"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear--including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare a war on words and darkness falls over the City of Light, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. They risk their lives again and again to help their fellow Jewish readers. When the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Montana, 1983. Odile's solitary existence in gossipy small-town Montana is unexpectedly interrupted by Lily, her neighbor, a lonely teenager longing for adventure. As Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, they find they share a love of language, the same longings, the same lethal jealousy. Odile helps Lily navigate the troubled waters of adolescence by always recommending just the right book at the right time, never suspecting that Lily will be the one to help her reckon with her own terrible secret. Based on the true story of the American Library in Paris, The Paris Library explores the geography of resentment, the consequences of terrible choices made, and how extraordinary heroism can be found in the quietest of places"--

Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare a war on words and darkness falls over the City of Light, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. They risk their lives again and again to help their fellow Jewish readers. When the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Montana, 1983. Odile's solitary existence in gossipy small-town Montana is unexpectedly interrupted by Lily, her neighbor, a lonely teenager longing for adventure. Based on the true story of the American Library in Paris,