A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl’s life and changed women’s history forever.
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An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
In The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects, she sets out to recover the accurate history of America's longest continuously held sporting event and establish a balance between well-known narratives and those that are less widely shared with a personal tour of 75 objects from the museum.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers, the first comprehensive chronicle of its kind, highlights the lives andcareers of 125 African American horsemen and women from enslavement to today. From racetrack superstars to behind-the-scenes caretakers, The Heart of the Turf showcases select stories […]
A boy and his teddy have enjoyed a wild day of play, but now the mess has gotten a bit out of hand. Together they must work to undo the Great Toy Disaster by making it a game. They race to straighten the room together, first by picking up all the blue items, and then […]
Marianne Worthington divides Girl Singer into three distinct yet harmonious parts, cantillating local, familial, and personal histories across rural Appalachia.
The Ghost Rules is a simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching look at grief and the supernatural.
Evil Cynthia Cyber is robbing banks with her latest creation, a villain named Currency.
This historical and inspiring coming-of-age novel for young readers explores topics of both historical and contemporary relevance as it follows a harrowing year in the life of its intrepid teenaged narrator. Lexington, Kentucky, 1833: Calendula "Cal" Farmer, a thirteen-year-old white girl, has been raised by her abolitionist, freethinking mother to reason for herself, consult her […]
In her latest novel, The Frame-Up, a magically gifted con artist must gather her estranged mother's old crew for a once-in-a-lifetime heist.
For readers of Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing and Louise Erdrich's The Round House, comes a fresh new voice in Southern fiction. A wonderfully atmospheric coming-of-age family drama told from the perspective of a feisty 12-year-old girl—reminiscent of a modern-day Scout Finch—as she unravels the secrets that threaten her entire family. The backwaters of […]
The competitive selection process for a prized college scholarship turns deadly in the latest thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell.