I Am Not Santa Claus! is a hilariously clever story about a man with a white beard and a red hat who, despite all evidence to the contrary, insists that he is NOT Santa Claus.
2024 Book Festival
In Hush Candy, her accomplished and sure debut collection, she revisits the venerable genre of domestic advice manuals, those 19th and 20th century compendia of wisdom designed to guide women (especially aspiring women of the rising middle class) in the exercise of their proper roles in the home and society.
The stories in How We Fracture, winner of the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize and mostly set in Kentucky, follow a diversity of female characters, from teenagers to women in their sixties, who experience some points of fracture in their lives and discover how we are connected to, and nourished by, the natural world.
In Holler Rat, Anya skillfully interweaves family lore from her childhood with descriptions of her performance art pieces and scenes of the year-long period in which her life fell apart, then plumbs the cathartic self-reckoning that followed.
A senior lecturer in English composition at Eastern Kentucky University, Keven McQueen is author of 23 books covering topics such as American history, the supernatural, biography, historical true crime, and what he calls real-life surrealism. Historic Louisville Murders covers 24 homicides that rocked Louisville between the 1840s to the 1920s.
Comprised of a mixture of claimed accounts and fabricated lore, Haint Country is a collection of weird, otherworldly, and supernatural phenomenon in Eastern Kentucky, recorded and documented for the first time.
Beyond teaching about incredible dinosaurs, the yummy tale of Hadley, the Happy and Helpful Hadrosaurus reminds us that friendship is the best ingredient in every recipe.
Griffinology is a fascinating, beautifully illustrated exploration of the mythical creature's many depictions in human culture.
In her latest book, Greta’s Gumbo, imagination rules when a young girl summons the help of a hyperactive monkey, a curious rabbit, and a frozen penguin while shopping for groceries for her family.
In her fast-paced debut, Ghost Tamer, a young woman discovers why she was the lucky one to survive a train crash while also facing, and conquering shadows from her past that won't let her go.
George Graham Vest-The Life and Times of Dog's Best Friend provides a detailed look at George Graham Vest, a distinguished attorney and politician known as a champion for the rights of Native Americans and who helped establish Yellowstone National Park.
Geneva’s Garden: Four Seasons of Beauty in Lexington’s Gratz Park is a collection of his photographs shot over the course of a year in the private garden of Elvis and Geneva Donaldson, a sylvan retreat and community hub.