An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion.
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With inspiration from Langston Hughes and deep love for her grandparents, King shows the world that young people are strong enough to carry on their elders' legacy while creating a new path for themselves in her latest book, We Dream a World.
Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933–2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively barred from office because of her gender, she forged her own path by helping family friends Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson.
In War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation, Travis L. Martin explores how a new generation of veterans is redefining what it means to come home. More than 2.7 million veterans served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their homecomings didn't include parades or national celebrations. Instead, when the last US troops left Afghanistan, American […]
Elizabeth Kilcoyne’s Wake the Bones is a dark, atmospheric debut about the complicated feelings that arise when the place you call home becomes hostile.
Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year Award and Best Book, American Cooking, Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia.
Vaulting through Time, tells of sixteen-year-old gymnast Elizabeth Arlington’s catapulting and captivating journey through time courtesy of the discovery by ex-best-friend Zach of a time machine in an abandoned house.
With Under this Red Rock, she delivers a powerful psychological thriller, deftly exploring the dark places in the earth and the human mind, where what is real and imaginary isn’t so easily distinguishable.
Under the Angel Tree, written by Christine Elizabeth Herren and illustrated by Erin McGuire Thompson, is the story of Eileen, a little girl who is bullied by her friends only to discover the special magic that lives inside each of us.
Uncertain Mythologies deals with our perception of time passing and the moments that establish and accumulate meaning in our lives.
In her latest picture book, Two Homes, One Heart, Young’s poignant story and Chelsea O’Byrne’s tender illustrations offer gentle reassurance to kids navigating separation or divorce and remind us that while families change, love is constant.
Two Brown Dots explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. In stark, honest poems, Quintos recounts the messiness and confusion of being a typical ‘90s kid—watching Dirty Dancing at sleepovers, borrowing eye shadow out of a friend’s caboodle, crushing on a boy wearing khaki shorts […]