What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home is a collection of eleven essays which address important topics and themes central to the Kentucky African American experience The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is a collection of over […]
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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 […]
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 first children’s book, A is for Affrilachia, my more recent books and my newest collection of poems, The Love House Poems. Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Poetry fans and anyone interested […]
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 […]
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, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I will have three books at my table. I am a cross-genre writer (and reader!). You will find Intruder Alert, my early chapter book. Hunt for clues within the chapters to determine who the intruder is, and why is someone stealing […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a deeply researched memoir that traces my journey to confront the legacy of my grandfather’s work—from the familial to the environmental to the international—building nuclear weapons in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I travel […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky in the War of 1812: The Governor, the Farmers and the Pig (History Press 2023) details just how instrumental in kickstarting, maintaining, fighting, ending, and negotiating the treaty Kentucky was. From Henry Clay’s War Hawks to his roll at the Treaty […]
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? It is my belief that basketball fans will benefit from the book and enjoy hearing about my place in Transylvania basketball history, but I think anyone who enjoys reading memoirs will find this book a tremendous read. My co-author, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? What a year! Three fun books to my name came out this year-the newest is the graphic novel of the hardest Bailey School Kids book to write (with Marcia T. Jones): Ghosts Don’t Eat Potato Chips. If that’s too scary, check out […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be at the festival with my 2023 novel EVERYBODY KNOWS (JackLeg Press), which Margaret Renkl (GRACELAND, AT LAST) calls “a laugh-out-loud post-apocalyptic satire—nothing less than a rowdy, music-besotted, whiskey-drenched tale of political shenanigans and Biblical flooding.” EVERYBODY KNOWS is also an […]