Kim Michele Richardson

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

1 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (May-2019)
2 - The Book Woman's Daughter (May-2022)

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  The Unbreakable Child
  

  • Oct-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  The Unbreakable Child is a riveting journey inside the secretive underbelly of the St. Thomas / Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum in rural Kentucky. It is the first book in the United States to confront the institutionalized physical and emotional abuse su...

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  Liar's Bench
  

  • May-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  In 1972, on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse a...

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  GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
  

  • May-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact--just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing...

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  The Sisters of Glass Ferry
  

  • Dec-2017
  • / General Fiction
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  Spanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, THE SISTERS OF GLASS FERRY is a haunting novel about small-town Southern secrets, loss and atonement, and the unbreakable bond between siblings. Glass Ferry, Kentuck...

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  The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
  

  • May-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - 1
  

  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.

  Cuss...

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  The Book Woman's Daughter
  

  • May-2022
  • / Women's Fiction
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  The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - 2
  

  THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"A powerful portrait of the courageous women who fought against ignorance, misogyny, and racial prejudice." -- William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land and Lightning StrikeThe ...

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  Junia, The Book Mule of Troublesome Creek
  

  • Mar-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  Junia is a mule. But she's not just any mule. She's a mule with an important job. Every morning she carries her Book Woman up and down the rugged hills and surrounding woodlands near the Kentucky town of Troublesome Creek. Book Woman is a Pack Horse ...

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