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The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students About Vocation

Tim Clydesdale

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We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a...

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

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I LOVED this book.

Nicknamed Bluet due to her blue skin, Cussy Mary has been an outcast her whole life. Deep in Kentucky, Blue skinned people are looked down upon as tainted, unholy, second class citizens. Now 19, her coal mining father wants nothing more for her than to settle down with a husband and have a family like a decent woman should but she has found her place - as a Book Woman, riding the trails delivering books to the Hill folk, who can't or won't get an education otherwise. Through the books and magazines she delivers she is making a difference in the lives of her patrons, and they are making a difference in hers, giving her a sense of pride an income, and a community. But not everyone is accepting of her as a Blue, and she is increasingly more threatened by the local Preacher, who is determined to "save" her.