A coming-of-age tale of hope in depression-era Kentucky Lena’s a fifteen-year old girl who devours every book she can get her hands on. She spends as much time at the library as she can, yearning to escape her alcoholic mother. When Lena finds out about a new job delivering library books on horseback to the rural hillbillies, she eagerly applies and lands the job. Soon, she makes friends with an older couple living in the mountains who help the skeptical locals warm up to h
The basic premise of any great Pride and Prejudice variation: Darcy falls for Elizabeth because she is unlike any woman he has ever met; she initially thinks he is an arrogant snob, until the day she realizes he is unique among men. The twist in this story: despite their gentry upbringing, both Elizabeth and Darcy have a fondness for mathematics and machinery. Elizabeth, substituting for the son her parents had hoped for, was allowed to play with toys that encouraged her mech
