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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. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last...

1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, nicknamed Damsel and with a rare peculiarity in her skin, is one of the traveling booksellers of the Equestrian Library Project sponsored by Roosevelt as part...