On June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky. At Millersburg, about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train, accompanied by their music teacher, Frank L. Bristow, and the college president, George T. Gould. Gould grabbed the reverend by the shoulder and ordered him […]
Books & Authors
The Act of Disappearing chronicles the days of Julia White, a bartender and debut author, struggling to make ends meet while unraveling the mystery of a strange photograph with a story more staggering than anything she could have imagined.
Tainted picks up where her first book, Girl, left off in a cosmic blend of magical prose, poetry, and recipes, wrestling cosmic questions as Girl continues her journey.
“Wesley Houp has a way of sketching a scene or telling a tale so that the imagined backstory, what isn’t said but lurks just outside the poem’s words, carries the emotion and meaning and keeps resonating. Emily Dickinson said, ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant.’ The poems in Strung Out Along the Endless […]
With themes of self-advocacy and acceptance in the face of medical hardship, her debut YA novel, Stronger at the Seams, is for everyone who has ever felt broken.
There could be no doubt. She read it multiple times. The note had said it all and yet, it said nothing. Never did she think that her heart could feel pain such as this. Plans had been made. He was her rock. He had been there since she was five. Growing up and sharing dreams, […]
Mole can smell that spring is in the air, but Bear is still asleep after his long winter nap! But Bear keeps snoozing. Mole is determined, so he milks and gathers and bakes a special springtime surprise for his friend-- the perfect way to wake up!
Someplace Like Home, a mother and daughter in Appalachia unpack the traumas of the past in a powerful and reflective novel about family, healing, and moving on.
Small Acreages completes a trilogy of connected essays told in Georgia Green Stamper’s unique Kentucky voice. In Small Acreages, readers are returned to Stamper’s Eagle Creek world and its colorful characters, but her voice has both deepened with time and widened to include her journey beyond Natlee.
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away is the biography of a Soviet military-trained intelligence officer who, as a U.S. Army corporal, had full security clearance at two sites of the Manhattan Project, America’s top-secret World War II mission to build the first atomic bomb. Born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa, […]
Sky Watch is not only the tale of a remarkable horse, but of the American Saddlebred breed and the way these horses carried one rider back to herself.
Skacky: Adventures in Imagination is a “charming story that takes you through the imagination, creativity, and sense of humor” of a child on the autism spectrum and his beloved toys. Written and illustrated by Timothy A. Pack, this story will encourage families to celebrate children of all kinds and help their children find an identity […]