Winner of the Etchings Press Book Prize, Pineville Trace follows a former Southern revival preacher and confidence man on his escape from prison eventually confronting his past and seeking redemption amidst the wilderness.
Rebecca Redding
Perfect Day Kentucky shares insights and insider tips to help visitors make the very most of the quintessential experiences, while also presenting additional suggestions to inspire further exploration and encourage longer stays.
Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor Larry McMurtry and his impact on American letters.
His third book, Once These Hills begins in 1898 on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky and follows Lydia King from her discovery of an ancient, preserved body, through love and marriage, to her attempts to reverse the curse of the bog body.
On Rising Ground provides a richly-researched account of a Confederate foot soldier drawn from the thirty surviving letters he wrote to his wife Martha.
Of Fathers & Gods opens a window into the most primal elements of the human condition and shows us how, try as we might, we can never fully escape the bonds of parent and child.
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.
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.