The Librarian of Boone's Hollow
A Novel
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Publisher Description
A traveling librarian ventures into the mining towns of Kentucky on horseback—and learns to trust the One who truly pens her story—in this powerful novel from the best-selling author of A Silken Thread.
During the Great Depression, city-dweller Addie Cowherd dreams of becoming a novelist and offering readers the escape that books had given her during her tragic childhood. When her father loses his job, she is forced to take the only employment she can find—delivering books on horseback to poor coal-mining families in the hills of Kentucky.
But turning a new page will be nearly impossible in Boone's Hollow, where residents are steeped in superstitions and deeply suspicious of outsiders. Even local Emmett Tharp feels the sting of rejection after returning to the tiny mountain hamlet as the first in his family to graduate college. And as the crippled economy leaves many men jobless, he fears his degree won’t be worth much in a place where most men either work the coal mine or run moonshine.
As Addie also struggles to find her place, she’ll unearth the truth about a decades-old rivalry. But when someone sets out to sabotage the town’s library program, will the culprit chase Addie away or straight into the arms of the only person who can help her put a broken community back together?
Customer Reviews
Prejudice runs deep, but can be overcome!
Promise you won’t let their actions dictate your reactions - Miss West, library director
For Addie Cowherd, life is made up of studying hard and working part-time at the library so that she can earn her degree. College is not available to everyone, and she knows how hard her adoptive parents are working to allow her this privilege. When their situation changes drastically, she must make her own way, so the job of packhorse librarian sounds like a gift from heaven. A different and unexpected world greets her when she arrives in Boone’s Hollow. Prejudice is rampant, money is scarce and it seems the only friend she has is the woman she boards with. Can she learn to keep her thoughts and feelings from showing on her face?
Emmett Tharp, formerly of Boone’s Hollow, had graduated from college and is ready to find that job that does not require him to spend long hours in the dark, breathing in coal dust. tReturning to Boone’s Hollow is not part of that plan. The Lord, however, seems to have other plans for both Emmett and Addie. Will they be receptive to His will?
This ARC was received through WaterBrook and Random House. The thoughts and impressions are my own and were in no way solicited.