2016 Kentucky Book Fair Catalog

The Kentucky Humanities Council presents

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Saturday, November 5, 2016 Frankfort Convention Center

Pulitzer Centennial Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence in Journalism and the Arts

KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR Schedule of Events* Kentucky Humanities Council Board of Directors Chair: Howard V. Roberts, Ed.D. Pikeville Vice Chair: Aristofanes Cedeño, Ph.D. Louisville Secretary: Elaine A. Wilson Somerset Treasurer: Brian T. Burton Lexington Bette Cain Bravo Crittenden Barbara Bailey Cowden Lexington W. David Denton, JD Paducah D. Joleen Frederick, JD West Liberty Betty Sue Griffin, Ed.D. Frankfort Mary Hammond Paducah David V. Hawpe Louisville Elise H. Luckey Columbia Nathan Mick Lancaster Minh Nguyen, Ph.D. Richmond Phillip R. Patton, JD Glasgow Reed Polk Lexington Judith L. Rhoads, Ed.D. Madisonville John Michael Seelig, JD Morehead Mark A. Wilden, CFP, CIMA, CRPC Lexington

Staff Kathleen Pool Interim Executive Director Marianne Stoess Assistant Director, Editor Brooke Raby Project Coordinator Wilma L. Riddle Fiscal Officer Julie Klier Consultant Cammie Jo Bolin Chautauqua Coordinator

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8 a.m. .........................My Morning Coffee & Newspaper (Frankfort Convention Center Plaza)

Main Stage

9:30 a.m.........................................Mommy Goose Story Time with Mike Norris & Minnie Adkins 10 a.m. ................................ Pulitzer Prize winner Maria Henson, interviewed by Bill Goodman 11 a.m. ..........................................................Mary Alice Monroe discusses A Lowcountry Christmas 11:20 a.m. ..........................................................................Craig Johnson discusses An Obvious Fact Noon ....................... Former U. S. Representative Barney Frank, interviewed by Bill Goodman 1 p.m. ..........Marjory Wentworth discusses We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel 1:25 p.m. ....................................................................... John Scalzi discusses The End of All Things 2 p.m.................................................................................................... Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Pett 3 p.m.....................J. D. Vance discusses Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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10 a.m. .............................Two Shots in the Dark: The Tragic Death of Verna Garr Taylor with Ann D’Angelo and Ian Punnett 11 a.m. .................. From Esoteric to Essential: How Geek Entertainment Took Over the World with John Scalzi, Jason Sizemore, and Michael Witwer Noon ....................................................................................................Young Adult Authors Panel with Sarah Combs, Julie Kagawa, Lauren Morrill, Kit Alloway, and Alecia Whitaker 1 p.m................................... War in Kentucky: Culture and Conflict in the Commonwealth with David J. Bettez, William A. Penn, and Christopher Phillips 2 p.m............................................................................ Mark Wilkerson discusses Tomas Young’s War

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10 a.m. ............................ Food and Southern Identity: How What We Eat Tells Our Story with Maggie Green, Christy Jordan, Ronni Lundy, Susan Reigler, and Deirdre Scaggs 11 a.m. ....................... No Union More Profound: The Inside Story of Marriage Equality with Paul Campion, Randy Johnson, and Jim Obergefell Noon ...............................................................................................................................Fiction Panel with David Bell, Laura Benedict, Sarah Domet, J. T. Ellison, Stephanie Knipper, Sharyn McCrumb, and Tiffany Reisz 1 p.m.................................................................... Affrilachian Poets 25th Anniversary Reading with Frank X Walker, Gerald Coleman, Jeremy Paden, Bianca Spriggs, and Crystal Wilkinson; Moderated by Affrilachian scholar Dr. Shauna M. Morgan 2 p.m............................................................... Juan F. Thompson discusses Stories I Tell Myself 3:30 p.m. .................................................................................................................................J. R. Ward * Please note all presenters are scheduled to appear as of the printing of this catalog. Final schedules will be posted at kyhumanities.org.

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reviously operated by a nonprofit independent board of volunteers, the Kentucky Book Fair will now be operated by the Kentucky Humanities Council, in partnership with the Kentucky Book Fair board and the many volunteers who have made the book fair the state’s premier literary event for the past 34 years.

“The Kentucky Book Fair Board is delighted to partner with Kentucky Humanities Council as a means to assure the continuation of this important event in our state,” said Ellen Hellard, former president of the Kentucky Book Fair. “This merger has become even more meaningful with the recent death of the KBF’s founder, Carl West, who was enthusiastic and urged it to fruition. It is our sincere hope that the event will continue to educate, entertain and inform the reading public for many years to come.”

The Kentucky Book Fair attracts writers of all genres and patrons of all walks of life in a celebration of shared passion and mutual interest — the importance and promotion of writing and reading. Each year more than 150 authors attend the Kentucky Book Fair, seeking to promote and support literacy for the public good.

Schedule of Events ............................................. 2 Kentucky Humanities Council Board of Directors & Staff ........................... 2 Kentucky Book Fair Committee ....................... 2 Remembering Carl West..................................... 4 Venue Map ........................................................... 6 2016 Authors ....................................................... 7 2016 KBF Kids Day ......................................... 38

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Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. The Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. is an independent, nonprofit corporation affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Council is supported by the National Endowment and private contributions.

