Saturday April 18, 2015 - Southern Kentucky Book Fest

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150 authors & illustrators for children and adults.
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Mary McDonough
Terry
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Chloe Neill
Kelley
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Jamie Ford
Children’s Day ~ Friday, April 17, 9am-2pm
authors & illustrators for children, ‘tweens, & teens
Mark Crilley
Patrick Carman
Doreen Cronin
Kimberly Willis Holt
Tommy Greenwald
sokybookfest.org
About SOKY Book Fest
SOKY Book Fest is one of the state’s largest literary events
and is presented by Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Warren
County Public Library, and WKU Libraries. Book Fest
enables thousands of readers of all ages to meet their
favorite authors and purchase signed copies of their books.
Table of Contents
The 2015 SOKY Book Fest will be our 17th and is a
fundraiser for the promotion of literacy in our community.
This past year, with help from our sponsors, we gave away
hundreds of books to community members of all ages.
We also arranged for many bestselling authors to visit area
schools and our region.
Please note that all books signed at SOKY Book Fest must
be purchased at the festival. No previously purchased
books are allowed to be signed. Proceeds from books
purchased at Book Fest help us continue our mission.
Thank you!
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Nancy Baird
Carl & Susan Dobson
Connie Foster
Barbara & John Grider
Harriette & Meredith Johnson
JC Kirby & Son
Funeral Chapels & Crematory
Kristie Lowry
Steve & Alecia Marcum
Jerry & Jimmie Martin
Berny & Pat Miller
Tom & Portia Pennington
Nancy & Whayne Priest
Lisa R. Rice
Jay & Patsy Sloan
Rolland Willock & Mary Grey James
David & Miki Wiseman
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Meet the Authors Reception Patrons
3...Featured Headliners
4...Children’s Day Presenters
5...Children’s Day Schedule
6...Young Adult Authors
7...Featured Authors
8...Kentucky Connections
9...Kentucky Literary Award Finalists
11...212˚ Academy
12...Author Presentations & Panels
13...Author Table Locations & Map
16...Authors & Book Descriptions
Ap
ril 17, 2015
Friday, April 17
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Knicely Conference Center
2355 Nashville Road
Sessions are led by published authors who are attending
SOKY Book Fest the following day.
Writers of all levels, including college
and high school students, are welcome.
WRITERS CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE FREE
AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For more information and to register,
go to sokybookfest.org.
Featured Headliners
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of the wildly popular
Outlander novels—Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber,
Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A
Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a
Quill Award and the Corine International Book
Prize), An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My
Own Heart’s Blood—as well as the related Lord
John Grey books Lord John and the Private Matter,
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand
of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; one work of nonfiction, The
Outlandish Companion; and the Outlander graphic novel The Exile.
She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband.
Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is the New York Times bestselling
author of more than thirty books, including
the Dark Legacy of Shannara adventures Wards
of Faerie, Bloodfire Quest, and Witch Wraith; the
Legends of Shannara novels Bearers of the Black
Staff and The Measure of the Magic; the Genesis
of Shannara trilogy: Armageddon’s Children, The
Elves of Cintra, and The Gypsy Morph; The Sword
of Shannara; the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
trilogy: Ilse Witch, Antrax, and Morgawr; the High Druid of
Shannara trilogy: Jarka Ruus, Tanequil, and Straken; the nonfiction
book Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life; and
the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas,
Star Wars:® Episode I The Phantom Menace.™ His novels Running
with the Demon and A Knight of the Word were selected by the Rocky
Mountain News as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of
the twentieth century. Terry Brooks lives with his wife, Judine, in
the Pacific Northwest.
Kimberly Willis Holt is the author of the many
award-winning novels for young adults and
children, including The Water Seeker, My Louisiana
Sky, and When Zachary Beaver Came to Town,
winner of a National Book Award for Young
People’s Literature. She is also the author of the
bestselling Piper Reed series of chapter books
and several picture books. Holt was born in
Pensacola, Florida, and has lived all over the U.S. and the world—
from Paris to Norfolk to Guam to New Orleans. She now lives in
Texas with her family. Visit her online at kimberlywillisholt.com.
Mary McDonough
Best known for her portrayal of Erin on TV
classic The Waltons, Mary McDonough has
continued her acting career into adulthood and
appeared on numerous series including ER,
Picket Fences, Will and Grace, American Dreams,
Boston Legal, and was a reoccurring character on
The New Adventures of Old Christine. She starred
in the made for television movie, Christmas
at Cadillac Jack’s and will soon be seen in the
upcoming film Lake Effects. Mary is an award winning filmmaker.
She wrote and directed For the Love of May, a film starring Patricia
Neal. Mary has written, produced, and directed award winning
educational films and was seen recently hosting her Walton family
for, A Walton Family Reunion for the Inspiration Network which
airs The Waltons daily. She has also utilized her communication and
media savvy as a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight
and host of programs. Mary wrote her memoir, Lessons from the
Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton, to share her Walton
experiences and the lessons she learned through feeling that she
was not enough. One Year is her first novel.
For Mary, reaching others, it seems, was not just a career choice,
but ultimately, a calling.
Jamie Ford
The son of a Chinese American father, Jamie
Ford is the author of the New York Times
bestselling novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and
Sweet, which won the Asian-Pacific American
Award for Literature. Having grown up in
Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife
and children.
Doreen Cronin
Doreen Cronin is the author of The Chicken
Squad series and many bestselling picture books,
including Click, Clack, Boo!; Dooby Dooby Moo;
Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure; Bounce;
Wiggle; Duck for President; Giggle, Giggle, Quack;
and the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo:
Cows That Type. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Visit her at DoreenCronin.com.
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Children’s Day Presenters
Mark Wayne Adams
Patrick Carman
The parts of speech come magically alive as they
participate in a colorful New York City Parade! Each
presents and defines itself as it marches down the street
and through a child’s imagination.
Fans of I Am Number Four and The Maze Runner will
clamor for Quake, the climactic finale to the Pulse trilogy
by Patrick Carman—an epic dystopian story of love and
revenge.
Parts of Speech Parade, New York City
Mark Crilley
Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley
It’s THE book on manga from YouTube’s most popular
art instruction Guru! In these action-packed pages,
graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows you step-by-step how
to achieve an authentic manga style—from drawing faces
and figures to laying out awesome, high-drama spreads.
Take this opportunity to turn the characters and stories
in your head into professional-quality art on the page.
Packed with everything you need to make your first (or your best-ever) manga
stories. 30 step-by-step demonstrations showing how to draw faces and
figures for a variety of ages and body types Inspirational galleries featuring
101 eyes, 50 ways to draw hands, 40 hairstyles, 12 common expressions, 30
classic poses and more.
Doreen Cronin
Click, Clack, Peep!
Farmer Brown, oh-so-sleepy, has a new, adorable—and
LOUD—duckling to deal with in this addition to the
award-winning Click, Clack series from the New York
Times bestselling team who brought you Click, Clack, Moo
and Click, Clack, Boo!
There’s more trouble on the farm, but Duck has nothing
to do with it, for once. This time the trouble is a fourounce puff of fluff who just won’t go to sleep, and whose play-with-me
“peeps” are keeping the whole barnyard awake with him.
How do you get a baby duck to hit the hay? Poor Farmer Brown will find
out—and Duck might just find himself in trouble after all…
Crystal White
Franny’s Rescue
Franny’s Rescue is the story of Crystal’s imaginings of what
her shelter dog, Franny, might have experienced before
ending up in the shelter. Children and adults alike can
relate to the scruffy little dog who doesn’t seem to belong
anywhere or have anyone to love.
The book is topped off with a small nonfiction section
featuring the dog breeds found in the book, and a section for parents with
suggestions as to how to help their children develop literacy skills at home.
Finally, the website offers elementary teachers instructional activities and
plans aligned to the Common Core State Standards for using Franny’s Rescue in
their classrooms.
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Quake
Faith Daniels and Dylan Gilmore have a special ability
called a pulse: they can move things with their minds.
They’re caught in the middle of a deadly war with two
other pulses: Clara and Wade Quinn, who have joined forces with Hotspur
Chance, the most wanted man in the world. Outnumbered, it will take more
than Faith’s and Dylan’s pulses to save them—it will take a miracle.
But this isn’t just about the States anymore; it is about finishing what they
started. In a series of hair-raising battles, they discover an even greater
strength: the power of their combined love. Together, Faith and Dylan might
just be able to save the world with a quake that is big enough to change the
course of history.
Jessica Young
Finley Flowers: Nature Calls
Summer is here, and Finley is heading to Camp Acorn!
She can’t wait to make crafts, eat s’mores, and prove that
she’s tough enough to get back to nature. Unfortunately,
she’ll be sharing a cabin with Olivia Snotham, who’s
not exactly the outdoorsy type. When nature calls and
the girls get lost on the way to the restrooms, Finley’s
spooky ghost story comes back to haunt them. As they work together to find
a creative way home, Finley discovers that there’s more than one way to be
tough.
MD Payne
Monster Juice Book 6: Zits from Python Pit
What would you do if you were covered head-to-toe
in massive zits filled with snakes? Would you keep your
calm, or freak out so much the fangs came out? What if
you had to battle these slithery, slimy serpents from your
face and all over the place to save a bunch of gruesome
old monsters–who desperately wanted to eat you?
For Chris, it’s all in a day’s work as Director of a secret
monster retirement home on the banks of the Congo River. Will his friends
and the monsters of Gallow Manor help Chris survive this epic rumble in the
jungle?
Dear Hank Williams
It’s 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P.
Ellerbee’s new teacher has just given her class an
assignment: learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily,
Tate has the perfect person in mind for a penpal: Hank
Williams, a country music singer-songwriter whose star
has just begun to rise. Tate and her aunt and uncle listen
to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and
Hank are kindred spirits.
Friday, April 17
Aileen Stewart
Tommy Greenwald
The Fern Valley Kids are back in twelve new and exciting
adventures. Join Mildred and Roberta Cornstalk as they
discover a clue hidden inside a library book. Peek into the
window of a secret cottage with the lovely Betsy Woolrich.
Find out what Jason Curlytail builds from a box, what Alice
Redfeather does when she gets locked out of the house, or
how Nathan Gruff copes with the news of a new baby.
Charlie Joe Jackson is the most reluctant reader ever born!
And his best friend, Katie Friedman, now is the star of her
own book, in which a texting disaster encourages her to try
and give up her phone for a week. (GASP!)
Return to Fern Valley
Katie Friedman Gives Up Texting! (And Lives to Tell
About It.)
A perfect addition for any child’s personal library and a joy for families to
share, Return To Fern Valley will have you falling in love with your favorite
characters all over again.
Jessica Burkhart
Take the Reins (Canterwood Crest #1)
When Sasha Silver and her horse, Charm, arrive on the campus
of the elite Canterwood Crest Academy, Sasha knows that
she’s in trouble. She’s not exactly welcomed with open arms.
One group of girls in particular is used to being the best, the
brightest, and the prettiest on the team, and when Sasha shows
her skills in the arena, the girls’ claws come out.
Children’s Day
Presentation Schedule
Sasha is determined to prove that she belongs at Canterwood. Will she rise to the
occasion and make the advanced riding team by the end of her first semester? Or
will the pressure send Sasha packing?
9 a.m.
163A-C
Mark Wayne Adams
Auditorium
Mark Crilley
YA Stage (Main Signing Room)
A Conversation with YA Authors
Suspense
Melissa Landers
Andrea Cremer
Chloe Neill
April Tucholke
Historic Fiction and Fantasy
Terry Brooks
Tracy Barrett
Carey Corp
Jennifer McGowan
Lori Langdon
Megan Whitaker
10 a.m.
Doreen Cronin
Crystal White
11 a.m.
Patrick Carman
Jessica Young
Contemporary Fiction
Joy Hensley
Virginia Smith
Courtney Stevens
Alecia Whitaker
12 p.m.
MD Payne
Thrillers
Mindee Arnett
Ted Goeglein
Amy Christine Parker
Daryl Gregory
1 p.m.
Aileen Stewart
and
Jessica Burkhart
Tommy Greenwald
Contemporary Fiction II
Jaye Robin Brown
Sarah Combs
Gaby Triana
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Young Adult Authors
Friday, April 17 & Saturday, April 18, 2015
Mindee Arnett
Colette Ballard
Tracy Barrett
Jaye Robin Brown
MG Buehrlen
Patrick Carman
Liz Coley
Sarah Combs
Carey Corp
& Lorie Langdon
Andrea Cremer
Geoffrey Girard
T.M. Goeglein
Daryl Gregory
Karen Ann Hopkins
Katherine Howe
Melissa Landers
Alex Mallory
Jennifer McGowan
Chloe Neill
C.J. Redwine
Virginia Smith
Courtney C. Stevens
Siobhan Vivian
Amy Christine
Parker
Alecia Whitaker
April Genevieve
Tucholke
Megan Whitmer
Panel schedules for YA authors can be found on pages 5 & 12.
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Featured Authors
Andrew Maraniss
Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race
and Sports in the South
Strong Inside is the untold story of Perry Wallace,
who in 1966 enrolled at Vanderbilt University and
became the first African-American basketball player
in the Southeastern Conference. Strong Inside is not
just the story of a trailblazing athlete, but of civil
rights, race in America, a campus in transition during
the tumultuous 1960s, the mental toll of pioneering, decades of ostracism,
and eventual reconciliation and healing. This fast-paced, richly detailed and
meticulously researched biography digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a
more complicated, illuminating and rewarding story of sports pioneering than
we’ve come to expect from the genre. First-time author Andrew Maraniss
masterfully unfolds the unique life story of Wallace, the rare slam-dunking
basketball star who was also a valedictorian, engineering double-major, law
school graduate, and university professor. Wallace’s unusually insightful and
honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.
Jan Watson
Buttermilk Sky
Weary of the expectations imposed on her by her
strict upbringing, nineteen-year-old Mazy Pelfrey
left her home in the Kentucky mountains to attend
secretarial school in the genteel city of Lexington. She
was sure her life would change–and only for the better.
