Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Derrick Ramsey They Call Me Mr. Secretary Derrick Ramsey was the first African American starting quarterback in the history of the University of Kentucky football program who went on to great success in the NFL, […]
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The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge, experience, skill, good sense, and sympathy," writes Wendell Berry in the essay portion of this book.
Pure joy and the power of community radiate from this sweet picture book about a young Black girl's perseverance and confidence in following her double Dutch dreams. Africa's grandmother was a double Dutch legend, and Africa knows she can become the same. Her brother scoffs when she signs up for a double Dutch competition, though […]
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Kathleen Driskell Award-winning poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell serves as the Associate Program Director of Spalding Universityrsquo;s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky, where she is Associate Professor of Creative […]
Each season, Simon & Schuster partners with book festivals nationwide to present insightful panel discussions between celebrated authors. The Kentucky Book Festival is excited to be a partner for this Fall AuthorFest virtual event, featuring John Irving and Jason Reynolds!
Find a free face painting booth near Cattywampus Station, right outside the Children's Authors Tent on the lower level of Joseph-Beth in Lexington.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Bluegrass Files: Broken Glass – In this sixth and final installment of The Bluegrass Files series, the exciting archs of both character and relationship development are brought to surprising and satisfying conclusions, while the latest and most challenging mysteries Sonia Vitale […]
A thirteen-year aerospace engineer for the McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Company, James Walter Moore started his own IT consulting firm and was a candidate for the US Congress. His intriguing life experience and subsequent involvement in politics form the basis of his first book, Exile on K Street.
Everyday Joys Devotional is an invitation to see and experience joy with forty short, sometimes humorous and always real and thought-provoking interactive devotions.
Welcome to Weldon, Kentucky, where no one can keep a secret forever. Nineteen years ago, a powerful and influential man assaulted former runway model Casey Bledsoe, resulting in an unwanted pregnancy. Casey’s biggest regret is allowing fear to influence her to give up her baby for adoption.
Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville’s luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? RUNAWAY: Notes on the Myths That Made Me In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, […]