For almost half a century, celebrated ventriloquist and entertainer Shari Lewis (1933–1998) delighted generations of children and adults with the help of her trusted sock puppet sidekick, Lamb Chop. For decades, the beloved pair were synonymous with children's television, educating and entrancing their young audience with their symbiotic personalities and their proclivity for song, dance, […]
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In October 1979, six years after suffering the loss of Beth, her dear friend and sister-in-law, to enemy mortar fire near the village of Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam, Kat Hunter began to question everything about her traditional life. With a backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement and the final years of the Vietnam War, Kat decides […]
This bilingual (Spanish and English) book of poems is about home and notions of home and different kinds of self-portraiture. Among the poems in the collection is a sequence on Albrecht Dürer’s self-portraits that meditates on how we see and interpret the world and how we fashion images of ourselves for others.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs (University Press of Kentucky, 2023) is a book about the practice of planting crops and doing other activities as guided by the moon/zodiac signs. It brings together information from interviews that were conducted […]
Sam Quinones, journalist, storyteller, and New York Times bestselling author of "Dreamland" will discuss his new book, "The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth" with Michael Patrick F. Smith, author of "The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown," […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In addition to my latest book, “Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam: God, Redlegs, and Blueboys,” I will be selling a companion piece titled “Love Notes from Nam,” featuring my daily notes of devotion to my wife during my […]
In the fifth book in the "John Ross Boomer Lit" series, John Ross is out of excuses for skipping his 50th high school class reunion that his daughter arranged for him to attend as a gift. So it’s off to Ohio for a gathering of Riley High School seniors from the class of 1968.
From the anti-segregation sit-ins of the 1960s to the 2020 protests in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor, the rest of the nation—and often the world—has watched as Kentuckians boldly fought against injustice. In Resistance in the Bluegrass, Farrah Alexander outlines how Kentucky's activists have opposed racism, discrimination, economic inequality, and practices that accelerate […]
Christ stated in Matthew 8:3, "I am willing, be healed" and this life-changing statement emphatically declares that healing and miracles are truly the will of God for us today! With biblical commentaries about the holy scriptures, in-depth spiritual insights, and faith-building true accounts of modern-day miracles, this book will enlighten and strengthen those who are […]
The third book in the Randy, the Badly Drawn Horse series, in which Randy celebrates Christmas and finds out what all the reindeer fuss is about.
. R.J Jacobs has practiced as a psychologist since 2003. A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How We End Things follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to.
Ever wonder what it takes to write or illustrate picture books? Sit down with picture book authors Doris Dearen Settles, Amanda Driscoll, and Christopher Denise to chat while decorating pumpkins!