The boxcar librarian : a novel

The boxcar librarian A novel

Brianna Labuskes

Large print - 2025

"When Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she's shipped off to Montana to work on the state's American Guide Series--travel books intended to put the nation's destitute writers to work. Millie arrives to an eclectic staff claiming their missed deadlines are due to sabotage, possibly from the state's powerful Copper Kings who don't want their long and bloody history with union organizers aired for the rest of the country to read. But Millie begins to suspect that the answer might instead lie with the town's mysterious librarian, Alice Monroe. More than a decade earlier, Alice Monroe created the Boxcar Library in order to del...iver books to isolated mining towns where men longed for entertainment and connection. Alice thought she found the perfect librarian to staff the train car in Colette Durand, a miner's daughter with a shotgun and too many secrets behind her eyes. Now, no one in Missoula will tell Millie why both Alice and Colette went out on the inaugural journey of the Boxcar Library, but only Alice returned. The three women's stories dramatically converge in the search to uncover what someone is so desperately trying to hide: what happened to Colette Durand."--

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Subjects
Women editors > Fiction.
Librarians > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Libraries > Fiction.
Large type books.
Éditrices > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Bibliothécaires > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Personnes disparues > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Bibliothèques > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Missoula (Mont.) > Fiction.
large print books.
Large print books.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Livres en gros caractères.
Genres
large print books
Large print books
Historical fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Livres en gros caractères
Published
New York : William Morrow Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2025.
Language
Undetermined
Main Author
Brianna Labuskes (author)
Edition
First William Morrow Large Print edition
Physical Description
612 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780063433052
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

As the Great Depression drags on, Millie Lang, working for the Federal Writers' Project American Guide Series, ends up in Missoula, Montana, to find out who sabotaged the project staff's last submission and get them back on track, uncovering stories that don't quite add up. Back in 1924 Missoula, Alice Monroe is eager to shed her privileged life and determined to create a railroad library that will bring books to mining camps in the area. She hires a librarian for the route but can't resist tagging along, getting more adventure than she bargained for. In 1914, Colette Durand's hero is her father, a Shakespeare-loving miner and union man. After his untimely death, she spirals into a journey of revenge against a powerful copper-mining company, with books as her only solace. The three women's stories weave together in a nonlinear fashion as the mystery of what happens to Colette unfolds. Inspired by the real Missoula Boxcar Library, Labuskes (The Lost Book of Bonn, 2024) explores how isolation and distrust let corruption thrive, how community strengthens our bonds, and how our stories can connect us better than just about anything else.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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