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Alice Grace Ripley lives in a fantasy world, her nose stuck in a book. But happily-ever-after-life she is prepared on abruptly falls apart when her partner, Gordon, breaks up with her, accusing her of residing in a world of misinformation rather than the actual world. Then to top it off, Alice drops her precious work in the library as a result of cuts as a result of Excellent Depression.Fleeing small-town news, Alice brains towards the hills of eastern Kentucky to provide five containers of donated books for the library within the little coal-mining community of Acorn. Slipped down by her family, Alice volunteers to remain for 2 months to simply help the librarian, Leslie McDougal.But the librarian works out to be significantly diverse from she expected--and of course the four woman librarians who go the distant houses to provide the much-preferred publications.