the 34th annual Kentucky Book Fair

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Saturday, November 14, 2015 • Frankfort Convention Center
Honoring Writers • Supporting Libraries • Connecting Readers
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Sponsored by:
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2015 Kentucky Book Fair
KBF Statement of Purpose
th
ANNUAL
KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS: Carl West, President; Ellen Hellard, Acting President; Diana
Munson, Secretary; Tom Midkiff, Treasurer
MANAGER: Adell Kemper
COMMITTEES: Mary Lynn Collins, Author Selection; Judith Gibbons,
Grants; Teresa Collins, Logistics; Catherine Staib, Long Range Planning;
Michael Embry, Marketing; Amy Smith, Volunteers; Connie Crowe,
Hospitality; and Brooke Raby, Fundraising
AT LARGE: Jenny Luscher, Cindy Cline, Paul Boisvert
EX-OFFICIO: Ben Chandler, Kathleen Poole
VOLUNTEERS
The following volunteers serve the Kentucky Book Fair in a variety of capacities:
Libby Anderson, Lynn Baker, Bettie Beach, Cecilia Broadwater, Mary Lynn Collins, Cindy
Çline, Erinn Conness, Charlie Crowe, Doug Crowe Jr., Doug Crowe Sr., Elizabeth Crowe,
Emily Crowe, Julia Curry, Diane Dehoney, Claudette Delk, Tim Dimmick, Bramblett Elam,
Miriam Fordham, Frankfort Convention Center staff, Friends of Paul Sawyier Public
Library, Anne Gibbs, Donna Gibson, Laurel Harper, John Higginbotham, Keith Jackson, Joy
Jeffries, Joseph-Beth Booksellers staff, Ed Klee, Kentucky Department for Libraries and
Archives staff, Twina Keeton, Mack McCormick, Paul Sawyier Public Library staff, Marilyn
Lebourveau, Charles Pearl, Dave Pike, Kathleen Pool, Alene Ransdell, Lynda Sherrard, Sue
Turner, Amy and Mina Thomas, Filly Tierney, Stephen Vest, Kent Whitworth, and Russell
Wright. Design and layout by Jim Hoffmann
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The Kentucky Book Fair, Inc., was
founded in 1981 under the appropriate
statutes of the Internal Revenue Service
as a charitable and non-profit corporation
for the sole purpose of staging an annual
book fair. The Kentucky Book Fair has
three key goals:
• To honor the profession of writing in
the form of a one-day celebration
• To provide a format for authors to
meet their reading public
• To raise money through the sale of
books and donate all profits to mostly
school and public libraries throughout
Kentucky
The Book Fair is Kentucky’s premier
literary event and one of the largest
and oldest of its kind in the nation.
It is sponsored by The State Journal,
Frankfort’s daily newspaper, and the
Kentucky Humanities Council and cosponsored by the Kentucky Department
for Libraries and Archives, the University
Press of Kentucky and Joseph-Beth
Booksellers of Lexington. It also receives
corporate, institutional, foundation and aid
from a variety of citizens and businesses.
The Book Fair corporation is
composed of a volunteer board of directors
and officers. A paid manager and part-time
bookkeeper handle financial and day-today matters.
The Book Fair for 12 years was held
at the state library and moved in 1994 to
a larger location at the Exum Building on
the campus of Kentucky State University.
In 2002 it moved to the Frankfort
Convention Center in the heart of the
capital city. The state library has hosted
events that are part of the Book Fair and
serves as its official headquarters.
Each year between 150 and 200
authors attend the Book Fair to autograph
copies of their latest book, generally
published within the 12 months preceding
the November Book Fair date. Between
3,000 and 4,000 patrons attend. The
record number of books sold was in 1996
at 11,000. The 2006 KBF set a record in
gross sales of $170,000. In its 33-year
history, it has sold more than $2.8 million
worth of books.
The profits are donated to mostly school
and public libraries in Kentucky, which
have few resources to expand collections,
replace old books or fund literacy-related
causes. Those contributions to date total
more than $375,000.
The Kentucky Book Fair has been
recognized for its community service
and philanthropic contributions by
the University of Missouri School of
Journalism, University of Kentucky
Journalism Association, Kentucky Library
Association, Lexington Herald-Leader,
Kentucky Press Association, American
Library Association, and Association
for Library Trustees and Advocates.
It received a Governor’s Award in the
Arts in 2007 and was recipient of the Al
Smith Award from the Institute of Rural
Journalism in 2015. The Book Fair has
been cited in commemorative resolutions
passed by members of the House and
Senate of the Kentucky General Assembly.
Price Listings Note
The Kentucky Book Fair price list will be
available at www.kybookfair.blogspot.com,
as well as via an email to
[email protected]. It can also be picked
up at the convention center the day of the
book fair.
Book Fair Parking
Free parking for the book fair is available at
the YMCA, Capital Plaza Hotel Tower, and
the Transportation Cabinet Building and in
the lot across from the Capital Plaza Hotel-all convenient to the Frankfort Convention
Center.
KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR VENDORS
Kentucky Humanities Council
The University Press of Kentucky
Friends of Kentucky Libraries
Bluegrass Theatre Guild
Usborne Books and More
St. Catharine College
Kentucky Historical Society
Larkspur Press
Kentucky Monthly
Parkway Publishing
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Photo by Guy Mendes
Wendell Berry Heads All-Star
Lineup for This Year’s Book Fair
Hall of famer Wendell Berry heads an allcast for the 34th annual Kentucky Book Fair.
Berry will be among more than 200
international, national and state authors and
illustrators at the state’s premier literary
event on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at the Frankfort Convention
Center. This year’s fair is sponsored by the
Kentucky Humanities Council.
The 81-year-old essayist, novelist, and
poet, as well as farmer and environmental
activist from Henry County, was the
first living writer to be inducted into the
Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, when
he was enshrined earlier this year at the
Carnegie Center in Lexington. The prolific
author has written more than 40 books,
earning him praise and respect from an
international audience.
Berry, a perennial bestselling author at
the book fair, will sign several of his titles
including his latest releases, Our Only
World: Ten Essays and a new publication of
Sabbaths 2013, from Larkspur Press.
Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella
Lyon as well as two former recipients, Frank
X Walker and Richard Taylor, will also
be in attendance. Lyon, a noted children’s
author, will sign Boats Float! with son
and co-author, Benn. Walker, a founder of
Affrilachian Poets, will sign his latest book
of poetry, About Flight, while Taylor will
have several of his recent titles.
Here a few more of the star-studded
authors appearing at this year’s fair,
beginning with fiction:
Congressman Steve Israel, who
represents New York’s Third District, wrote
The Global War on Morris, a witty, political
satire ripped from the headlines. Critics
have called it a laugh-out-loud funny book
that is sure to delight those who follow the
Washington politics.
Cheryl Della Pietra’s novel, Gonzo
Girl, is based on her time as an assistant to
the legendary Hunter S. Thompson. It’s a
rollicking reflection on life with the famed
gonzo journalist.
Vince Vawter, a former newspaperman,
became a Newbery Award-winning author
with Paperboy, a poignant story about an
11-year-old boy who can pitch a great game
but can’t talk one because of stuttering.
Peter Golden’s novel, Wherever There
Is Light, delves into the little-known history
of the rescue of German Jews from Nazi
Germany by historically black colleges in
the United States.
Mary McDonough, who portrayed Erin
on the TV series, “The Waltons,” returns
to the book fair with her first novel, One
Year. It is a heartfelt story about three
generations of women in a modern IrishAmerican family as they navigate marriage,
motherhood, and independence.
Jacinda Townsend’s Saint Monkey is
about a young African American who leaves
Kentucky for the Harlem jazz scene. The
book won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize
for historical fiction.
Robert Gipe, who lives in Harlan, may
have the most creative book at this year
event in Trampoline, an illustrated novel
that contains wonderfully crafted prose and
220 comics-style drawings. It is a comingof-age story set in the coalfields of eastern
Kentucky.
David Arnold, a Lexington author, has
garnered a lot of attention for Mosquitoland,
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200+ Authors for 2015 KBF
Brief book summaries and biographies
TONY ACREE
Acree returns with his second book, The
Speaker, a sequel to his previous works, The
Hand of God and The Watchers. This fastpaced thriller asks the reader the question:
Is anyone beyond redemption? Acree is a
resident of Louisville.
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
Representatives of the Actors Theatre of
Louisville will sign copies of ACTORS
THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE: FIFTY
YEARS. Lovingly crafted with behind the
scenes vignettes of the rich 50-year history
of Actors Theatre of Louisville along with
colorful anecdotes and stuffed to the brim
with memorable photographs.
NANCY KELLY ALLEN
Hazard native and children’s author, Allen
returns to the book fair with her latest
title, First Fire: A Cherokee Folktale.
This retelling of a
Cherokee pour quoi
folktale explores why
ravens are black and
why screech owl eyes
look red in light.
P. ANASTASIA
Anastasia brings the
first and second titles
in the Fluorescence Nancy Kelly Allen
young adult series,
Contagious and Fire
Starter. Blending sci-fi with urban realism,
Anastasia brings protagonist Brian Azure
to life as he does battle with the chaos
unleashed by the Saviors. Anastasia is a
resident of central Kentucky.
JOSEPH G. ANTHONY
Wanted: Good Family describes and
explores relationships and racism in 1948
Kentucky, through this story of black and
white families in a farming community.
Anthony taught English for 35 years, in
addition to a prolific writing career. He
lives in Lexington.
JACOB M. APPEL
This New York
City-based writer
wears
many
hats--physician,
attorney
and
bioethicist-in addition to
being an awardwinning author.
He brings two
of his engaging
and offbeat shortstory collections,
Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary
Planets and Einstein’s Beach House.
Berry Heads All-Star Lineup continued
a young adult novel. It is a story about a
young girl who runs away from her dad and
stepmother and embarks on a thousand-mile
journey on a Greyhound bus.
Christopher Scotton’s debut novel, The
Secret Wisdom of the Earth, delves into
events in a small, eastern Kentucky town
and how they affect a young man’s view of
human cruelty and compassion.
Sharyn McCrumb’s latest work, Nora
Bonesteel’s Christmas Past, is a hauntingly
beautiful ballad novella for the holidays.
Jason Mott’s The Wonder of All Things
is an unforgettable story about a young
girl with the unusual gift of healing others.
Screen rights have been acquired for the
novel and producers of the Harry Potter
films have been hired to produce a movie.
Marcia Thornton Jones, the headliner
on Kids and Teen Day, will have her latest
novel, Woodford Brave.
And for some nonfiction:
Davis Miller’s Approaching Ali:
A Reclamation in Three Acts is a look
at Muhammad Ali’s life after boxing,
told through the story of an unexpected
friendship. Miller is an internationally bestselling author of two previous books.
Bill Goodman, known for his work as
host of “Kentucky Tonight” on KET, turns
author with Beans, Biscuits, Family and
Friends: Life Stories, a series of essays with
a little something for everyone.
John Temple, a journalism professor
at West Virginia University, has written a
book about the pill mills pipeline between
Kentucky and Florida in American Pain:
How a Young Felon and His Crew of
Doctors Unleashed the Deadliest Drug
Epidemic in U.S. History.
Al Smith Jr. will be back to sign his
biographies as well as The Spider Election,
for which he wrote the foreword. The book
was written by H. Foster Pettit, who died
unexpectedly late last year, is about the
controversial election of Pettit to mayor
of Lexington and the formation of merged
governments between
Lexington and
Fayette County in 1973.
Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer
will be there with Sex, Celebrity and My
Father’s Unsolved Murder, about Bob
Crane, Robert’s dad, who played Colonel
Crane in the TV series “Hogan’s Heroes.”
Kathryn Canavan’s Lincoln’s Last Hours
takes a magnifying glass to the final, tragic
moments in the life of the nation’s 16th
president.
In The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters
by Sallie Bingham connects the lives
of her mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother from the discovery of saved
documents in a blue box.
