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"Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling librar...

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Main Author: Moyes, Jojo, 1969- (Author)
Corporate Authors: Penguin Audio (Firm), Penguin Random House, Playaway Digital Audio, Findaway World, LLC
Other Authors: Whelan, Julia, 1984- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (TBD)
Language:English
Published: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2019]
Edition:Unabridged.
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Women librarians > Fiction.
Packhorse librarians > Kentucky > Fiction.
Kentucky > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Audiobooks.
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Summary:"Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them -- and to the men they love -- becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they're committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives."--
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"Light."
"Penguin Audio."
Previously released by Penguin Random House LLC., ℗2019.
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Physical Description:1 audio media player (approximately 14 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
ISBN:9781987186901 :
Author Notes:Jojo Moyes was born in London, England on August 4, 1969. She studied at Royal Holloway, University of London and Bedford New College, London University. In 1992, she won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University, London. She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years in various roles including assistant news editor and arts and media correspondent.

Her first book, Sheltering Rain, was published in 2002. Her other works include Me Before You, One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, Silver Bay, The Ship of Brides, Honeymoon in Paris, After You, Windfallen, Paris for One and Other Stories, and The Horse Dancer. She won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2004 for Foreign Fruit and in 2011 for The Last Letter from Your Lover.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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