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The Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesSmall-town Kentucky quickly proves claustrophobic for Alice Wright, so when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. Alice and leader Margery will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them—and to the men they love—becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion.
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonCussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town.
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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi AppeltThoroughly researched and illustrated with period photographs, this is the story of one of the WPA's greatest successes. People all over the country supported the project's goals. But it was the librarians themselves, "young, determined, and earning just $28 a month," who brought the hope of a wider world to people in the crooks and hollows of Kentucky's Cumberland Mountains.
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