Lark Ascending is a riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic. As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a refugee boat headed […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Echo Her Lovely Bones shares the stories of eight women who have lived in a house during its two-hundred-year history. The novel is a series of stories written by the women and left in the attic of the house. Their stories […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors to my table will find my debut novel, Go As A River. An international bestseller translated into thirty languages and optioned for film, Go As A River is the heartbreaking story of a young woman whose life is changed forever […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll have copies of Fighting for Freedom Along the Underground Railroad (Part of Capstone Publishing’s “You Choose” series), as well as copies of the hi-lo reader superhero series, The Gamer. Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The closing event of the 2023 Kentucky Book Festival was a poetry reading! Participating poets read a poem each from their featured books. Frank X Walker, Jessica D Thompson, Jeff Worley, Roberta Schultz, Jonathon Greene, Kathleen Driskell, Maurice Manning, Libby Falk Jones, Carolyn Grace, Norman Minnick, Willie Carver Jr and LeTonia Jones! Kentucky Poet Laureate […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find copies of our Book, of course. Additionally, I plan to have information from Hospice of the Bluegrass (dba Bluegrass Care Navigators) and The Palliative Care Center at the University of KY. If there are other pertinent programs, I […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? “The Coal Miner who became Governor” is a personal memoir of my life with an emphasis on my time as Governor of Kentucky. It was written by me with the assistance of University of Kentucky oral historian Jeffery Suchonek. Whom […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860 In this book, I examine the material culture of Grecian-style buildings in antebellum America to help recover nineteenth-century regional identities. I invite readers to question many of the […]