In addition to the Kentucky Book Fair, the Kentucky Humanities Council sponsors Kentucky Chautauqua®, a Speakers Bureau, PRIME TIME Family Reading Time, sponsors Smithsonian Traveling Exhibits throughout the state, publishes Kentucky Humanities magazine, and issues grants for humanities programs throughout the Commonwealth.

For more information, visit kyhumanities.org.

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Pulitzer Centennial Who?, What?, When? ....................................... 40 Where?, Why?, How? ....................................... 41 Passion and Principle in a High-Stakes Debate Over...Poetry ..................................... 42 Kentucky Pulitzer Prize Winners.................... 45 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners Journalism ....................................................... 46 Letters, Drama & Music ............................... 47 2015-2016 Pulitzer Prize Board ...................... 47 Experiencing the Meaning of Journalism ..... 48 Joel Pett — 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner ........ 49 2016 Kentucky Book Fair Donors ................. 50 My Morning Coffee & Newspaper ................ 52 Food Trucks on the Plaza ................................ 52 Vendors ............................................................... 52 Book Fair Parking ............................................. 52 Price List ............................................................. 52 Sponsors ............................................................. 52

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR Remembering Carl West

By Ellen Hellard

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s has often been expressed, Carl West presented a gruff, no-nonsense exterior personality. As we got to know him, his heart of gold began to show, shining through the curmudgeonly mask of scowls and brusque words.

I first met Carl at one of our river parties, and then as one of the founding members of the Kentucky Book Fair when the state librarian asked me to represent the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives on the Kentucky Book Fair Board. Carl, of course, was the founder of this long-running event. He came up with the idea from his experience working with the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., during his time there as a reporter for Scripps Howard. When Carl came back to Kentucky as editor of the State Journal, the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives was moving into its current home on Coffee Tree Road, which has a wonderful vista of the Capitol from its high-ceiled and spacious lobby. Carl thought it would be a good location for a book fair or book signing event, both because of the site and the mutual interest in reading, writing, and books. And so it began, in 1981, with about 40 authors and, to our surprise, hundreds of attendees. By the third year we had 80 authors and 1,000 attendees.

We had an author selection committee, but Carl’s connections in the world of journalism were what really brought in the celebrity authors. Carl was a reader of history, biographies, and current events — he left the rest to the committee.

Carl helped secure numerous nationally known journalists, including Jack Anderson, Jim Lehrer, Scotty Reston, Jack Germond, Eleanor Clift, and James Kilpatrick. Political and historical writers came: David Halberstam, Rosalynn Carter, David Eisenhower, and Harrison Salisbury. In the early years we had sports figures such as Mickey Mantle, Pete Maravich, and Carl Lewis. I think Carl was most excited about Mickey Mantle, who had a line for hours. Other memorable appearances include Andy Rooney (a true curmudgeon who made Carl seem like a Teddy bear), John Berendt, Jan Karon, Ken Kesey, George McGovern, Robert Novak — the list goes on and on. I would be remiss if I failed to mention some of our bestselling Kentucky authors: Wendell Berry, David Dick, John Ed Pearce, Bobbie Ann Mason, James Still, Thomas D. Clark, Bob Edwards, Gurney Norman, Ed McClanahan, Silas House, Frank X Walker, George Ella Lyon, Sue Grafton, Al Smith, and Barbara Kingsolver.

It’s dangerous to make lists like these; there are so many fine writers who have participated, and Carl was instrumental in convincing most of them to participate. He set all of this up, all to happen right here in Kentucky.

Carl had always wanted to hold the event in downtown Frankfort, and in 2001, after holding the fair at KDLA and Kentucky State University, we moved there. This year, the Kentucky Humanities Council became the caretaker of the Kentucky Book Fair, with Carl’s relief and blessing. He wanted this event to continue and knew that many of us were concerned with continuity if he wasn’t around to shepherd it. With his health failing, he knew his ability to be active with the Fair was limited, and he was delighted when the offer to merge with the Kentucky Humanities Council was made. I can only hope that we will all continue his legacy of bringing writers and the reading public together in mutual admiration. Carl West will be remembered, honored, and loved by all (though I know even now he is rolling his eyes and muttering at the thought).

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Author table All Children’s and Young Adult authors can be found on the upper concourse.

You can reach the concourse by using the ramps located in the West Lobby Entrance.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors Indicates author is a Kentucky native or currently living in Kentucky

TONY ACREE

Revenge Victor McCain, God’s bounty hunter, knows how to hunt down the world’s most evil beings and remove them. Now, Victor will learn what it’s like to be the one targeted for death. An old foe has returned from the dead to seek revenge on Victor by destroying those he holds dear, including a new love. To save them, he must avoid the assassin’s bullet and the efforts of an angry cop intent on putting Victor away for life. Tony Acree lives in Goshen with his wife and twin daughters.

NANCY KELLY ALLEN

The Riddlers The only thing Jane Ann Combs loves more than a riddle is beekeeping with her grandfather. When his memory slowly fades, Jane is determined to find a way to help save his memory and the bees. Nancy Kelly is the author of more than 40 children’s books. She makes her home in Kentucky where storytelling is a way of life.

retired minister fears his dead wife is romantically involved with Greta Garbo; a consul’s wife uses Norwegian lessons to seduce a chimney sweep. Appel is the author of nine traditionally published books and practices medicine in New York City.

KRIS APPLEGATE

Legendary Locals of Louisville Kris Applegate invites you to read about the exceptional folks — like Muhammad Ali, Pee Wee Reece, Jennifer Lawrence, Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman, Diane Sawyer, and author Hunter S. Thompson — who have shaped Louisville from its humble beginnings in 1778 to the present.

