In Not Far from Freedom, a formerly enslaved great-grandmother in mid-1950s Kentucky shares stories of cross-generational survival, striving, determination, and forgiveness as her great-granddaughter garners knowledge, strength, and understanding to chart her future and find a new way to move forward.
Rebecca Redding
No Better Time is a story of the 6888 Postal Directory Battalion, a unit comprised entirely of women of color and the only unit of its type to serve in Europe during WWII.
With history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau’s Journal, Tagore’s Gitanjali, Martin Buber’s Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales, he demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books.
Murder Ballads Old and New is a graveyard stroll that's equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical, excavating facts and exploring stories that reveal larger contexts while mapping the lineages of songs and themes, forebears, and ancestors.
Mr. Tux and the Little Garden Hotel, born out of a stay at a small, charming hotel in Central France, follows Pipsqueak, an abandoned kitten who finds a new job, new name, and new home, and plenty of adventure trying to save the hotel from the mice, the health department, and El Cidre.
In Mothman’s Merry Cryptid Christmas, Rudolph takes an unexpected vacation one foggy Christmas Eve forcing Santa Claus to ask for Mothman’s help and the holidays will never be the same.
Mommy Goose's Appalachian Melodies, offers lyrical poems and nursery rhymes in tandem with whimsical and vibrant wood carvings giving readers an opportunity to delight in language and the richness of music and storytelling more attuned to the cultural and verbal complexities of Appalachia.
Josh Boldt writes crime fiction and mystery novels set in the American South. For fans of his prior novels, Moneymaker offers a glimpse into the early years of a familiar character in Mack Abbott in this gripping tale of intrigue and suspense.
Mariposa: Opioid Abatement Poems tells two parallel stories, one a harrowing descent of a beloved adult daughter into heroin addiction and homelessness, the other a quietly hopeful mother's journey toward a heroic self-discipline.
Set in a small Kentucky college town in 1953, Lovesick Blossoms is a compelling and emotional tale of passion, power, fulfillment -and consequences- of not playing by the rules in Appalachia.
His latest book, Love for the Land draws on in-depth interviews and the writings of Wendell Berry to explore why some small and midsized farmers continue to care for their land and calls upon everyone to learn from these farmers and cultivate a better future for food and farming.
Loud Water, details the gritty and redemptive story of Crit Poppwell and his unsettling paroled return to Breathitt County after a prison awakening to the healing power of art and creativity.