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The book woman of Troublesome Creek [large print] / Kim Michele Richardson.

By: Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: 487 pages : maps, photographs ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781432867119
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: 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 at every turn, but is determined to bring the joy of books to the hardscrabble Kentuckians.
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Large Print Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves LP FIC RICH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001200337

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 at every turn, but is determined to bring the joy of books to the hardscrabble Kentuckians.

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