Tim Grove, who works at the
Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum, authored First Flight Around the
World, a must-read for aviation enthusiasts.
Karen Cotton McDaniel, Gerald L.
Smith, and John A. Hardin edited The
Kentucky African American Encyclopedia,
winner of the Thomas Clark Medallion
for its contribution to Kentucky history
and recipient of the 2015 Archives Month
Certificate of Merit for Writing/Publication
from the Kentucky State Historical Records
Advisory Board.
That’s only a few of the selections
available at this year’s Kentucky Book as
the titles run the gamut from cooking to
gardening to sports.
There will be symposiums, readings and
other activities associated with reading and
writing throughout the day. And it’s free.
So come early, stay late, and enjoy the
festivities.
2015 Kentucky Book Fair
THOMAS H. APPLETON JR. (see
MELISSA A. MCEUEN)
JAMES ARCHAMBEAULT
2015
annual
ARCHAMBEAULT’S
calendar is part of a series of annual wall
calendars, note cards, and limited-edition
photographic prints. Archambeault has
been an independent
photographer for over
twenty-five
years
and has published
five books, including
James Archambeault’s
Historic
Kentucky
and Kentucky Horse
Country:
Images
of the Bluegrass.
He resides in Scott
James Archambeault
County.
DAVID ARNOLD
Mim Malone runs away from her father
and stepmother and hops a greyhound bus
for a thousand-mile journey to her mother,
meeting a quirky cast of characters on the
way in Mosquitoland. This young adult
novel was on the Kids’ Indie Next List “Top
Ten” pick. Arnold lives in Lexington and
this is his first book.
LARRY BAILEY
The writer and former teacher explores realworld problems, ranging from being poor
to being a different skin color and how the
game of baseball provides hope in Felipe
And The Gentle Giant On Home Run Drive.
A resident of Ashland, Bailey will also sign
copies of his new book, 4,256 Reasons Why
Pete Rose Should Be In The Hall Of Fame.
R. LYNN BAKER
The Frankfort-based author makes her
authorial debut with her title, Counting
Down to Kindergarten: A Complete Guide
to Creating a School Readiness Program fro
Your Community. Baker’s book offers hands
on activities which connect early literacy
practices with approaches to learning and
cognitive, physical, social and language
skills.
SUE KELLY BALLARD
The Elizabethtown resident is the author of
a historical novel, My Blessed, Wretched
Life: Rebecca Boone’s Story. This fictional
rendering of Boone’s life delves into the
challenges of frontier life, particularly from
a female viewpoint.
TRACY BARRETT
Barrett brings Greek mythology to life
in King of Ithaka, as Telemachos sets off
2015 Kentucky Book Fair over sea and desert in search of his father
Odysseus, with only a mysterious prophecy
to guide him. Barrett is a former Vanderbilt
University professor who teaches courses
on writing and children’s literature.
DAVID BELL
In the intriguing mystery Somebody I Used
to Know, Nick Hansen makes a quick stop
at the grocery only to see a girl who looks
just like his college girlfriend. The only
problem is she died in a house fire twenty
years ago. Nick then uncovers some things
he never wanted to know. Bell, a Cincinnati
native, is an English professor at Western
Kentucky University in Bowling Green.
YARROTT BENZ
Benz makes his authorial debut with his
compelling memoir, The Bone Bridge: A
Brother’s Story. Benz revisits a period of
his life in which he was part of a gripping
medical experimental process that kept his
brother Charley, a victim of aplastic anemia,
alive over 13 years. The author resides in
Lexington.
LAURIEN BERENSON
B e r e n s o n ’ s
eighteenth, The Bark
Before
Christmas,
continues her popular
mystery series set in
the world of dogs and
dog shows. Berenson
has written 30 novels
and now lives on a
farm near Versailles,
surrounded by horses
Laurien Berenson
and dogs.
DARRYL E BERRY JR.
Travel Far: A Beginner’s Guide to the Outof-Body Experience, Including First-Hand
Accounts and Comprehensive Theory and
Methods is Berry’s first book. The author,
who is from Peewee Valley, is a long time
practitioner, researcher, and observer of all
thinks metaphysical, mystical, and cutting
edge.
WENDELL BERRY
One of Kentucky’s premier contemporary
writers, Berry has written more than 40
books of poetry, novels, and essays, read
by an international audience. Noted as an
activist, farmer, philosopher and teacher,
he is the KBF’s consistently best-selling
author. A selection of his books will be
available, including a new publication of
Sabbaths 2013 (poetry) by Larkspur Press.
Berry lives on his farm in Henry County.
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KIRAN BHATRAJU
From deep in the mountains of Appalachia
to the steps of Capitol HiIl, Mud Creek
Medicine :The Life of Eula Hall and the
Fight for Appalachia chronicles the life
of a woman
with a resolute
spirit to help
her
people.
This
award
-winning
book reveals
the
horrors
Eula faced at
home
while
she
agitated
for
black
lung
rights,
healthcare, and
clean
water
for her community. Bhatraju, a native of
Pikeville, worked as a congressional aide
to U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, and is currently
the CEO of Arcadia Power and resides in
Washington D.C.
GINA BIGLER
Patrons interested in saving money and
making positive changes in their lives will
be interested in Frugal Spending for Rich
Living:A Holistic Approach to Money.
Bigler is from Lexington.
SALLIE BINGHAM
The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters is the
story of Bingham’s mother, grandmother
and great-grandmother as gleaned from a
discovery of saved documents stored in
the blue box. The letters, essays, journals
and stories were recovered from Mary
Bingham’s home after her death and passed
on to Sallie, her daughter, who has pieced
together a picture of the culture these
women lived in as well as their personalities.
Bingham lives in New Mexico.
KATHARINE BLACK
For two and a half years, the author
crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home
vegetable gardeners from a rich variety
of backgrounds. Row by Row: Talking
with Kentucky Gardeners is the result, a
powerful compilation of testimonies on the
connections between land, people, culture,
and home. Black served as the curator of
the University of Kentucky’s Appalachian
Collection from 1986 until her retirement
in 2013.
RONALD WOLFORD BLAIR
Wild Wolf and the Great Rivalry: Col. Frank
Wolford’s Civil War describes the military
life of this Kentuckian, who also dissented
against President Lincoln’s policies about
enlistment of black soldiers. Blair has spent
16 years in research and writing about
Kentucky’s role in the Civil War. He lives
in central Kentucky.
CAROL M. BOOKER
Alone atop the Hill: the Autobiography of
Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National
Black Press is the newly edited and
annotated narrative of Alice Dunnigan’s rise
from daughter of Kentucky sharecroppers
to the highest ranks of the national press,
becoming the first black woman accredited
to the White House and Capitol Press
Galleries. Booker, a former journalistturned-attorney, lives in Washington, D.C.
KIM BOYKIN
A Peach of a Pair is a tale of sisterhood
and redemption. It is 1953 and after her
fiancé has to marry her younger sister,
Nettie leaves school to take a job caring for
two unmarried, elderly sisters. Nettie soon
struggles through a cross-country journey
to find a faith healer and, thanks to the two
sisters, discovers that love and forgiveness
conquer all.
PETER BRACKNEY
The importance of historic preservation is
clearly demonstrated in Lost Lexington, a
book of photos about sites that are no more.
The author’s passion, formed while living in
downtown Lexington, continues through his
work with the Blue Grass Trust for Historic
Preservation. He now lives in Nicholasville.
LAUREN H. BRANDENBURG
Boone: The Sanctified, written from a
Christian worldview, is the third book in a
trilogy for young readers (grades 4 to 8). The
characters exist in a world where goodness
grows beneath the earth and darkness
fights to walk among it. Brandenburg is a
Kentucky native now living in Nashville.
DREW BREAUX
Breaux , from Lexington, has launched a
new series of children’s books, each crafted
around a cause and with a non-profit partner.
Each copy of With Light Up the Darkness
sold will provide five meals to children in
need and each copy of Meow the Cow sold
will provide ten meals to rescued animals.
Other books in the series are The Do-Good
Squad and If Only You’ll Try.
DUFFY BROWN
Brown returns with another cozy mystery,
Demise in Denim. When Regan Summerside
turned the first floor of her old Victorian
home into a
consignment
shop,
she
never imagined
she
would
be harboring
a fugitive in
her attic after
a dead man
is found in a
bathtub. Brown
is a national
bestselling
author
from
Ohio.
LONNIE E. BROWN (see ROBERTA
SIMPSON BROWN)
ROBERTA SIMPSON BROWN
Haunted Holidays: Twelve Months of
Kentucky Ghosts is a hair-raising collection
of paranormal tales for readers of all ages
that moves beyond Halloween to include
tales about Thanksgiving, Christmas,
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Valentine’s Day, Memorial Day, and more.
The Browns are the authors of numerous
books, including Spookiest Stories Ever
and Kentucky Hauntings. They live in
Middletown.
BOBBIE SMITH BRYANT
The Culture of the Black Patch region of
Kentucky is captured in Farming the Black
Patch that includes hundreds of full color
photos. Much of the regions history is
covered along with the Black Patch War of
the early twentieth century. Bryant was born
in the Black Patch of Calloway County and
now resides in Louisville.
GENE BURCH
The latest in Frankfort’s pictorial history
is Postcards from Historic Frankfort,
Kentucky, produced by Burch, the
photographer/artist, and Hatter, the writer.
A collection gleaned from the Capitol City
Museum’s massive archive of postcards,
the book is a look at Frankfort’s early
1900s. The Frankfort authors will also have
available other of their publications.
SHERRY A.
BURTON
Seems Like Yesterday
is
a
time-ravel
romance that deals
with issues like post
traumatic
stress
disorder and domestic
terrorism.
Burton
grew up in Louisville
and currently resides
in the mountains of Sherry A. Burton
Pennsylvania.
BRYAN S. BUSH
A prolific author and Civil War re-enactor,
Bush will sign his latest title, Colonel
Andrew Cowan: Union Soldier, Louisville
Citizen, Peacemaker. Cowan fought in
nearly every battle of the Eastern Civil War
theatre and came home to Louisville, where
he founded the Park system there. Bush
lives in Louisville.
KATHRYN CANAVAN
In Lincoln’s Final Hours: Conspiracy,
Terror, and the Assassination of America’s
Greatest President, Canavan takes a
magnifying glass to the last moments of the
president’s life, illuminates the stories of
ordinary people whose lives were changed
forever by the
assassination.
C a n a v a n
is a former
independent
researcher
and freelance
writer for USA
Today and the
Philadelphia
Inquirer living
in Wilmington,
Del.
NANCY CARLSON
Everybody barfs. Dogs, cats, chickens,
alligators, and even you. It happens to
everyone, and sometimes it even happens . .
. at school. In Sometimes You Barf, Carlson
helps young readers through what is often
a scary and embarrassing rite of passage.
Sometimes you barf. But it’s OK. You get
better! The author lives in Minnesota.
GARY CIERADKOWSKI
A strikingly original illustrated history of
baseball’s forgotten heroes, The League
Of Outsider Baseball, includes stars of
the Negro Leagues, barnstorming teams,
semi-pro clubs, foreign leagues and
famous players before they achieved fame.
Cieradkowski is a resident of Fort Thomas.
RYAN CLARK
The ultimate companion for Wildcat fans
of all types
looking
to
get
more
involved with
their team is
The Kentucky
Wildcat Fan’s
Bucket
List.
With helpful
guides on each
activity’s costs,
difficulty and
geography this
book provides
insights on all things Wildcats. Clark and
Cox are Kentucky residents and co-authors
2015 Kentucky Book Fair of several books about University of
Kentucky athletics.
DOUG COATES
Dominic and his sister Chelsea learn
about the Joe Nuxhall Miracle League for
children and adults with special needs.
Pitching For Success: Character Lessons,
The Joe Nuxhall Way explores character
building skills,
self-integrity
and
helping
those who are
less fortunate.