Everything was supposed to be clear skies from then
on. But business school is harder than she expected it
to be and the big city not as friendly, until she meets
a charming young man from a wealthy family, Loyal Chambers. When Loyal
sets his sights on her, Mazy begins to see that everything she’d ever wished
to have is right before her eyes. The only hindrance to her budding romance
is a former beau, Chanis Clay, the young sheriff she thought she’d left firmly
behind. Danger rumbles like thunder on a high mountain ridge when Mazy’s
cosseted past collides with her clouded future and forces her to come to terms
with what she really wants.
Duffy
Brown
Geared for the Grave
To boost her chances for a promotion, Evie
Bloomfield helps her boss’ dad with his cycle shop.
The good idea turns bad when dad winds up prime
suspect in a murder. To save her job Evie takes over
the failing shop though she’s never ridden a bike,
finding a killer though she can’t find her keys in her
purse and discovering why someone is out to frame
Dad. Can Chicago Evie survive life on Mackinac
Island without her Honda, being on an eight-mile
chunk of land with horses, carriages, bikes, fudge-eating tourists, the resident
sage writing her eulogy and a killer who wants her dead?
Alex Bledsoe
Wisp of a Thing
Touched by a very public tragedy, musician Rob Quillen
comes to Cloud County, Tennessee in search of a song,
said to be carved in stone, that might ease his aching
heart. All he knows of the mysterious and reclusive
Tufa is what he has read on the internet: that they are an
enigmatic clan of swarthy, black-haired mountain people
whose historical roots are lost in myth and controversy.
Some people say that when the first white settlers came
to the Appalachians centuries ago, they found the Tufa already there. Others
hint that Tufa blood brings special gifts.
Rob finds both music and mystery in the mountains. Close-lipped locals guard
their secrets, even as Rob gets caught up in a subtle power struggle he can’t
begin to comprehend. A vacationing wife goes missing, raising suspicions of
foul play. And a strange feral girl runs wild in the woods, howling in the night
like a lost spirit.
Change is coming to Cloud County, and only the night wind knows what part
Rob will play when the last leaf falls from the Widow’s Tree . . . and a timeless
curse must be broken at last.
Kelley Paul
True and Constant Friends: Love and Inspiration from
Our Grandmothers, Mothers, and Friends
Kelley Paul, wife of Senator Rand Paul, celebrates
lifelong friendships in a beautifully illustrated book
about the female bond. When Kelley Paul arrived on
the Rhodes College campus in 1981, she immediately
bonded with six women. Three decades of intimate friendship later, Kelley
celebrates these relationships and the women who inspired them all. She tells
their stories and those of their grandmothers, mothers and sisters, providing a
microcosm of women raising families and building lives in 20th- and 21stcentury America. The extraordinary lives of Kelley’s and her friends’ role
models-from the Southern matriarch to the poor Irish immigrant-are honored
in this lovely book which offers oral history along with classic poetry, art, and
photography. Throughout, Kelley explores the universal themes of hardship,
determination, commitment, family, independence, optimism, friendship and
love-and illuminates the power of the female bond that enriches all our lives.
Chloe
Neill
Dark Debt (Chicagoland Vampires Series #11)
Between standing Sentinel of Cadogan house and
making society appearances with House Master Ethan
Sullivan, a new member of the American Association
of Vampires, Merit has her hands full. The last thing
she needs is trouble, especially of the deadly kind.
But when an old friend shows up in need, Merit can’t
refuse. Morgan Greer, Master of House Navarre, has
gotten himself into serious debt with a dangerous Chicago crime syndicate
known as the Triad. And they’re willing to exact more than a pound of flesh
for payback—unless Merit can find a way to stop them. Only the Triad’s
connections go deeper than Merit knows, and even one wrong move could be
her last.
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Kentucky Connections
David Bell
The Forgotten Girl
The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers’s door,
and it’s his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who
severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled
out of control. Now she’s clean and sober but in need
of a desperate favor—she asks Jason and his wife to
take care of her teenage daughter for forty-eight hours
while she handles some business in town. But Hayden
never returns. And her disappearance brings up more
unresolved problems from Jason’s past, including the abrupt departure of his
best friend on their high school graduation night twenty-seven years earlier.
When a body is discovered in the woods, the mysteries of his sister’s life—
and possible death—deepen. And one by one these events will shatter every
expectation Jason has ever had about families, about the awful truths that
bind them and the secrets that should be taken to the grave.
Paulette Livers
Cementville, A Novel
Cementville is the story of a rural community beset by
the misfortunes of war during a time of enormous
social change. In late spring of 1969, a picturesque
southern town is turned inside out by the deaths of
seven young National Guardsmen in a single Vietcong
attack. The return of the bodies sets off something
inside the town itself—a sense of violence, a political
reality, a gnawing unease with the future—pushing the
families of Cementville into alienation and grief. With the Civil Rights Act
only a few years old, a restless citizenry divided over the war, and the Women’s
Movement beginning to send tremors through established assumptions about
family life, Cementville provides a microcosm of a society shedding the old
order, a story resonant with echoes of the issues of war and social change still
being confronted today.
David Connerley Nahm
Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky
Leah’s little brother, Jacob, disappeared when the pair
were younger, a tragedy that haunts her still. When a
grown man arrives at the non-profit Leah directs claiming
to be Jacob, she is wrenched back to her childhood, an
iridescent tableau of family joy and strife, swimming at
the lake, sneaking candy, late-night fears, and the stories
told to quell them. Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky is a
wrecking-ball of a novel that attempts to give meaning
and poetry to everything that comprises small-town life in central Kentucky.
Listen: they are the ghost stories that children tell one another, the litter that
skirts the gulley, the lines at department stores.
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Sallie Bingham
The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters
This family history centered around three women from
three generations spans the Civil War through the Jazz
Age. Fans of Sallie Bingham’s work will especially
appreciate her parents Mary and Barry’s romance that
unfolds in letters and finally results in marriage. Bingham
beautifully demonstrates an inheritance of emotion,
morality, ideology, and most lasting of all, irreverence.
K.E. Ormsbee
The Water and the Wild
A green apple tree grows in the heart of Thirsby Square,
and tangled up in its magical roots is the story of Lottie
Fiske. For as long as Lottie can remember, the only
people who seem to care about her are her best friend,
Eliot, and the mysterious letter writer who sends her
birthday gifts. But now strange things are happening
on the island Lottie calls home, and Eliot’s getting
sicker, with a disease the doctors have given up trying
to cure. Lottie is helpless, useless, powerless—until a door opens in the apple
tree. Follow Lottie down through the roots to another world in pursuit of the
impossible: a cure for the incurable, a use for the useless, and protection against
the pain of loss.
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Love and Ordinary Creatures
Love and Ordinary Creatures is told through the eyes
of a cockatoo in love with his very human caretaker.
Snatched in a net from his Australian homeland as a
young parrot, Caruso has adapted to captivity and has
learned all he knows from his previous owner, who was
obsessively fixated on his childhood sweetheart. Now in
his new home with the beautiful and talented Clarissa,
Caruso has found love and happiness–until a handsome
stranger arrives in town and sets his eyes on Clarissa.
Alan Sullivan
Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise
of Modern Sportscasting
In Voice of the Wildcats, Alan Sullivan and Joe
Cox give the behind-the-scenes account of the man
whose voice embodied UK Athletics from 1947 to
1967. The 1940s witnessed an explosion in sports
broadcasting across the country, and when Claude, a
17-year-old from Winchester, Kentucky, took up the
microphone, he became part of a rapidly changing
field. His career developed as Kentucky began its rise
to prominence and spanned the first four NCAA
Basketball Championships under Coach Adolph Rupp. Claude also revolutionized
the coverage of athletics by introducing a coach’s show with Kentucky football
coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. It was not only copied by other institutions but would
also become an important innovation that paved the way for the modern televised
sports entertainment industry of today.
Kentucky Literary Award Finalists
First awarded in 2003, the Kentucky Literary Award is a celebration
of Kentucky literature. Eligible books include those written by
Kentuckians or books with a substantial Kentucky theme. Fiction
and non-fiction works will be considered in alternating years. This
year’s award will go to a work of non-fiction and will be announced at
the Meet the Authors Reception on Friday, April 17.
Wes Berry
The Kentucky Barbecue Book
The Kentucky Barbecue Book is a feast for readers who are
eager to sample the finest fare in the state. From the
banks of the Mississippi to the hidden hollows of the
Appalachian Mountains, author and barbecue enthusiast
Wes Berry hit the trail in search of the best smoke, the
best flavor, and the best pitmasters he could find. This
handy guide presents the most succulent menus and
colorful personalities in Kentucky.
Kiran Bhatraju
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the
Fight for Appalachia
From deep in the mountains of Appalachia to the
steps of Capitol Hill, Mud Creek Medicine chronicles the
life of an iconoclastic woman with a resolute spirit to
help her people. Eula Hall, born into abject poverty
in Greasy Creek, Kentucky, found herself — through
sheer determination and will — at the center of a
century-long struggle to lift up a part of America that is too often forgotten.
Through countless interviews and meticulous research, Kiran Bhatraju, a
native of Eastern Kentucky, deftly traces Eula’s life from impoverished hired
girl to community activist. Eula’s story shows how one woman could make a
difference through a clear-eyed understanding of the nexus between politics,
wealth, labor, and disease.
Anne Cockerham
Unbridled Service: Growing Up and Giving Back as a
Frontier Nursing Service Courier, 1928-2010
After Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier
Nursing Service in the mountains of eastern Kentucky
in 1925 she soon realized that she needed help of a
different nature than her British-trained nurse-midwives
could provide. Recalling how a system of volunteer “girl
chauffeurs” facilitated the work of the American Committee for Devastated
France after World War I, Mrs. Breckinridge developed a similar plan for the
Frontier Nursing Service. As readers of Unbridled Service explore the history
of the Courier Service, they come to appreciate the ways that Couriers and
the Courier Service changed and the ways they remained the same through
the years. Whether a Courier served in the 1920s or the 2000s and no matter
the motivation to serve, Courier experiences were filled with adventure and
meaning.
James Nicholson
Never Say Die: A Kentucky Colt, the Epsom Derby,
and the Rise of the Modern Thoroughbred Industry
A quarter of a million people braved miserable
conditions at Epsom Downs on June 2, 1954, to see
the 175th running of the prestigious Derby Stakes.
Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill were in
attendance, along with thousands of Britons who were
all convinced of the unfailing superiority of English
bloodstock and eager to see a British colt take the
victory. They were shocked when a Kentucky-born chestnut named Never
Say Die galloped to a two-length triumph at odds of 33—1, winning Britain’s
greatest race and beginning an important shift in the world of Thoroughbred
racing. Never Say Die traces the history of this extraordinary colt, beginning
with his foaling in Lexington, Kentucky, when a shot of bourbon whiskey
revived him and earned him his name. Author James C. Nicholson also tells
the stories of the influential individuals brought together by the horse and
his victory — from the heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune to the
Aga Khan. Most fascinating is the tale of Mona Best of Liverpool, England,
whose well-placed bet on the long-shot Derby contender allowed her to open
the Casbah Coffee Club. There, her son met musicians John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, and George Harrison and later joined their band.
Michael Veach
Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage
Historian Michael R. Veach reveals the true story of
bourbon in Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey. Starting with
the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s, he traces the
history of this unique beverage through the Industrial
Revolution, the Civil War, Prohibition, the Great
Depression, and up to the present. Veach explores
aspects of bourbon that have been ignored by others,
including the technology behind its production, the
effects of the Pure Food and Drug Act, and how Prohibition contributed to
the Great Depression. The myths surrounding bourbon are legion, but Veach
separates fact from legend. While the true origin of the spirit may never be
known for certain, he proposes a compelling new theory.
The 2015 Kentucky Literary Award is
made possible through the generosity
of the Friends of WKU Libraries.
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Congratulations to
212˚Academy
Young Science
Writers Contest
Winners
Students from Warren County Public Schools’
212˚ Academy entered a writers contest
highlighting a STEM topic of interest. Of the
students who entered, two winners were chosen
by a panel of judges to sign their books.
Emilee Arnold
How to Draw Kentucky
Animals
This book is a basic guide to
drawing some of the animals of
Kentucky. You’ll learn how to draw
animals such as horses, cardinals,
and bass in an easy-to-draw style.
You’ll also learn a fun fact about
each animal as you follow the steps
to draw it.
Off the pages of your favorite book,
we’re reinvigorating the art of
conversation.
WKU-PBS and host Barbara Deeb bring you
Outside the Book, filmed on location at the
Southern Kentucky Book Fest April 18th.
Observe the live author interviews or tune
in to see your favorite authors in our
3-part series.
Air dates:
Channel 24.1
Sat., June 6, 13, 20 @ 7:30 pm CT
Sun., June 7, 14, 21 @ 8:30 am CT
Mon., June 8, 15, 22 @ 8:30pm CT
Emilee Arnold is a 6th grader
who attends Alvaton Elementary
School. She is a very talented young woman with a strong aptitude for
computer programming. She enjoys drawing and reading mysteries.
Emilee created a step-by-step drawing book to teach children how to
draw various native Kentucky animals, while learning fun facts about
each animal along the way. Emilee created her illustrations on a tablet
using the drawing program FireAlpaca, and then imported the images
into her book. Emilee’s parents are Melissa and Barry Arnold.
wkyupbs.org
Consult your
local listings for
the cable channel
nearest you.
Emily Fan
Bob’s Seaside Adventure
Join Bob the Stickman on an awesome adventure as he takes his first vacation to the beach! Learn
about all kinds of cool seaside creatures with your new friend and travel companion, Bob.
Emily Fan is a 5th grader who attends Jody Richards Elementary School. She enjoys art,
swimming and reading, and recently placed in the top 5 in the Warren County Spelling Bee.
Emily’s book showcases her quirky sense of humor, as Bob the Stickman leads the reader along
an educational trip to the seashore. She created Bob’s unique hybrid world of both cartoon and
realistic imagery using a computer-based drawing program and digitally superimposed the
images over stock photos she found on the Internet Emily’s parents are Lei Chen and Xingang
Fan.