JAMES ARCHAMBEAULT

2017 James Archambeault Kentucky Calendar For more than 20 years, James Archambeault has worked as an independent photographer specializing in nature and the landscape. His photographs have been exhibited in many

KIT ALLOWAY

Dreamfever (Dreamfire, #2) Finding out that she is the True Dream Walker — her job is to enter dreams and fight nightmares — hasn’t gone at all the way Joshlyn Weaver would have expected. Just when Josh thought her life couldn’t get any more complicated, men with strange powers begin appearing in people’s nightmares. With the clock running down, Josh must rely on not only her friends, but also her enemies, to stop the radicals from taking power and controlling the Dream. Kit Alloway is the author of Dreamfire, Dreamfever, and the forthcoming Dream Forever.

She has lived in Louisville for 25 years.

P. ANASTASIA

Dark Diary (Dark Diary, #1) Worlds collide when a young woman with a dark past encounters a man with an even darker one. A forbidden romance in the vein of Wuthering Heights, with the allure of Dark Shadows, Dark Diary is the story of a pair torn apart by time. P. Anastasia is the author of the Fluorescence tetralogy and a professional voice talent. She lives in Lexington.

JACOB M. APPEL

Coulrophobia and Fata Morgana Appel’s fifth collection of short stories presents ordinary people confronting extraordinary challenges: a scheming landlord is undone when renting an apartment to a mime; a

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors premier art shows including the Atlanta Arts Festival, The Plaza in Kansas City and Winter Park, Florida. Archambeault’s breathtaking photography takes center stage in this beautiful calendar, a perennial favorite of Kentuckians and non-Kentuckians alike.

Abandoned Heart is the prequel to Charlotte’s Story and Bliss House, forming a trilogy of southern Gothic novels in which one haunted house begets haunted lives that echo over centuries. Louisville native Laura Benedict has published six novels of dark suspense. She lives in southern Illinois.

VALERIE ASKREN

LAURIEN BERENSON

Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond In this updated and expanded edition, avid outdoorswoman and hiking enthusiast Valerie Askren details more than 80 hikes and urban walks, complete with maps, photos, and suggested side trips.

DAVID BELL

Since She Went Away Three months earlier, Jenna Barton was supposed to meet her lifelong friend Celia. But when Jenna arrived late, she found that Celia had disappeared and hasn’t been seen again.

Even though Jenna has searched obsessively for any clues about her friend, she is no closer to finding any answers or easing her guilt. But when her son’s new girlfriend — who suddenly arrived in town without a past — disappears, Jenna begins to unwind the tangled truth behind Celia’s tragedy. David Bell is a bestselling and award-winning author and associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University.

LAURA BENEDICT

The Abandoned Heart: A Bliss House Novel Three women. A cursed house. Generations of lives at stake.

The third novel in the acclaimed Bliss House series reveals the secret that started it all. Spanning half a century, The

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Live and Let Growl When her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie jumps at the chance to attend. Within three days of her arrival, handler Ellie Gates has been found dead. The police and the family believe it was an accident, but Aunt Peg suspects foul play, and Melanie must find out why Ellie was a target before she becomes one herself. Laurien Berenson is the award-winning author of 30 novels. She and her husband live on a farm in Kentucky.

MAUREEN BERRY

Salmon from Market to Plate Berry harnesses her experience as a 23-year food industry professional and sustainable seafood advocate to help consumers learn how to be a sustainable salmon shopper and conscientious cook. In addition, she offers easy-to-prepare everyday recipes, and chef-inspired recipes for cooks who want to up their kitchen game.

WENDELL BERRY

Roots to the Earth: Poems and a Story Previously only available in limited editions, Berry’s Roots to the Earth is now available for trade publication and expanded with the inclusion of a short story, “The Branch Way of Doing,” with additional engravings by celebrated artist and wood engraver Wesley Bates.

In his introduction to an earlier edition, Bates wrote: “As our society moves toward urbanization, the majority of the population views agriculture from an increasingly detached position. In his poetry [Berry] reveals tenderness and love as well as anger and uncertainty. The wood engravings in this collection are intended to be companion pieces to the way he expresses what it is to be a farmer.”

Berry is the author of more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays. He lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors DAVID J. BETTEZ

Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front Bettez’ exhaustively researched study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Great War on Bluegrass society, politics, economy, and culture, contextualizing the state’s involvement within the national experience. This engaging and timely social history offers new perspectives on an overlooked aspect of World War I.

RONALD BLAIR

Wild Wolf and the Great Rivalry of the Civil War Blair, great-great nephew of Col. Frank Lane Wolford, details Wolford’s heroic leadership and part in more than 300 battles and skirmishes, his notable rivalry with Morgan’s Raiders, and little-known facts about his staunch opposition and policy dispute with President Abraham Lincoln over the use of black soldiers in the Union forces.

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DON BOES

Good Luck With That Boes presents a collection of poems that feature quick shifts in tone, subject, and language as a way to track the moving targets of life. Each poem offers an experience based in serious wordplay and humor. Don Boes lives in Lexington and works at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. He has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation.

JAMES DUANE BOLIN

Home and Away: A Professor’s Journal Since 2005, readers of the Murray Ledger & Times have been privileged to enjoy the reflective insights of Professor Duane Bolin, a teacher and historian at Murray State University.