Coates is a
resident
of
Hamilton,
Ohio,
the
hometown
of the late
Cincinnati
pitcher
and
broadcaster.
JAMES RAY COFFMAN
Araura Volume# 1(Issues #1-3) is a fresh
take on the “heroes Journey.” Renzia and
Ania begin their journey through the world
of Sereth, where many dangers await them.
This story is told through the eyes of many
characters and challenges the reader’s view
of right and wrong. Recommended for
ages 14 and older. Coffman was raised in
Harrodsburg and now resides in Lexington.
ELIZABETH COLEY
Sixteen-year-old Torrance Maddox figures
out that the mysterious and deadly New Flu
is being spread by dogs, she wonders why
the government hasn’t revealed the truth
and taken action. Tor Maddox: Unleashed
is the part of the new series by young adult
author. Coley is from Ohio.
GLEN CONNER
Frontiersmen in the War of 1812 follows
the veteran frontiersmen who lived in
the central border areas of Kentucky and
Tennessee, giving an in-depth look at the
war, information on land grants and pensions
issued following the war, and over 150
biographical portraits. Conner retired from
the U.S. Air Force and taught meteorology
at Western Kentucky University prior to
becoming an author.
CAREY CORP
Corp and Lorie Langdon return with their
new book, Shades of Doon, the third book
of their young adult series loosely based on
the concept of the musical Brigadoon. The
authors live in the Midwest.
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In a search to see if a long lost ancestor had served in the
War of 1812, Scottsville native Glen Conner discovered the
names and stories of many veteran frontiersmen who lived
in the central border areas of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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. 6x9, 352 pages
Coates / Crocker
ANGELA CORRELL
When restoration of the old stone house
uncovers a family secret, Annie must travel
to Italy to search out the answer, leaving her
grandmother with a disruptive houseguest,
and dealing with her own paralyzing fears
about her relationships with Jake. Guarded
is the second novel by the Stanford resident.
TASHA COTTER
A debut novel, Red Carpet Day Job, follows
a working-class secretary in New York City.
Along with published poetry collections,
Cotter, a contributor to Women in Clothes,
The Poets on Growth Anthology, and the
2017 Poet’s Market, makes her home in
Lexington.
*Send your check/money order in the amount of
$28.00 plus $3.50 shipping to:
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ROBERT CRANE
Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s
Unsolved Murder is Crane’s memoir
(with
co-author
Christopher
Fryer)
about how his father,
Bob Crane, known to
Hogan’s Heroes fans
as Colonel Hogan,
was
discovered
brutally murdered in
his Scottsdale, Ariz.,
apartment on June
29, 1978. But this
Robert Crane
storyline is just one
thread in his tale of
growing up in Los Angeles, his struggles to
reconcile the good and sordid sides of his
celebrity father, and his own fascinating
life. Crane lives in Los Angeles, and Fryer
in New York’s Hudson Valley.
TERRY LYNN CRANE
Fiddle-Dee-Dee Recipes: A Taste of “Gone
with the Wind,” is a cookbook and an
homage to the famous book and movie.
Crane operates the Tarleton Oaks Bed and
Breakfast and provides recipes from her
business in this entertaining book. She lives
near Hustonville.
MICHAEL CRISP
Blue Shirts is a Kentucky-based novel about
a man fearing for his future until an old
friend comes back into his life and makes
him a very interesting offer. Crisp resides in
Georgetown.
TERRI BLOM CROCKER
In The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory,
and the First World War, Crocker provides
the first comprehensive analysis of both
Author Terry Lynn Crane and her late husband,
“Gone With The Wind” actor Fred Crane, owned
and operated Tarleton Oaks Bed and Breakfast and
The Gone With The Wind Hall of Stars Museum in
Georgia. This beautifully unique and colorful, 8.5”
x 11” hardbound, coffee table book is more than
just a cookbook.
Contains scenes cut from
Rare autographs
the movie
Memorabilia
Behind the scenes stories
Funny anecdotes
Cast member information
Green velvet page
Rare movie stills
marker
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scholarly and popular portrayals of the WWI
Christmas Truce from 1914 to present. She
is a Ph.D. candidate and the senior paralegal
for investigations in the Office of Legal
Counsel at the University of Kentucky and
lives in Georgetown.
AL CROSS and DAVID CROSS
The authors contributed a chapter,
“Republican Redoubt: The Politics of
Kentucky’s Upper Cumberland,” in People
of the Upper Cumberland. Al lives in
Frankfort and David resides in Albany.
ELIZABETH FANNIN CROWE
Kira Sophosia’s world is turned upsidedown as she is suddenly thrust into
becoming her idyllic city’s new leader,
and she begins to uncover deep and deadly
mysteries about the city. The Proving, is the
first novel by Crowe, a native of Inez.
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with detailed charts and information listing the slaves by
year, wills and inheritance records, states of birth, births
and deaths in the county, lists of indentured servitude
following the war, church rolls, slaves who fought in the
Civil War, and more. Written to assist future researchers
in their search of slave ancestors, it is an authoritative
guide to slavery in the region and an important resource
for historians and genealogists alike. 6x9, 288 pages
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DEBBIE DADEY
In Wish Upon A Starfish, Pearl wants to be
a star! But things go wrong when a famous
mermaid star visits Trident City and her
class puts on a school play. This is the
twelfth title in the series, Mermaid Tales, by
this children’s author.
MIKE DARNELL
Darnell has written A Hero’s Walk: The
World War II Journey of Lt. B.B. Darnell,
about his father’s experience coming from
rural Alabama
to the big
world of the
World War II
and
coming
home
again.
The book is a
tribute to all
the young men
who
served
and
were
changed
by
war. Proceeds
go to USA
Cares, a non-profit organization serving
veterans and their families with emergency
funds. Darnell lives in Glasgow.
PAUL DAUGHERTY
Jillian Daugherty was born with Down
syndrome, her father Paul tells stories from
her childhood and early adulthood in An
Uncomplicated Life: A Father’s Memoir Of
His Exceptional Daughter. Jillian’s vibrant
and infectious approach to life teaches us
about how we can better live our own lives.
Daugherty is sports columnist from the
Cincinnati area.
JERRY DEATON
Deaton has produced a film, Harry Caudill:
A Man of Courage, which will be available
for presale at the fair. He has also written
or filmed several titles concerning his
home area of eastern Kentucky, which will
be available. Deaton currently serves as
legislative liaison for the Tourism Cabinet
and lives in Frankfort.
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STEVE DEMAREE
A retired detective must resort to going on
blind dates with different women in order to
solve a murder. Book 9 in the Dekker Cozy
series, Murder On A Blind Date combines
humor with clues about the murderer’s
identity. Demaree, a Lexington resident, is
the author of 23 books.
EDWINA DOYLE
The title of Doyle’s latest book, The Wow
of His Word: God’s Amazing Handbook for
Happiness, describes the topic. She lives in
Lexington.
AMANDA DRISCOLL
Duncan the Dragon is the story of a dragon
who loves to read. When he reads a story,
his imagination catches fire! Unfortunately,
so does his book. Driscoll, who is from
Louisville, is both author and illustrator of
this beautiful children’s book.
KATHLEEN DRISKELL
In Next Door to the Dead: Poems, Driskell
draws inspiration from the graveyard next
to the old country church she lives in. The
author of Laughing Sickness and Seed
Across Snow she is associate editor of the
Louisville Review and professor of creative
writing at Spalding University in Louisville.
BRITTANY DUCKER
Accused is the true story of a crime
committed within a dysfunctional family,
which killed a young boy in Louisville.
The author explores the system and law
enforcement. Ducker is a criminal defense
attorney and lives in Shepherdsville.
RON ELLIOTT
Sinister Influences, Kentucky’s Fabulous
Five and the Point-Shaving Scandal of
1951 is a thoroughly researched account
of how the nation’s best basketball team
became implicated in scandal and severely
punished, costing players their vocation and
nearly ending the career of Coach Adolph
Rupp. Elliott lives in Nelson County.
MICHAEL
EMBRY
A baby boomer
story
about
the trials and
tribulations of
growing older,
Old Ways and
New
Days,
is the latest
novel
from
the Frankfort
author.
RON W. EVANS
Reminiscence of Heart & Hearth is an
anthology of poetry and other folklorestyle nostalgic descriptive writings of
Appalachian family life, feelings, and
philosophy. Evans is an native of the
Appalachian area featured in his books.
2015 Kentucky Book Fair ROBERT M. FARLEY
In Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the
United States Air Force, Farley argues that
America should end the independence of the
United States Air Force and divide its assets
and missions between the Army and Navy.
In The Battleship Book, he looks at the
history and folklore that makes these ships
enduring symbols of national power. Farley
is an assistant professor at the Patterson
School of Diplomacy and International
Commerce at the University of Kentucky.
He lives in Lexington.
FRANK J. FEGER (see LINDA M. PENN)
GERALD FISCHER
Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Kentucky
looks at the guerrilla fighters in the neutral
areas of central and western Kentucky, their
exploits, and the lawmen and soldiers who
brought them to justice. Fischer lives in his
native Meade County.
STEVE FLAIRTY
Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes Ordinary
People Doing Extraordinary Things
captures biographical portraits of ordinary
people with a heart and soul who are making
a positive difference, living unselfish lives
for the benefit of all. Flairty is a writer,
speaker, and retired teacher living in
Lexington.
CHARLES BRACELEN FLOOD
First to Fly The Story of the Lafayette
Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew
for France in World War I relates the epic
story of the Americans who flew in France
in French planes and wore French uniforms,
marking the first time American pilots flew
together as a unit in ariel warfare. Flood’s
widow, Katherine Burnam Flood, lives in
Richmond.
ED FORD
The Plot: A Kentucky Civil War Novel
concerns a Kentucky lawman trying to
derail a Confederate conspiracy leading to
President Lincoln’s assassination, dealing
with the conspirators in the aftermath, and
finding love when he recruits an actress
to spy on John Wilkes Booth and his
compatriots. Ford,who has a background
in journalism and public relations, lives in
Richmond.
CHRISTOPHER FRYER (see ROBERT
CRANE)
STEVE GABANY
If I Only Had Thumbs: Chickee Chicken’s
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Farley / Gifford
Story will captivate children. Chickee
Chicken can’t get back across a flooded
stream to her chicks. How she is helped
and who helps her is totally unexpected
and heartwarming. Gabany is a retired
university administrator living in Paducah.
ANN H. GABHART
Kentucky Book Fair favorite Gabhart’s new
tightly-woven mystery release is Murder
at the Courthouse. Nothing ever happens
in Hidden Springs, Kentucky, until a dead
body is discovered on the courthouse steps.
Gabhart is a Kentucky native living in the
Outer Bluegrass region.
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS
IN HIDDEN SPRINGS,
KENTUCKY.
RON GAMBRELL
Grayson Springs, a young adult novel,
follows teen Brooke Green from life in
Manhattan to a life-altering journey in
scenic Kentucky where through unique
characters and wonderful adventure the
troubled teen deals with sexual identity
issues. Gambrell lives in Louisville.
LLOYD GARDNER
Kentucky Colonels - Shots from the Sidelines
turns back the clock four decades with
this visual masterpiece featuring over 400
photos from official sideline photographer
Mark Gordon and captions by Colonel
trainer Lloyd “Pink” Gardner. Gardner
resides in Louisville.
KAYLA MARIE GARRISON
Kadee’s Hope: A Family’s Fight against
Childhood Cancer, describes a 10-year old
girl’s challenge
in dealing with
life-threatening
illness. Garrison
is an activist
in
raising
awareness and
funds to further
research
and
care for pediatric
cancer patients.
She lives in
Louisville.
JAMES H. GIFFORD
Gifford has taken an interesting twist on
biography writing with his book, Jesse
Stuart: Immortal Kentuckian. Stuart,
beloved educator and author, is seen
through the eyes of 16 individuals upon
whom he had great influence. Gifford will
also sign, along with contributing writers,
Hidden Heroes of the Big Sandy Valley. He
is CEO and senior editor for the Jesse Stuart
Foundation in Ashland.
