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Appalachian Region History 20th century Fiction Aviation nursing Fiction Nurses Fiction Packhorse librarians Packhorse librarians Fiction Packhorse librarians Kentucky Fiction Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Fiction United States. Air Force Nurse Corps Fiction United States. Army Air Forces Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Medical care FictionRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: "The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RICRichardson, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RICAlkemade, Kim van
Summary: In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALKRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICRichardson, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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 RICRichardson, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICFergus, Jim.
Summary: "At an 1854 peace conference, Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf requested 1,000 white women as brides for his warriors. Inspired by this true event, Fergus spins an alternate history as he imagines what would have happened had the "Brides for Indians" program, intended to assimilate the Indians into white culture, actually happened"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERSee, Lisa
Summary: Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on a Korean island, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working with their village's all-female diving collective. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook's differences are impossible to ignore. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction See 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction SeeSteel, Danielle
Summary: Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend, Lizzie, suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend, Lizzie, suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021