Pinnacle Online Book Club: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
January 7 - March 4, 2021
Pinnacle Library Cooperative* has partnered with PBC Guru to create a free virtual book club for patrons and the community covering lifelong learning, personal growth, fiction, non-fiction, and other genres participants are interested in. Read all the details of the book club on our blog. For each title, you are able to download a free eBook version via Freading. Or, you can follow THIS LINK to the Pinnacle Catalog to checkout a hard copy, eBook via Overdrive or Libby, large print, or book on CD.
- By January 21st, finish reading Chapters 1-8
- By January 28th, finish reading Chapters 7-15
- By February 4th, finish reading Chapters 16-26
- By February 18th, finish reading Chapters 27-37
- By March 4th, you’ve finished reading the book and are ready to join our End-of-Book Discussion
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—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 Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachians and suspicion as deep as the holler.
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home.
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This cooperative holds an impressive amount of library materials. In fact, our six library organizations collectively hold over 1,340,000 items. These libraries are geographically connected and have a long history of working together to provide the very best service to our patrons.
