02125cam a2200373 i 4500 605765202 TxAuBib 20210823120000.0 240711s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020-56697 9780785239918 hardcover 078523991X hardcover (OCoLC)1223017069 TxAuBib rda eng spa Escobar, Mario, author. Bibliotecaria de Saint-Malo English. The Librarian of Saint-Malo / Mario Escobar ; [translator: Gretchen Abernathy]. Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2021] Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2021] x, 369 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"-- Provided by publisher. Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted to fight against Germany. As World War II rages, Jocelyn uses her position as a librarian to comfort and encourage her community with books. When the Nazis occupy Saint-Malo it is turned into a fortress, and the German commander ruthlessly begins to destroy books deemed subversive. Jocelyn hides some of the books while desperately waiting to receive news from her husband Antoine, now a prisoner in a German camp. She writes letters smuggled to a Parisian author, telling her story in the hope that it will someday reach the outside world. -- adapted from jacket. 20210826. Librarians -- France -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Saint-Malo-- Fiction. France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction. Christian Fiction. Abernathy, Gretchen, translator. Escobar, Mario, Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2021] The librarian of Saint-Malo.