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Author Presentations
& Panel Discussions
Saturday, April 18, 2015
PANEL AND PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
2015 Southern Kentucky Book Fest
Saturday, April 18, 2015 – Knicely Conference Center
9:00-9:50
163ABC
163C
Literary
Collections
Ashley Farmer
Morris Grubbs
Gary Leising
Mary Ellen Miller
Ryan Ridge
12:00-12:50
Standalone Mysteries
David Bell
Jon Elliott
Robert Glinski
1:00-1:50
Literature by
Kentucky Authors
and/or with
Kentucky Themes
Sallie Bingham
David Connerley Nahm
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
2:00
Auditorium
Classroom 112
Classroom 113
Classroom 175
Computer Room
Literary
Look at the Past
Jamie Ford
Paulette Livers
Michael Morris
Young Adult
Contemporary I
Colette Ballard
Joy Hensley
Courtney Stevens
Siobhan Vivian
Suspense – Series
J.T. Ellison
Elizabeth Heiter
Yolonda Sanders
Wendy Tyson
Poetry
Gaylord Brewer
Tasha Cotter
Lynnell Edwards
Tom Hunley
Fantasy and
Dystopian Fiction
Alex Bledsoe
Terry Brooks
Patrick Carman
Ted Goeglein
CJ Redwine
Meg Whitmer
Young Adult
Fresh Take on Classics
Tracy Barrett
Carey Corp
Katherine Howe
Lorie Langdon
Alex Mallory
Contemporary
Romance
Toni Aleo
Elizabeth Bevarly
Marilyn Brant
Pamela Hearon
Kim Law
CL Parker
Middle Grades
Fantasy Fiction
Mark Crilley
Shannon Messenger
K.E. Ormsbee
M.D. Payne
Kristin Tubb
Middle Grades
Realistic Fiction
Jessica Burkhart
Tommy Greenwald
Gail Nall
American History
Gordon Belt
John Bicknell
Glen Conner
Brian McKnight
Traci Nichols-Belt
Basketball in
Kentucky
Ryan Clark
Kenny Davis
Ron Elliott
Alan Sullivan
Gary West
Cookbooks
Gaylord Brewer
Linda J. Hawkins
Rona Roberts
John van Willigen
Fiona Young-Brown
Aimee Zaring
Young Adult
Visiting the Past
M.G. Buehrlen
Jennifer McGowan
Paranormal
Andrea Cremer
Molly Harper
Chloe Neill
Sports History
Andrew Maraniss
Nathaniel Northington
Eric Reed
Tim Wendel
Science Fiction
Mindee Arnett
Daryl Gregory
Les Johnson
Melissa Landers
Inspiratonal Fiction
Kristy Cambron
Ann Gabhart
Karen Ann Hopkins
Sarah Ladd
Allie Pleiter
Jan Watson
The Civil War &
Reconstruction
Betty Boles Ellison
Patrick Lewis
Gary Matthews
Minoa Uffelman
Diana Gabaldon
Outlander
10:00-10:50
11:00-11:50
Regency Room
Kelley Paul
True and Constant
Friends
Contemporary
Fiction
Jon Harrison
Mary McDonough
Catherine McKenzie
Lin Stepp
Q&A with
Young Adult and
Crossover
Thrillers
Liz Coley
Geoffrey Girard
Amy Christine Parker
April Genevieve Tucholke
Young Adult
Contemporary II
Jaye Robin Brown
Sarah Combs
Virginia Smith
Alecia Whitaker
Mysteries and
Southern Fiction –
Writing a Series
Duffy Brown
Anna Lee Huber
Tonya Kappes
Ashton Lee
Julie Lindsey
Kentucky Literary
Award Finalists
Wes Berry
Kiran Bhatraju
Ann Cockerham
James Nicholson
Michael Veach
Terry Brooks
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Author Table Locations
ADAMS, MARK WAYNE, 10
ALEO, TONI, 37
ARNETT, MINDEE, 17
ARNOLD, EMILEE, 6
BALLARD, COLETTE, 23
BARRETT, TRACY, 20
BELL, DAVID, 33
BELT, GORDON, 57
BERRY, WES, 68
BEVARLY, ELIZABETH, 37
BHATRAJU, KIRAN, 56
BICKNELL, JOHN, 58
BINGHAM, SALLIE, 46
BLEDSOE, ALEX, 30
BOWLING,CRYSTAL, 40
BRACKNEY, PETER, 58
BRANT, MARILYN, 38
BREWER, GAYLORD, 68
BROOKS, TERRY, 78
BROWN, DUFFY, 31
BROWN, JAYE ROBIN, 24
BUEHRLEN, MG, 19
BURKHART, JESSICA, 7
BURTON, SHERRY, 27
CAMBRON, KRISTY, 52
CARMAN , PATRICK, 15
CLARK, RYAN, 73
COCKERHAM, ANNE, 56
COLEY, LIZ, 25
COMBS, SARAH, 28
CONNER, GLEN, 59
CORP, CAREY, 18
COTTER, TASHA, 49
COX, JOE, 73
CREMER, ANDREA, 29
CRILLEY, MARK, 16
CRONIN, DOREEN, 4
CULVERHOUSE, SUE, 55
DAVIS, KENNY, 74
DRISCOLL, MARTHA, 1
EADDY, SUSAN, 1
EDWARDS, LYNNELL, 48
ELLIOTT, JON, 36
ELLIOTT, RON, 75
ELLISON, JT, 35
ELLISON, BETTY BOLES, 59
EZAR, CLARE, 71
FAN, EMILY, 6
FARLEY, ROBERT, 62
FARMER, ASHLEY, 46
FORD, JAMIE, 41
GABALDON, DIANA, 77
GABHART, ANN, 54
GIBSON, KEVIN, 64
GIRARD, GEOFFREY, 26
GIVENS, ROGER, 62
GLINSKI, ROBERT, 36
GOEGLEIN, TED, 18
GRAGG, SHERRI, 51
GREENWALD, TOMMY, 9
GREGORY, DARYL, 29
GRUBBS, MORRIS, 47
HARPER, MOLLY, 38
HARRISON, JON, 43
HATCHETT, LOUIS, 66
HAWKINS, LINDA J., 2
HEARON, PAMELA, 39
HEITER, ELIZABETH, 33
HENSLEY, JOY, 24
HOPKINS, KAREN ANN, 53
HOWE, KATHERINE, 13
HUBER, ANNA LEE, 34
HUNLEY, TOM C., 49
HYMAN RUBIO, GWEN, 44
JOHNSON, LES, 30
JONES, MICHAEL, 64
KAPPES, TONYA, 34
KELLEY, BECKY, 67
KESSLER, BRUCE, 11
LADD, SARAH E., 52
LANDERS, MELISSA, 17
LANGDON, LORIE, 18
LAW, KIM, 39
LEE, ASHTON, 45
LEGION, MAXWELL, 44
LEISING, GARY, 48
LEWIS, PATRICK, 60
LINDSEY, JULIE, 31
LIVERS, PAULETTE, 44
LYNE, ALISON, 3
MALLORY, ALEX, 20
MARANISS, ANDREW, 76
MATTHEWS, GARY, 60
MCADAMS MOORE,
CAROL, 27
MCDONOUGH, MARY, 42
MCGOWAN, JENNIFER, 26
MCKENZIE, CATHERINE, 43
MCKNIGHT, BRIAN, 61
MESSENGER, SHANNON, 14
MILLER, MARY ELLEN, 47
MORRIS, MICHAEL, 41
NAHM, DAVID CONNERLY, 40
NALL, GAIL, 8
NEILL, CHLOE, 32
NICHOLS-BELT, TRACI, 57
NICHOLSON, JAMES, 72
NORTHINGTON,
NATHANIEL, 75
O’MALLEY, MIMI, 62
ORMSBEE, K.E., 12
PARKER, AMY CHRISTINE, 21
PARKER, C.L., 40
PAUL, KELLEY, 50
PAYNE, MD, 9
PLEITER, ALLIE, 54
REDWINE, CJ, 19
REED, ERIC, 76
REICHERT, WALT, 65
RIDGE, RYAN, 46
ROBERTS, RONA, 69
ROSS, TOM, 51
ROYCRAFT, WALTER, 71
SANDERS, YOLONDA, 35
SCOTT, BERKELEY, 63
SCOTT, JEANINE, 63
SCUTCHFIELD,
F. DOUGLAS, 55
SMITH, VIRGINIA, 28
STEPP, LIN, 45
STEPP, J.L., 45
STEVENS, COURTNEY, 22
STEWART,AILEEN, 8
STIOP, ALEXEY
STOKES, BETTY, 3
SULLIVAN, ALAN, 73
TOBY, MILT, 72
TUBB, KRISTIN, 12
TUCHOLKE,
APRIL GENEVIEVE, 25
TURNER, TJ, 43
TYSON, WENDY, 36
UFFELMAN, MINOA, 61
VAN WILLIGEN, JOHN, 69
VEACH, MICHAEL, 66
VEST, STEPHEN M., 65
VIVIAN, SIOBHAN, 22
WATSON, JAN, 53
WENDEL, TIM, 76
WEST, GARY, 74
WHITAKER, ALECIA, 23
WHITE, CRYSTAL, 10
WHITMER, MEGAN, 21
WILLIS HOLT, KIMBERLY, 13
WOODHOUSE, KATHY, 67
YOUNG, JESSICA, 5
YOUNG-BROWN, FIONA, 70
YUAN, HAIWANG, 5
ZARING, AIMEE, 70
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4.
ALEO, TONI
Blue Lines
The instant Piper
Allen sees Erik Titov,
she wants him so
when he sidles up to
her at a bar and slinks
his arm around her
waist, she’s lost. What follows is the
wildest night of her life . . . followed
by inevitable heartbreak the next
morning. And then, a few weeks later,
a very big surprise: two blue lines on a
pregnancy test.
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BALLARD, COLETTE
Running on Empty
What does it feel like when you die-in
those final moments? Do you feel
the physical pain, or just the pain of
your regrets? What does it feel like
when you realize you can’t answer
these questions because you’re not the
victim? You’re the killer.
River Daniels lives an ordinary life as
a high school junior growing up in
rural Texas until her boyfriend’s brutal
attack leaves her both a murderer
and a fugitive. When River’s closest
girlfriends come to her aid, they make
a hasty decision to not only help her,
but leave their own troubled lives
behind and join in her escape. River’s
life spirals out of control, until she
Only a check to the head could make
finally hits rock bottom. Realizing she
Erik fall for a nice girl like Piper. But
must stop endangering her friends,
since their crazy-sexy night together,
River must face her ugly past and
he’s been trying to forget about her. So the one person she was protecting
when Piper shows up at his house with the night her world caved in, the guy
a baby-bomb to drop, it doesn’t take
she has loved for as long as she can
much for Erik to suggest the nuclear
remember.
option: marriage. While it’s supposed
to be all for show, the second they say BARRETT, TRACY
“I do,” the ice between them starts to
The Stepsister’s Tale
melt into sizzling steam.
Jane Montjoy is tired of being a lady.
She’s tired of pretending to live up
ARNETT, MINDEE
to the standards of her mother’s
Avalon
noble family—especially now that
Of the various star systems that
the family’s wealth is gone and their
make up the Confederation, most lie
stately mansion has fallen to ruin.
thousands of light-years from First
Jane’s burden only gets worse after her
Earth-and out here, no one is free. The mother returns from a trip to town
agencies that govern the Confederation with a new stepfather and stepsister
are as corrupt as the crime bosses who in tow. When her stepfather suddenly
patrol it, and power is held by anyone dies, leaving nothing but debts and a
with enough greed and ruthlessness
bereaved daughter behind, it seems
to claim it. That power is derived from to Jane that her family is destined for
one thing: metatech, the devices that
eternal unhappiness. But a mysterious
allow people to travel great distances
boy from the woods and an invitation
faster than the speed of light.
to a royal ball are certain to change her
fate….
Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage
mercenaries have survived in this
From the handsome prince to the evil
world by stealing unsecured metatech, stepsister, nothing is quite as it seems
and they’re damn good at it. Jeth
in Tracy Barrett’s stunning retelling of
doesn’t care about the politics or the
the classic Cinderella tale.
law, but when Jeth finds himself in
possession of information that both
BELL, DAVID
the crime bosses and the government
are willing to kill for, he is going to
See Kentucky Connections on page 8.
have to ask himself how far he’ll go
to get the freedom he’s wanted for so
BELT, GORDON
long.
John Sevier: Tennessee’s First Hero
A celebrated soldier, admired
ARNOLD, EMILEE
politician and founding father of the
state of Tennessee, John Sevier led
See 212 Academy on page 11.
an adventurous life. He commanded
a frontier militia into battle against
British Loyalists at King’s Mountain.
He waged a relentless war against
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the Cherokees in his effort to claim
America’s first frontier. He forged the
“State of Franklin” from the western
lands of North Carolina, and later
became Tennessee’s first governor.
Join authors Gordon T. Belt and Traci
Nichols-Belt as they examine John
Sevier’s extraordinary life through the
lens of history and memory, shedding
new light on this remarkable Tennessee
figure.
BERRY, WES
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on page 9.
BEVARLY, ELIZABETH
Back in high school, Ava Brenner
was the wealthy Mean Girl, and
Peyton Moss was the working class
scholarship kid. Personalities clashed.
Sparks flew. Social strata took a major
hit. Now the tables have turned, and
Peyton’s about to make his first billion
while Ava’s struggling to make ends
meet. He needs her to teach him how
to pass in high society, if only they can
put old rivalries to bed.
BHATRAJU, KIRAN
on page 9.
BICKNELL, JOHN
America 1844: Religious Fervor,
Westward Expansion and the
Presidential Election That Transformed
the Nation
The presidential election of 1844 was
one of the most momentous elections
in American history. Polk’s victory
cemented the westward expansion that
brought Texas, California, and Oregon
into the union. It also took place
amid religious turmoil, the Second
Great Awakening, John C. Frémont’s
exploration of the West, Charles
Goodyear’s patenting of vulcanized
rubber, the near-death of President
John Tyler in a freak naval explosion,
and much more. All of these elements
illustrate the competing visions of the
American future.
