What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South deals with the interaction between slaves who escaped to Federal lines and Northerners (civilian volunteers and Military officials) who worked with them. This involved obtaining necessities and working toward revising […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My newest release, The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown (University Press of Kentucky, 2023), tells a unique story amongst the many that the sport of horse racing contains: the story of sire and son […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Next to the big bowl of delicious candy on my table, visitors will find my recent historical novel Cradles of the Reich, the story of three very different German women who meet at a Nazi baby breeding home at the start of […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find The Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health. The book is a resource for everyone, although it features information specific to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find on my table all three books in the Magic Pen Adventure series! In each book, a different middle schooler obtains a magic pen that makes everything they draw become real! In Monster Problems, sixth grader Brad […]
Join P.J. Funnybunny in this charming follow-up to the classic Beginner Book It's Not Easy Being a Bunny. Perfect for Easter or celebrating bunnies all year round! P.J. Funnybunny is back and more lovable than ever in this sweet, funny sequel.
Dave Wertz is undergoing a middle-aged crisis. On the back side of fifty with no job and an unhappy marriage, he pulls a Kerouac and goes on-the-road, and back to his hometown of Frankfort, Kentucky. Dave hopes familiar surroundings and a childhood friend can help him find a sense of safety and belonging.
Want to learn more about illustrating books for children? Do you love to draw as much as you love to read? Then join author/illustrator of the popular Randy the Badly Drawn Horse series, T. L. McBeth, as he leads a fun workshop to go over the basics of illustrating. Open to all ages and skill […]
Self-publishing is a lucrative way to get your books out into the world in a publishing industry that can be difficult to break into. In “How to Become a Self-Publishing Superstar,” join Julian Thomas, author of the graphic novel series "Black Heart," and Alisha Klapheke, author of "Enchanting the Elven Mage," in conversation with editor […]
These thirteen new works explore the memory and imagination of Andy Catlett, one of the well-loved central characters of the Port William saga. From 1932 to 2021, these stories span the length of Andy’s life, from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end of rural life in America.
The stories and accounts of Kentucky basketball's players, iconic coaches, and epic games have been told and retold, but lesser known are the stories of the arenas and venues that have been home to the Wildcats—buildings that have witnessed the sights, sounds, and shared spirit of the Big Blue Nation for over a century.
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art […]