While we're all practicing social distancing this Spring, it's important to find ways to come together and celebrate the things we enjoy. Please join us for the Morrill Memorial Library's newest virtual book group, All Booked Up! We will be meeting on Monday April 20 at 6:30 pm using Zoom to discuss "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek." If you are unable to join us for video chat via Zoom, there will be a phone number with which you may dial in. Zoom access details are below.

Ebook copies and audiobook copies are available instantly for Norwood residents on hoopla. In her review of "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michele Richardson, one staff member said, "This is the best book I've read all year!"

"In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, blue-skinned nineteen-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry, has just snuffed out her last courting candle, her last chance for "respectability" and a marriage bed. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky.
Along her dangerous route, Cussy, known to the mountain folk as Bluet, confronts those suspicious of her damselfly-blue skin and the government's new book program. She befriends hardscrabble and complex fellow Kentuckians and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give those who have nothing a bookly respite.  The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of hope and heartbreak, raw courage and strength splintered with poverty and oppression, and one woman's chances beyond the darkly hollows. Inspired by the true and historical blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek showcases an atmospheric, fascinating, and important footnote of Kentucky history that should be prized and preserved."

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