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Gipe / Hawkins
ROBERT GIPE
Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel explores
Appalachian themes of mountain-top
removal, family, addiction, poverty, and
hope through teen narrator Dawn Jewell.
Gipe of Harlan, is the author and illustrator
of the novel.
Roses, who are Jewish, and the Wakefields,
who are African American. The novel
delves into the little known history of the
rescue of German Jews from the Nazis by
historically black colleges. Golden is an
award-winning journalist, historian, and
novelist who lives in New York.
PETER GOLDEN
Wherever There is Light is a sweeping,
historical novel that covers three generations
in the intertwined lives of two families—the
LINDA GONDOSCH
Junípero Serra: Founder Of The California
Missions tells the remarkable story of the
intrepid Franciscan friar who founded the
first nine missions along the California
coastline in the 1700s, opening the area
to European settlement. A native of West
Virginia, children’s author Gondosch now
lives in Hebron.
DEBBIE
GRAVISS
G r a v i s s
S t u d i o s :
Beauty,
Joy
&
Laughter
shared through
the Art of
Debbie Graviss
features more
than 200 of
the
artist’s
favorite works
including
domestic animals, farm animals, equine,
flowers, landscapes, and more. Graviss
resides in Versailles.
BILL GOODMAN
Beans, Biscuits, Family and Friends: Life
Stories is a series of essays with a little
something for everyone—a time long
forgotten in rural Kentucky, the thrill of
victory at 14,000 feet and the beautiful
story of a man from Horse Cave who went
to Paris, France, on vacation in the 1950s
and never came home. Goodman is a native
of Glasgow.
JONATHAN GREENE
Greene, noted poet, departs from that genre
with Anecdotage: Everyday Epiphanies,
a partial biography and a reflection on
the “curious world of arts and letters”.
He will also sign a CD, Contemplating
Weather, which is a musical interpretation
of his poetry, written by Paul Lansky and
performed with choir and instruments.
Greene lives in Franklin County.
Barbara Harper-Bach
Author and Illustrator
TIM GROVE
First Flight Around the World: The
Adventures of the American Fliers Who
Won the Race will thrill young readers with
the story of the eight young men sent by the
U.S. Army in 1924 to race other countries to
be first to fly around the world. Grove lives
in Falls Church, Va.
JOHN A. HARDIN (see KAREN COTTON
MCDANIEL)
BARBARA HARPER-BACH
If you love those sweet holiday treats at
Williams Sonoma, grab Sweet Confections
Cooking Clinic, Cookies, Candies and Other
Fancies cookbook and make them yourself
this holiday season. Award-winning cook
and baker Harper-Bach gives clinics at
Williams Sonoma and lives in Lexington.
RUSS HATTER (see GENE BURCH)
MARY BELLE HARWICH (see JOHN
HAY)
LINDA J. HAWKINS
Southern Seasons with Memory Making
The Friends of Paul Saw yier Public Library
Lilian Lindsey Bookstore
Regular hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-7
p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
For more information, please call 502-352-2678
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Hay / Holland, Jr.
Recipes not only has over 130 recipes
covering the four seasons, it is profusely
illustrated and sprinkled with heartwarming,
inspirational stories and quotes. Hawkins,
a former teacher and crisis counselor as
well as an award-winning author, lives in
Morgantown.
Hopper Shakes Up Sweetbriar. After her
house burns, 71-one year old Agnes moves
to Sweetbriar Manor, a retirement home and
former house of ill-repute. Feisty Agnes
exposes the unscrupulous administrator
and discovers things about herself. Heilman
lives in the mountains of North Carolina.
JOHN HAY
Hay and Mary Belle Harwich will sign a
new edition of The Night Before Christmas,
illustrated by Barbour Lee, and the title,
America, the Beautiful, which is based
on the famous song. This brother and
sister writing team will also sign their
collaborative children’s books.
LEIGH ANN
HENION
Phenomenal:
A
Hesitant
Adventurer ’s
Search
for
Wonder in the
Natural World
follows
the
author around
the world as
she
chases
eclipses,
butterfly migrations, and other wonders,
changing her thinking about science,
mythology, and humanity. Henion, an
award-winning travel writer, lives in Boone,
N.C.
CHARLES E. HAYES
The Longhunter, a young adult novel,
follows an 11-year-old Scottish boy from
the battlefield at Culloden in 1746 to
his transformation into an independent
American man standing atop Pilot Knob in
what is now Kentucky 23 years later. Hayes
is a retired USAF Master Sergeant and
teacher living in London.
WILLIAM HEATH
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old
Northwest is the first biography of William
Wells, born to Anglo-American parents
on the Appalachian frontier in 1770 and
kidnapped by the Miami Native American
tribe at age 13, becoming a Miami warrior.
He moved between both worlds the rest
of his life, marrying the chief’s daughter,
becoming an American spy, and an Indian
agent with multilingual skills. Heath is a
former professor of American studies living
in Frederick, Md.
CAROL HEILMAN
If you are looking for humor, pick up Agnes
BLAIR THOMAS HESS
My Old Kentucky Road Trip: Historic
Destinations & Natural Wonders takes the
reader on a scenic trip across Kentucky
to see amazing things unique to the state.
Visit off the beaten path at a rip-roaring
barn dance in Rabbit Hash, experience the
silence of the Abbey of Gethsemani, and
see the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi
River in Fulton County, as well as more
well known landmarks. Hess lives in central
Kentucky.
DIXIE HIBBS
Spirits of Wickland Mansion relates the
sightings and auditory experiences of
people associated with this 1830’s house
in Bardstown. Hibbs, who works with
local preservation efforts in Bardstown,
has written this book based on recorded
observations in this ghostly place. The
house is open for touring
JEFF HIGH
The Splendor of
Ordinary Days, the
third book in the
Water Valley Series,
is a laugh-out-loud
story full of heart and
humor about the life
of small town doctor,
Luke Bradford.
Jeff High
High is an awardwinning author of
Southern fiction living in Columbia, Ind.
offers the first comprehensive examination
of the Commonwealth’s civilian sector
during this pivotal era in the state’s history.
He is professor of history at Hazard
Community and Technical College and
author of From the Boardroom to the War
Room. He lives in Mount Sterling.
WILLIAM F. HOLLAND JR.
In A Lifestyle of Worship Living in the
Awareness of God’s Presence, Holland
Agnes Hopper
Shakes Up
Sweetbriar
By
Carol
PAUL EVANS HOLBROOK JR. (see F.
DOUGLAS SCUTCHFIELD)
RICHARD E. HOLL
In Committed to Victory: The Kentucky
Home Front During World War II, Holl
Guthrie
Heilman
www.carolheilman.com
William Wells and the Struggle
for the Old Northwest
By William Heath
“The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction remarkable life of William
Wells has found an ideal biographer in novelist-turned-historian
William Heath. This deeply researched reconstruction of Wells’
side-shifting odyssey brilliantly illuminates the confusing choices
and challenges that confronted Indians and pioneers as they
struggled against one another and with themselves on the early
American frontier.”
– Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost: The
Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay
www.williamheathbooks.com
The Longhunter
By Charles E. Hayes
Before Men Walked on The Moon
By William Heath
“With prose that is both muscular and lyrical, William Heath takes us
on a journey through the swanky horse farms and seedy back streets of
Lexington, Kentucky in the early 70s in pursuit of the killer of a
majestic thoroughbred. Mingling wry humor and tough guy dialogue
that Elmore Leonard would be proud of, Devil Dancer is brimming
over with haunting characters who are never exactly who they first
appear. This is a first-rate novel of suspense that also accomplishes all
the things we expect from our best works of literature.”
– James W. Hall, author of Hit List and Mean High Tide.
Before Kit Carson
Before Lewis and Clark...
Came the Longhunters
Men Like Daniel Boone
Men Like Donald Warren
Devil Dancer
Charles E. Hayes
www.williamheathbooks.
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2015 Kentucky Book Fair
Howell / Machollister
invites the reader to go “beyond the music”
to discover that living in a continual
recognition of a “constant Christ” is
our highest expression of devotion and
adoration.
CARL HOWELL
Images from the golden age of postcards
provide rare insight into the lives of
ordinary Kentuckians in Kentucky in the
Early 1900s: A Postcard Tribute, showing
a panorama of subjects including county
fairs, trains and depots, courthouses, mines,
sports teams, and everyday lives. Carl
Howell, a renowned postcard collector, is
a retired lawyer, judge, and FBI Special
Agent, living in Hodgenville.
STEVE ISRAEL
The
Global
War on Morris
is
a witty
political satire
ripped
from
the headlines
and written by
Israel, a U.S.
representative,
who has met
the characters,
heard
the
conversations,
and seen the plot twists firsthand. Critics
have called this one a laugh-out-loud funny
book. Israel represents New York’s Third
Congressional District.
SHEILA ISAAC
Isaac has written Monster Court, a
children’s book about Mormel and his trial,
beautifully illustrated by Pam Ryan. Isaac,
a former Fayette County circuit judge, lives
in Lexington.
BRAD JONES
Black Walls Turn Gray is a Marine veteran’s
novel about war and healing.
Jones
addresses the problems faced by returning
soldiers from the Middle East, who too
often have trouble with PTSD in this
realistic novel. Jones is a veteran and now
lives in Lexington.
MARCIA THORNTON JONES
While his father is off fighting in Word
War II, 11-year-old Cory Woodford and
his friends spend the summer building gocarts, drawing comics, playing baseball, and
tracking down Nazi spies. Woodford Brave
is a deeply satisfying novel of summer and
friendships and what it means to be truly
brave. This best-selling author, who lives
in Lexington, has authored and co-authored
more than 131 children’s books.
DAVID JOY
In this first-person
Appalachian
noir,
Where All Light Tends
to Go is a savage and
beautiful story of a
young man seeking
redemption. Set in
the mountains of
North Carolina where
David Joy
the author lives,
this debut novel has
received rave reviews and was recently
selected as one of the best books of 2015 by
Canada’s leading bookstore, Indigo.
TONYA KAPPES
Author of several mysteries written with
a light touch, Kappes launches a new
Southern paranormal series with A Ghostly
Grave, featuring the director of a funeral
home. Kappes is a consistent USA Today
bestselling writer and lives in Crestview
Hills.
Accents Publishing, Inc.
www.accents-publishing.com
ABIGAIL KEAM
Josiah Reynolds solves another mystery
with
the
Kentucky
Derby as a
backdrop
in Death by
Derby. This is
the world of the
Bluegrass…a
world
of
w e a l t h ,
privilege, and
now murder!
Keam is the
author of a series that features such titles
as Death by Drowning, Death by Bridle
and other mysteries that feature Reynolds a
beekeeper turned sleuth. Keam lives on the
Kentucky River in a metal house
BECKY KELLEY
Becky and Kathy Woodhouse travel across
the Bluegrass in search of the region’s best
wineries. This book was created to spotlight
all the wonderful wineries of Kentucky
and the wide array of vintages available.
Wineing Your Way Across Kentucky is the
perfect guide to all the beautiful wineries
available right here, in Kentucky. Becky
and Kathy are both residents of Kentucky,
their native state.
ARTHUR KELLY
The author interviewed more than 100
veterans in compiling the stories in
BattleFire! Combat Stories from World
War II. Kelly, a retired colonel, lives in
Springfield.
KEVIN KELLY
Kelley’s Kentucky Speedway tells the
history of the racetrack in Sparta. Kelly
teamed up with photographers Jim Suplee
and Tony Bailey to tell the story of a
speedway that brought a major-league sport
to the Bluegrass State. Kelly resides in
Versailles.
BRUCE KESSLER
In the seventh issue of the Operation Comics
series, Wonderguy has his hands full with
some devious bank robbers that think they
have outwitted the hero. But outwitting
his math-minded sidekicks is not as easy
as it looks. It All Adds Up from Kessler, a
mathematics professor at Western Kentucky
University.