These delightful essays recount themes well-known to us all, memories of friends and family, thoughts of home and small-town living, travel adventures both near and far, and school life as both a student and a teacher.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors CRYSTAL BRADSHAW

Eliza: A Generational Journey Through years of extensive genealogical research and writing, Crystal Bradshaw pieces together the life of her 5x great grandmother, Eliza, a slave in Kentucky. Weaving fiction with genealogical research, she creates a story about humanity and endurance. Crystal Bradshaw is an undergraduate student in creative writing at the University of Kansas. She began writing and researching for her novel at age 16 and plans to continue writing and eventually establish her own publishing company.

DEBRA BRAMBLETT

Me, God and Curly In this sweeping portrait of grief, Debra Bramblett recounts the story of the little blind dog that was responsible for the complete transformation of her life, along with the events that took aftermath of the dog’s death. A touching chronicle of one woman’s spiritual journey through the back alleys of life and death.

ROBERTA SIMPSON BROWN & LONNIE E. BROWN

Scariest Stories Ever Told This collection of haunting stories from the “Queen of Cold Blooded Tales” may well be the scariest stories ever told. These chilling tales take place in normal, everyday settings but they’re jam-packed with enough ghouls, ghosts, and menacing spirits to give readers of any age chills. Roberta Simpson Brown and Lonnie E. Brown were both born in Russell Springs, Kentucky, and currently live in Louisville.

PAUL CAMPION & RANDY JOHNSON

Higher Love

Paul Campion and Randy Johnson were two of the 12 plaintiffs in Obergefell v Hodges, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court granted gays and lesbians the right to marry. Higher Love is the true story of their lifelong struggle to be recognized together as the parents of their four multiracial children and illustrates the higher purpose of the obstacles they tackle as gay dads to build a family and live their dream.

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RAY COFFMAN Araura Vol. 1

Araura is a fantasy/adventure graphic novel that centers around the vagabond Renzia and the last known Arauran, Anea Branduill.

Renzia is secretly commissioned to escort Anea to the kingdom of Burgonne so that she can learn more about her potential. Their journey is about to begin! Ray Coffman was born and raised in Kentucky. He is influenced by western and eastern art and storytelling.

GERALD L. COLEMAN falling to earth

In his second collection of poetry, Affrilachian Poets co-founder Gerald L. Coleman deals with the concept of love: love making, love lost, love for others, and love of the self. Born in Lexington, Coleman is now a philosopher, theologian, poet, and author residing in Atlanta.

SARAH COMBS

The Light Fantastic It’s April 19, April Donovan’s 18th birthday.

Her rare memory condition has her recounting all the tragedies that have cursed her birth month: the Oklahoma City bombing, the shootings at Columbine and Virginia Tech, and the Boston Marathon bombing. Meanwhile, one teen in every state is preparing for a violent cross-country ploy led by an Internet savant known as the Mastermind. Sarah Combs leads writing workshops at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, where she lives with her husband and two young sons.

ANGELA CORRELL Guarded

Former flight attendant Annie Taylor is adjusting to farm life, and her boyfriend Jake has left the corporate world to farm on the land next door. But Annie’s grandmother has threatened to tear down the family home when she is unable to finance a restoration after a fire. As Annie works to save the old stone house, she finds letters written during World War II that reveal a family mystery and an Italian connection. Her grandmother is afraid of what it might mean to her family’s name if they discover the truth. Angela Correll is the author of Grounded and Guarded. She lives on a farm in Central Kentucky with her husband, Jess.

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TOM DICKEN

Dark Highway

On a cold November night in 1936, businesswoman Verna Garr Taylor is found in a ditch, shot through the heart, along a highway in rural Kentucky. Her fiancé, former lieutenant governor and brigadier general Henry Denhardt quickly becomes the target of investigators. D’Angelo, a veteran attorney with a love for history, has meticulously researched this tragic story, using trial transcripts, court pleadings, newspaper accounts, attorney correspondence, and interviews with witnesses and family members, to create a chronicle of one of Kentucky’s most scandalous murder trials.

DEBBIE DADEY

The Crook and the Crown (Mermaid Tales #13) Shelly, Echo, Kiki, and Pearl are spending their school vacation at Neptune’s castle! Shelly’s aunt, Queen Edwina, has invited the girls to stay for a whole week. Queen Edwina even gives Shelly a sparkling tiara that she once wore as a young princess. Just as Shelly starts to relax and have fun, the tiara disappears and the girls have to find it before the queen finds out! Kentucky native Debbie Dadey began her writing career while teaching at Sayre School in Lexington. She continues writing from her home in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

God for an Old Man This collection of brief essays begins with the author’s childhood in Louisville in the 1940s and moves on to his adult thoughts about art, literature, death, aging, and the presence of a meaningful God. Drawing from the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, Dicken, a pastor and former religious studies professor, argues that one cannot write about a meaningful God without taking seriously the meaning, conflict, loss, and joy in one’s own life.

LINDA DOANE

Kentucky: A Photographic Journey Travel the Bluegrass state with award-winning international photographer Linda Doane as she takes you to not only the heart of horse country, but also through miles of scenic lakes and rivers, cities and towns, historic Civil War sites and Shaker villages. Along the way, get a taste of Kentucky’s bourbon culture, farmers markets, and its many festivals.

