In her latest book, The Last Caretaker, an empowering and provocative page-turner, a woman in search of a new beginning is put to the test in ways she never imagined.
Rebecca Redding
In The Kentucky Oaks: 150 Years of Running for the Lilies, Hunter traces the evolution of the Kentucky Oaks through the stories of the men, women, and fillies that have made the race a symbol for women's growing participation in the sport at all levels.
In The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects, she sets out to recover the accurate history of America's longest continuously held sporting event and establish a balance between well-known narratives and those that are less widely shared with a personal tour of 75 objects from the museum.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers, the first comprehensive chronicle of its kind, highlights the lives andcareers of 125 African American horsemen and women from enslavement to today. From racetrack superstars to behind-the-scenes caretakers, The Heart of the Turf showcases select stories […]
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Brooks Lamb Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place Brooks Lamb, the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust, is a conservationist, agrarian, teacher, and author. His latest book, […]
The Ghost Rules is a simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching look at grief and the supernatural.
In her latest novel, The Frame-Up, a magically gifted con artist must gather her estranged mother's old crew for a once-in-a-lifetime heist.
In The False Flat, an uplifting story about friendship, love, and growth, one woman must untangle herself from a past that's holding her back in order to move forward into the life that will set her free.
The Evolution of the Gospelettes, is a compelling exploration of family ties and rifts, faith and doubt, and holiness and hypocrisy in a changing world.
In The Court v. The Voters, he takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown, some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation.
In The Court v. The Voters, he takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown, some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation.
Inspired by 1970s and '80s music and pop culture touchstones, The Best That You Can Do is a collection of stories loudly and joyfully filled with cousins, aunts, grandparents, budding romances, and the nostalgia of Black childhood.