TOM KIMMERER
In Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and
Conservation in the Bluegrass, Kimmerer
showcases the beauty and splendor of the
ancient trees in over 100 color photographs
while also offering guidelines for conserving
these 300- to 500-year-old specimens. He is
chief scientist at Venerable Trees, Inc., a
nonprofit dedicated to the conservation of
woodland pastures and ancient trees in the
Bluegrass. He lives in Lexington.
LUCYNDA KOESTERS
The Koesters have scoped out more than
25 gentle nature walks through paved and
grassy woodland paths in in the Louisville
area. Take a Walk, Louisville! includes walks
through wildflower meadows, wetlands,
riverbanks, lakesides, and waterfalls which
are suitable for all ages. Lucynda and Willi
Koester live and work in the Louisville area.
WILLI H. KOESTERS (see LUCYNDA
KOESTERS)
NANA LAMPTON
Wash the Dust From My Eyes is the story
of a young man contemplating going to
serve in World War I, told from journals and
interpretive poetry by the author. Lampton is
CEO and Chairman of Hardscuffle, Inc. and
American Life and Accident in Louisville.
She will also sign her poetry books.
LORIE LANGDON (see CAREY CORP)
ASHTON LEE
The Wedding Circle is the third book in the
humorous Cherry Cola Book Club series,
set in the fictional universe of a small
Southern town--Cherico, Miss. Librarian
Maura Beth Mayhew is not only building
a new cutting-edge library, she is planning
her wedding and is in conflict with her
snobbish, demanding mother, Cara Lynn.
Lee lives in Oxford, Miss.
GEORGE ELLA LYON
BENN LYON
George Ella, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, has
teamed up with her son Benn to produce a
children’s picture book, Boats Float! From
steamships to ghost ships, to the little and
big in-between ships, this fun rhyming book
explores a wide array of boats.
QUINN MACHOLLISTER
Wicked Design is set in fictional Clement
County in eastern Kentucky. There is
strangeness going on in Clement County
including espionage at an Army depot,
historical mysteries going back to the Civil
War, a labor strike, serial killers, and even
space aliens. Quinn MacHollister is the
pen name used by five past and present
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Mackintosh / McDonough
professors at Eastern Kentucky University
in Richmond.
R.L. MACKINTOSH
Tooth, Claw, and
Hoof Stories is
part of a fourbook
series,
beginning with
Reigning
Cats
and
Dogs,
which are true
stories
with
respect for and
understanding
animals.
The
author resides in
central Kentucky.
TEKOA MANNING
Polishing Jade is a historical novel set in
rural Mississippi in the 1960s about a young
girl who battles obstacles as she faces
an uncertain future. Manning resides in
Columbia.
JENNIFER MARSEE
Molly Sue the Dingo Diva in Special Spots
is the latest in a series about Molly Sue the
Dingo Diva. Molly Sue is a Jack Russell
Terrier puppy that discovers what makes her
spots special and unique. The book teaches
a moral and life lesson. Marsee lives in
Corbin.
JEN MALONE (see GAIL NALL)
BOBBIE ANN MASON
In The Girl in the Blue Beret, an airline
pilot returns to the site of his 1944 B-17
crash in Europe and finds himself drawn
back in time, retracing the trail of his escape
through Occupied France and trying to find
again the girl who led him to safe shelter-the girl in the blue beret. Mason resides in
central Kentucky.
MOLLY MCCAFFREY
You
Belong
to Us tells
the story of
the
author’s
experience
finding
her
biological
family at the
age of 30,
documenting
her attempt to
connect
and
find common
low-residency
MFA in Writing
celebrating Kathleen Driskell’s latest book
When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband
that she’s gone to visit the neighbors, she
means something different than most.
The noted poet—whose last book, Seed
across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation—
lives in an old country church just outside
Louisville, Kentucky. Next door is an old
graveyard that she was told had fallen out
of use. In this marvelous new collection,
this turns out not to be the case as the
poet’s fascination with the “neighbors”
brings the burial ground back to life.
See Spalding University’s MFA Associate Program Director
Kathleen Driskell and Fleur-de-Lis author Jane Olmsted
at the Kentucky Book Fair.
ground with them across that span of years
as well as class and educational lines. She
lives in Bowling Green.
SHARYN MCCRUMB
McCrumb is best known for her
“Appalachian “Ballad” novels set in the
North Carolina/Tennessee mountains. This
New York Times-bestselling author lives
and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge. Her
latest work, Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas
Past, is a hauntingly beautiful Christmas
ballad novella.
KAREN COTTON MCDANIEL
The
Kentucky
African
American
Encyclopedia, edited by Smith, McDaniel
and Hardin, is the first ever state-level
encyclopedia reference of AmericanAmerican history and culture. Featuring
over 1,000 entries from 150 different
authors, it features entries on the
individuals, events, places, organizations,
movements, and institutions that have
shaped the Commonwealth’s history since
its origins. Smith is a professor of history
at the University of Kentucky and pastor of
the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Lexington.
Frankfort resident McDaniel is professor
emeritus at Kentucky State University,
where she was also director of libraries.
Hardin, professor of history at Western
Kentucky University, is the author of two
previous books and lives in Bowling Green.
MARY MCDONOUGH
McDonough, who portrayed Erin on the
television series “The Waltons,” returns to
the KBF with her first novel, One Year. In
this heartfelt story, set in a picturesque small
town in Virginia, McDonough portrays
three generations of women in a modern
Irish-American family as they navigate
marriage, mother-hood and independence.
Polishing Jade is
rated PG 13 and
deals with some
mature subjects.
In the blink of
an eye, Jade’s
innocence is
taken.
Gripping and
suspenseful, Jade
will leave you
sighing when she
sighs, running
when she runs,
and celebrating
when she is
triumphant!
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what happens when language arrives at
Truth. These poems are rare and true
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KAREN MCELMURRAY
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations
on the Forbidden from Contemporary
Appalachia features essays from today’s
finest established and emerging writers
with roots in Appalachia. McElmurray, who
edited the entries with Adrian Blevins, lives
in Catonsville, Md.
MELISSA A. MCEUEN
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times is
a series of essays about 17 women, famous
or should be, who contributed significantly
to Kentucky’s history and development.
The editors have written or co-edited several
books of history. McEuen is a professor at
Transylvania University and Appleton is
professor at Eastern Kentucky University.
CATHERINE MCKENZIE
Smoke is an evocative tale of two women
navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of
a wildfire threat near their home. McKenzie
lives in Westmount, Quebec.
SOFIA AND LUCAS MCWILLIAMS
Wielders Book 7: Ancient Rewind is a series
written by a 13-year-old and her father,
focusing on friendship and overcoming
obstacles, with a fantasy theme that is
popular with young readers. They reside in
Lancaster.
DAVIS MILLER
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three
Acts is the single most intimate look
at Muhammad Ali’s life after boxing,
told through the story of an unexpected
friendship. As readers will discover in
these pages, Miller is the Everyman, Ali the
Superman in physical decline. Miller is the
internationally best-selling author of two
previous books, including The Tao of Bruce
Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir and the colibrettist of the acclaimed chamber opera,
Approaching Ali.
JONATHAN WILLIAM MILLER
On Your Own reveals the thoughts and
feelings of young brothers, struggling
husbands and wives, and restless office
workers as they maneuver through
childhood, sports, marriage, alcohol, the
workplace, and longing for connection. He
lives in Lexington.
MARJA MILLS
When, in 2004,
illness forced Chicago
Southern Kentucky
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Mills moved to Monroeville, Ala., and
rented the house next door to author Harper
Lee and her sister Alice. Over the course of
18 months, Mills got to know the sisters as
well as their friends and subsequently wrote
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with
Harper Lee. Mills lives in Chicago.
MARLENE MITCHELL
Portrait in Gold is a story within a story.
Kate McGovern finds the journals of her
Irish ancestor Katherine describing her life
of forced marriage in Ireland, fleeing the
potato famine, and struggling to reach the
gold fields of California. What happened to
Katherine’s prized possession, the emerald
necklace from her mother? Kate has the
mystery before her. Mitchell is originally
from St. Louis, but now lives in Kentucky.
REBECCA MONHOLLON
Mischief on the Mountain is set in the Great
Smoky Mountains in the 1800s. Eleven
year-old Lucy, a pleasant but reserved
girl, has always wanted a sister. When her
rambunctious 13 year-old cousin Macy
comes to visit, both girls learn many lessons
from each other. Monhollon is a native of
Harlan County.
WILLIAM LYNWOOD MONTELL
Tales from Kentucky Nurses reveals the
significance
of the nursing
profession
to
the Bluegrass
state’s
local
life and culture
through
the
nearly
two
hundred stories
that range from
humorous
anecdotes
to
spine-chilling
coincidences,
tragic circumstances, and heartwarming
encounters. Montell, emeritus professor of
folk studies at Western Kentucky University,
is the author of numerous books and lives in
Bowling Green.
JASON MOTT
An air show intended as the highlight of
a fall festival goes terribly wrong when a
plane crashes into the crowd. The Wonder
of All Things is equal parts supernatural
thriller and coming-of-age tale. The movie
rights for this one have been sold and Mott’s
earlier book, The Returned, was the basis
for the television series Resurrection. Mott,
whose poetry and fiction has appeared in
various literary journals, lives in North
Carolina.
MICHAEL W. NAGLE
Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest
producer of manufactured lumber and
owner of a coal mine in Stearns, Ky., a town
he founded. Eventually, he owned dozens of
businesses. In Justus S. Stearns: Michigan
Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 18451933, the author explores Stearn’s use of
paternalism and Social Darwinism in his
business practices. He resides in Ludington,
Mich.
GAIL NALL
In Nall’s and
Jen Malone’s
You’re Invited,
young Sadie
helps
her
mom
with
her wedding
planning
business, and
she’s a natural!
Then
mom
“fires”
her
after a wedding
goes awry. To
prove she is still great at party planning,
Sadie and her friends start RSVP, a party
planning service. Is the girls’ friendship
strong enough to survive a business or will
it spell the end of their friendship? She is
from Louisville.
BILL NOEL
First Light: A Folly Beach Mystery is the
latest in this popular series. Noel’s amateur
detective, Chris Landrum, falls into murder
and mayhem as usual, always with a twist
and light touch. Noel lives in Louisville.
SARAH NORKUS
In the Treasure Of The Battersea Bluffs, Em
and Josh are unwittingly whisked back in
time to the eighteenth century. As the teens
struggle to save the life of the young girl
from Em’s vision, their interference incurs
the wrath of her would-be assailant, Angus
Blackburn. Norkus grew up in Lexington
and lives in Virginia.
MIMI O’MALLEY
Myths & Mysteries of Kentucky: True
Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained –
the title describes the book. These shadowy
events still linger in some memories and
will start a curiosity in the reader. O’Malley
lives in Louisville.
GREAT BOOKS, GREAT AUTHORS
Find us at the Kentucky Book Fair:
James Archambeault Robert Crane
Paul Evans Holbrook Carol Peachee
Wes Berry
Terri Blom Crocker
Richard E. Holl
Susan Reigler
Roberta Simpson
Brown
Kathleen Driskell
Tom Kimmerer
Robert M. Farley
George Ella Lyon
F. Douglas
Scutchfield
Christopher Fryer
Karen McDaniel
John Hardin
William Lynwood
Montell
Lonnie E. Brown
Kathryn Canavan
Joe Cox
Gerald L. Smith
Frank X Walker
Aimee Zaring
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Pace / Powell
BETTY PACE
I went to see Grandma is an irresistible
children’s book, illustrated in a warm,
friendly style with vibrant colorful
illustrations that delight each child’s
imagination with humorous listening and
vocabulary skills. Pace, an award-winning
author, is a resident of Winchester.
