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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? This is the first book written about John Paul Merton, Thomas Merton’s younger brother. Neither scholar nor saint, the life of John Paul Merton illustrates there is more than one way to live a meaningful and holy life. His was a quietly […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I am a # 1 NYT bestselling author of 35 published books, the majority of which are written from the viewpoint of the dogs. My most recent, Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog describes the wacky life of Clancy, a yellow Labrador […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Publishers Weekly says: “Buchanan debuts with the folksy story of a curmudgeonly woman in 1950s Paducah, Ky….Along with the brisk pacing and knotty protagonist, Buchanan adds plenty of homespun details (nasty weather visits Paducah ‘like a disagreeable aunt’). This slice of […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? WHEN JASMINE BLOOMS is inspired by Abigail Alcott, the influence behind Marmee of Little Women, about a mother who suffers a tragedy. In her lowest of lows, she wonders “what if” and wakes up in that reality. My eleven novels explore intimate […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? FLIPPIN’ SKATERS (2023). This is Teresa’s latest release, and is a YA contemporary novel about self-love in the face of online bullying. After a photo of Aspen goes viral and destroys her reputation, she copes by reinventing herself as a fierce, gravity-defying […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? ALEX, THE AWESOME AND ARTSY ALLOSAURUS Alex worries a lot about a lot of stuff. His best friend, Hadley the Hadrosaurus, helps him find something that calms his mind, but that’s not all. Alex discovers a talent that not many dinosaurs have. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My latest book, Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence, is the history of a duel that took place near Maysville, Kentucky, during the Civil War between a Union colonel and a pro-Confederate civilian. The […]
Story times take place behind the Children's Authors Tent on the lower level of Joseph-Beth in Lexington. Don't forget to ask a book festival volunteer about a free book voucher for kids 12 years old and under!
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 faced […]