What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find Jessica D. Thompson’s first full-length poetry collection entitled, “Daybreak and Deep,” (Kelsay Books, 2022). “Daybreak and Deep” was a finalist in the American Book Fest Best Books of 2022 for Narrative Poetry. “Daybreak and Deep” was also a finalist […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer is a story of American life in the 20th century. It’s the story of a young woman from an immigrant community who came of age just as women got the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? HER EYES WERE ON THE STARS: NANCY GRACE ROMAN, “MOTHER OF HUBBLE” SPACE TELESCOPE This picture book biography tells the story of how a young star lover overcame odds to become an astronomer and eventually become Chief of Astronomy at NASA. […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Time Traveling Through Yellowstone National Park: The Adventures of Bubba Jones is the 5th book in my middle grade national park book series. A family with legendary time travel skills explores Yellowstone National Park to solve a mystery and along the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Front and center on my table will be A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson, my first children’s picture book. The book tells the story of Ellis Wilson, the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance painter who grew up in Mayfield in far […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Festival visitors will find these books of interest: All three books focus on life in Appalachia, the efforts to survive, the role of family and moonshining, and the strength of the people. a. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (2023)– the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Book Title — Forever Crazy About the Cats: An Improbable Journey of a Kentucky Sportswriter Overcoming Adversity If you’re feeling nostalgic for the University of Kentucky’s glorious basketball past, this could be the book for you! Veteran sportswriter Jamie H. Vaught has penned another entertaining book primarily […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, visitors will find not only copies of My Recovery Companion, but also an invitation to a conversation about the content of the book including resilience, recovery, and the human spirit’s ability to triumph over adversity. Visitors can use the […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? ST. AMBROSE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS- this is a book of my heart, the story of a teenage girl with a different kind of mind at a prep school where the conventional is the only thing allowed to thrive (written under Jessica […]
Jessica Ward is a pseudonym for the #1 New York Times bestselling author who writes as J.R. Ward and has over 20 million copies in print. We were happy to feature her on the Main Stage at noon to discuss her new book The St. Ambrose School for Girls. Read her author interview […]