ROBERT W. PARKER
In Haunted Louisville 3, Parker takes readers
back to places, both new and old, where the
Clayton’s
River
Adventure
For Grades 3-5
Linda M. Penn & Frank J. Feger
www.lindampenn.com
[email protected]
lights seem a little dimmer and one never
knows what might be lurking around the
next corner or behind that ominous locked
door. It’s another must-have book from the
man who put Louisville on the map as one
of the most haunted cities in the South! The
author resides in Louisville.
MYSTI PARKER
(aka Misty Baker)
The historical post-Civil War romance
author will be signing copies of her newest
book, A Time for Everything. Parker, a
Buckner resident, is a member of Romance
Writers of America, the Louisville Romance
Writers and Kentuckiana Authors.
MARIE PARSONS
The Devil’s Back is a novel eastern Kentucky
in the early 1900s and a May-December
marriage of reluctant participants. Parsons
spent a career in college-level teaching and
began writing after retirement. She lives in
Prestonsburg.
CAROL PEACHEE
In The Birth of Bourbon: A Photographic
Tour of Early Distilleries, the award-
I went to see
Grandma
I went to see Grandma is an irresistible
children’s book for ages birth and up.
This book is illustrated in a warm,
friendly style with vibrant, colorful
illustrations that delight each child’s
imagination with humorous listening
and vocabulary skills. A clever new
adventure with Grandma takes place
on every visit to her house. Betty is
an award-winning, bestselling author
of picture books for young children.
She is a former, teacher, guidance counselor and Director of Federal
Programs. She has published fourteen books.
www.bettypace.com
winning photographer
takes readers on an
unforgettable
tour
of lost distilleries
as well as facilities
undergoing renewal
through more than
230 stunning photos
distilleries
across
the state. Peachee, a
fine-art photographer Carol Peachee
and cofounder of the
Kentucky
Women’s
Photography Network, lives in Lexington.
RAY PEDEN
Revenge is a relentless motivator in the
hands of a man with special skills and
nothing to lose in One Tenth of the Law
(Patrick Grainger). Peden resides in
Frankfort.
LINDA M. PENN
Clayton and Austin have fun and excitement
on the Granny Rose, a houseboat, traveling
from Louisville to Cincinnati. Linda and her
cousin Frank, continue the Clayton series
with Clayton’s River Adventure, where the
boys become more aware of the history of
Louisville and the Ohio River.
ROBYN PETERMAN
A grumpy witch, a resurrected cat, a limegreen Kia and a sexy egotistical werewolf—
its enough for a girl to fly off the edge!
Switching Hour is a paranormal romance
novel by a New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author. Peterman, a former
professional actress will also have Some
Were in Time and other of her recent titles.
She lives in Lexington.
H. FOSTER PETTIT (see AL SMITH)
CHERYL DELLA PIETRA
Inspired by the author’s time as Hunter S.
Thompson’s assistant, Gonzo Girl: A Novel
is raucous, head-spinning, and side-splitting
as it depicts a boss and mentor who is
both devil and angel, and a young heroine
being tested in the chaos around him. This
intense story is a loving fictional portrait of
a larger-than-life literary icon. She resides
in Branford, Conn.
ROBERT POWELL
My Kentucky Sketchbook is a collection of
The Spider Election–The Dramatic Story
of Lexington’s Closest Mayor Election
Foster Pettit delayed building a law
practice for reform politics — as a
Democratic State House member
and in 1971, as the last mayor of
Lexington’s old government, before
merger, when it was riven by warring
factions. In 1972, Foster led a
successful effort to merge the city
and county governments, yet he
faced tough competition to lead the
new government. The 1973 general
election gave victory to the
challenger by less than one vote per
precinct – but the recount held a
surprise… Lexington’s
legendary mayor paints a vivid picture of
politics over 40 years ago, in this book finished
days before his death in 2014. Accompanied
by nearly 100 rare photos and an Afterword
by Herald-Leader reporter Linda Blackford, it
is necessary reading for all lovers of Lexington
August 24, 1930 –
and students of politics.
November 22, 2014
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Powers / Richardson
unique pen &
ink
drawings
that
represent
the diverse and
colorful history
of
Kentucky.
Powell is an
author, historian,
t e a c h e r ,
p h o t o g r a p h e r,
speaker and artist
and has received
numerous honors
and
citations
from various groups across the state.
GEORGIA POWERS
Dr. King’s Last Days is Powers’ fourth
book. In it, she tells about the hours leading
up to Martin Luther King Jr.’s death and the
five friends who spent those hours together.
Of the five friends, Powers is the only one
still alive. Powers, who lives in Louisville,
was the first African American and the
first woman elected to the Kentucky State
Senate.
LOWELL H. PRESS
The tyrant König’s subjects are starving and
war is coming. Can a pair of courageous
mouse brothers save the day? The Kingdom
of the Sun and Moon is set in a magnificent
palace and park during the remarkable age
of the Habsburgs, Beethoven and the son
of Napoleon Bonaparte. Press resides in
Bellevue, Wash.
DONNA RANDALL
Randall tells of the abuse that she endured
from the age of five to her teens in It Was
Then That I Carried You. This is a book
of abuse ,and devastation, and healing.
The authors uses used her experiences
to help other women on their journey of
transformation. She is a native of Kentucky.
SUSAN REIGLER
The Bourbon Tasting Notebook from
Reigler and Michael Veach features over
200 brands, all sampled by the author,
and allows bourbon lovers to log their
own samplings. Kentucky-Sweet & Savory
Finding the Artisan Foods and Beverages
of the Bluegrass State features the most
authentic Kentucky culinary experiences,
including where to find them and the
recipes. Reigler lives in Louisville.
women are exploring new freedom and two
teens are caught between old and new ways
of growing up. She lives in Louisville.
SHARON MAULDIN REYNOLDS
Walking Air presents an astonishing
spectrum of Southern characters, with an
intimate look inside the lives of diverse
characters who share a connection with a
small town in Mississippi. Reynolds is a
native of Mississippi who now resides in
Lexington.
MELINDA and JULIA RICHARDSON
A terrible argument breaks out among the
members of the Bird Nation, and it is up
to Owen Owl to help solve the dispute.
In Owen Owl’s Wise Words, the birds
argue over which one has the most special
characteristic. Will Owen Owl be able to
SUSAN STARR RICHARDS
A racehorse breeder, Richards uses her
knowledge and observations to write poetry
and essays centered around the noble
animal. She will sign Great Naps (essays)
and The Life Horse (poems) among other
titles. She lives in central Kentucky
KIM MICHELE RICHARDSON
Running through Liar’s Bench, a tale of
two Kentucky hangings more than 100
years apart, is the story of teens Muddy and
Bobby. They find each other and themselves
in a time when the KKK is still a power,
MEET
LOWELL H. PRESS,
author of the enthralling middle grade fantasy
THE KINGDOM OF THE SUN AND MOON
SIGNING AT THE KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR
Fri., Nov. 13, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Sat., Nov. 14, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
PRAISE FOR THE KINGDOM OF THE SUN AND MOON
“ABSORBING…”
— Publishers Weekly
“…a delightful, little treasure.”
— Compass Book Ratings
“This is an action packed
adventure with characters
you can’t help but fall for. . . .
Readers of Robin Jarvis, Brian
Jacques, Richard Adams and
Garry Kilworth will love it.”
— Jules Anne Ironside,
Tales of a Librarian
“A wonderful tale of grit and
courage.”
— Author Jackie G. Mills
“HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”
— The Midwest Book Review
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Winner of the 2015 Benjamin
Franklin Award for Teen Fiction
and for Young Reader Fiction
ISBN 978-0-9905130-0-1 Available wherever
books are sold. Distributed through INGRAM.
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Roach / Suddeth
help them understand that they are special
in their own way? The Richardson sisters
live in Spout Springs.
holds B.F.A. and M.A. in ceramics and lives
on a horse farm in the Bluegrass region of
Kentucky.
JIM ROACH
God’s House Calls: Finding God Through
My Patients describes many of the 36
spiritual near-death experiences of Roach’s
patients. It offers an entertaining and
enlightening affirmation of God. Roach,
a doctor who lives in Midway, is one of
the world’s leading integrative medicine
experts and an Amazon best-selling author
in holistic medicine.
WALTER ROYCRAFT
Quiet Places Photographs Expressing the
Spirit of Kentucky features over 200 of
Roycraft’s favorite photographs from across
the Commonwealth including landscapes,
streams and forests, natural formations, and
vintage barns, in both color and black and
white. Roycraft resides in Nicholasville.
KATHY ROAR
In The Duckling That Learned To Swim,
Willie overcomes teasing and name calling
by accomplishing what he could not do and
helps others to do the same. Roar is a retired
social worker who lives in Grayson.
RICK ROBINSON
The Advance Man offers the reader an
insider’s view of both the geography and
the dark underbelly of the ‘business’ side of
the company town that is Washington, D.C.
The author currently practices law in the
nation’s capital.
LEIGH M. ROSE
In The Third Floor, Leslie Newkirk
purchases a home in a small town where
her parents grew up, but discovers she must
fight the evil that holds the troubled soul
hostage in the house. Rose lives in central
Kentucky.
MELVIN D. ROWE
In Making Pottery Functional Over 200
Pottery Items and How to Make Them Work,
veteran potter and teacher Melvin D. Rowe
provides a wealth of creative inspiration
and insightful tips for creating over 200
unique and useful pottery pieces. Rowe
Follow Willie as
he overcomes
his inability to do
what ducklings
naturally do.
By Kathy Roar
CHRISTOPHER SCOTTON
Kevin, the narrator of The Secret Wisdom of
the Earth, is an adult looking back to the
summer when he and his grieving mother
were sent to live with his grandfather in a
coal town in Kentucky. His grandfather
is attempting to rally folks against a
mountaintop removal coal operation there.
Scotton, a CEO of a technology company,
received rave reviews for his debut novel
from the New York Times Book Review,
Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and
many others.
F. DOUGLAS SCUTCHFIELD
In The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor
and Carolyn Hammer: Ad Majorem Dei
Gloriam, editors Scutchfield and Holbrook
have collected the correspondence between
the famous Trappist monk and renowned
artist Victor Hammer, and his wife Carolyn,
who founded King Library Press at the
University of Kentucky. Scutchfield is the
inaugural Peter P. Bosomworth Professor
of Health Services Research and Policy at
the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Holbrook has served as director of the King
Library Press at the University of Kentucky
in Lexington since 1988.
LESLIE SHANE
Points of Rock and Rumors of Light are two
books of poetry that were inspired by her
roots as a native Kentuckian. The poet lives
in Monterey.
CATHERINE SHEETS
Beginning in the jungle, progressing
through a lush Kentucky horse farm, and
concluding in beautiful Masterson Park
on the rocky coast of South Carolina, a
multitude of characters and a convoluted
plot will keep fans of Sheets’ unique style
of writing turning the pages of the second
book of The Freedom Fighters trilogy, The
Masterson Conspiracy. The author resides
in Frankfort.
JIM SHIELDS
Welcome, Baby Bunnies is the exciting
story of a mommy bunny that decides to
build her nest one night at a meadow’s
edge. While building her nest, she realizes
how wonderful it would be if her forest
friends could be near to help her share the
excitement of the arrival of her babies.
Shields lives in Lexington.
VIRGINIA SMITH
The first of the Goose Creek B&B series,
you’ll love this small town, its quirky
characters and their shenanigans. In The
Most Famous Illegal Goose Creek Parade,
Millie convinces husband Al that God wants
them to open a B&B. But nobody imagined
a town protest over painting a water tower or
that it could culminate in an illegal parade.
PETER SLEVIN
In
Michelle
Obama: A Life,
Slevin
follows
Mrs. Obama, from
her working-class
childhood
on
Chicago’s largely
segregated South
Side to the White
House. Slevin is
a veteran national
and international
correspondent who spent a dozen years
at the Washington Post before taking his
current position as associate professor at
Northwestern University.
