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In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route,...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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"1936. Tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. She joins Roosevelt's Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a traveling librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky. Along her route, Cussy faces doubters...
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in her books-- and she just might have a couple options. Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long she's nearly as rocky as the soil around her cabin. Long ago, she thought she could love, but when the object of her affection married someone...
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Part of FDR's New Deal was the Works Progress Administration, which funded the Pack Horse Initiative. Ride along with four book-loving women who bravely fight for literacy in remote communities during the Great Depression. Will their efforts be rewarded by finding love in the process?
Love's Turning Page by Cynthia Hickey: 1935, Ozark Mountains--Grace Billings jumped at the chance to be a traveling librarian, but she didn't anticipate the long days...
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