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Summary: "The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation's economic collapse, she brings with her hope, courage, and apple pie. Along the way, Amanda takes a shine to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAHenson, 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFIC 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008