JOHN SNELL
Red River Gorge, My Second Home is a
beautifully illustrated coffee table book
that features the dramatic landscape,
vibrant scenery, and rich foliage of eastern
Kentucky’s Red River gorge area. The
top quality volume is filled with full color
photographs. Snell lives in Lexington.
JULIA SMETHURST
Finclucky from Kentucky is a children’s
story is about a chicken, his banjo, and a
barnyard full of animal friends who form
a band. Even the farmer, who is always
working, joins in to enjoy the rhythm-andblues played by Finclucky and his friends.
Smethurst was born in California and now
lives in Kent, England.
AL SMITH
This popular personality will return to the
KBF to sign his biographies, in addition
to The Spider Election, for which he wrote
the foreword. This book was written by H.
Foster Pettit, who died unexpectedly this
year. It describes the controversial election
of Pettit to mayor of Lexington and the
formation of merged government between
Lexington and Fayette County in 1973.
Smith lives in Lexington.
DEAN MEADOR SMITH
Bucky the goat is a little kid who loved to
explore! Bucky goes on an adventure to
see his Nannie Beth and runs into all sorts
of trouble along the way -- from storms to
muck to a big river. Plucky Little Bucky
encourages children to keep on going
and never give up. Smith lives at Meador
Homestead in Hattiesburg, Miss.
GERALD L. SMITH (see KAREN
COTTON MCDANIEL)
LINN STEPP
In Saving Laurel Springs (a Smoky Mountain
Novel), two kindred spirits are reunited in
a story of first love and second chances set
amid the Great Smoky Mountains. Rhea’s
childhood sweetheart comes home and
reveals the truth about his past. Rhea must
decide whether to trust both the man and
their dreams she’s never forgotten.
COURTNEY STEVENS
A year after surviving a car accident that
killed her friend Trent and left her body
and face scarred, Sadie can’t seem to move
forward. The Lies About the Truth is a
realistic young adult novel of hope and
courage and the strength to move forward
in the face of tragedy. Stevens, who grew
up in Kentucky and lives in Nashville, is an
adjunct professor and former youth minister.
LINDA LEOPOLD STRAUSS
Best Friends Pretend is a happy rhyming
board book about all the things little girls
imagine they can do—from flying in space
to being mermaid princesses. Toddlers and
preschoolers will love this one. Strauss lives
in Wyoming, Ohio.
SHEILA JOYCE STRUNK
Strunk’s memoir, Sweet Evening Breeze:
And
Other
Kentucky
Characters,
Communities and Chronicles, captures the
richness of language and the eccentricity
of people and places she new growing up
in the mountain South. Strunk lives in New
Albany, Ind.
CHARLES SUDDETH
In Eighth Mask: Murder on the Cherokee
Reservation, after being wrongly accused
of murder, Deputy Sheriff Charlie
Yuchalla plunges into a mysterious world
2015 Kentucky Book Fair of supernatural giants, ancient priests and
Cherokee mystics as he attempts to identify
the person who murdered a masked dancer
at a Cherokee Booger Dance. Suddeth is
from Louisville.
HEATHER SUNSERI
When
a
highly
contagious
virus
wiped out 99 percent
of the population,
Cricket, the only
person to contract the
virus and survive, fled
her identity and the
airtight city. When
it appears the deadly
virus has returned, Heather Sunseri
she holds the precious
antibody. Emerge is from the author of the
young adult Mindspeak series. She is a
native Kentuckian.
MAGGIE SUNSERI
After a tragic accident, Luna lost an entire
years’ worth of memories. Caught between
the past and present, she becomes aware of
her true self with each startling revelation.
In Awaken, Luna learns what the Utopian
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society of Oportet stands for and how far
its leaders will go to keep citizens in line.
Sunseri lives in central Kentucky.
RICHARD TAYLOR
As a well-respected author, teacher, and a
former Kentucky poet laureate, Taylor will
bring to the Kentucky Book Fair many
of his works, all of which have received
the acclaim of readers far and wide. Be
prepared for a display of titles that feature
poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He lives in
Frankfort.
JOHN TEMPLE
American Pain: How a Young Felon and
His Ring of Doctors Unleased America’s
Deadliest Drug Epidemic chronicles the
rise of the pill mills and how they led to
the deadliest drug epidemic in the history
of America. The narrative swings back
and forth between Florida and Kentucky
with a cast of diverse cast of characters.
The author, who lives in Morgantown, W.
Va., will also feature The Last Lawyer and
Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office.
JAMES ALEXANDER THOM
In Fire in the Water, the acclaimed
historical author centers his novel on the
tragic explosion of the steamboat Sultana
during the last days of the Civil War. The
explosion killed 1,800 Union survivors of
the infamous Andersonville prisoner of
war camp. During this same time period
President Lincoln’s funeral train was on its
way to Springfield, Ill. The author will also
feature the books: Follow the River, Warrior
Women, and Saint Patrick’s Battalion. Thom
lives in Bloomington, Ind.
ASHLEE CLARK THOMPSON
Louisville Diners is a guide to the “greasy
spoons” and dining dives of Louisville.
Fun for locals and for visitors, the book is
a great way to find the lesser known good
eating places in this city. Thompson writes
the blog, Ashlee Eats, which describes her
casual dining finds.
JACINDA TOWNSEND
Saint Monkey is a coming-of-age story
of two young black girls, set in Mount
Sterling in the 1950s. This book won the
James Fenimore Cooper prize for historical
fiction and was the 2015 Honor Book of
the Black Caucus of the American Library
Association. Townsend grew up in Bowling
Green, and left at the age of 16 to attend
Harvard University. She is also a graduate
of Duke Law School and the Iowa Writers’
Workshop, and is currently on the faculty of
Indiana University at Bloomington.
CONNIE REMLINGER TROUNSTINE
Based on a true story of American life
during World War II, The Phantom Five
tells the story of the creation of a phantom
high school basketball team that jeopardizes
friendships and much more.
TARA TYLER
In 2082, androids are an essential part of
daily life. Some are helpful, some would
make better toasters, and some are so
human-like they’re creepy. Detective
Cooper’s latest client has him searching for
her boyfriend who she thinks was replaced
by a simulation, an illegal clone android.
Simulation, is the second book in the Pop
Travel series.
BETH UNDERWOOD
Gravity tells of a group of Army National
Guardsmen from Tennessee who spent a
year in the Triangle of Death, one of Iraq’s
most hostile regions. But their patrols and
Kentucky Chautauqua.®
On January 6, 1920, Kentucky ratified the 19th Amendment,
giving women the right to vote. Kentucky’s own Madeline
McDowell Breckinridge was a driving force in that movement.
Breckinridge’s is one of the 32 Kentucky stories told by
Kentucky Chautauqua.
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combat missions weren’t on the nightly
news. Instead, they operated as silent
professionals.
RONALD VAN STOCKHUM
British Sergeant Reginald Bereham &
the Battle of the Somme is a remarkable
narrative which combines scrupulous
scholarship with you-are-there immediacy,
is unique. The author writes of his father
with an unforced intimacy that one would
imagine could only be the product of yearslong acquaintance. The author resides on the
historic Allen Dale farm in Shelby County.
RONALD VAN STOCKUM JR.
Cosmos the Stellar Stalker takes us on a
unique and interesting journey into a “what
if” world. The journey is set in Louisville
and takes into account many of the city’s
landmarks. The author lives in Shelbyville.
VINCE VAWTER
In Paperboy, an 11-year-old boy living
in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest
fastball but talking is a whole different ball
game. He can barely say a word without
stuttering. This Newbery Honor winner
is an unforgettable story for ages 9 to 12.
Vawter is retired after a 40-year career in
newspapers and lives in the foothills of the
Great Smoky Mountains.
MICHAEL VEACH (see SUSAN
REIGLER)
FRANK X WALKER
Founder of Affrilachian Poets, this former
Kentucky Poet Laureate will sign his latest
book of poetry, About Flight. Described as
brutal and tender, the poems center around
addiction and its impact on family. Walker
will also sign other of his books. He lives
in Lexington.
CAROL WALL
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How
I learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green
Thumb and an Open Heart is a memoir
about Wall’s battle with breast cancer and
her remarkable friendship with native
Kenyan and gardener, Giles Owita. This one
will be of interest to gardeners—as well as
those dealing with cancer or other serious
illnesses. Wall died shortly after this book
was published and her husband, Richard
Wall, will be at the book fair to share his
wife’s story.
TOM WALLACE
When Central City High closed in 1990,
its boys basketball teams had won more
games than any school in Kentucky, and
second-most in the nation. Golden Glory:
the History of Central City Basketball
examines how this small school sustained
such long-term excellence and became a
storied basketball program in an era that no
longer exists.
LAURA WEDDLE
Better Than My Own Life, a collection of
stories set in Central Kentucky tobacco
farms and further east into Appalachia
from the depression era 1930s to the
1970s. A diverse set of characters exhibit a
wide range of emotions as their intentions
determine their destiny. In addition to this
selection the author will also feature another
set of stores entitled People Like Us. She
lives in Somerset.
GARY P. WEST
Road Trip Eats 101 “Ya Gotta Eat Here”
Places Across Kentucky is an excellent
guide to where good, simple food is served
in out-of-the-way locations from one end of
Kentucky to the other. The author doesn’t
recommend a restaurant that he has not
visited. West lives Bowling Green.
ALECIA WHITAKER
In The Road Back to You, Bird Barrett
is heading out on tour, but sudden fame
and a media-fueled rivalry with another
country music star has Bird questioning her
priorities. Filled with
sweet country music
spirit, Wildflower is
a young adult series
you just can’t get
out of your head.
Whittaker grew up
on a small farm in
Cynthiana and now
lives in New York
City.
Alecia Whitaker
CRYSTAL WHITE
Franny’s Rescue is an award-winning book
for children describing the author’s rescue
of a shelter dog Franny, and what Franny’s
life may have been like before ending up in
the shelter. The book includes information
about the breeds of dogs in the book and
a section for parents on helping children
develop literacy skills. There is also a
website for teachers using the book in the
classroom. White, a teacher for 20 years,
lives in Hopkinsville, Ky.
LIZA WIELAND
Land of Enchantment interweaves the
stories of Brigid Long Night, an assistant for
the elderly Georgia O’Keeffe, and Nancy
Diamond, an aspiring playwright. In this
deeply moving novel, the two stories show
how art reveals the depth and complexity of
human love, in all its betrayals and losses,
beauty and redemption.
JOELLEN WILHOITE
Safety Safari is an interactive educational
resource that features colorful animals
to guide the reader through potential
dangerous situations and the appropriate
Weaving the Past into the Present
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Sallie Bingham will present “Weaving the
Past into the Present: Family Documents Through
the Fiction Writer’s Perspective” at the Thomas
D. Clark History Center in Frankfort as part of the
Kentucky Book Fair’s programs.
Her presentation will be in the Brown-Forman
Room on Friday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m.
Bingham will talk about her experience in
discovering letters, diaries and writings left by
her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, which she turned into the book, The Blue Box:
Three Lives in Letters. These women left a strong
tradition of writing which carries on today with
Sallie, who has written extensively, and to another generation with Sallie’s niece, Emily.
The program will appeal to writers, historians and genealogists who share the interest of
bringing the past to the present and the discoveries made in doing so.
Bingham will sign copies of her book, which
will available for sale at the event. She will also
be at the KBF on Nov. 14, from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,
at the Frankfort Convention Center.
The program is sponsored by the KBF and the
Kentucky Historical Society.
response. The illustrations introduce safety
issues in a non-threatening way. She lives
in Lexington.
BRUCE WILLIAMS
The Cavern is about three young scientists
sent to study a temperature aberration on
their home planet of Osstar. The trip is
planned in secret, at the highest levels of
government. Upon arriving, they find a
mysterious metal cylinder and a struggle for
political power that has Osstar on the brink
of inter-species war.
BEN WOODARD
Big Stink in Frog Pond an illustrated story
about friendships and being different.