BINGHAM, SALLIE
BLEDSOE, ALEX
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BOWLING, CRYSTAL
With a Twist
Darla Williams is in no mood to
be bothered. At the pleading of her
best friend Bailey, Darla has found
herself no longer behind her desk at
Pemberley Bourbon, but face-to-face
with Eli Barnett at a
dive bar in Bowling
Green, Kentucky. And
so begins a southernfried, bourbon-soaked
Pride and Prejudice
adaptation… served
with a twist!
BRACKNEY, PETER
Lost Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington has dozens of well-restored
landmarks, but so many more are lost
forever. Join local blogger, attorney and
preservationist Peter Brackney as he
explores the intriguing back stories of
these hidden Bluegrass treasures.
BRANT, MARILYN
A Summer in Europe
On her 30th birthday, Gwendolyn
Reese receives an unexpected present
from her widowed Aunt Bea: a grand
tour of Europe in the company of
Bea’s Sudoku and Mahjongg Club. The
prospect isn’t entirely appealing. But
when the gift she is expecting — an
engagement ring from her boyfriend
— doesn’t materialize, Gwen decides
to go.
At first, Gwen approaches the trip as
if it’s the math homework she assigns
her students, diligently checking
monuments off her must-see list. But
amid the bougainvillea and beauty of
southern Italy, something changes.
Gwen begins to live in the moment:
Reveling in every new experience
— especially her attraction to a
charismatic British physics professor
— Gwen discovers that the ancient
wonders around her are nothing
compared to the renaissance unfolding
within…
BREWER, GAYLORD
The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, and
Desire
The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, &
Desire is an immediately delightful
and surprising work by one of this
country’s best poets. Indeed, the
poet himself calls this book a “quirky
volume,” the genesis being the desire to
create something substantially different
and sustained.
Since food “had been increasingly
creeping into my poetry,” Brewer
writes, and because he had been asked
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to write anecdotally about recipes by
a journal editor, this unusual memoir
took shape.
Her visions aren’t really visions. Alex
is a Descender – capable of traveling
back in time by accessing Limbo, the
space between Life and Afterlife. Alex
As is the example of his best poems,
is one soul with fifty-six past lives,
these recipes are every bit as enjoyable, fifty-six histories.
memorable, and delivered—of
course—tastefully.
Fifty-six lifetimes to explore: the
prospect is irresistible to Alex,
BROOKS, TERRY
especially when the same mysterious
boy with soulful blue eyes keeps
See Featured Headliners on page 3.
showing up in each of them. But
the more she descends, the more
BROWN, DUFFY
it becomes apparent that someone
doesn’t want Alex to travel again. Ever.
BROWN, JAYE ROBIN
No Place to Fall
Amber Vaughn is a
good girl. She sings
solos at church, babysits
her nephew after school,
and spends every
Friday night hanging
out at her best friend
Devon’s house. It’s only when Amber
goes exploring in the woods near her
home, singing camp songs with the
hikers she meets on the Appalachian
Trail, that she feels free—and when the
bigger world feels just a little bit more
in reach.
BURKHART, JESSICA
5.
BURTON, SHERRY
Surviving the Storm
Following a tragic year, Abby thinks
she is making a wise choice when
she agrees to marry Jacob. While
admittedly not in love with him,
he has always made her feel safe
and protected. That feeling quickly
dissipates when he reveals his true
colors on their wedding day. With no
means to escape, Abby must decide
her fate. Not willing to bend to her
When Amber learns about an audition new husband’s rule, she is in a fight
at the North Carolina School of the
for survival, and a desperate race to
Arts, she decides that her dream—to
discover what secrets he is keeping
sing on bigger stages—could also be
from her. Secrets that threaten to
her ticket to a new life. Devon’s older
destroy the very foundation of her
(and unavailable) brother, Will, helps
soul. Set in New Orleans during
Amber prepare for her one chance to
a storm that devastated so many,
try out for the hypercompetitive arts
Surviving the Storm is a tensionschool.
building tale of suspense that does not
let up until the two storms collide.
Amber is faced with an impossible
choice between her promise as an
CAMBRON, KRISTY
artist and the people she loves. Amber A Sparrow in Terezin
always thought she knew what a good Bound together across time, two
girl would do. But between “right”
women will discover a powerful
and “wrong,” there’s a whole world of
connection through one survivor’s
possibilities
story of hope in the darkest days of a
war-torn world.
BUEHRLEN, MG
The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare
Present Day—With the grand opening
For as long as 17-year-old Alex
of her new art gallery and a fairytale
Wayfare can remember, she has had
wedding just around the corner,
visions of the past. But these brushes
Sera James feels she’s stumbled into
with history pull her from her daily
a charmed life—until a brutal legal
life without warning, sometimes
battle against fiancé William Hanover
leaving her with strange lasting effects threatens to destroy her perfectly
and wounds she can’t explain. Alex is
planned future. William faces a
desperate to find out what her visions decade in prison for a crime he never
mean and get rid of them, but it isn’t
committed, and Sera must battle the
until she meets Porter, a stranger who scathing accusations that threaten her
knows more than should be possible
family and any hope for a future.
about her, that she learns the truth:
1942—Kája Makovsky narrowly
escaped occupied Prague in 1939, and
was forced to leave her half-Jewish
family behind. Now a reporter for
the Daily Telegraph in England, Kája
discovers the terror has followed her
across the Channel in the shadowy
form of the London Blitz. When she
learns Jews are being exterminated
by the thousands on the continent,
Kája has no choice but to return to her
mother city, risking her life to smuggle
her family to freedom and peace.
In this tale of hope and survival, Sera
and Kája must cling to the faith that
sustains and fight to protect all they
hold dear—even if it means placing
their own futures on the line.
CARMAN, PATRICK
4.
COCKERHAM, ANNE
on page 9.
CLARK, RYAN
Fightin’ Words: Kentucky vs. Louisville
More than 100 years ago, the
University of Kentucky and the
University of Louisville met for the
first time on the basketball court.
More than 30 years ago, the intrastate
rivals faced each other in the original
“Dream Game.” Fightin’ Words has
the inside stories of these games and
others from the rivalry. Each chapter
contains pregame analysis, game
coverage, and postgame discussion,
with firsthand interviews from players
involved. The authors reveal the effects
of each game on both teams and on the
history of college basketball.
COLEY, LIZ
Pretty Girl-13
When thirteen-yearold Angela Gracie
Chapman looks in the
mirror, someone else
looks back—a thin,
pale stranger, a sixteenyear-old with haunted
eyes. Angie has no memory of the past
three years in which she was lost to
the authorities, lost to her family and
friends, lost even to herself. Where has
she been, who has been living her life,
and what is hiding behind the terrible
blankness?
Liz Coley’s alarming and fascinating
psychological thriller is a disturbing—
and ultimately empowering—page
turner about accepting our whole
selves, and the healing power of
courage, hope, and love.
COMBS, SARAH
Breakfast Served Anytime
When Gloria sets out to spend the
summer before her senior year at a
camp for gifted and talented students,
she doesn’t know quite what to expect.
Fresh from the heartache of losing
her grandmother and missing her
best friend, Gloria resolves to make
the best of her new circumstances.
But some things are proving to be
more challenging than she expected.
Beautifully told by debut author Sarah
Combs, this honest and touching
story of growing up is imbued with
the serene atmosphere of Kentucky’s
natural landscape.
CONNER, GLEN
Frontiersman in the War of 1812
Some call the War of 1812 a forgotten
war, a conflict that doesn’t resonate
in the same way as the American
Revolution or the Civil War, yet
this war was a key event in the
development of a young America.
Forgotten, too, are the many
frontiersmen who fought to preserve
American soil against the British
and their Indian allies…men who
lived, hunted and farmed along the
largely unsettled lands between the
Appalachian mountains and the
Mississippi River, and who cherished
freedom above all else.
Frontiersmen in the War of 1812
follows the war from its origins to its
conclusion, then provides an in-depth
look at land grants and pensions issued
to frontiersmen following the war, over
150 biographical portraits of the men
who served, and geographical features
and place names.
CORP, CAREY
Destined for Doon
In this sequel to Doon, Mackenna Reid
realizes she made a horrible mistake
in choosing to follow her dreams of
Broadway instead of staying in the
enchanted land of Doon. To make
everything worse, she’s received her
Calling—proof she and Duncan are
each other’s one true love—and it’s
pure torment, especially when visions
of the very alluring Scottish prince
appear right before she goes on stage.
So when Duncan tells her an ancient
curse threatens to overtake Doon
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and the new queen and Kenna’s best
friend, Veronica, needs her to return,
Kenna doesn’t have to think twice.
With darkness closing in on all sides,
Kenna and Vee must battle a world
of nightmares in order to protect the
kingdom. But it will take the ultimate
test of courage for Kenna to salvage her
happily ever after.
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Libba Bray’s The Diviners, Cassandra
Clare’s Clockwork Angel, Scott
Westerfeld’s Leviathan and Phillip
Reeve’s Mortal Engines.
a room in the Olympic Museum in
Lausanne, Switzerland.
It’s all in these pages, including how
Kenny sold millions of tennis shoes
during a 40-year career with Converse
shoes.
warnings from Rashid, the unofficial
leader of the three, Ahmed remains
with the Servants.
Rashid is stopped by a man who tells
him he represents an organization that
is promoting Islam in America. He
demands that his organization become
4.
DRISCOLL, MARTHA
a silent recipient of the funds raised
Nosey’s Wild Ride on the Belle of
by the Servants. The three partners
COTTER, TASHA
CRONIN, DOREEN
Louisville
guess that they are being contacted by
Some Churches
Nosey’s Wild Ride is a story is about a
terrorists, and decide to refuse their
“The line ‘Is this the end?’ appears
mischievous cat that wanders on board demand. That decision forms the
in this book’s final poem, but all the
and leads four children on a wild chase course of the remainder of the book,
others seem to ask that same question. CULVERHOUSE, SUE FREEMAN
all over the boat. This rascal of a cat
creating mayhem, terror, and mystery,
They languor in every moment,
Tennessee Literary Luminaries: From
causes pandemonium wherever he
as well as romance and friendship.
and simultaneously manage to be
goes and in turn, the children learn
Cormac McCarthy to Robert Penn
timeless. The smaller the poem, the
what makes a steamboat unique.
Warren
ELLIOTT, RON
The100-year old Belle is the only
more expansive the idea: that’s the
This book encompasses the
Sinister Influences: Kentucky’s Fabulous
steamboat in the country built during Five and the Point-Shaving Scandal of
poet’s best move, and Cotter pulls it
biographies of eleven Tennessee
the Great Steamboat Era (1820s to the 1951
off beautifully-even when she writes
authors: Robert Penn Warren,
1920s) that is still cruising. The details The passion that is University of
about Bananagrams or the Ultratech
Alex Haley, William Gay, Cormac
about the Belle are historically accurate Kentucky basketball’s Big Blue Nation
Computer parking lot. She knows
McCarthy, Peter Taylor, Eleanor Ross
something that I don’t, and I feel like
Taylor, Bud Willis, Alice Randall, Amy and the book includes the whimsical
is not a recent phenomenon. In fact,
it’s an act of generosity to share so
Greene, A. Scott Pearson, and Marshall ink and colored pencil drawings of
fans’ maniacal devotion to the ‘Cats
award-winning artist, Sue Lion, a
much so well in these pages.” – Adam Chapman. Each of these interesting
traces back to Coach Adolph Rupp’s
detailed glossary, and a Seek-&-Find
Robinson, founder of Publishing
people is discussed along with their
early days at UK in the 1930’s. As Rupp
activity for young readers.
Genius
literary achievements and awards.
grew into his job, his teams steadily
grew more formidable until they
EADDY, SUSAN
A poetry collection full of mythical
DAVIS, KENNY
became nearly invincible in what came
My Love for You is the Sun
literary magic. Tasha Cotter’s words
Better than Gold: Olympian Kenny
to be known as UK’s “glory years,”
With soothing verses that evoke the
dazzle and revive the senses. In “Paris” Davis and the Most Controversial
1946-1951. Then, on a crisp October
beauty and wonder of the natural
I swear Frida Kahlo is born again.
Basketball Game in History
day in 1951, authorities arrested the
world and stunning hand-sculpted clay stars, Ralph Beard and Alex Groza, on
-Nikky Finney, National Book Award
Kenny Davis didn’t go to the
winning author of Head Off & Split
University of Kentucky …couldn’t play illustrations, this book is one adults
charges of conspiring with gamblers to
everywhere will read again and again
for the Wildcats. But then on his way
“shave points” as the “fixers’” felt that
COX, JOE
to enrolling at the Air Force Academy, with the cherished children in their
UK’s teams were talented enough to
lives.
Fightin’ Words: Kentucky vs. Louisville something strange happened. He
win by any chosen margin.
See Ryan Clark on page 17.
stopped off at Georgetown College,
EDWARDS, LYNNELL
planning only to stay there for a
Ron Elliott recreates the charged
Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop
CREMER, ANDREA semester, perhaps not even playing
atmosphere inside UK’s old Alumni
A book of poetry documenting the
The Inventor’s Secret
basketball. Suddenly, out of nowhere,
Gym where the ‘Cats steamrolled to
beauty and danger of glass blowing as 84 consecutive victories and recounts
In this world, sixteen- his life changed.
the author observed it at Flame Run
year-old Charlotte and
the thrilling action of the big games
her fellow refugees
Three college All-American years later, Hot Shop in Louisville, Ky. Poet Jeffrey in Madison Square Garden. Sinister
Skinner notes, the poems “entertain
have scraped out an
against all odds, Kenny had played
Influences also provides statistics for
even as they bring us closer to the heat, the big games and the player’s careers
existence on the edge in the World Games, Pan American
of Britain’s industrial
Games, and traveled to Munich for the beauty, and danger of creation.”
as well as many previously obscure
empire. When a new
1972 Olympics.
details of the point shaving scandals
ELLIOTT, JON
exile with no memory
which cost the players their vocation
On the Run in College
of his escape or even his own name
Basketball became insignificant,
and nearly prematurely ended Coach
Park
seeks shelter in their camp he brings
however, when a group of terrorist
Rupp’s fabulous career.
