In Dear Ann, she captures the excitement of youth and the nostalgia of age and relates how the consideration of the road not taken can illuminate, and perhaps overtake our present.
In Time to Fly, a sweet and encouraging picture book, Baby Bird learns to overcome his fear of leaving the nest.
George Ella Lyon
The Original Louisville Slugger addresses the myths surrounding the larger-than-life figure Louis "Pete" Rogers Browning, uncovers the thin line between fact and fiction, and presents an extensive account of the man, and legendary ball player.
Tim Newby
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.
Stephen M. Vest
All the Gold Stars, is an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.
Rainesford Stauffer
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.
Keven McQueen
At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, I Could Name God In Twelve Ways probes her personal history from the stance of different places, perspectives, and vulnerabilities as she tenderly and fiercely searches for acceptance and a place to call home.
Karen Salyer McElmurray
Kentucky's Lost Bourbon Distilleries recounts a part of the rich history of the Commonwealth’s world-renowned bourbon industry and the hundreds of distilleries that closed because of Prohibition or decades afterwards with only old photographs left to tell this story of dedicated craftsmanship.
A thirteen-year aerospace engineer for the McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Company, James Walter Moore started his own IT consulting firm and was a candidate for the US Congress. His intriguing life experience and subsequent involvement in politics form the basis of his first book, Exile on K Street.Â
James Walter Moore
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.
Deidre A. Scaggs
With Novgorodoff, award-winning author Chef JJ Johnson takes readers on an informative and exciting culinary adventure through The Simple Art of Rice that will help anyone master the art of cooking rice.
Danica Novgorodoff
Shaker Made is a love letter to the cultural artifacts-the architecture, furniture, and crafts-of one of America's most notable utopian societies.
Carol Peachee
James Harrod details the beginning of the historic city of Harrodsburg and life of the pioneer, soldier, and visionary man who founded the first permanent English settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains.Â
Griffinology is a fascinating, beautifully illustrated exploration of the mythical creature's many depictions in human culture.Â
A. L. McClanan
His most recent book, Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks analyzes the bases and motives leading to American military missteps of the past one hundred years and explores what could be done to curtail future misconduct of generals and admirals.
Jeffrey J. Matthews
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.
Anya Liftig
His latest book, Love for the Land draws on in-depth interviews and the writings of Wendell Berry to explore why some small and midsized farmers continue to care for their land and calls upon everyone to learn from these farmers and cultivate a better future for food and farming.Â
Brooks Lamb
Retired Louisville Times and Courier-Journal columnist Bob Hill worked with Jones for three years to write Always Moving Forward, an inspiring and insightful autobiography of the healthcare business titan and philanthropist.
An account of a life framed by family, faith, and service, In Service to Justice is a part spiritual and part adventure story.
William E. Davis
This comprehensive volume contains historical essays, hundreds of historical and contemporary photographs, and biographical sketches profiling award-winning African American musicians, songwriters, recording artists, singers, and entertainers who have performed on television, in films, and on stage.
Keith Clements & Michael L. Jones
Bluegrass Sons is a true crime family saga about Bradley Bryant, a United States Marine who lived a double life, set between Lexington, Kentucky, and the desert days and gaudy nights of 1970s Las Vegas, Nevada with a little El Paso, Guatemala, and Savannah thrown in.Â
Erin Chandler
In The Late Rebellion, the residents of Germantown, a small South Carolina community that nestles in the folds of the Appalachian Mountains, challenge traditional notions of what it means to be Southern, and what it means to be accepted, particularly when the old ways begin to crumble.
Mark Powell
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.
Meredith R. Lyons
In The False Flat, an uplifting story about friendship, love, and growth, one woman must untangle herself from a past that's holding her back in order to move forward into the life that will set her free.
Melissa R. Collings
In her latest thrilling and twisty novel, You Shouldn’t Be Here, two strangers search for the truth behind bizarre occurrences no one else dares to discuss―only to discover that they’re connected by secrets that could destroy them both.
Lauren Thoman
In her latest book, The Last Caretaker, an empowering and provocative page-turner, a woman in search of a new beginning is put to the test in ways she never imagined.
Jessica Strawser
In Not Far from Freedom, a formerly enslaved great-grandmother in mid-1950s Kentucky shares stories of cross-generational survival, striving, determination, and forgiveness as her great-granddaughter garners knowledge, strength, and understanding to chart her future and find a new way to move forward.
