Lost In America chronicles the pain and joy of navigating life in America as the daughter of an immigrant Chinese father and German mother.
Rebecca Redding
In this stirring new collection of historical poetry, Load In Nine Times, he braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops--including his own ancestors--with family members, as well as slaveowners and prominent historical figures--including Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Margaret Garner--into a wide-ranging series of persona poems imbued with atmospheric imagery and brimming with […]
Join Crystal Wilkinson and Ronni Lundy for a discussion of Crystal’s culinary memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks in the beautiful setting of Fasig Tipton on October 31st, noon to 2pm.
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology is a landmark Latinx poetry collection including more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presenting poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.
By conveying the despair—and serenity—found in the loneliness of the woods and tackling the frank reality of self-acceptance in the face of ugly truths, Kingfisher Blues offers a visceral encounter with the intertwined forces of nature, human struggle, and redemption.
In this landmark biography, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice […]
Kentucky's Lost Bourbon Distilleries recounts a part of the rich history of the Commonwealth’s world-renowned bourbon industry and the hundreds of distilleries that closed because of Prohibition or decades afterwards with only old photographs left to tell this story of dedicated craftsmanship.
Kentucky, Y'all is an entertaining and informative compilation of the state's favorite oddities, quirks, and traditions told through their best stories from their experiences as writers, travelers, and residents in this ode to the Commonwealth.
Crystal Wilkinson’s Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts and Brittany J. Thurman’s Forever and Always are representing Kentucky at the 2024 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. The Kentucky Center for Book has selected one youth book and one adult book by Kentucky authors to represent the state at the 2024 National Book Festival: Crystal Wilkinson’s Praisesong for […]
Larger-than-life bad guys and slapstick humor meet a heartfelt exploration of what makes a place home in Jerry, Let Me See the Moon, a page-turner that will leave younger middle-grade readers howling for more.
James Harrod details the beginning of the historic city of Harrodsburg and life of the pioneer, soldier, and visionary man who founded the first permanent English settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains.
In An Introduction to Black Studies, Jackson connects the growth and impact of Black studies to the broader context of social justice movements, emphasizing the historical and contemporary demand for the discipline.