HELEN DEDMAN

Beaumont Inn Special Recipes Named a James Beard Foundation America’s Classic in 2015, Beaumont Inn has been serving traditional Kentucky fare since 1919. Fourth-generation owners Chuck Dedman and his wife, Helen, have revised and updated the Beaumont Inn Special Recipes cookbook, bringing readers favorite recipes of the past, contemporary favorites served at the Old Owl Tavern and Owl’s Nest Pub, and neverreleased recipes from Kentucky’s oldest family-owned and operated country inn.

STEVE DEMAREE

A Body on the Porch A retired detective’s vacation takes a deadly turn when a dare from a stranger literally brings murder to his front porch.

Steve Demaree lives in Lexington, where he sits in front of his computer murdering people, while his wife of 43 years tries to raise him. A Body on the Porch is the 10th book in the Ted Dekker Mystery series.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors SARAH DOMET The Guineveres

The nuns who raise them teach the Guineveres — Vere, Gwen, and Ginny — that faith is about waiting: waiting for the mail, for weekly wash day, for a miracle, or for the day they turn eighteen and are allowed to leave the convent.

But the Guineveres grow tired of waiting. And so when four comatose soldiers from the War looming outside arrive at the convent, the girls realize that these men may hold their ticket out. Sarah Domet lives in Savannah, Georgia. The Guineveres is her first novel.

BILL DOOLITTLE

The Kentucky Derby Written by Bill Doolittle, a Louisville writer and leading authority on the Kentucky Derby, and beautifully illustrated with images from the sport’s finest photographers, The Kentucky Derby is a perfect encapsulation of the horses, peo-

ple, and gorgeous scenery that make the Derby the world’s greatest horse race.

AMANDA DRISCOLL

Wally Does Not Want a Haircut Wally goes to great lengths (literally) to avoid a haircut, until one day his long locks land him in a sticky situation, and a haircut might be his only way out. Amanda Driscoll is a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer from Prospect. She lives with her two children and dogs, who, all combined, still have less hair than Wally.

KATHLEEN DRISKELL

Blue Etiquette: Poems Driskell’s newest collection is a vividly imagined and inspired conversation between the poet and Emily Post about the rarely seen working lives of the housemaids, cooks, and useful men working for the very rich, and the tense interactions between the haves and have nots. As America watches its middle-class quickly decline, Blue Etiquette rings with relevance. Kathleen Driskell is an award-winning poet and author, and professor of creative writing at Spalding University. She lives with her family outside Louisville.

DALE DUE

Wildcats Win Again Wildcats Win Again is a fun and spirited book about the Kentucky Wildcats’ rivalry game of the year — great for beginning readers and seasoned fans alike! Dale Due graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Kentucky. She lives in Northern Kentucky with her husband, Tom.

CHRIS EASTERLY

Falling Forward: A Man’s Memoir of Divorce Easterly, a Kentucky native who went on to become a successful Hollywood film and television writer, shares his personal experience with the devastation of divorce. Not a how-to book, rather it’s the story of his emotional journey through love, infidelity, and ultimately survival.

KIM EDWARDS

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Ten years ago, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter captivated readers and went on to become a #1 New York Times bestseller. Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down’s syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors to an institution. Instead, the nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself. Kim Edwards is the award-winning and bestselling author of two novels and a collection of short stories. She currently lives in Lexington.

and spiritualist minister Normandi Ellis explains how to create a sacred temple within and without to restore the magic of Egyptian mysteries to our time. Normandi Ellis lives in Frankfort.

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Assassination at the State House: The Unsolved Murder of Kentucky Governor William Goebel In this new edition of his first published book, Elliott examines the vitriolic 1899 political campaign that culminated in the assassination of Senate Majority Leader and would-be governor William Goebel, and the ensuing political, criminal, and civil activity that followed during this dark period of Kentucky’s history.

NORMANDI ELLIS

The Union of Isis and Thoth: Magic and Initiatory Practices of Ancient Egypt In ancient Egypt, temples were centers of community, wisdom, and healing. In this initiatic guide, writer, clairvoyant,

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Aubrey Hamilton has been mourning her missing husband for five years, despite being the prime suspect in his murder. When he is officially declared dead, there are still more questions than answers. And now, all this time later, a mysterious and strangely familiar figure suddenly haunts her new life. Has she lost her mind, or has her husband come back from the dead? New York Times bestselling author J. T. Ellison writes dark psychological thrillers and pens the Nicholas Drummond series with Catherine Coulter. She lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors GERALD FISCHER

Battletown Witch Fischer, a writer and journalist living in Meade County, tells the story of Leah Smock, the legend of her supernatural powers, and her death at the hands of neighboring families in Meade County. It is a fascinating look at how community gossip and the fear of witchcraft led to the death of a country girl nearly two centuries ago, and how her legend still lives today.

MELANIE FORDE

On the Hillwilla Road The second book in the Hillwilla series charts the evolution of Beatrice Desmond, a former Bostonian Ivy Leaguer who found herself in mid-life on a llama farm in remote West Virginia. As she emerges from a time of loss, loneliness, and cultural conflict, she is forging a new sense of family with an unlikely cast of fellow misfits, including temperamental llamas, Ralph, her loyal English setter, and even finding romance with the wealthy, and extremely handsome Tanner Fordyce. Melanie Forde is a former foreign policy ghostwriter living in West Virginia.