Emma McElvaney Talbott
His third book, Once These Hills begins in 1898 on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky and follows Lydia King from her discovery of an ancient, preserved body, through love and marriage, to her attempts to reverse the curse of the bog body.
Chris McGinley
Rooted in Sunrise is a story of learning to change and, in the process, discovering what is most important.
Beth Dotson Brown
Inspired by 1970s and '80s music and pop culture touchstones, The Best That You Can Do is a collection of stories loudly and joyfully filled with cousins, aunts, grandparents, budding romances, and the nostalgia of Black childhood.Â
Amina Gautier
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.
Marianne Peel
Lost In America chronicles the pain and joy of navigating life in America as the daughter of an immigrant Chinese father and German mother.Â
Lennie Hay
Larger-than-life bad guys and slapstick humor meet a heartfelt exploration of what makes a place home in Jerry, Let Me See the Moon, a page-turner that will leave younger middle-grade readers howling for more.
Jeffrey Ebbeler
A graduate of the Art Institute of Cincinnati, Jeffrey Ebbeler has worked as an art director, book designer, illustrator, and even marionette sculptor and performer for a puppet theater. Larger-than-life bad guys and slapstick humor meet a heartfelt exploration of what makes a place home in Jerry, Let Me See the Moon, a page-turner that will leave younger middle-grade readers howling for more.
A fast-paced mystery with just the right amount of hair-raising thrills that begs to be read cover-to-cover in one setting.
Carol Williams
Carol Williams has a long history of writing: ad agency copywriter, healthcare content wordsmith, insurance marketing scribe, and motherly storyteller. Her debut middle-grade novel, is a fast-paced mystery with just the right amount of hair-raising thrills that begs to be read cover-to-cover in one setting.
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.
Gayle G Webre
Gayle G. Webre has worked in elementary education for 25 years, primarily designing and implementing enrichment curricula for gifted children, and represented Louisiana in 2020 at the National Book Festival with her debut picture book, When I Was an Alligator. 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.
The Ghost Rules is a simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching look at grief and the supernatural.Â
Adam Rosenbaum
Before working the last fifteen years in video production and digital media, Adam Rosenbaum operated a sawmill in Kentucky, stocked groceries in Los Angeles, and was a student draftsman at a local power company. He makes his debut with a middle-grade novel, The Ghost Rules, a simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching look at grief and the supernatural.Â
DIY Book Promo helps his fellow authors find readers without spending money based on lessons learned during his 30-year broadcasting career and a three-year campaign for his novel, Fiona's Guardians.
Dan Klefsted
Murder Ballads Old and New is a graveyard stroll that's equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical, excavating facts and exploring stories that reveal larger contexts while mapping the lineages of songs and themes, forebears, and ancestors.Â
Steven L. Jones
Positive Power is a collection of empowering stories and poems for anyone who needs encouragement or inspiration along their spiritual journey.
Eugenia Johnson-Smith
Scissors, Paper, Rock delves into the complexities of human relationships, identity, and the search for self-discovery.
Fenton Johnson
In An Introduction to Black Studies, Jackson connects the growth and impact of Black studies to the broader context of social justice movements, emphasizing the historical and contemporary demand for the discipline.
Eric R. Jackson
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.Â
Emma Hudelson
Kentucky, Y'all is an entertaining and informative compilation of the state's favorite oddities, quirks, and traditions told through their best stories from their experiences as writers, travelers, and residents in this ode to the Commonwealth.
Blair Thomas Hess & Cameron Ludwick
In Troublesome Rising, a visceral and powerful anthology, well-known and emerging Appalachian writers create not only a historical document and an in-depth investigation of the late July 2022 catastrophic flash flood in eastern Kentucky, but also a celebration of Appalachian strength, determination, and resilience.
Melissa Helton
With chapters contributed by a diversity of higher education staff and faculty, Belonging in Higher Education illuminates autoethnographic stories of belonging in higher education in the United States.
Nicholas Daniel Hartlep
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.Â
Tom Hammond & Mark Story
Bringing Ben Home tells the story of Ben Spencer, a Black man wrongly convicted and sentenced to life before being freed after 34 years, a case which reveals how easy it is to convict an innocent person and how impossible it is to undo the mistake.
