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," […]
Jay McCoy
Rooted in Sunrise is a story of learning to change and, in the process, discovering what is most important.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My most recent book is the paperback version of Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy, a nonfiction book packed full of fascinating stories about gender, sexuality and race in sports. It starts with the story of how cheerleading went […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In Roberta Schultz’s fourth chapbook, Asking Price, questions are key to examining humanity’s relationship to the planet we live on. Who eats what? When comes another dragon’s charm for pain? Why don’t we ever see a live armadillo? Join the bargaining war […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, I will have copies of RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES, copies of my first book BIG BAD (if Joseph-Beth allows me to also feature a previous title), RICKY and BIG BAD postcards, bookmarks, and stickers, as well as some fun “love story” […]
YOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of freedom fighters? Step back in time to face the challenges and decisions that real people […]
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.
Nearly twenty-five years of traveling to Italy with her husband and recently making a second home in a small hilltop village through restoring a former horse stable inside the medieval walls of a tiny town form the basis of her latest book, a travel memoir, called Restored in Tuscany: A True Story of Facing Loss, […]
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 […]
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Book signing in Spirituality section within Joseph Beth. Abbey of Gethsemani’s Brother Paul Quenon to discuss book at Kentucky Book Festival on Nov. 2 The 2024 Kentucky Book Festival announces a rare opportunity to hear […]
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 […]