GABRIELLE FOX

Larkspur Press: Forty Years of Making Letterpress Books in a Rural Kentucky Community, 1974–2014 For more than 40 years, Larkspur Press has been publishing works from some of Kentucky’s most important writers, including Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Fox chronicles Gray Zeitz’s decades-long dedication to honoring writing through artful letterpress publishing, and the indelible mark Larkspur has made on the literary landscape of Kentucky. Gabrielle Fox is an expert and artisan in the binding, conservation and restoration of fine books.

BARNEY FRANK

Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage In this feisty and often moving memoir, former U. S. Representative Barney Frank candidly discusses the satisfactions, fears, and grudges that come with elected office. He recalls the emotional toll of living in the closet and how his public crusade against homophobia conflicted with his private accommodation of it. He discusses his painful quarrels with allies; his friendships with public figures, from Tip O’Neill to Sonny Bono; and how he found love with his husband, Jim Ready, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage. Through it all, he expertly analyzes the gifts a successful politician must bring to the job, and how even Congress can be made to work.

Barney Frank will speak on the KBF main stage at noon. Sponsored by the Franklin County Democratic Party.

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JULIUS FRIEDMAN The Book

Renowned artist Julius Friedman presents a staggeringly beautiful book of more than 130 full color photos of deconstructed books. “I looked at the book from its beginnings to the current and emerging world of the Kindle and other electronic tablets, intuitively keeping in mind the sacred word, censorship, holding an object, its tactile way, even the smell of a book, etc. That is how it began.”

ANN H. GABHART

Murder Comes by Mail (Hidden Springs Mystery #2) In front of a busload of camera-wielding senior citizens in Hidden Springs, Kentucky, Deputy Sheriff Michael Keane saves a stranger’s life. Unfortunately, he soon suspects he may have saved a murderer. Ann H. Gabhart is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Outsider and Angel Sister. She lives on a farm in her hometown of Lawrenceburg with her husband.

RON GAMBRELL

Six Little Scars Six Little Scars is an epic story based on the story of a gruesome attack on a young girl on the streets of Louisville in the 1970s. Follow the victim’s younger brother, Johnny Lee, as his journey into adulthood becomes entwined with the family’s search for justice. Ron Gambrell is a small business owner and author with degrees in science and business. He lives in Louisville.

JAMES GIFFORD & EDWINA PENDARVIS

Appalachian Murders and Mysteries: True Stories from West Virginia, Kentucky, and Southern Ohio Dr. James Gifford and Dr. Edwina Pendarvis have co-edited and compiled a 24-story anthology of fascinating true murder stories from Kentucky, West Virginia, and southern Ohio.

Contributors to the anthology include Keven McQueen, Judith Kappes, John Preston Smith, Lewis D. Nicholls and others.

BILL GOODMAN

Beans, Biscuits, Family & Friends KET’s Bill Goodman shares a series of essays highlighting his life; from climbing and backpacking adventures with his friends to a vivid portrait of his artist-cousin Joe Downing, an abstract painter. Along the way, the author fondly remembers his mother’s beaten biscuits, his attempts to grow the

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors perfect tomato, and the excitement in reaching the summit of two of the highest mountain peaks in America.

Pasta Casserole, Un-Sloppy Janes, and Loaded Nacho Soup. True to her Corbin, Kentucky, roots, Brooke wants to help your family make lasting memories over classic comfort foods made skinny, and some of her southern favorites!

MAGGIE GREEN

Tasting Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State Cookbook author and registered dietitian Maggie Green has created a treasure trove of Kentucky’s exuberant cuisine, from classic barbecue, hot browns, and catfish with beer cheese grits, to innovative fusions of regional and global flavors. Mouth-watering photographs complement 102 recipes both simple and sumptuous from the finest restaurants, inns, cafés, and bed-and-breakfasts across the state.

BROOKE GRIFFIN

Skinny Suppers: 125 Lightened-Up, Healthier Meals for Your Family Bring your family back to the supper table with more than 125 recipes for delicious, healthier entrees and sides like Philly Cheesesteak Stuffed Peppers, Supreme Pizza

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PAUL GRINER

Hurry Please I Want to Know A stylized and otherworldly short story collection filled with sidelined characters placed at center stage. A low-ranking soldier is forced to milk a cow within enemy range. A cartoonist’s daughter waits each morning to see how her father’s mood dictates how he will draw her face.

Grieving siblings wait to inherit one of their father’s physical features after his death. Paul Griner is the author of the story collection Follow Me, and the novels Collectors and The German Woman. He is a professor at the University of Louisville.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors STEPHEN HACKER & MICHELLE TURNER

MOLLY HARPER

Lost Restaurants of Louisville Louisville was home to fine cuisine long before the famous restaurant rows on Bardstown Road, Frankfort Avenue, and East Market Street — just ask anyone about Mazzoni’s rolled oysters, the C-54 Grill, Kaelin’s cheeseburger, or Hasenour’s sauerbraten. Hacker and Turner, producers of the award-winning Gourmandistan.com, revisit the vivid personalities, celebrated spaces and unique recipes that made Louisville’s historic eateries from the 1800s to today unforgettable.

DELFY HALL

The Warlock and the Wolf (The Naturalist, #1) Descended from freed slaves, orphan Mina trains as a scientist in The Hague. She studies the animals in the nearby woods and saves them from harm whenever she can.

And, of course, as a good scientist, she doesn’t believe in magic. But when her parents’ killer escapes from prison and kills again, she must question everything she knows in order to solve a mystery and save her world from destruction. Debut novelist Delfy Hall lives in her home state of Kentucky with several geriatric dogs who help her write fantasy fiction.