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
They Call Me Goose presents fans with the powerful story of a husband, father, mentor, businessman, and ambassador for Kentucky—who also just happens to be an iconic sports legend.
Jack Givens & Doug Brunk
Benefactors of Posterity explores the Filson Historical Society's founding era and Louisville in the Gilded Age.
Daniel Gifford
Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor Larry McMurtry and his impact on American letters.
George W. Getschow
Everyday Joys Devotional is an invitation to see and experience joy with forty short, sometimes humorous and always real and thought-provoking interactive devotions.
Tama Fortner
 What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers, the first comprehensive chronicle of its kind, highlights the lives andcareers of 125 African American horsemen and women from enslavement to today. From racetrack superstars to behind-the-scenes caretakers, The Heart of the Turf showcases select stories […]
Roda Ferraro
Perfect Day Kentucky shares insights and insider tips to help visitors make the very most of the quintessential experiences, while also presenting additional suggestions to inspire further exploration and encourage longer stays.Â
Kathryn Witt
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 […]
Crystal Wilkinson
In The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects, she sets out to recover the accurate history of America's longest continuously held sporting event and establish a balance between well-known narratives and those that are less widely shared with a personal tour of 75 objects from the museum.
Jessica Whitehead
In Déjà Blue, he shares a behind-the-scenes look at his career in sportswriting, from his early years at the Huntington Herald-Dispatch (W.Va.) through over four decades covering the highs, and lows, of the Wildcats for the Lexington Herald-Leader including three national championships, nine Final Fours, and six head coaches.
Jerry Tipton
With history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau’s Journal, Tagore’s Gitanjali, Martin Buber’s Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales, he demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books.
Jon M. Sweeney
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.
Matthew Sparks & Olivia Sizemore
Written with his daughter, Courtney Roker Laga, a recipe developer and trained chef who has worked in two Michelin-starred restaurants, Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By celebrates the joy of cooking for family, friends and loved ones, of gathering people together and not just for the big events but for everyday occasions, which are even […]
Al Roker
Illuminating Nature combines mesmerizing photographs with reflections on the peace we find in nature, the importance of planning and equal power of serendipity, and tips for getting that photo.
Jon Reynolds
A story of encouragement and inspirational leadership, They Call Me Mr. Secretary follows Ramsey’s journey from an impressionable childhood spent in segregated Hastings, Florida, up through his current role as elder statesman of both the National Football League and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Derrick Ramsey & John Huang
After five decades of life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and ten published books of poetry, his A Matter of the Heart mingles reflections, meditations, insights, and wanderings with outward experiences in nature, community, and sketches of monks-saintly, comical, or strange-poetic moments, for a multi-colored, diverse, and surprising display of what it is […]
Brother Paul Quenon
On Rising Ground provides a richly-researched account of a Confederate foot soldier drawn from the thirty surviving letters he wrote to his wife Martha.
Elaine Fowler Palencia
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.Â
Kevin Nance
Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year Award and Best Book, American Cooking, Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia.
Ronni Lundy
In Bourbon Land, Chef Edward Lee pays tribute to the iconic Kentucky spirit with a book full of original recipes, Kentucky Bourbon history, industry profiles and more.
Edward Lee
In this landmark biography, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice […]
Jonathan Eig
By telling the story of the Electoral College’s origins, 237-year history, and surprising present-day operations, Distorting Democracy, her most recent book, shows how we ended up with this odd method for choosing our leader.
Carolyn Renee Dupont
In The Court v. The Voters, he takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown, some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation.
Joshua A. Douglas
Written with George Stephanopoulos, The Situation Room provides the definitive, past-the-security-clearance look at the White House Situation Room and the people — the famous and those you’ve never heard of — who have made history within its walls.
Lisa Dickey
In Before the Storm Takes It Away, he steps away from poetry and into short explorations in nonfiction—alternately dark, wry, contemplative, and explosive.
Gaylord Brewer
Complete with high-definition color photographs, recipes, and short history lessons, Foraging Kentucky is an expansive beginners' guide chock-full of crucial information for readers who want to safely and ethically forage the delectable foods naturally available in Kentucky's great outdoors.
George Barnett
Mariposa: Opioid Abatement Poems tells two parallel stories, one a harrowing descent of a beloved adult daughter into heroin addiction and homelessness, the other a quietly hopeful mother's journey toward a heroic self-discipline.