Ahmed Suliman, an
new dangers with him and secrets
slipped into Munich’s Olympic Village
international student
about the terrible future that awaits
and murdered 11 Israeli athletes, thus
ELLISON, BETTY BOLES
from Morocco, and
all those who have struggled has to
changing the Olympic world. The
The True Mary Todd Lincoln
two other international The True Mary Todd Lincoln provides a
live free of the bonds of the empire’s
powers to be, and rightly so, declared
students have formed
Machineworks.
that anything less than continuing
startling different picture of President
a nonprofit company,
the Games would be giving into the
Abraham Lincoln’s wife–preconceived
the Servants of Mercy, to raise money myths are factually disproved. The
The Inventor’s Secret is the first book
terrorists.
for an orphanage in Iraq. The story
of a YA steampunk series set in an
author discovered documents in
alternate nineteenth-century North
With all eyes watching, the Americans begins in the autumn of Ahmed’s third the National Archives that disputes
America where the Revolutionary
year at college. Ahmed meets a girl,
played the Russians in what became
historians’ long held contentions that
War never took place and the British
Nadira Shalash, an American born
the most controversial ending to a
Mary Lincoln overspent their $20,000
Empire has expanded into a global
Muslim. His involvement in the work Congressional furnishing allowance
basketball game in history. Those 12
juggernaut propelled by marvelous and silver medals Kenny and his teammates of the Servants is interfering with his
for the Executive Mansion. A careful
horrible machinery. Perfect for fans of refused to accept are today locked in
relationship with her. However, after
examination of the Lincolns’ finances
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clearly refutes the accusation that she
was a spendthrift. Otherwise, it would
have been impossible for her to leave
an estate valued today at $1.96 million.
Neither was she insane or Mary
Lincoln would not have been able to
draw on a network of friends to obtain
not only her release but control of
her life and money. She was, in every
respect, a true partner to Abraham
Lincoln.
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See 212 Academy on page 11.
It’s no secret that Louisville is one of
America’s bourbon capitals, but the
Derby City once thrived as a brewing
FARLEY, ROBERT
mecca as well, rivaling even St. Louis
Grounded: the Case for Abolishing the
and Milwaukee with its crisp lagers
United States Air Force
The United States needs airpower, but and Kentucky Common Ale. German
does it need an air force? In Grounded, settlers arrived with centuries-old
brewing traditions and beer gardens,
Robert M. Farley persuasively
cementing beer and barrooms
argues that America should end the
independence of the United States Air in Louisville’s culture. Following
Force (USAF) and divide its assets and Prohibition, the “big three”–Falls City,
Fehr’s and Oertel’s–kept traditions
missions between the United States
ELLISON, JT
alive while ingraining iconic brands
Army and the United States Navy.
The Lost Key
into the city’s fabric and heritage.
Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas
More recently, craft brewers like BBC,
FARMER, ASHLEY
Drummond is barely out of his
Apocalypse Brew Works and New
Beside Myself
Quantico training when he and his
Albanian Brewing Company have
A girl drinks river water that gives
partner, Mike Caine, are called to
her good advice but a bad reputation. drawn on this rich history. Kick back
with Louisville food and beverage
investigate a stabbing on Wall Street.
A young woman’s job at a make-up
Their investigation, however, yields
counter ends in disaster. Car accidents journalist Kevin Gibson as he traces
Louisville’s beer history with stories
more questions than answers. It
and cornfields cause siblings to
from the past, interviews and plenty
quickly becomes clear that the victim, disappear while, up above, airplane
of photos that bring this intoxicating
John Pearce, was more than the naval
banners advertise hair care products.
story to life.
historian and antiquities dealer he
Welcome to Beside Myself, Ashley
appeared to be. When Drummond
Farmer’s debut collection of short
GIRARD, GEOFFREY
and Caine find both of Pearce’s adult
stories. These brief, lucid dreams
Project Cain
children have disappeared, the case
illuminate the moment the familiar
assumes a new sense of urgency. The
becomes strange and that split second Jeff discovers he’s a serial killer clone—
and he’s got to track down others like
FBI agents know their best lead lies in before everything changes forever.
him before it’s too late in this Bram
the victim’s cryptic final words—“The
Stoker Award–nominated novel, a
key is in the lock.” But what key? What FORD, JAMIE
thrilling YA companion to Cain’s
lock?
Blood.
The search for Adam and Sophia
This dark, literary thriller is a story
Pearce takes them on an international GABALDON, DIANA
about blood: specifically, the DNA
manhunt, which threatens to run
of the world’s most notorious serial
them afoul of an eccentric billionaire
killers, captured and cloned by the
industrialist with his own plans not
Department of Defense to develop
only for the lost gold, but the creation
GABHART, ANN
a new “breed” of bio-weapons. The
of a weapon unlike anything the world
Love Comes Home
has ever seen.
World War II is finally program is now in Stage Three—with
over and the people of dozens of young male clones from age
EZAR, CLARE
Rosey Corner are busy ten to eighteen kept and monitored at a
eyeSee: An Interactive Experience
private facility without any realization
joyfully welcoming
of who they really are.
the boys home. The
features over 200 of Alexey Stiop’s
Merritt sisters in
favorite photographs from across the
particular are looking When security is breached and the
world. eyeAir features photos where
toward the future. Kate is eager to start most dangerous boys are set free by
the now-insane scientist who created
the clouds and sky demand attention, a family and live out her dream of
expressing the beauty above us.
happily ever after with Jay. Evangeline them, only one young man can help
eyeLand displays the wonders of terra craves a beautiful house and
find the clones before their true genetic
firma, from canyons to mountains
encourages Mike to pastor a big-town nature grows even more horrific than
and everything in between. eyeWater
church. Victoria wants what can never the original models: a fifteen-yearold boy, an every-boy…who has just
plunges into the crisp and cool world
be—a life with a man who will never
of snow and ice, rivers and streams,
come back. And Lorena is growing up learned that he is the clone of Jeffrey
oceans and lakes, and so much more.
and wondering more and more about Dahmer.
eyeMan focuses on the dramatic and
her birth family. In Love Comes Home,
subtle ways man changes the world
each sister must learn to hold her plans GIVENS, ROGER
African-American Life in Butler
around him, creating beauty along the with a loose hand, trusting that God
way. Stiop compliments these stunning will guide and strengthen them as they County, Kentucky - Black Culture,
images by providing QR codes,
Contributions, and Community
share the joys and sorrows of life in
allowing you to learn more about the
The author paints a picture of Africantheir little corner of the world.
images or subjects.
American Life in Butler County,
Kentucky, beginning with the first
GIBSON, KEVIN
slaves brought into the area, and
FAN, EMILY
Louisville Beer: Derby City History on
their numerous contributions to the
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development of the county. Also
documented are the families owning
slaves in the county. Included in the
narrative are the names of known
African-American soldiers and the
wars in which they were involved.
Overviews of education, religious
life, and cultural traditions of the
black community in the county
both before and after slavery are
also provided. The conclusion of the
study provides the names of the black
families and members of each, in what
communities they lived, and insight
into the economic conditions faced,
following through to the present.
GLINSKI, ROBERT
The Friendship of Criminals
Philadelphia’s criminal underworld has
one rule – don’t mess with the Poles of
Port Richmond.
Port Richmond shop owner Anton
Bielakowski has enforced this
rule for half-a-century with an
uncompromising brand of violence
and retribution.
When South Philly selects Raymond
Rea as its new boss, the young upstart
wastes no time demonstrating his
disdain for the old ways. Going
forward, no one – including the Port
Richmond Poles – will be exempt from
his dream to rule the city.
As war breaks out, both sides scramble
to maintain old alliances and form new
ones.
GOEGLEIN, TED
Embers & Ash (Cold Fury #3)
Sara Jane Rispoli is on the wrong
side of the Russian mob, but closer
to finding her family than ever. And
she’s willing to do whatever it takes to
finally end this terrible journey even if
the price is her own life.
The very cold fury that has seen her
through the worst of her troubles is
now killing her; she knows the cure,
but she can’t sacrifice the deadly
electricity until she’s rescued her
family. But when she finally does
rescue them, it’s not the happy reunion
she pictured.
Old enemies return to seek vengeance,
double-crosses abound, and even more
mysteries are uncovered as we rocket
toward an end no one saw coming.
*Ted Goeglein will only sign on Friday.
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GRAGG, SHERRI
Arms Open Wide
So often Christians view Christ as
someone who’s far away and can’t be
approached until they have their lives
in order. In Arms Open Wide, author
Sherri Gragg proves that Christ is a
kinder, more tender, more loving Savior
than many understand Him to be.
pioneer in the field of Appalachian
studies. With commentary by
his widow, Mary Ellen Miller, an
introduction by well-known author
Robert Morgan, and an afterword by
the notable Silas House, Every Leaf a
Mirror provides an unprecedentedly
intimate look at Miller’s writing.
his name, but most people forget that
disappeared, the third in a series of
he was a real person and not just a
unsolved abductions. Only a macabre
fictitious figure invented for the brand. nursery rhyme was left at the scene,
a nursery rhyme that claimed Evelyn
In Duncan Hines, author Louis
was also an intended victim. Now, after
Hatchett explores the story of the
all these years of silence, another girl
man, from his humble beginnings
has gone missing in South Carolina,
in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his
and the Nursery Rhyme Killer is taking
lucrative licensing deal with Proctor & credit. But is Cassie’s abductor really
Gamble. This authoritative biography
HARPER, MOLLY
back, or is there a copycat at work?
Sherri writes in fictional narrative
is a comprehensive account of the life
The Dangers of Dating a Rebound
form while mixing biblical history
and legacy of a savvy businessman,
Vampire
Evelyn has waited eighteen years for
with scripture, creating a setting that
American icon, and an oftenIn the next book in Molly Harper’s
a chance to investigate, but when she
transforms readers back in time and
overlooked culinary pioneer whose
beloved Half Moon Hollow
returns to Rose Bay, she finds a dark
places them right in Jesus’ presence.
love of good food led to his name
paranormal romance series, Gigi
side to the seemingly idyllic town. As
For thirty-four days readers walk
becoming a grocery shelf favorite.
starts her first job (at Vampire
the place erupts in violence and the
with the Savior to witness miraculous Headquarters), gets over her first love, Hatchett offers insightful commentary kidnapper strikes again, Evelyn knows
healings and events, and give fresh
and may even fall for her first vampire! into the man behind the cake mix
this is her last chance. If she doesn’t
boxes and how he paved the way for
insight into His power by thinking and
figure out what happened to Cassie
many others like him.
feeling with people whose lives became Gigi is no longer an innocent teen.
eighteen years ago, it may be Evelyn’s
instantly transformed by His love and All grown up and looking for love,
turn to vanish without a trace.
grace. Readers journey with Jesus and her family and friends worry she’ll go HAWKINS, LINDA J.
Southern Seasons; How To Simply Savor
His disciples in the most important
for the sexy, alluring vampire instead
HENSLEY, JOY
The Memories (with Recipes)
time in history.
of a nice, safe human. But sexy and
Rites of Passage
Southern Seasons is more than a
alluring, with a penchant for biting,
Sam McKenna’s never
cookbook. Kentucky’s own, Linda
GREENWALD, TOMMY
could be just what Gigi wants…
turned down a dare.
J. Hawkins has compiled a lifetime
And she’s not going
of her favorite remembrances,
See Childrens Day Presenters on page 5. HARRISON, JON
to start with the last
delightful recipes and special quotes
The Banks of Certain Rivers
one her brother gave
into one charming collection. With
GREGORY, DARYL
In the lakeside resort town of Port
her before he died. So
Harrison Squared
Manitou, Michigan, dedicated teacher a rare tenderness found in today’s
Sam joins the firstHarrison Harrison
busy world, this book is a warm
and running coach Neil Kazenzakis
ever class of girls at the prestigious
— H2 to his mom —
and inspiring reminder for all to
shoulders responsibilities that would
Denmark Military Academy. She’s
is a lonely teenager
make more memories to cherish. A
break a lesser man: a tragic accident
expecting push-ups and long runs,
who’s been terrified of has left his wife seriously debilitated,
refreshing ode to what matters most
rope climbing and mud-crawling. She’s
the water ever since
in life—family—Southern Seasons is
he cares for his mother-in-law who
even expecting the hostility she gets
he was a toddler in
suffers from dementia, and he’s raising as delicious to read as a warm slice
from some of the cadets who don’t
California, when a
his teenage son, Chris, on his own. On of apple pie and feels like an equal
think girls belong there. What she’s not
huge sea creature capsized their boat,
American classic.
top of all that, he’s also secretly been
expecting is her fiery attraction to her
and his father vanished. One of the
seeing Lauren, his mother-in-law’s
drill sergeant.
“sensitives” who are attuned to the
HEARON, PAMELA
caregiver.
supernatural world, Harrison and his
My Way Back to You
As Sam struggles to prove herself, she
mother have just moved to the worst
After a tumultuous divorce sixteen
When Neil breaks up a fight one
discovers that some of the boys don’t
possible place for a boy like him:
day after school, he doesn’t give the
years before, Maggie Russell and Jeff
just want her gone—they will stop at
Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town
altercation much thought. He’s got
Wells meet again when they move their nothing to drive her out. When their
perched on rocks above the Atlantic,
son Russ into his college dormitory.
bigger issues on his mind, but when
petty threats turn to brutal hazing,
where strange things go on by night,
The attraction is still strong and the
an anonymous person uploads a
bleeding into every corner of her life,
monsters lurk under the waves, and
sex is still great. What starts as a brief she realizes they are not acting alone.
video of the fight to YouTube, the
creepy teachers run the local high
fling soon becomes so much more as
stunning footage suggests Neil
A decades-old secret society is alive
school.
