Will There Also Be Singing? contains poems of witness and protest exploring personal culpability in current social injustices and divisions while examining the complicated grief about a land she loves and for whose future she fears.
Jay McCoy
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, readers will find two new picture books, THE VOICE IN THE HOLLOW and LITTLE RED. A review of THE VOICE IN THE HOLLOW frames the book quite well: ★ “Hillenbrand at his best. . . . Hillenbrand’s snowy […]
Wild About You, is a grumpy-sunshine teen romance that proves the trail to true love doesn't always come with a map.
Join award-winning author Richard Parker as he takes you on a journey through fifteen of Western Kentucky’s most nefarious people, places and events.
From critically acclaimed author Ashley Blooms, Where I Can’t Follow explores the forces that hold people in place, and how they adapt, survive, and struggle to love a place that doesn’t always love them back.
Edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology contains tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors, including Lockington, who genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.
If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. Surely here, at her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose and her daughters can recover from the events of the recent past--the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her struggle with tuberculosis that required a stay at a sanatorium, […]
What the Seahorse Told Me is a magical tale of friendship, family, and the spirit of aloha—guaranteed to delight your heart.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find copies of my book, TRAVIS DAVENTHORPE FOR THE WIN! It’s my debut graphic novel, and the first in an epic four-book series! I’ll also have stickers, sketch cards, and plenty of high fives […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Girl: short story, poetry, song and recipes tell the story of a young girl as she navigates themes of self worth, identity, trauma and resilience Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Readers […]
Wendell Berry discusses his new book The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice with fellow author and Kentucky's current Poet Laureate, Crystal Wilkinson at the Kentucky Book Festival on October 29. Click "Learn More" to watch the video!
An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion.