What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The book Lonnie & Twyla Money – 50 years of Kentucky Appalachian Folk Art. This is a beautiful coffee table book with wonderful photography of their work, but it also tells the story of how the Moneys gave up farming to become […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South deals with the interaction between slaves who escaped to Federal lines and Northerners (civilian volunteers and Military officials) who worked with them. This involved obtaining necessities and working toward revising […]
When a Molotov cocktail was lobbed over the security fence at my TV station during the protests of 2020 and a ball of fire exploded under a vehicle, I hoped it wasn’t mine. Not because I cared about my car. I cared about my fishing gear inside, and as soon as […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer is a story of American life in the 20th century. It’s the story of a young woman from an immigrant community who came of age just as women got the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My newest release, The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown (University Press of Kentucky, 2023), tells a unique story amongst the many that the sport of horse racing contains: the story of sire and son […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find The Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health. The book is a resource for everyone, although it features information specific to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Book Title — Forever Crazy About the Cats: An Improbable Journey of a Kentucky Sportswriter Overcoming Adversity If you’re feeling nostalgic for the University of Kentucky’s glorious basketball past, this could be the book for you! Veteran sportswriter Jamie H. Vaught has penned another entertaining book primarily […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, visitors will find not only copies of My Recovery Companion, but also an invitation to a conversation about the content of the book including resilience, recovery, and the human spirit’s ability to triumph over adversity. Visitors can use the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home is a collection of eleven essays which address important topics and themes central to the Kentucky African American experience The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is a collection of over […]
YOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of freedom fighters? Step back in time to face the challenges and decisions that real people […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? RUNAWAY: Notes on the Myths That Made Me In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a deeply researched memoir that traces my journey to confront the legacy of my grandfather’s work—from the familial to the environmental to the international—building nuclear weapons in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I travel […]