To the Stars Through Difficulties, (Paperback)

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If you love libraries, and you want a book that will make you smile, pick up this little gem and enjoy.

from clue

A tornado has destroyed most of the small town of Prairie Hill, Kansas. Shortly after the tornado struck, Angelina comes to town to work on her dissertation on Carnegie libraries. Her father was from a nearby town, New Hope, and his mother had helped get a Carnegie library built there. In Prairie...

from BrokenTeepee

This is a book about history and new beginnings. It tells the stories of the rebirth of a town after a devastating tornado and of different women trying to figure out exactly where they are in life. It's almost as if the tornado that destroyed the one town pulled the assorted women into the neigh...

from debs4jc

Women bond together to create communities filled with art and literature in this book. Three women tell us their stories, all of them newly transplanted to New Hope, Kansas. One is an artist from New York, a young woman looking for a new start. Another is a researcher whose Grandmother lived in N...

from cburnett5

I love everything single aspect of this book - the plot, the characters, the details about the Carnegie-funded libraries, the setting, the author's writing style and the cover. Romalyn Tilghman weaves her story around three main characters: Angelina, Gayle and Traci, three strong women facing str...