What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs (University Press of Kentucky, 2023) is a book about the practice of planting crops and doing other activities as guided by the moon/zodiac signs. It brings together information from interviews that were conducted […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My most recent book is the paperback version of Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy, a nonfiction book packed full of fascinating stories about gender, sexuality and race in sports. It starts with the story of how cheerleading went […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In Roberta Schultz’s fourth chapbook, Asking Price, questions are key to examining humanity’s relationship to the planet we live on. Who eats what? When comes another dragon’s charm for pain? Why don’t we ever see a live armadillo? Join the bargaining war […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In addition to my latest book, “Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam: God, Redlegs, and Blueboys,” I will be selling a companion piece titled “Love Notes from Nam,” featuring my daily notes of devotion to my wife during my […]
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 […]
. R.J Jacobs has practiced as a psychologist since 2003. A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How We End Things follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Intermission is the story of a popular, multiracial girl group, the Diamonds, who reluctantly consider reuniting for a twentieth anniversary tour, despite vows never to speak again. Each has their own memory of who did what to whom, and that memory has […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find copies of our Book, of course. Additionally, I plan to have information from Hospice of the Bluegrass (dba Bluegrass Care Navigators) and The Palliative Care Center at the University of KY. If there are other pertinent programs, I […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? “The Coal Miner who became Governor” is a personal memoir of my life with an emphasis on my time as Governor of Kentucky. It was written by me with the assistance of University of Kentucky oral historian Jeffery Suchonek. Whom […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860 In this book, I examine the material culture of Grecian-style buildings in antebellum America to help recover nineteenth-century regional identities. I invite readers to question many of the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My novel, Traces, is a retelling of the Daniel Boone saga through the eyes of his wife, Rebecca, and their two oldest daughters, Susannah and Jemima. Boone biographer, Robert Morgan wrote that Traces, “rescues Rebecca Boone and her daughters from the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? POE Prophecies is an exciting new take on the works of Edgar Allan Poe that will interest young readers and those who are young-at-heart. Poe Prophecies: The Raven kicks off the adventures of 12-year-old POE Academy student, Aidan Grey, as he […]