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Librarians of the West : a quartet / by award-winning authors Candace Simar, Mark Warren, Charlotte Hinger, Randi Samuelson-Brown, ; edited by Hazel Rumney ; with a foreword by Kellen Cutsforth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Thorndike Press large print Western seriesPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Large print editionDescription: 445 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432881061
  • 143288106X
Contained works:
  • Samuelson-Brown, Randi. Too much dancing going on
  • Warren, Mark, 1947- Cowboy, the librarian, and the broomsman
  • Hinger, Charlotte, 1940- Book mama
  • Simar, Candace. Terrible and wonderful
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Too much dancing going on / Randi Samuelson-Brown -- The cowboy, the librarian, and the broomsman / Mark Warren -- The book mama / Charlotte Hinger -- Terrible and wonderful / Candace Simar.
Summary: ""Too Much Dancing Going On" is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. When Lyle Hardiman, easy-going, illiterate, Montana cowboy, accidentally blunders into the new library with his horse (he thought it was a livery), he meets the new librarian, Miss Rebecca Spark, and sets into motion a chain of events that will ensure the little town of Burnt Creek a place in the history books. With the help of the local saloon/shop sweeper, Lyle will discover a path laid out for him by destiny . . . a path that leads to the heart of Miss Rebecca Spark. In "The Book Mama", Lady Jane Woodruff is stranded with an abusive husband in a harsh new country and relies on the wisdom of an ancient African American woman to guide her to freedom." Fourteen-year-old Pearl Ellingson learns lifes hard lessons as she struggles to start a library in frontier North Dakota in "Terrible and Wonderful""-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction WESTERN SIMAR, CANDACE Available 33111010810428
Total holds: 0

""Too Much Dancing Going On" is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. When Lyle Hardiman, easy-going, illiterate, Montana cowboy, accidentally blunders into the new library with his horse (he thought it was a livery), he meets the new librarian, Miss Rebecca Spark, and sets into motion a chain of events that will ensure the little town of Burnt Creek a place in the history books. With the help of the local saloon/shop sweeper, Lyle will discover a path laid out for him by destiny . . . a path that leads to the heart of Miss Rebecca Spark. In "The Book Mama", Lady Jane Woodruff is stranded with an abusive husband in a harsh new country and relies on the wisdom of an ancient African American woman to guide her to freedom." Fourteen-year-old Pearl Ellingson learns lifes hard lessons as she struggles to start a library in frontier North Dakota in "Terrible and Wonderful""-- Provided by publisher.

Too much dancing going on / Randi Samuelson-Brown -- The cowboy, the librarian, and the broomsman / Mark Warren -- The book mama / Charlotte Hinger -- Terrible and wonderful / Candace Simar.

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