Laverne Zabielski
In this stirring new collection of historical poetry, Load In Nine Times, he braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops--including his own ancestors--with family members, as well as slaveowners and prominent historical figures--including Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Margaret Garner--into a wide-ranging series of persona poems imbued with atmospheric imagery and brimming with […]
Frank X Walker
Through themes of domestic abuse, the death of a parent, the loss of a friend, and the search for cultural identity, the poems in Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House transcend the borders of language and nation-states.Â
Katerina Stoykova
Uncertain Mythologies deals with our perception of time passing and the moments that establish and accumulate meaning in our lives.Â
James Alan Riley
By conveying the despair—and serenity—found in the loneliness of the woods and tackling the frank reality of self-acceptance in the face of ugly truths, Kingfisher Blues offers a visceral encounter with the intertwined forces of nature, human struggle, and redemption.
Erik Reece
The poems in A Field of First Things are evocations of experience, attempts to clarify, preserve, and share first things.
Greg Pape
Woe & Awe invokes the voices of female ancestors, physical and spiritual, in poems of timeless perspective and contemporary language with fearless depth and beauty.
Lisa M. Miller
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.
Dorian Hairston
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology is a landmark Latinx poetry collection including more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presenting poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.Â
Rigoberto González
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.Â
Missy Brownson
No Better Time is a story of the 6888 Postal Directory Battalion, a unit comprised entirely of women of color and the only unit of its type to serve in Europe during WWII.Â
Sheila J. Williams
Set in a small Kentucky college town in 1953, Lovesick Blossoms is a compelling and emotional tale of passion, power, fulfillment -and consequences- of not playing by the rules in Appalachia.
Julia Ellen Watts
Cancer in Appalachia: A Collection of Youth-Told Stories is an anthology of powerful short stories and a few poems written by high school and undergraduate students who have leveraged their own lived experiences in Appalachian Kentucky and knowledge of cancer to convey fictional, yet highly realistic stories about the pain and disruptions that cancer causes […]
Nathan L Vanderford & Holly Burke
The Lost Story, inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes just in case.
Meg Shaffer
Of Fathers & Gods opens a window into the most primal elements of the human condition and shows us how, try as we might, we can never fully escape the bonds of parent and child.
Jim Roberts
The Evolution of the Gospelettes, is a compelling exploration of family ties and rifts, faith and doubt, and holiness and hypocrisy in a changing world.
Tammy Oberhausen
Narrated in alternating voices and set against the backdrop of an economically depressed Appalachian town, Morris's The Stone Catchers explores the immeasurable pain and trauma experienced by the survivors of a school shooting.Â
Laura Leigh Morris
With Rust Belt country gothic flair, I Never Do This touches on spiritual abuse, addiction, family entanglements, and the disenfranchisement of women and young people in fundamentalist settings.
Anesa Miller
His debut novel, Controlled Conversations, challenges readers with the question of what separates people who transcend their fear and take risks for the sake of change from the rest of us.
Karol Lagodzki
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.
Wendy M. Jett
The shady characters in I Can Outdance Jesus go on bizarre and unforgettable adventures, taking them from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, and bringing alive the strangeness and humor of the mountains.Â
Willie Davis
In Turkeyfoot, the opioid epidemic has ravaged the namesake eastern Kentucky community and Sweetie Goodins has played no small part in feeding his neighbors' bad habits, but before he can atone for any of his wrongdoings, he must either acknowledge his role in the lives ruined or continue paving a path of destruction.
Rick Childers
In her latest novel, The Frame-Up, a magically gifted con artist must gather her estranged mother's old crew for a once-in-a-lifetime heist.
Gwenda Bond
Josh Boldt writes crime fiction and mystery novels set in the American South. For fans of his prior novels, Moneymaker offers a glimpse into the early years of a familiar character in Mack Abbott in this gripping tale of intrigue and suspense.
Josh Boldt
Winner of the Etchings Press Book Prize, Pineville Trace follows a former Southern revival preacher and confidence man on his escape from prison eventually confronting his past and seeking redemption amidst the wilderness.
Wes Blake
Written with the acclaimed director of The Fugitive, Andrew Davis, Disturbing the Bones is a propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis.
Jeff Biggers
Child Craft will leave you feeling both haunted and a little less alone.
Amy Cipolla Barnes
