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Book woman of Troublesome Creek 2Henson, Heather.
Summary: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HensonCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HENHenson, Heather.
Summary: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--A librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFIC HENRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction RichardsonCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC RICMills, Lauren A.
Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MILRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RichardsonRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: When her parents are imprisoned, Honey picks up her mother's packhorse library route to deliver books in remote Appalachia. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't keen to let a woman pave her own way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICTekulve, Susan
Summary: In 1924, the derailment of a passing train buries 16-year-old Emma Palmisano's house in coal. Caleb, the railroad man who rescues Emma, marries her a week later and gifts her with 47 acres of Virginia farmland. Successive generations of Emma and Caleb's family endure and grow despite poverty and hardship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEKRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: 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, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. But...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Junia, a dedicated mule with an important job, assists in delivering books and reading material to people in the Kentucky hills and woods during the Great Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024