Written with his daughter, Courtney Roker Laga, a recipe developer and trained chef who has worked in two Michelin-starred restaurants, Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By celebrates the joy of cooking for family, friends and loved ones, of gathering people together and not just for the big events but for everyday occasions, which are even […]
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This collection of fourteen essays by Charles Dodd White—praised by Silas House as “one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature”—explores the boundaries of family, loss, masculinity, and place. Contemplating the suicides of his father, uncle, and son, White meditates on what it means to go on when seemingly everything worth living for is […]
A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption. The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee, the last living headstrong daughter in Granny McKenzie’s line, soaked […]
New experiences can be scary, but colorful surprises await those brave enough to try. Take the first step, dive on in, and learn to fly. Discover how curiosity and kindness can send you soaring to new heights. Don't be afraid. A fun-filled adventure lies ahead, and the journey begins with you!
Lexington is known as the “Horse Capital of the World,” but the city’s history runs much deeper. Seventh-generation Kentuckian and Lexington native Foster Ockerman Jr. offers an updated history.
Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, all the time. Awkward. When her father suddenly disappears, Serenity follows his trail to a parallel dimension. The feds on the other side claim to want to help her go home, if she helps them reconstruct the right codes for the portal […]
After five decades of life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and ten published books of poetry, his A Matter of the Heart mingles reflections, meditations, insights, and wanderings with outward experiences in nature, community, and sketches of monks-saintly, comical, or strange-poetic moments, for a multi-colored, diverse, and surprising display of what it is […]
A smart, funny memoir exploring the evolution of a man and his relationship with his daughters as they grow up in the grips of the equestrian life. When Chad Oldfather found himself the parent of a toddler who, out of nowhere, became obsessed with horses, he had no idea what awaited. With his younger daughters […]
A significant life is more simple than you think. In a culture where bigger is seen as better, it’s easy to wonder if your quick prayer between errands or the short note you text a friend means anything in God’s kingdom.
“For years now, Mark Reese has been entertaining Citizen Voice and Times readers with columns about his most beloved pastimes – hunting, fishing, and observing nature in all its wonder. Whether he’s hunting or wading streams, Mark writes poetically of his forays into fields, forests, and waterways. He persistently nudges others to get outside and […]
A Home for Friendless Women follows the Home’s benevolent benefactors and several of the fallen women who live there through their daily religious lessons and hard work while grappling with a terrible secret that has the power to unravel the Home entirely.
Theiss explores the hidden history of her hometown of LaGrange using oral histories she has recorded from locals over the last 18 years. Stories highlight the life of a segregated community where time lingered over decades, simmering and stewing in a pot of relationships and interactions that have been forgotten.