What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Festival visitors will find these books of interest: All three books focus on life in Appalachia, the efforts to survive, the role of family and moonshining, and the strength of the people. a. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (2023)– the […]
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Gwenda Bond is the New York Times bestselling author and a co-founder of the nonprofit Lexington Writer’s Room. In Mr. & Mrs. Witch, a couple discovers at the altar the surprising secret identities they’ve kept from each other.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Stop by and pick up a copy of my debut novel Of Sand and Bone, along with a free bookmark. The story is led by two people searching for a miracle. Their connection, their desire for a different life, and their […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Back to the Dirt (2023)-Miles Knox is a steroid addicted Vietnam vet dealing with PTSD, whose job is on the line as he searches for his girlfriend who may or may not be involved in the murder of a husband-and-wife Oxy drug ring. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Bluegrass Files: Broken Glass – In this sixth and final installment of The Bluegrass Files series, the exciting archs of both character and relationship development are brought to surprising and satisfying conclusions, while the latest and most challenging mysteries Sonia Vitale […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be at the festival with my 2023 novel EVERYBODY KNOWS (JackLeg Press), which Margaret Renkl (GRACELAND, AT LAST) calls “a laugh-out-loud post-apocalyptic satire—nothing less than a rowdy, music-besotted, whiskey-drenched tale of political shenanigans and Biblical flooding.” EVERYBODY KNOWS is also an […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, festival goers will find “Bogustan: An Adventure in Diplomatic Misunderstanding,” a comic novel which takes place in a fictional country, but is inspired by my real-life work overseas as an AntiCorruption Advisor at a U.S. Embassy. The book recounts […]
David Bell is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels for adults and young adults. Try Not to Breathe is a story about an ex-cop who sets out to find her missing sister and discovers the shocking truth about her family.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? A Play for Revenge – Lily Kimura returns to her hometown of Starlight Cove with her twelve-year-old daughter, fresh out of a divorce. She’s committed to starting over, starting with her role as theater manager at the Starlight Cove Playhouse. The playhouse […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Navigating Fox is a novella that has been described as “Brian Jaques for adults.” It has received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and many other accolades. It tells the story of a talking fox who leads an […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Last Train to Miami: In 1961, if you were a Mafia hitman you did what you were told to do. So, when the boss of the Philadelphia family sent Moe Horwitz to do a job for the Miami boss, he packed his […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Dear Ann, novel, 2020. Ann looks back to her youth in the Sixties and wonders what it would have been like if she had gone West instead of East. Can she really marine an alternate life? Patchwork, Bobbie Ann Mason: […]