Maggie and Jeff learn that history—
assaulted a student. With his job, his
and active… and determined to force
both the bad and the good — does
family, and his
her out. At any cost.
On Harrison’s first day at school, his
indeed repeat itself.
reputation suddenly
mother, a marine biologist, disappears in jeopardy, Neil
HOPKINS, KAREN ANN
Scar tissue over old wounds is made
at sea. Harrison must attempt to solve must prove his
Forever
the mystery of her accident. It will take innocence and win
of tough fiber. It takes strong love
All I want is my happily-ever-after.
all his resources—and an unusual host back the trust of the
wielded by a courageous hand to cut
of allies—to defeat the danger and find entire community—
through years of heartache. Maggie
From the day we met, the world has
his mother.
and Jeff must peel back the painful
including his son’s.
tried to keep Noah and me from being
layers, exposing the past and accepting together, but now that I’m carrying
GRUBBS, MORRIS
the present, if they are to ever have a
HATCHETT, LOUIS B.
his child, no one will be able to tear
Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne
chance at a future.
Duncan Hines: How a Traveling
us apart. Or so I hope. But Noah and
Miller Reader
Salesman Became the Most Trusted
I have made some mistakes along
Every Leaf a Mirror is a concise
Name in Food
HEITER, ELIZABETH
the way, and the consequences are
gathering of touchstone poems, essays, Duncan Hines (1880–1959) may be
Vanished (Book 2 in the Profiler Series) impacting the people we love. Worse,
and stories by Jim Wayne Miller,
best known for the cake mixes, baked Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn there’s a storm on the horizon, and it’s
the revered teacher and scholar and
goods, and bread products that bear
Baine’s best friend, Cassie Byers,
sure to cause serious devastation. If we
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can get through this, we’ll finally be
Rose and Noah; a family, forever. But
first we have to survive the road ahead.
And happily-ever-after is a long way
off.
HOWE, KATHERINE
Conversion
It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy,
and school is a pressure cooker.
College applications, the battle for
valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts:
Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her
friends are expected to keep it together.
Until they can’t.
First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara
Rutherford, who suddenly falls into
uncontrollable tics in the middle of
class. Her mystery illness quickly
spreads to her closest clique of friends,
then more students and symptoms
follow.
Soon the media descends on Danvers,
Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles
to find something, or someone, to
blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the
girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been
reading The Crucible for extra credit—
comes to realize what nobody else
has: Danvers was once Salem Village,
where another group of girls suffered
from a similarly bizarre epidemic three
centuries ago . . .
Inspired by true events—from
seventeenth-century colonial life to the
halls of a modern-day high school—
Conversion casts a spell.
HUBER, ANNA LEE
A Grave Matter
Scotland, 1830. Following the death
of her dear friend, Lady Kiera Darby
is in need of a safe haven. Returning
to her childhood home, Kiera hopes
her beloved brother Trevor and the
merriment of the Hogmanay Ball will
distract her. But when a caretaker is
murdered and a grave is disturbed at
nearby Dryburgh Abbey, Kiera is once
more thrust into the cold grasp of
death.
While Kiera knows that aiding in
another inquiry will only further
tarnish her reputation, her knowledge
of anatomy could make the difference
in solving the case. But agreeing to
investigate means Kiera must deal with
the complicated emotions aroused in
her by inquiry agent Sebastian Gage.
When Gage arrives, he reveals that the
incident at the Abbey was not the first-
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some fiend is digging up old bones
and holding them for ransom. Now
Kiera and Gage must catch the grave
robber and put the case to rest…before
another victim winds up six feet under.
arch-nemesis of Emma Lee’s grannyshe’s adamant that she didn’t just fall
down those stairs. She was pushed.
Ruthie has no idea who wanted her
pushing up daisies. All she knows
HUNLEY, TOM C.
is that she can’t cross over until the
Plunk
matter is laid to eternal rest. In the
Plunk is Tom C. Hunley’s fourth fullland of the living, Emma Lee’s highlength poetry collection, the first in six school crush, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross,
years.
isn’t ready to rule out foul play. Granny
Raines, the widow of Ruthie’s exHYMAN RUBIO, GWYN
husband and co-owner of the Sleepy
Hollow Inn, is the prime suspect. Now
See Kentucky Connections on page 8. Emma Lee is stuck playing detective or
risk being haunted forever.
JOHNSON, LES
KELLEY, BECKY
Rescue Mode
Wineing Your Way Around Kentucky
Science fiction adventure from New
The author and photographer visited
York Times best-selling author Ben
every winery in Kentucky, all included
Bova and NASA space scientist Les
in the book, and developed a recipe
Johnson.
from one wine at each winery.
The first human mission to Mars
KESSLER, BRUCE
meets with near-disaster when a
Operation Comics #7 - It All Adds Up!
meteoroid strikes the spacecraft,
Operation Comics is series of comic
almost destroying it. The ship is too
books with mathematical content
far from Earth to simply turn around
written and occasionally drawn by
and return home. The eight-person
WKU mathematics professor and
crew must ride their crippled ship to
Mars while they desperately struggle to department head Bruce Kessler. Each
comic contains a bit of mathematics,
survive.
appropriate for roughly grades 4 – 6,
that is vital to the story. The comics
JONES, MICHAEL
follow the adventures of a strong-man
Louisville Jug Music:
From Earl McDonald to superhero, Wonderguy, who often
finds himself in situations where
the National Jubilee
being really strong does not help. Two
Forged on the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers talented elementary-school kids, Claire
during the nineteenth and Dillon, who were befriended by
Wonderguy in the first issue, supply
century, jug band
the mathematical knowledge needed to
music was the early
soundtrack for a new nation. Louisville “save the day”.
was at the heart of it all. German and
Operation Comics is published by the
Irish immigrants, former slaves en
WKU Research Foundation, with the
route to Chicago and homesteaders
help of Liberty Printing. All proceeds
moving into the city created a fertile
from the sales of the comics goes back
ground for this new sound. Some
into the project to cover expenses and
stayed in this so-called money town,
passing on licks and melodies that still produce more issues.
influence bands like the Juggernaut Jug
Band. Tune in to Louisville’s jug band LADD, SARAH E.
music history with local writer Michael The Lady at Willowgrove Hall
Cecily Faire carries the shame of her
Jones and discover a tradition that
past wherever she treads, knowing one
has left a long-lasting impression on
slip of the tongue could expose her
America’s musical culture.
disgrace. But soon after becoming a
lady’s companion at Willowgrove Hall,
KAPPES, TONYA
Cecily finds herself face-to-face with
A Ghostly Undertaking
a man well-acquainted with the past
Bopped on the head from a falling
she’s desperately hidden for years.
plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma
Lee Raines is told she’s suffering from
Nathaniel Stanton has a secret of
“funeral trauma.” It’s trauma all right,
his own—one that has haunted him
because the not so dearly departed
keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue
for years and tied him to his father’s
Payne–innkeeper, gossip queen, and
position as steward of Willowgrove
Hall. To protect his family, Nathaniel
dares not breathe a word of the truth.
But as long as the shadow looms over
him, he’ll never be free to find his own
way in the world. He’ll never be free to
fall in love.
When the secrets swirling within
Willowgrove Hall come to light, Cecily
and Nathaniel must confront a painful
choice: Will they continue running
from the past . . . or will they stand
together and fight for a future without
the suffocating weight of secrets long
kept?
LANDERS, MELISSA
Invaded
Cara always knew life
on planet L’eihr would
be an adjustment.
With Aelyx, her L’eihr
boyfriend, back on
Earth, working to
mend the broken alliance between
their two planets, Cara is left to fend
for herself at a new school, surrounded
by hostile alien clones. Even the weird
dorm pet hates her.
Things look up when Cara is appointed
as human representative to a panel
preparing for a human colony on L’eihr.
A society melding their two cultures
is a place where Cara and Aelyx could
one day make a life together.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Aelyx, finds
himself thrown into a full-scale PR
campaign to improve human-L’eihr
relations. Humans don’t know that
their very survival depends on this
alliance: only Aelyx’s people have
the technology to fix the deadly
contamination in the global water
supply that human governments are
hiding. Yet despite their upper hand,
the leaders of his world suddenly seem
desperate to get humans on their side,
and hardly bat an eye at extremists’
multiple attempts on Aelyx’s life. The
Way clearly needs humans’ help but
with what? And what will they ask for
in return?
LANGDON, LORIE
Destined for Doon
See Carey Corp on page 17.
LAW, KIM
Caught in the Act
Catherine Davenport Carlton needs
a break. After dedicating her life to
her political-minded family, shocking
scandals from the past have shaken
her to her core. Summer in the quiet
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town of Dyersport, Maine, is just what
she needs, especially with a superhot neighbor right next door…who’s
none other than Brody Hollister, the
boy she fell in love with as a teen. Cat
wants nothing more than to pick up
right where they left off eighteen years
ago, but she’s still haunted by a terrible
secret that could devastate Brody.
LEISING, GARY
The Alp at the End of My Street
A collection of poems focusing on the
spiritual and the mundane, often with
humor.
LEWIS, PATRICK
For Slavery and Union: Benjamin
Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the
Civil War
Brody Hollister spent years pining
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836–
over Cat Davenport. They met young
1901) faced a dire choice as the flames
and loved passionately—until she
of Civil War threatened his native
disappeared from his life. Now she’s
Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass
back, as spirited and beautiful as ever. aristocrat, he was sympathetic to
But while Brody is determined to
fellow slave owners, but was also
help Cat free herself from her family’s convinced that the Peculiar Institution
drama, his own family may be hiding
could not survive a war for Southern
something that could ruin their
independence. Defying the wishes of
rekindled romance for good.
his Rebel fiancée and her powerful
family — yet still hoping to impress
LEE, ASHTON
them with his resolve, independence,
The Wedding Circle: A Cherry Cola
and courage — Buckner joined
Book Club Novel
the Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer
This third in a series of four novels
Infantry in 1861 as a Union soldier.
since the release of The Cherry Cola
President Abraham Lincoln’s issuance
Book Club in 2013 further explores the of the Emancipation Proclamation in
Mississippi town of Cherico and the
1863 ultimately destroyed Buckner’s
adventures of librarian Maura Beth
faith in his cause, however, and he
Mayhew and her book club friends.
resigned his commission.
This time around, Maura Beth is
getting married to Jeremy McShay,
In For Slavery and Union, Patrick
an idealistic English teacher. But the
A. Lewis uses Benjamin Buckner’s
showdown between Maura Beth and
story to illuminate the origins and
her snobbish New Orleans mother
perspectives of Kentucky’s conservative
threatens to ruin her wedding on
proslavery Unionists, and explain why
the shores of Lake Cherico. Subthis group eventually became a key
plots include episodes of stalking;
force in repressing social and political
an attempted suicide; and the
change during the Reconstruction
complications of interracial romance.
era and beyond. Other studies have
explored how Kentucky cultivated a
LEGION, MAXWELL
Confederate identity after the Civil
In Nature’s Wake: Exile and Legacy of
War, but For Slavery and Union is
Jon Ben Barlow
the first major work to personify this
Devotees of mystery, romance, tragedy, transformation.
redemption, biography, history,
and geography from Mississippi to
LINDSEY, JULIE
Southern California will find this
Murder by the Seaside
to be a well-wrought, suspenseful
Armed with a new counseling degree,
tale by a masterful storyteller. The
Patience Price is eager to move back
main character, Jon Ben Barlow, has
home to Chincoteague Island to help
little education but is a well-read
folks with their problems. But she finds
self-made man whose natural genius
the streets awash in more than East
and leadership inform his entire life
Coast charm. There’s been a murder,
and bring him ultimate fantastic
and Adrian Davis, the town golden
success. The authentic and powerful
boy who once stomped her heart into a
dialogue reveals the characters and
zillion pieces, is the main suspect. Now
keeps the dynamic story moving.
he’s on the run, claiming he’s innocent.
Maxwell Legion has experienced
Patience finds this…poetic. Not that
and understands his characters’ true
she holds a grudge.
cultures and manners of speaking.
His delineation of character and
Adrian’s mom is sure that with her
atmosphere is what we expect from
FBI background Patience can find
fiction of the first order.
the truth. Yes, she was at the FBI—in
human resources. Still, she looks into
it, but not everyone is happy with her
snooping. Either that, or the welcome
wagon has some bold new policies
involving drive-by shootings.
Things really heat up when a hunky
former coworker, an actual FBI agent,
arrives to help. But he may be too
late; the quaint island harbors deadly
secrets—and Patience is running out
of time.
apart?
Alex Mallory’s action-packed and
romantic tale is perfect for fans of
contemporary and dystopian YA as
well as classic survival stories.
MARANISS, ANDREW
LIVERS, PAULETTE
MATTHEWS, GARY
More American than Southern:
See Kentucky Connections on page 8. Kentucky, Slavery and the War for an
American Ideology, 1828-1861
LYNE, ALISON
The time between the Missouri
Petite Rouge, A Cajun Twist to an Old
Compromise and the Civil War was
Tale
an era when sectional and national
Little Red Riding Hood lives in the
interests competed for the right
hearts of many—instilling in children to direct the future ideology of
everywhere a fear of cloaks and big,
the country. More American than
bad wolves, of course! Way down south Southern is the study of Kentucky’s
in Louisiana there lives a girl named
struggle to reconcile those competing
Clotilde, but everyone calls her Petite
interests.
Rouge because of the beautiful cloak
she wears.
The book is fundamentally an
examination of the historical
Full of Cajun words and phrases,
components, particularly slavery and
accompanying definitions, and a
class conflict that contributed to the
pronunciation guide, Petite Rouge: A
Kentucky political culture of the late
Cajun Twist to an Old Tale will teach
antebellum era. Emphasis is placed
children a petite peu about Cajun
upon Kentucky’s nation view as a
culture.
mediator of sectional disputes. The
study culminates with an assessment
MALLORY, ALEX
of how that political culture reacted to
Wild
the secession crisis.
