In 130 ink-and-watercolor drawings, the story of one year on a family farm in Kentucky unfolds in captured moments of daily life: Donahue’s husband chopping wood, a cow sniffing her head, her daughter tending to goats after a hard day at school.
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When Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew retired from racing in 1978 to stand at stud at Spendthrift Farm, no one could be certain he would be a successful sire. But just four years later, his dark bay daughter Landaluce won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes by twenty-one lengths—a margin of victory that remains the largest ever […]
A determined Owl builds strength and confidence in this medieval picture book about the real mettle of a hero: wits, humor, and heart.
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’s first senator, John Brown, is almost unknown in the nation and in Kentucky. He was a son of colonial Virginia and a father of Kentucky statehood, but historians have often minimized his contribution, slurred him as a “Spanish conspirator,” or deliberately excluded him from the historiography. He was the only Kentuckian active in national […]
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.
For more than a century, the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team has built a winning tradition that feeds the Big Blue Nation. The history of the winningest program in college basketball is peppered with unforgettable moments and personalities.
It has been said that only eight percent of people ever achieve their goals. These people are exceptional — they are the pioneers, trailblazers and trendsetters that define each generation. They are true innovators who introduce new enhancements, ideas, and methods to continually raise the bar for the products and activities that define the American […]
Hatton, the last name of our ticket scalping protagonist, hangs on a blue banner in the rafters at University of Kentucky's Rupp Arena. Terry Hatton, the son of UK basketball legend Vernon Hatton, believes in the business of family fun. After navigating an international criminal underworld, while raising his family in the Mormon Church, Terry […]
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.