NEAL O. HAMMON

Following Boone’s Trace In Colonial America’s agrarian economy, many entrepreneurs like Col. Richard Henderson found the vast territory west of the Allegheny Mountains too enticing to pass up. His Transylvania Company could reap a fortune in land sales if it could overcome resistance from Indians, unfriendly political forces in Virginia, and the treacherous mountains. So Henderson hired Daniel Boone to carve a route into Kentucky for land-seekers. Now, 241 years later, author Neal O. Hammon has precisely detailed that very route.

MICHAEL R. HARDESTY

The Grace of the Ginkgo A confirmed atheist, David Foley surprises his friends and extended family members with his sensible but unorthodox (grand)parenting skills. His orphaned granddaughter, Leisl, learns that morality comes in many forms, and that her grandfather’s belief system may not model the religious undertones of her deceased mother’s family. Michael R. Hardesty is a graduate of the University of Louisville and Stanford University’s Certificate of Writing Program in long fiction. He lives in Louisville.

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Where the Wild Things Bite In Molly Harper’s witty new paranormal romance, a rare-book expert is delivering a package to Half Moon Hollow when her plane goes down, and a sexy vampire comes to her rescue. He clearly has ulterior motives, but does he want to date her or devour her?

Molly Harper is a Kentucky-born journalist-turned-church secretary-turned-romance novelist, and the author of almost 20 novels and novellas. She lives in her small hometown in western Kentucky with her high school sweetheart/husband and their two children.

BARBARA HARPER-BACH

The Irish-American Cookery Clinic After a trip to Ballymaloe in County Cork, Ireland, Barbara Harper-Bach came back to America inspired by stories and recipes from her ancestral homeland. The Irish-American Cookery Clinic is a collection of recipes from Ballymaloe Cookery School, and Harper’s own Irish-American recipes.

CHARLES E. HAYES

Blood on King’s Mountain Led by future Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, volunteers and militia take on the might of the British Empire in a battle on October 7, 1780. Hayes draws on sources like the Draper Manuscripts, the John Dabney Shane interviews, and the like to create this readable account of a pivotal victory in the American Revolution. Charles E. Hayes is a U.S. Air Force veteran and the author of 12 books. He lives in London, Kentucky.

KRISTEN HEIMERL Inspector Dewey

Meet Inspector Dewey — he’s the Big Cat, responsible for keeping everyone safe and in order. He and his family live a peaceful life, until the one night, when a bad guy shows up on their block.

Dewey and his beloved, bumbling buddies will win your heart in this tale of mystery, adventure, daring, and determination. Kristen Heimerl’s joys include the forests and lakes of her Minnesota birthplace, her family, and her three Norwegian Forest cats who helped catch the bad guy that inspired the book.

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Landfall: A Ring of Stories In this ring of connected short stories, grounded in the fictional town of Conrad’s Fork, Kentucky, everyone is staging some sort of escape. One by one, those who leave confront the pull of the land and the people they’ve left behind. Julie Hensley is an associate professor at Eastern Kentucky University and core faculty member in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Res MFA Program. She lives in Richmond with her husband, writer R. Dean Johnson, and their two children.

HEATHER HENSON

Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer “Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name is Stephen Bishop. Down here, beneath the earth, I’m not

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just a slave. I’m a pioneer. I’m a guide. I’m a man. And this is my story.” Christopher Award-winner Heather Henson is a Kentucky native, former book editor, and the author of several award-winning children’s books. Henson now lives near Danville, where she manages Pioneer Playhouse, the historic summer theater her father, Eben, founded in 1950.

A. Y. HODGE

The Land of Sniffipiticus Three spiritually-equipped kids meet their match when they collide with the Sleeorf in a terrifying battle to save a lander. Join Mama and Papa Harvesthand in the land of Sniffipiticus as they raise their curiously special children in a world being overrun by evil. A. Y. Hodge is a Pikeville native, and served as an educator for 37 years, all over the state. He lives in Sturgis, Kentucky.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors LYNNE HUGO

Remember My Beauties On a rundown horse farm deep in the magnificent bluegrass pastures of Kentucky, a family is falling apart. In this lyrical novel, when the inept, the addict, and the ex-con join to weave the family story back together, either the barn will burn to the ground or something bigger than any of them will emerge, shining with hope. Lynne Hugo has published 10 previous books and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Ohio with her husband.

MANDY HUSSEY & EMILY WEISNER THOMPSON

But What If There’s No Chimney?

Five-year-old Ben is new in town and shocked to find his house has no chimney. How will Santa get into his house to deliver gifts? As Christmas approaches, Ben looks for

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solutions, asking his dad, friend, teacher, mailman, and even his dog! Ben’s search ends with a letter to Santa Claus, Indiana. Mandy Hussey is a freelance writer and graduate of the Indiana University School of Journalism. Emily Weisner Thompson, executive director of the Santa Claus Museum & Village, is an historian and author.

