What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Four of my five books will appear on my table but I also hope folks will stop by the register at Joseph Beth and preorder Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir which will be released in January 2024. 1. […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My first book and my only book for this event, “Waste into Taste: turning scraps into delicious dishes.” Creativity is taking a second look at something. For me, some of my best and most loved dishes resulted from this practice. In Waste […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Navigating Fox is a novella that has been described as “Brian Jaques for adults.” It has received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and many other accolades. It tells the story of a talking fox who leads an […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Last Train to Miami: In 1961, if you were a Mafia hitman you did what you were told to do. So, when the boss of the Philadelphia family sent Moe Horwitz to do a job for the Miami boss, he packed his […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Stop my table for the Y2k vibes! My book, Doomsday Dani, is a middle grade novel set in the year 1999. Dani, the protagonist, has been obsessively preparing for the forecasted Y2K disaster and is confident that her hard work will […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Dear Ann, novel, 2020. Ann looks back to her youth in the Sixties and wonders what it would have been like if she had gone West instead of East. Can she really marine an alternate life? Patchwork, Bobbie Ann Mason: […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? First will be my newest book – James Harrod, Founder of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. This is only the second book ever written about Harrodsburg’s founding father. A pioneer, a soldier, and a visionary, in 1774 James Harrod founded the oldest, permanent American settlement […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Common Wealth of Kentucky Project was written and produced by Beth Pride and Kentucky artist Kelly Brewer. It is a time capsule of the inspirational and powerful journey across the state, painting Kentuckians from life and recording and telling their […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Tula Pendleton: The Life and Work of a Forgotten Southern Writer is the story of a woman born in a Kentucky village in 1872 who became a successful short story writer in the 1910s. But tragically, as Tula’s career blossomed, her husband became […]
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? My new crime novel, The End of the Road, is a stand-alone thriller set in and around Columbus, Ohio, that follows a young woman named Penny as she hunts the villain who shot and left her boyfriend for dead. My novels, […]