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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek authentic piece of historical fiction and so wonderfully written

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Books By Kim Michele Richardson

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Book Woman's Daughter
Junia
Liar's Bench
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
The Sisters of Glass Ferry
The Unbreakable Child

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Kim Michele Richardson’s compelling novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek was inspired by the ‘blue people’ of Kentucky and the brave Packhorse Librarians who championed literacy against bigotry and fear during the Great Depression. The work (and its sequel, The Book Woman’s Daughter) has left an indelible mark and is now part of the Common Reads program across the United States, a community program that brings together students on college and university campuses to read and discuss novels of significance. Richardson’s other books also explore historical aspects of Kentucky with richly drawn characters and emotionally evocative storytelling.

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Recommended Books From Kim Michele Richardson Fans

A Dedicated Man
Bruno
Fine and Bitter Snow
Catch Me
Larger Than Life: A Novella
The Bullet That Missed
Death of a Witch
Telephone
Where the Sky Begins
Trial By Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case
The Good
The Night She Disappeared
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Absolute Proof
The Travelling Companion
Long Range
Blindman's Bluff: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
Apples Never Fall
Man in the Queue
Jesus Out to Sea: Stories
Storm Watch
The Grove of the Caesars
Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
The Leopard
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Rhymes With Prey: Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport
The Night Crew
A Curious Beginning
Silent Prey
Shadow Tag
Gone
Still See You Everywhere
Here I Stay
The Blood Card
Silent In The Sanctuary
Don't Let Go
No Honor Among Thieves: An Ali Reynolds Novella
The Drop
A Cry in the Night
Coyote Waits
The Dead Will Tell
Live Flesh
The Maharani's Pearls: A Bess Crawford Story
Cross and Burn
The Girl Who Died
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
The Babes in the Wood
Point of Origin
The Vicious Vet
The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery
Darkest Fear
Makoons
The Frozen River
Watching You
In the Springtime of the Year
I Will Find You
From Potter's Field
The Safe Man: A Ghost Story
Y is for Yesterday
Lost Prophecies
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
Mary Russell's War: And Other Stories of Suspense
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024
The Story Teller
Northanger Abbey
Eye of the Needle
Oryx and Crake
The Painted Drum
Wild Fire
Devil Bones
Friend of the Devil: An Inspector Banks Novel
Heroes and Villains
Borrower of the Night: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
The Distant Echo
The Trellis and the Seed: A Book of Encouragement for All Ages
Burial of Ghosts
Cell
Seasonal Work
Animal Dreams: A Novel
Air and Angels
Wednesday's Child: An Inspector Banks Novel
Beneath the Surface
The Didomenico Fragment
The Pillars of the Earth
Unfinished Business
The Girl of His Dreams
Two Bagger
The Last Anniversary
The Bear Trap: A Mike Bowditch Short Story
The Mighty Johns: A Novella
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Jupiter's Bones
In the Time of Five Pumpkins
Leaving Everything Most Loved
Goldengirl
The Glass Coffin
Mary
The Plague of Doves
Breakup
Dead Man's Grip
Off the Grid
Death of a Smuggler
Black Cherry Blues
The Last Good Day
Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel
The Mill on the Shore
The Hunter
Shroud for the Archbishop
Fear Nothing
The Concrete Blonde
Kiss of the Bees
The White Lady
Southampton Row
Blue Labyrinth
Shock Wave
Life Sentences
Two Graves
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
The Expensive Halo
Flying Too High
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
The Zig Zag Girl
Nobody Walks
The Monster in the Box
Mulholland Dive: Three Stories
Improbable Cause
E is for Evidence
Queen of the Flowers
The Modigliani Scandal
The Tess Chronicles
Angel of Vengeance
Cross Bones
Junior High Samurai: A Short Story
The Stolen Child: A Novel
The Full Cupboard of Life
The Grey Wolf
Total Recall: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President
Another One Goes Tonight
A Finer End
Emotionally Weird
Rules of Civility
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt
The Poacher's Son
To Be Where You Are
Ruth's First Christmas Tree
Stone Cold
Black Diamond
Her Last Breath
When the Music's Over
Justice Hall
A Shooting at Chateau Rock
One by One
Last Resort
The Judas Battalion
Trigger Mortis
The Caretaker: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
The Veiled One
A Suitable Job For A Woman
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Wish You Were Here
The Quiche of Death
Sunstroke: A Thriller
A Stranger in Mayfair
At Risk
Ava Comes Home
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
The Mary Russell Series: Books 2-4
The Templars' Last Secret
The Traitor Among Us
Secret Smile
No Good Deeds
The Lake House: A Novel
Midnight Come Again
Christmas in Absaroka County: Walt Longmire Christmas Stories
Saints of the Shadow Bible
All the Wicked Girls
In a Strange City
Bloody Genius
Animal
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
A Fatal Inversion
Predator
Last Car to Elysian Fields
Deception: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
Lord of the Silent
Gravity
A Matter of Justice
Residue
A Duty to the Dead
Death of a Nurse
The Coworker
Watershed
A Great Reckoning
The Skeleton in the Closet
A Private Cathedral
Fly Away
The Fourth Enemy
Lying in Wait
Slow Kill
Death at the Sign of the Rook
F is for Fugitive
One Last Lie
I Know Who You Are
Light of the World
Oh Danny Boy
One for the Money
Death of an Honest Man
The Red Room
The Endless Knot
Reconstruction
Destroyer Angel
Below Zero
Even Dogs in the Wild
Macbeth: William Shakespeare's Macbeth Retold
A Shilling For Candles
The Importance of Being Seven
The Scarecrow
Over the Edge
The Secret Hours
The Black Box
No Man's Land
The Art of Detection
The Distant Hours
Emma: A Modern Retelling
Depth Perception
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii
The Fix
Mercy
The Golden One
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
Bones to Ashes
Friends are Forever
Bone Box: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Hunting Party
The Typhoon Lover
The Impossible Fortune
The Rising Tide
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
The Book Thing
Gone Missing
The Spoon Stealer
Asta's Book
The Runner
Ropa Vieja
In Other Worlds
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
Malice at the Palace
Kopp Sisters on the March
A Demon In My View
The Language of Bees
The Man with the Silver Saab
Blood in Eden
Burn Marks: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
The Copenhagen Connection
The Night of the Lightbringer
Death of a Village
The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories
The Last Enchantments
The Blood Doctor
Still Life
I is for Innocent
The Game of Silence
Murder Takes a Vacation
Busy Body
Death of a Laird: A Hamish Macbeth Short Story
Broken Promise
A Cruel Fate
Harvest
Pitch Dark
Forever and a Day: A James Bond Novel
A Tap on the Window
A Christmas Gathering
The Perfect Husband
Memory Wall: Stories
The Custom of the Army: An Outlander Novella
Willful Behavior
The Accidental Tourist
Take Out
Ruth
The Body in the Castle Well
The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Dead Like You
Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny
The Summer That Never Was
A Place of Execution
Certain Prey
From Doon with Death
Fire and Bones
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
Dream Girl
Savage Run
Girl in a Box
A Grave in the Woods
Phantom: A Harry Hole Novel
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service
The New Girl
A Spool of Blue Thread
The List: A Novella

“Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart. And a joy bolted free, lessening my own grievances, forgiving spent youth and dying dreams lost to a hard life, the hard land, and to folks’ hard thoughts and partialities.”

Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Grace Ellen McDowell
“The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a wonderful book. I especially loved knowing it’s based on real events and these book women existed as did the ‘blue people’.”

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