What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? God, I Feel Sad — Kids have big feelings, but none of their feelings are too big for God. Written in partnership with licensed counselor Michelle Nietert, God, I Feel Sad helps children safely explore what it means to feel sad, discover […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? ALEX, THE AWESOME AND ARTSY ALLOSAURUS Alex worries a lot about a lot of stuff. His best friend, Hadley the Hadrosaurus, helps him find something that calms his mind, but that’s not all. Alex discovers a talent that not many dinosaurs have. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My latest book, Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence, is the history of a duel that took place near Maysville, Kentucky, during the Civil War between a Union colonel and a pro-Confederate civilian. The […]
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 faced […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Our book, The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts (2023) Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Anyone interested in fairness in […]
Lark Ascending is a riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic. As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a refugee boat headed […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Echo Her Lovely Bones shares the stories of eight women who have lived in a house during its two-hundred-year history. The novel is a series of stories written by the women and left in the attic of the house. Their stories […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Abandoned Kentucky is a captivating hardcover book spanning 133 pages that transports the reader to a bygone era in the Bluegrass State, showing life as it was back then, and stirring in us a sense of wonder and curiosity about those who […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors to my table will find my debut novel, Go As A River. An international bestseller translated into thirty languages and optioned for film, Go As A River is the heartbreaking story of a young woman whose life is changed forever […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll have copies of Fighting for Freedom Along the Underground Railroad (Part of Capstone Publishing’s “You Choose” series), as well as copies of the hi-lo reader superhero series, The Gamer. Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from […]
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 […]
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 […]