wonderland creek  lynn austin will delight readers with her winsome heroine<br /><br />alice grace ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. but happily-ever-after life she&apos;s planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend, gordon, breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real world. then to top it off, alice loses her beloved job at the library because of cutbacks due to the great depression.<br /><br />fleeing small-town gossip, alice heads to the mountains of eastern kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the library in the tiny coal-mining village of acorn. dropped off by her relatives, alice volunteers to stay for two weeks to help the librarian, leslie mcdougal.<br /><br />but the librarian turns out to be far different than she anticipated--not to mention the four lady librarians who travel to the remote homes to deliver the much-desired books. while alice is trapped in acorn against her will, she soon finds that real-life adventure and mystery--and especially romance--are far better than her humble dreams could have imagined.