A modern retelling of
Tarzan set in southern MCADAMS MOORE, CAROL
Kentucky.
Just Sayin’
Just Sayin’ is a devotional book for
The forest is full of
tween girls. Each of the short devos
secrets, and no one
was designed for girls just like you,
understands that
with relevant topics, quotes, Scriptures,
better than Cade. Foraging, hunting,
plus doodles, journal prompts, lists,
surviving—that’s all he knows. Alone
puzzles, quizzes, fill-in-the-black
for years, Cade believes he’s the sole
prayers, or unique activities that
survivor. At least, until he catches a
explore Bible truths and ways to apply
glimpse of a beautiful stranger. . . .
them. Just Sayin’ challenges girls to
follow Jesus every day. Best. Idea. Ever.
Dara expected to find natural wonders
when she set off for a spring break
MCDONOUGH, MARY
camping trip. Instead, she discovers
a primitive boy—he’s stealthy and
handsome and he might be following
her. Intrigued, Dara seeks him out and MCGOWAN, JENNIFER
sets a catastrophe in motion.
Maid of Deception
Beatrice Knowles is a Maid of Honor,
Thrust back into society, Cade
one of Queen Elizabeth I’s secret
struggles with the realization that
protectors. Known for her uncanny
the life he knew was a lie. But he’s
ability to manipulate men’s hearts,
not the only one. Trying to explain
Beatrice has proven herself to be a
life in a normal town leaves Dara
valuable asset in the Queen’s court.
questioning it. As the media swarm
She is preparing to wed her betrothed,
and the police close in, Dara and Cade Lord Cavanaugh. However, her plans
risk everything to get closer. But will
come to a crashing halt as rumors of
the truth about Cade’s past tear them
a brewing Scottish rebellion spread
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among the court.
Beatrice’s new assignment is to
infiltrate the visiting Scottish
delegation using her subtle arts in
persuasion. The mission seems simple
enough, until the Queen pairs Beatrice
with the worst of the lot—Alasdair
MacLeod. Alasdair could be the key
to unlocking the truth about the
rebellion…and her heart. Caught
in a web of ever-more-twisting lies,
Beatrice must rise up among the
Maids of Honor and prove what she’s
known all along: in a court filled with
deception and danger, love may be the
deadliest weapon of all.
bloc would give them a better life;
among these men were twenty-one
American soldiers and prisoners of
war.
Exhaustively researched and
meticulously documented, We Fight
For Peace is the first comprehensive
scholarly work on this controversial
event in international history.
jeopardize Ella’s family.
NAHM, DAVID CONNERLEY
NALL, GAIL
Breaking the Ice
Kaitlin has always dreamed of being a
champion figure skater, and she’s given
up a lot to pursue her passion. But
after she has a totally uncharacteristic
MESSENGER, SHANNON
Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities #3) tantrum at a major competition,
she’s dropped by her coach and her
Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.
prestigious skating club.
Her talents are getting stronger, and
When no other club will have her, she’s
with the elusive Black Swan group
forced to join the ridiculed and runignoring her calls for help, she’s
MCKENZIE,
down Fallton Club, jokingly referred to
determined to find her kidnappers—
CATHERINE
as the “Fall Down Club.” At first Kaitlin
before they come after her again.
Hidden
thinks this is a complete disaster,
While walking
But a daring mistake leaves her world but after meeting some of the other
home from work
skaters—including a boy who happens
teetering on the edge of war, and
one evening, Jeff
causes many to fear that she has finally to have the most perfect hair she’s ever
seen—she realizes it might not actually
Manning is struck
gone too far.
be so bad.
by a car and killed.
Not one but two
In this nail-biting third book in the
women fall to
Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie Yet learning a whole new program
right before regionals is a huge
pieces at the news: his wife, Claire,
must fight the flames of rebellion,
challenge, and when she realizes that
and his co-worker Tish. Reeling from before they destroy everyone and
all the other area skaters target Fallton
her loss, Claire must comfort her
everything she loves.
for pranks, she begins to wonder if
grieving son and contend with funeral
joining the Fall Down Club has any
arrangements, well-meaning family
MILLER, MARY ELLEN
upsides.
members and the arrival of Jeff ’s
Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne
estranged brother—her ex-boyfriend— Miller Reader
Tim.
See under Morris Grubbs on page 21. NEILL, CHLOE
Tish volunteers to attend the funeral
on the company’s behalf, but only
she knows the true risk of inserting
herself into the wreckage of Jeff ’s
life. Told through the three voices of
Jeff, Tish and Claire, Hidden explores
the complexity of relationships,
our personal choices and the
responsibilities we have to the ones we
love.
MCKNIGHT, BRIAN
We Fight For Peace: Twenty-Three
American Soldiers, Prisoners of War,
and Turncoats in the Korean War
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the
last step was taken in the armistice
to end the war in Korea. That night,
the neutral Indian guards who
had overseen the prisoner of war
repatriation process abandoned their
posts leaving their charges to make
their own decisions.
The vast majority of men allowed to
choose a new nation were Chinese
and North Koreans taking the path of
freedom; however, there were smaller
groups hoping that the communist
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Man in the Blue Moon
“He’s a gambler at best. A con artist at
worst,” her aunt had said of the
handlebar-mustached man who
snatched Ella Wallace away from her
dreams of studying art in France.
Eighteen years later, that man has
disappeared, leaving Ella alone and
struggling to support her three sons.
While the world is embroiled in World
War I, Ella fights her own personal
battle to keep the mystical Florida land
that has been in her family for
generations from the hands of an
unscrupulous banker. When a
mysterious man arrives at Ella’s door in
an unconventional way, he convinces
her he can help her avoid foreclosure,
and a tenuous trust begins. But as the
fight for Ella’s land
intensifies, it
becomes evident
that things are not
as they appear.
Hypocrisy and
murder soon shake
the coastal town of
Apalachicola and
NICHOLS-BELT, TRACI
John Sevier: Tennessee’s First Hero
See Gordon Belt on page 16.
NICHOLSON, JAMES
on page 9.
NORTHINGTON, NATHANIEL
Still Running: Autobiography of
Kentucky’s Nate Northington, the First
African American Football Playeer in
the Southeastern Conference
The book chronicles the life of Nate
Northington, who becames the first
African American football player
to play in the storied Southeastern
Conference. After the sudden death
of Greg Page-Northington’s close
friend and teammate–he would break
through the barriers of racism and
become the first black to play football
in the SEC.
O’MALLEY, MIMI
Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky
From Kentucky’s legendary characters
to its most notorious haunted places,
Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky makes
history fun and pulls back the curtain
on some of the state’s most fascinating
and compelling stories.
ORMSBEE, K.E.
PARKER, AMY CHRISTINE
Astray
Lyla is caught between two worlds.
The isolated Community that she grew
up in and the outside world that she’s
navigating for the very first time. The
outsiders call the Community a cult,
but Pioneer miraculously survived a
shooting that should have killed him.
Are the faithful members right to
stay true to his message? Is this just
a test of faith? One thing is for sure:
the Community will do anything to
bring Lyla back to the fold. Trapped in
a spider’s web of deception, will Lyla
detect the sticky threads tightening
around her before it’s too late? She’ll
have to unravel the mystery of what
Pioneer and the Community are truly
up to if she wants to survive.
PARKER, C.L.
A Million Dollar Duet: “A Million Dirty
Secrets” and “A Million Guilty Secrets”
Two million dollars secured Noah
Crawford the most enticing woman
he has ever known. Initiating Delaine
Talbot into a sensuous world of
pleasure took them both to the brink—
again and again. But when Noah
discovers why the beautiful innocent
sold her body to the highest bidder,
he’s faced with the hardest thing he
ever had to do: Set her free.
Lanie can’t believe Noah would let
her go. Doesn’t he know they share a
bond deeper than sex—a connection
too powerful to sever? Not even a
treacherous enemy out to destroy
Noah or the dark secret haunting the
multimillionaire can keep them apart.
But first Lanie has to show him that he
belongs to her, even if it means risking
everything for a love that can never be
bought or sold.
PAUL, KELLEY
PAYNE, M.D.
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PLEITER, ALLIE
Saved by the Fireman
Charlotte Taylor isn’t good at playing
it safe. Reeling from the sudden loss of
her job and her beloved grandmother,
Charlotte knows buying a dilapidated
cottage in Gordon Falls isn’t exactly
practical. Especially since she just
hired the one man who may love the
property more than she does to help
renovate it. Volunteer firefighter and
part-time contractor Jesse Sykes can’t
stay mad at Charlotte for very long.
Though she snatched up the home he’d
planned on purchasing, Charlotte’s
dreams are big enough for both of
them…if only she’d let him in.
Walt’s Wisdom: A Kentucky Cornucopia
of Gardening Miscellany
Walt’s Wisdom is a collection of his
Kentucky Gardening columns over
the past 14 years. The columns contain
humor, reflection and, mostly, downto-earth advice on growing everything
from asters to zinnias, radishes
to zucchini in Kentucky gardens.
The columns also contain updated
information and tips that were not part
of the original columns.
reproduction, and a full-color dust
jacket — the only way to have so many
of Walt’s renowned images all at your
fingertips!
1968) is arguably the most influential
American Catholic author of the
twentieth century. Unable to leave his
home at the Abbey of Gethsemani
except on special occasions, Merton
SANDERS, YOLONDA
developed a unique friendship with
Day of Atonement
Victor and Carolyn Hammer, a couple
from nearby Lexington, Kentucky.
For over thirty years, Detective
Carolyn was a founder of the King
Troy Evans has been haunted by the
Library Press at the University of
disappearance of Elana Campbell. The Kentucky. Victor was an accomplished
younger sister of his best friend, eight- painter, sculptor, printer, and architect.
year-old Elana stormed out of the
Their friendship and collaborations
house one August afternoon and that
RIDGE, RYAN
reveal a shared interest in the
was the last they saw of her…until her convergence of art, literature, and
American Homes
American Homes incorporates poetry, body was found several weeks later off spirituality. This volume collects the
the Texan highway in a place known as trio’s complete correspondence for
prose, and various schematic devices,
the first time. At times humorous,
including dozens of illustrations by the the Killing Fields.
REDWINE, C.J.
artist Jacob Heustis, to create a cracked
often profound, their letters vividly
Deliverance
With no suspects or leads, the
narrative of the domestic spaces we
demonstrate a blossoming intellectual
In this final
Campbells hire private investigator
inhabit.
camaraderie and provide a unique
installment of C. J.
B.K. Ashburn, and Troy heads back
opportunity to understand Merton’s
Redwine’s Defiance
to his hometown of Houston to assist
“Ryan Ridge has toppled everything.
evolving philosophies.
trilogy, Rachel Adams An insane and brilliant book that
with the case. Troy keeps running into
has been kidnapped
dead ends on Elana’s case, except for a SMITH, VIRGINIA
travels the American Home while
by enemy forces
gut feeling that Elana’s disappearance
moving ever further into the mind.
Just As I Am
and is being taken
all those years ago had to do with a
What is possible in writing feels
Wacky Mayla Strong has finally
to Rowansmark
member of her own dysfunctional
diXerent now.”
given her life to God. But does He
while her love, Logan McEntire, is
family.
–Amina Cain, author of Creature
really want a purple-haired girl with
imprisoned and awaiting trial, unable
piercings?
to leave Lankenshire. As uneasy
As Troy and B.K. begin to dig into the
“In the kitchens in Ryan Ridge’s
alliances are tested and their enemies
pasts of the Campbells’ relatives, they
American Homes are Cuisinarts into
When purple-haired Mayla Strong
plot against them, will the two manage which he pours the words he bakes
uncover painful secrets that could
slumps into the back pew of her
to find a way to rid their world of the
destroy relationships. And when the
into loaves of prose, more wry than
mother’s church she has only one
tyrannical Commander and destroy
culprit is finally revealed, the discovery goal—to get Mama off her back. But
rye. The sandwiches he makes from
the tech that controls the deadly
will leave everyone wondering if
them are fun to eat but leave a bitter
Pastor Paul’s message pierces her soul,
Cursed One once and for all?
perhaps some mysteries should remain she’s strutting down the aisle in front
taste in the mouth because the Land
unsolved…
of American Homes is, after all,
of the bug-eyed congregation, lip stud
REED, ERIC
a bitter place. Still: the American
and all.
SCOTT, BERKELEY
Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de
Home is “shooting sunbeams out of
France in the Global Era
Kentucky’s Horse-Drawn Era
its eye sockets” so welcome home.
Baptized on the spot, Mayla comes out
Yellow Livestrong wristbands were
Kentucky’s Horse-Drawn Era takes a
And welcome Ryan Ridge’s American
of the water knowing one thing for
taken off across America in early 2013 Homes into yours!”
look back at life in Kentucky around
certain: life will never be the same.
when Lance Armstrong confessed to
the turn of the 20th century using
–Denis Wood, author of Everything
Oprah Winfrey that he had doped
vintage photographs. It was a time
Sings
STEPP, J.L.
during the seven Tour de France races
when horses, mules and oxen provided The Afternoon Hiker
he won. But the foreign cycling world, ROSS, TOM
all the “horsepower” for daily life
The beautiful Great Smoky Mountains
which always viewed Armstrong with Passages, Poems, Prayers and Promises in Kentucky. The animals pulled
provide the inspiration for this unique
suspicion, had already moved on.
Passages, Poems, Prayers and Promises everything from plows to fire engines hiking guide—designed especially for
to buggies, carriages and hearses to
Even without Armstrong, the Tour
the average tourist or hiking enthusiast
is a Daily Devotional using Bible
school buses and bookmobiles. In
will roll on— it remains one of the
seeking a morning or afternoon walk
passages, and author’s poetry and
addition, they provided their riders
most-watched annual sporting events prayers.
in the Smokies that will prove pleasant
with transportation to and from work, and fun. All 110 hikes in The Afternoon
on television and a global commercial
school, and church and on trips to
juggernaut.
Hiker are easily accessible and average
ROYCRAFT, WALTER
town.
6-8 miles roundtrip.
