Singing is Praying Twice focuses on five generations of females and the rites of passage inherent in intergenerational connections and makes palpable the musicality amid loss and regret with much singing, dancing, and rejoicing on the page.
2024 Book Festival
A gastronomic history like no other, Simplicity and Excellence effortlessly paints a portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell Kremer, one of the most influential forces behind the preservation of Kentucky's culture through its cuisine.
Shitbag Soldier examines the military fairytale that fueled Burton’s enlistment in light of the camouflage nightmares of a reality where she must survive by writing her own narrative instead of letting someone else define her truth.
She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance, Waldrop’s second children’s book, explores the life and art of Helen LaFrance, a Kentucky memory painter and outsider artist who captured a lively, vibrant view of rural life in a changing world.
Shaker Made is a love letter to the cultural artifacts-the architecture, furniture, and crafts-of one of America's most notable utopian societies.
Scissors, Paper, Rock delves into the complexities of human relationships, identity, and the search for self-discovery.
Rooted in Sunrise is a story of learning to change and, in the process, discovering what is most important.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, I will have copies of RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES, copies of my first book BIG BAD (if Joseph-Beth allows me to also feature a previous title), RICKY and BIG BAD postcards, bookmarks, and stickers, as well as some fun “love story” […]
Nearly twenty-five years of traveling to Italy with her husband and recently making a second home in a small hilltop village through restoring a former horse stable inside the medieval walls of a tiny town form the basis of her latest book, a travel memoir, called Restored in Tuscany: A True Story of Facing Loss, […]
In Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams, along with cowriter Story, Hammond offers an intimate and gripping look at his experiences from broadcasting from thirteen Olympic Games and sixteen Kentucky Derbys to providing the play-by-play voice for Notre Dame football and announcing SEC men's basketball.
Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow explores the Black American experience through the lens of basebal legend Josh Gibson's life and seventeen-year baseball career while addressing social change, culture, family, race, death, and oppression-while honoring and giving voice to Gibson and a voiceless generation of African Americans.
Her latest book, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, was named a Most Anticipated Book or Best Book in 2024 So Far by Ms. Magazine, Book Riot, Parade, Electric Lit, The Root, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and […]