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2019
Daisy Sound Recording
Eight biographies featuring influential people who changed the world. Includes Albert Einstein, Anne Frank, Gandhi, Katherine Johnson, Helen Keller, M...
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Feb 3, 7:00pm
Sherwood Village Branch
Engage in a discussion of Miss Morgan's book brigade: a novel by Janet Skeslien Charles.
Come prepared for a lively discussion. New book club members are always welcome!
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This is an in-person program. Registration is not required.
Miss Morgan's book brigade : a novel by 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 conve...
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Feb 17, 7:00pm
Sunrise Branch
Connect with other children's literature fans and share your love of great kids' books. Engage in a discussion of Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. New members are always welcome!
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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
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Celebrate Tuck Everlasting's 50th anniversary with the bestselling graphic novel adaptation of this beloved and spellbinding children's classic that has sold more than 10 million copies.
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