Quiet Places: Photographs Expressing
In Selling the Yellow Jersey, Eric Reed
the Spirit of Kentucky
SCOTT, JEANINE
examines the Tour’s development in
The 110 hikes in The Afternoon Hiker
Quiet Places will feature over 200 of
France as well as the event’s global
are arranged chronologically—in the
Walter Roycraft’s favorite photographs Kentucky’s Horse-Drawn Era
See Berkeley Scott on page 25.
athletic, cultural, and commercial
order Lin and J.L. hiked them—but
from across the Commonwealth,
influences. Selling the Yellow Jersey
the book includes both a regional and
including landscapes, streams and
explores the behind-the-scenes growth forests, natural formations, and vintage SCUTCHFIELD, F. DOUGLAS
alphabetical index to locate trails by
of the Tour, while simultaneously
The Letters of Thomas Merton and
name or area, along with a Smokies
barns, in both color and black and
chronicling France’s role as a dynamic white. This 9×12-inch, hardbound
Victor and Carolyn Hammer Ad
map.
force in the global arena.
Majorem Dei Gloriam
“coffee-table” volume will include
208 pages, printed on premium
Poet, social justice advocate, and
grade glossy paper for superior photo theologian Thomas Merton (1915–
REICHERT, WALT
STEPP, LIN
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Makin’ Miracles
Zola Devon has always
been a little different.
Half Tahitian, with
long black hair and
dark eyes, she’s
especially distinctive
in the mountain town
of Gatlinburg. She
even stocks her gift shop, Nature’s
Corner, with items that reflect her
island heritage and tantalize tourists.
But it’s her spot-on intuition that
truly sets Zola apart. When she gets
a hunch about a person, she’s almost
always right. And when the surly
photographer who owns the gallery
next door starts meddling in her
business, she can only hope that, for
once, her instincts are wrong.
The one thing Spencer Jackson loves
more than his camera is the majestic
scenery of the Smoky Mountains.
Reeling from his painful past, he’s
settled in a cabin in the woods to train
his lens on the breathtaking landscape.
A woman as uniquely beguiling as
Zola could only throw his simple,
uncomplicated days into chaos–and
force him to lay bare his darkest
secrets. But as their lives become
unavoidably intertwined, they both
may discover the beauty of the truth,
and the joy of the unexpected.
STIOP, ALEXEY
See Clare Ezar on page 18.
STOKES, BETTY
Postcards from Daniel
These postcards from Daniel Boone,
written from the Kentucky Wilderness,
are just pretend. Postcards were not
on the market during Daniel Boone’s
lifetime. They did not appear until
1851, after Daniel Boone had passed
away. But despite the fact that this fun
and educational book may not contain
true artifacts, Postcards from Daniel
provides an honest recollection of
Boone’s thoughts and discoveries as
he explored the Kentucky wilderness
from 1755-1784. This collection, which
is the third in a series of historical
postcard books created by awardwinning Kentucky educator Betty
Southard Stokes, is a perfect way to
teach history to children in a fun,
imaginative way.
SULLIVAN, ALAN
TOBY, MILTON
Canonero II: The Rags to Riches Story of
the Kentucky Derby’s Most Improbably
Winner
The “experts” ignored Canonero II
in the days leading up to the 1971
STEVENS,
Kentucky Derby, while the public
COURTNEY
laughed at the colt from Venezuela
Faking Normal
and his Spanish-speaking entourage.
Alexi Littrell hasn’t
The laughter ended when Canonero
told anyone what
II charged to the lead from 20 lengths
happened to her
back to win the Derby. When he
over the summer by
equaled Nashua’s track record in the
her backyard pool.
Preakness Stakes two weeks later,
Instead, she hides
people began to take the colt seriously.
in her closet, counts
In recounting Canonero II’s quest
the slats in the air
to become the first Triple Crown
vent, and compulsively scratches the
winner since Citation, award-winning
back of her neck, trying to make the
turf historian Milt Toby tells the
outside hurt more than the inside does. compelling story of how one man’s
wildly improbable dream became the
When Bodee Lennox—”the Kool-Aid dream of a nation and how a bargainKid”—moves in with the Littrells after basement yearling born with a crooked
a family tragedy, Alexi discovers an
leg became the “people’s horse.”
unlikely friend in this quiet, awkward
boy who has secrets of his own. As
TUBB, KRISTIN
their friendship grows, Alexi gives him The 13th Sign
the strength to deal with his past, and What if there was a 13th zodiac
Bodee helps her summon the courage sign? You’re no longer Sagittarius,
to find her voice and speak up.
but Ophiuchus, the healer, the 13th
sign. Your personality has changed.
STEWART, AILEEN
So has your mom’s and your best
friend’s. What about the rest of the
See Childrens Day Presenters on page world? What if you were the one who
4.
accidentally unlocked the 13th sign,
causing this world-altering change, and
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infuriating the other 12 signs?
Jalen did it, and now she must use
every ounce of her strength and
cunning to send the signs back where
they belong. Lives, including her own,
depend upon it.
TUCHOLKE, APRIL GENEVIEVE
Between the Spark and the Burn
The crooked-smiling liar River West
Redding, who drove into Violet’s
life one summer day and shook her
world to pieces, is gone. Violet and
Neely, River’s other brother, are left
to worry—until they catch a two a.m.
radio program about strange events
in a distant mountain town. They take
off in search of River but are always a
step behind, finding instead frenzied
towns, witch hunts, and a windwhipped island with the thrum of
something strange and dangerous just
under the surface. It isn’t long before
Violet begins to wonder if Neely, the
one Redding brother she thought
trustworthy, has been hiding a secret of
his own.
one: Both women disappear on the
same day. And Allison’s colleague
Vaughn is the last to have seen each.
Allison’s search for a connection
uncovers an intricate web of family
secrets, corporate transgressions
and an age-old rivalry that crosses
continents. The closer Allison gets
to the truth, the deadlier her quest
becomes. All paths lead back to their
sinister Finger Lakes estate and the
suicide of a woman thirty years earlier.
Allison soon realizes the lives of her
clients and the safety of those closest to
her aren’t the only things at stake.
UFFELMAN, MINOA
The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams:
A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion
and Reconstruction, 1863–1890 (Voices
Of The Civil War)
Nannie Haskins began her diary in
while Clarksville was occupied by
Federal troops in 1863. Ken Burns
used Nannie’s diary in his PBS Civil
War series. Nannie was most recently
featured in the NPT CW 150 series,
Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil
War. Her Civil War story part of the
diary gives unique insights into life in
occupied Montgomery County. She
had a large extended family across the
state line in Kentucky that she often
visited. After the war she married her
older second cousin in Todd County,
Kentucky. He was a widower with
four children and together they had
six. The lesser known part of the diary,
chronicles the difficulty of tobacco
farming in Kentucky in Reconstruction
and post-Reconstruction.
TURNER, TJ
Lincoln’s Bodyguard
President Lincoln was supposed to die.
He famously prophesied his own death
as a necessary end to the Civil War and
the only way the South would truly
surrender. But when Joseph Foster
saves the President from the last act of
revenge in a dying war, he changes the
course of our nation—not necessarily
for the best. An insurgency rages in the
South, Lincoln is trapped in an office
he desperately wants to leave, while
Joseph loses his daughter—kidnapped
by the very elements he thwarted in
VAN WILLIGEN, JOHN
Ford’s Theater.
Kentucky’s Cookbook Heritage: Two
Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and
Seven years later, Joseph is still
Culture
running from his past when a letter
Food is a significant part of our daily
arrives. The President needs the only
lives and can be one of the most telling
person he can trust for one last favor.
records of a time and place. Our
Joseph must travel to the Deep South, meals—from what we eat, to how we
where he is still a wanted man, and
prepare it, to how we consume it—
he must choose between winning
illuminate our culture and history. As
redemption from the only father figure a result, cookbooks present a unique
he ever had, finding the kidnapped
opportunity to analyze changing
daughter he hasn’t seen in two decades, foodways and can yield surprising
or ending the strife raking the country. discoveries about society’s tastes and
Will he still be Lincoln’s bodyguard?
priorities.
TYSON, WENDY
Deadly Assets
An eccentric Italian heiress from the
Finger Lakes. An eighteen-year-old
pop star from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Allison Campbell’s latest clients seem
worlds apart in every respect, except
Kentucky’s Cookbook Heritage is a
journey through the history of the
commonwealth, showcasing the
shifting priorities and innovations of
the times. Analyzing the historical
importance of a wide range of
publications, from the nonprofit and
All Authors
charity cookbooks that flourished
at the end of the twentieth century
to the contemporary cookbook
that emphasizes local ingredients,
van Willigen provides a valuable
perspective on the state’s social history.
VEACH, MICHAEL
on page 9.
VEST, STEPHEN M.
Unexpected Inheritance
Mick Jagger was right. “You can’t
always get what you want …”
… Especially not from proceeding
generations of your own family. And
you can’t always control the lessons or
traits you pass on to your descendents,
either. This hard truth lies at the
heart of author Stephen M. Vest’s
nostalgic collection of family tales.
Through a series of real-life vignettes
exploring the relationships within his
own feisty, fascinating family, Vest
uncovers the many values, traits, and
life lessons–often unexpected–that
he inherited from his older parents,
domineering grandmother, and other
colorful characters who influenced
his life. Vest’s stories strike a chord of
warm familiarity with readers who
will recognize a little bit of their own
families, and maybe a little bit of
themselves, on each page. They also
affirm that the rest of Mick Jagger’s line
is also true, especially when it comes to
family: “If you try sometimes, you just
might find, you get what you need.”
VIVIAN, SIOBHAN
A Little Friendly Advice
If you can’t trust your friends, who
CAN you trust?
Ruby’s turning sixteen . . . but the
day doesn’t turn out as sweet as it’s
supposed to. Her long-lost father
shows up, and Ruby doesn’t want
anything to do with him. She wants to
hang out and eat cake with her friends
— loyal Beth, dangerous Katherine,
and gossipy Maria. They always have
plenty of advice for her, and they have
A LOT to say about her dad’s return.
But Ruby’s not sure what to think or
feel. Especially when a cute new boy
named Charlie comes into the picture
. . . and Ruby discovers not all of her
friends are as truthful as they say they
are.
WATSON, JAN
WENDEL, TIM
Down to the Last Pitch
Never in baseball history had a
last place team rebounded to take
the pennant the following season.
Yet in 1991, as author Tim Wendel
vividly recounts in Down to the Last
Pitch, lightning struck twice as the
Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta
Braves, a pair of cellar dwellers the
year before, faced each other in an
unforgettable World Series. When
the final out was recorded, the cover
headline in Baseball Weekly read: “Best
World Series Ever.”
Ellauria should be the safest place for
Charlie while the Fellowship works
to find her family, but things in the
mystical realm aren’t what they seem.
With her family still missing and the
danger in Ellauria growing, Charlie
doesn’t know who she can trust. She’s
dealing with a power she never asked
for, falling for a guy she can’t have,
and being forced to choose between
her destiny and her heart. And if she
chooses wrong, she could destroy
magic forever.
WEST, GARY
Better than Gold: Olympian Kenny
Davis and the Most Controversial
Basketball Game in History
See Kenny Davis on page 18.
WILLIS HOLT, KIMBERLY
WHITAKER,
ALECIA
Wildflower
Sixteen-year-old Bird
Barrett has grown up
on the road, singing
backup in her family’s
bluegrass band, and
playing everywhere
from Nashville, Tennessee to Nowhere,
Oklahoma. One fateful night, Bird
fills in for her dad by singing lead,
and a scout in the audience offers
her a spotlight all her own. Soon
Bird is caught up in a whirlwind of
songwriting meetings, recording
sessions, and music video shoots.
Her first single hits the top twenty,
and suddenly fans and paparazzi are
around every corner. She’s even caught
the eye of her longtime crush, fellow
roving musician Adam Dean. With
Bird’s star on the rise, though, tradition
and ambition collide. Can Bird break
out while staying true to her roots?
WHITE, CRYSTAL
4.
WHITMER, MEGAN
Between
When a supernatural freak of
nature forces her family to separate,
seventeen-year-old Charlie Page must
turn to her frustrating (yet gorgeous)
neighbor, Seth, to help reunite them.
Seth whisks Charlie to Ellauria–a
magical world filled with the creatures
of myths and legends–and tells her
of the Fellowship, the group charged
with protecting mystical beings from
human discovery.
Charlie may be in over her head.
WOODHOUSE, KATHY
Wineing Your Way Across Kentucky
See Becky Kelley, page 22.
shares moving
stories of courage,
perseverance, and
self-reinvention from
Kentucky’s resettled
refugees alongside
delicious, handselected recipes.
Whether shared
at farmers’ markets, restaurants,
community festivals, or simply among
friends and neighbors, these cuisines
contribute to the ongoing evolution
of American comfort food just as the
refugees themselves are redefining
what it means to be an American.
Featuring heroic tales and tasty dishes
from around the globe, this satisfying
sampler reaches across the table to
explore a world of culture through the
universal language of food.
YOUNG-BROWN, FIONA
A Culinary History of Kentucky:
Burgoo, Beer Cheese, and Goetta
Pull up a chair to the kitchen table
and enjoy a delicious adventure
through Bluegrass food history.
Kentucky’s cuisine can be traced back
to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English
and German roots, among others. Find
recipes for dishes from burgoo to hog
to moonshine and frogs. Join author
Fiona Young-Brown as she details all
the delectable delights sure to make the
mouth water.
YOUNG, JESSICA
4.
YUAN, HAIWANG
Tibetan Folktales
This book contains
more than 30
traditional Tibetan
stories that give
readers a taste of
the land, people,
culture, history,
religion, and psyche of this remote
nation. In addition, the book supplies
tutorials for Tibetan crafts and games,
a sample of recipes, and photographs
and illustrations that create a
multidimensional experience of
Tibetan culture.
ZARING, AIMEE
Flavors from Home: Refugees in
Kentucky Share their Stories and
Comfort Foods
In Flavors from Home, Aimee Zaring
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