Bubbles has been bubbling the pond since
he was a tadpole. But now he is causing a
stink. Will Bubbles have to leave the frog
pond? What dangers could be waiting? The
author will also bring the following books:
The Boy Who Flew with Eagles; A Problem
with Donuts; and a Stairway to Danger. He
lives in Lexington.
KATHY WOODHOUSE (see BECKY
KELLY)
KAREN YANKOSKY
Good Luck With That Thing You Are
Doing: One Woman’s Adventures in Dating,
Plumbing and Other Full Contact Sports is
about a 40-something reinvents herself after
a very brief marriage. A hilarious portrayal
of those frustrating and interesting aspects
of life when one was least expecting them.
Yankosky lives in Arlington, Va.
JESSICA YOUNG
Art-Rageous (Finley Flowers); New and
Improved (Finley Flowers) introduce Finley
Flowers, a third grader whose strengths and
weaknesses are revealed as she discovers
what matters the most in life. The Nashville
author will also feature Spy Guy: The NotSo-Secret Agent and My Blue Is Happy.
STERLING YOUNG
Blood in the Wind pits retired Kentucky cop
Tom Padgett against escaped convict Jack
Johnson in a psychological thriller set in the
rugged terrain of southern Colorado. Young
lives in rural Kentucky.
AIMEE ZARING
The author shares interesting and informative
stories of courage, perseverance and selfreinvention from Kentucky’s resettled
refugees in Flavors from Home: Refugees in
Kentucky Share Their Stories and Comfort
Foods. Zaring resides in Louisville.
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Kentucky Book Fair Kindergarten
Readiness PD Workshop
R. Lynn Baker, Kentucky Early Care
and Education Credentialed Trainer, Paul
Sawyier Public Library Youth Services
Specialist, and author of Counting Down to
Kindergarten: A Complete Guide to Creating a School Readiness Program for Your
Community, will lead a workshop for teachers and librarians at Paul Sawyier Public
Library on Friday, Nov. 13, from 10 a.m.noon. The workshop will take place in the
Community Room on the first floor of the
Library.
This professional development workshop
is especially for preschool teachers, child
care teachers and directors, and public librarians working with children prior to the
start of kindergarten.
Participants will get hands-on practice
creating programs for children, which are
based on statewide school readiness domains, early childhood standards, and best
literacy practices. Early childhood teachers
will receive two hours of continuing education training hours with ECE-TRIS. Public
librarians will receive two hours of continuing education credit toward recertification
with the Kentucky Department for Libraries
and Archives.
Registration is required and can be completed online at http://pspl.evanced.info/
eventcalendar.asp, or by phone at (502)
352-2665, ext 205. This event is a collaboration between the Kentucky Book Fair and
Paul Sawyier Public Library.
Schools Awarded Transportation
Grants to Attend Kentucky Book Fair
Students in six Kentucky public schools will attend Children’s Day at the
Kentucky Book Fair after being awarded transportation grants.
This is the fourth year these travel grants have been offered to public schools.
Funds are provided through a generous contribution by Graviss McDonald’s
Restaurants and proceeds from the 2014 Kentucky Book Fair.
Transportation grants were awarded to the following schools:
• Carr Creek Elementary School, Knott County
• Carter County Public Library and West Carter Middle School
• Garrard County High School
• Olmstead Academy South, Jefferson County
• Owen County High School
• Pleasure Ridge Park High School, Jefferson County
The grants provide funding for transportation to and from the Nov. 13 event at
the Frankfort Convention Center. This is the fifth year that the Kentucky Book
Fair is expanded to two days. More than 500 children and teens from Kentucky
schools plus homeschoolers are expected to meet and listen to over 35 authors in
a series of programs and readings.
The authors will be among nearly 200 authors and illustrators meeting and
signing books for the general public the following day, also at the convention
center, from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.
“Children’s Day is an exciting addition to the 34th fair,” said KBF Grants Chair
Judith Gibbons. “We are thrilled that Graviss McDonald’s Restaurants are giving
back to the community through their financial assistance. Students will have a
unique opportunity to share the joy of reading and learning with nationally known
children’s and teen authors. It will create positive memories for these students.”
Net proceeds from the KBF fund grants to Kentucky school and public libraries
for local book purchasing and other literacy-related causes. The total now exceeds
$375,000.
For more information about this year’s KBF, visit www.kybookfair.blogspot.
com.
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Kentucky Book Fair Kick-Off Program
With Robyn Peterman & Tonya Kappes
Kick off the 34th Kentucky Book Fair
with the Paul Sawyier Public Library on
Thursday, Nov. 12 at 6:30 p.m.
PSPL is proud to welcome Kentucky
authors Robyn Peterman and Tonya
Kappes for an evening of romance, mystery, and plenty of laughs! The gals will
be holding an informal panel discussing
their journey into the publishing world,
what they write, and their favorite foods.
They will then take questions from the
audience. If they don’t know the answers, they will make them up. They are
fiction writers, after all…
A New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author, Peterman writes because the people inside her head won’t
leave her alone until she gives them life
on paper. She writes snarky, sexy, funny
paranormal and snarky, sexy, funny contemporary novels. Her most recent re-
lease is Switching Hour, the first installment in the Magic & Mayhem series.
Kappes, another USA Today bestselling
author, has published numerous mystery
and romance titles and is well-known for
her hilarious plotlines and fun-loving,
quirky southern characters. A Ghostly
Murder, the fourth book in the Ghostly
Southern Mystery series, is her newest
release.
You won’t want to miss this night of
prizes, swag, and conversation! This
free event will take place in the Library
Community Room. A book signing will
follow with copies available for purchase.
For more information, please contact
Diane Dehoney at 352-2665x108 or [email protected]. The Paul Sawyier Public
Library is located in downtown Frankfort at 319 Wapping Street.
Nancy Carlson will present
program at KBF
Families with preschool children, join us for a fun kindergarten-readiness
event with author and illustrator, Nancy Carlson.
Carlson is the author and illustrator of Look Out Kindergarten, Here I
Come!; I Like Me; Sometimes You Barf; and the beloved Harriet books. She
will read from a few of her books, provide a mini-drawing lesson, and sign
copies of some of her books at the end of the program.
Attendees will create a school-supply box to take home and get the chance
to create their own mini books with staff members from Paul Sawyier Public
Library.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. You can
register online at
http://pspl.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp or call 502-352-2665 x 205.
This event is a collaboration between the Kentucky Book Fair and Paul
Sawyier Public Library.
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Kentucky Book Fair Awarded $10,000 grant
The Kentucky Book Fair was awarded
a $10,000 grant from the Kentucky
Humanities Council to assist in bringing
new authors to this year’s book fair.
“We are very pleased to welcome the
sponsorship of the Kentucky Humanities
Council,” said Ellen Hellard, acting
president of KBF. “The missions of our
organizations coincide well through our
shared desire to provide opportunities
for Kentuckians to talk with authors
about reading and the importance of
literacy in our state.”
“The Kentucky Book Fair has
celebrated the fine tradition of writing
in our Commonwealth for well over
30 years,” said Kentucky Humanities
Council executive director Ben
Chandler. “The Kentucky Humanities
Council is proud to support this
Kentucky institution that highlights the
cultural importance of books in the lives
of our people.”
More than 200 authors and
illustrators are expected to participate
in the 34th annual Kentucky Book Fair
on November 14, from 9 a.m. until
4:30 p.m., at the Frankfort Convention
Center. The organization’s fifth annual
Children’s Day will be held on Friday,
November 13, from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.,
also at the convention center.
Net proceeds from the KBF fund
grants to Kentucky school and public
libraries for local book purchasing and
other literacy-related causes. The total
now exceeds $375,000.
The Kentucky Humanities Council,
Inc. is an independent, nonprofit affiliate
of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. The Council is supported by
the National Endowment and by private
contributions. For information about the
council’s programs and services, visit
www.kyhumanities.org.
For more information about the KBF,
go to www.kybookfair.blogspot.com.
Schedule of Symposiums / Saturday November 14th
Frankfort Convention Center, Green River Room
9:30 a.m. Jason Mott
Literary and Speculative Fiction Writer
The Wonder of All Things
The Returned (Television series Resurrection was based
on this novel.)
10:30 a.m. Congressman Steve Israel talking with Former
Congressman Ben Chandler about their congressional
experiences and Israel’s novel, The Global War on
Morris
11:30 a.m. Peter Slevin
Michelle Obama: A Life
12:30 p.m. Marja Mills
Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Frankfort Convention Center, Kentucky River Room
9:30 a.m. Cheryl Della Pietra
Gonzo Girl
(Fiction inspired by author’s experience as assistant
to Hunter S. Thompson)
10:30 a.m. Davis Miller
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
(Story about an unexpected friendship with
Mohammed Ali)
11:30 a.m. John Temple
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of
Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic
12:30 p.m. Robert Crane & Christopher Fryer
Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder
(Story of Bob Crane who played Colonel Crane in the
television show, Hogan’s Heroes)
Frankfort Convention Center, Green River Room &
Kentucky River Room
2:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m. Dr. John Hardin, Dr. Karen McDaniel, Dr. Gerald Smith, editors
The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia
Look Out, Nancy Carlson, Here We Come!
Children’s program sponsored by the Paul Sawyier
Public Library
Please note that admission is free but seating is limited and pre-registration is required.
Fountain Place Room
10:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Mary McDonough
One Year (A novel about three generations of Irish-
American women)
Lessons from the Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton
Tim Grove, Chief of Museum Learning
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
First Flight Around the World and A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History
Carol McCabe Booker, editor
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of National Black Press
Writing Historical Fiction:
Peter Golden
Wherever There Is Light
Jacinda Townsend
Saint Monkey
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Garden Club Awards
The Garden Club of Frankfort will hold its annual Community/Environmental
Awards Luncheon and Holly Berry
Boutique on Nov. 13 at the First United
Methodist Church, 211 Washington St.
The Holly Berry Boutique will begin at
11 a.m. and the Awards Luncheon will
start at 11:30 a.m.
The club has invited Dick Wall to
speak prior to the awards section of the
program about his late wife Carol’s book,
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How
I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green
Thumb and an Open Heart. She wrote
the book while battling breast cancer
and died shortly after it was published.
Wall will be available during the
Holly Berry Boutique and following the
luncheon to answer any questions about
the book. The public is invited to attend.
Appalachian Writing at
Old State Capitol
The Kentucky Book Fair and the Kentucky
Historical Society present Appalachian
Writing: Everything Old Is New Again on
Saturday at 1 p.m.
The presentation will be held at the Old
State Capitol, House Chamber, 100 W.
Broadway St.
Panelists include Chris Scotton, author of
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth; Robert Gipe,
author of Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel;
and David Joy, author of Where All Light
Tends to Go. Karen S. McElmurray, co-editor
of Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations,
will serve as moderator.
Admission is free but seating is limited.
Visit downtown for an exciting
ArtWalk on December 4, 5-8 P.M.
Look for the orange ArtWalk pennant hanging
in store fronts and see the 25+ shops and
venues. Time for Holiday shopping or buy
something artsy for your inner creative self!
Art Walk is organized by Downtown Frankfort, Inc.
and sponsored by Kentucky Employees Credit Union
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DEVIL’S BACK
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Like Chekhov’s short stories, Laura Weddle’s
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– Leatha Kendrick, author of Second Opinion
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99-year-old historian returns with fifth book
Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum
U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) – Photo 2015
Born in England; Came to America in 1920
and to wife’s ancestral Kentucky home in 1970
NEWEST BOOK- My Father: British Sergeant Reginald G.
Bareham (1894-1916) and The Battle of the Somme
OTHER BOOKS- Kentucky and the Bourbons: The Story of Allen Dale Farm;
Squire Boone and Nicholas Meriwether: Kentucky Pioneers; Remembrances
of World Wars; and Coming to Kentucky: Heaven is a Kentucky of a Place
Past President and Interim Director of Filson Historical Society, past
president of Shelby County Historical Society.