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Book woman of Troublesome Creek volume 2
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English
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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...
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it-- or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky...
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Suma de Letras/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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En 1937 Alice Wright toma la impulsiva decisión de abandonar Inglaterra para casarse con un apuesto y rico americano en Baileyville, Kentucky. Pero su nueva vida en la pequeña ciudad no es lo que esperaba hasta que conoce a Margery O'Hare, quien se ha propuesto llevar el milagro de los libros hasta el último rincón de la región. A caballo, atravesando montańas y bosques salvajes y luchando contra el prejuicio y la ignorancia, Alice, Margery...
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"Addie Cowherd dreamt of being a novelist and offering readers the escape that books gave her during her tragic childhood. But it's the Great Depression, and when her adoptive father loses his job, Addie is forced to leave college and take the only employment she can find: delivering books on horseback to poor coal mining families in the hills of Kentucky. The community of Boone's Hollow is suspicious of outsiders and steeped in superstitions that...
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Editorial Berenice
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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1936. En plena Gran Depresión, en los montes Apalaches de Kentucky, Cussy Mary Carter, de diecinueve años, apodada Damisela y con una rara peculiaridad en su piel, es una de las libreras itinerantes del Proyecto de la Biblioteca Ecuestre auspiciado por Roosevelt como parte de su "New Deal". Huérfana de madre, animosa y obstinada, Damisela ha de hacer frente al desapacible clima, al terreno accidentado, a personajes hostiles y a todo tipo de peligros...
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