Saving the Library

This book is going on my list for when someone says they want a "nice" book or a "happy" book.   I found this book, Louisiana Saves the Library,  while browsing in my local library a few weeks ago.  It took me a bit to get around to actually reading it but once I did, I was hooked, and wanted to know where the story was going.
The main character, Louisiana,  is a northerner by birth, living in Louisisana, teaching library science at a small college.  After lay-offs at the college, the divorced, single mother of two small children and her best friend end up at the small Alligator Bayou parish library and start breathing new life into it.  Along the way, she also finds a new house and someone to help her fix it up.  Louisiana finds the strength to stand up to her ex-husband, save the library in her new parish and build a new life for herself.
The cast of  supporting characters is realistic to anyone who has lived in a small town where change is slow and everyone seems to know each other..  While the main character is involved in most of the action in the book, the supporting characters are interesting and have lives of their own.  The "blurb" for this book at Amazon does not do a good job of representing the book, in my opinion.
This appears to be author Emily Beck Cogburn's first book.  I'll be keeping my eye out for more books by her in the future.

My other happy book is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society