JOHN HUTTON

Sleepy Solar System Join the planets (and a few friends) as they settle into bedtime routines: reading stories, washing dusty heads, and asking for one more hug and kiss! Dr. John Hutton is a practicing pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, but grew up in Lexington. He researches the effects of parent-child reading on brain development, general and pediatric health literacy as conveyed through children’s books, the health effects of electronic media on children, and the importance of a solid foundation in words and creative play.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors MADDIE JAMES Wind Ridge

After 10 difficult years of living and working in New York City, Rebekah McCauley is back home in Kentucky, grateful that her grandparents’ farm, Wind Ridge, provides the safe haven she craves. Collin Kramer, the fox hunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate that peace and quiet not only with his noisy hounds, but his alpha-male attitude running roughshod over her wounded heart. Maddie James is the author of 40 romance novels. She lives in Louisville.

FENTON JOHNSON

The Man Who Loved Birds Having taken great risks — to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows — Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, free spirit, and expert

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marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist monastery, Johnny Faye patiently cultivates Meena’s and Flavian’s capacity for faith, transforming all they thought they knew about duty and desire. Fenton Johnson is an award-winning author, an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, and instructor in the MFA program at Spalding University.

CRAIG JOHNSON

An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire #12) In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident involving a young motorcyclist near Devils Tower. Craig Johnson is the author of eight novels in the Walt Longmire mystery series, which has garnered popular and

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors critical acclaim. The Walt Longmire series is the basis for the hit A&E drama, Longmire, starring Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Katee Sackoff. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.

R. DEAN JOHNSON

Californium: A Novel of Punk Rock, Growing Up, and Other Dangerous Things It’s summer 1982 when the Houghton family uproots from New Jersey and moves to California. Fourteen year-old Reece is trying his best to believe his family has come to California for the opportunities and not to outrun a shared family secret, but he’s beginning to realize that even his heroes have flaws, everybody lies, and starting a band may be his only chance at salvation. R. Dean Johnson grew up in California and now lives in Kentucky with his wife, writer Julie Hensley, and their two children. An associate professor at Eastern Kentucky University, he is the director of the Bluegrass Writers Studio program.

CHRISTY JORDAN

Sweetness: Southern Recipes to Celebrate the Warmth, the Love, and the Blessings of a Full Life Taste of the South contributor and food personality Christy Jordan shares 197 recipes for sweet things to eat and drink — recipes that are deeply delicious, rich with tradition, often reaching through generations, and designed with today’s hectic schedules in mind. Because life is just better when you add a little sweetness.

JULIE KAGAWA

Soldier (Talon, #3) In this continuation of the Talon Saga, Ember Hill has chosen to stand with a fellow outcast and his band of rogue dragons rather than become an assassin for Talon. Rogue soldier Garret now journeys alone to the birthplace of the ancient order of St. George to spy on his former brothers and uncover secrets that will shake the foundations of dragons and dragon-slayers alike. Julie Kagawa is the internationally bestselling author of The Iron Fey and Blood of Eden series. She lives with her husband and a menagerie of pets in Louisville.

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JOEL KATTE

University of Kentucky Wildcats Basketball IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom As we head into basketball season, it is important to be prepared! If you think you know Kentucky basketball history, you may want to think again! Lexingtonian and UK super fan Joel Katte has created the ultimate Kentucky basketball IQ test guaranteed to stump even the most knowledgeable UK Basketball fan.

ABIGAIL KEAM Death by Design

Josiah Reynolds can hardly believe it when she hears someone call out her name as she strolls down 75th street in New York City.

This chance encounter in the Big Apple leads Josiah into the world of haute couture, mysterious princes from India, precious gems, and murder in a town that keeps its secrets well. Abigail Keam is the award-winning author of the Josiah Reynolds Mystery series. She lives in Lexington.

BARRY KIENZLE The Indian

Two young men from Latonia, Kentucky, in 1940 try to figure out their future, while the world sits on the brink of WWII. Both young men end up in the Navy, fighting in the South Pacific — one an airman and one a sailor.

They are forced to grow up in a hurry and suffer through the consequences. Barry Kienzle is a native northern Kentuckian, author, and currently serves as president of the NKU Foundation.

MARY KNIGHT Saving Wonder

Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky. When the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves. Mary Knight has always enjoyed the power of a good story, whether it’s been as a children’s librarian, a freelance writer, or a writer-in-residence. She lives in Lexington.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors STEPHANIE KNIPPER

CARMEL LILE

JAMES J. KRUPA

BILL LOONEY

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin A novel about family and the lengths to which people will go to support and protect those they love, The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin presents the story of two sisters struggling with their own demons. The daughter of one of them, a 10-year-old who suffers from severe autism, has a very special gift — the power to heal. Stephanie Knipper based much of the story in this, her first novel, on her own experience raising a daughter with severe disabilities. She lives with her family in Kentucky.

The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future Dr. James J. Krupa, a naturalist and evolutionary biologist, and Erik Reece alternate chapters on the cultural and natural history of the Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky — one of our most important, and endangered, landscapes.

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A Winter’s Flood: The Novel Louisville, January 1937. A new year brings hope that the city is leaving behind the desperate days of the Depression — until a record flood forces two-thirds of the population from their homes. A Winter’s Flood tells the story of a childless couple and their neighborhood as lives are forever changed by the devastating flood. Carmel Lile is from Louisville and grew up hearing stories about the Great Flood of 1937 from her parents. She now lives in Versailles.

Hunting the Storm When an undercover FBI agent in the Art Crimes Unit goes missing, the race is on to retrace her steps. Agent Withers soon discovers a chess board of players all focused on their own gain. Lonney based this novel on an actual FBI cold case! Bill Looney was born in Kentucky and spent his childhood in Harlan County. He now lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors RONNI LUNDY

BOBBIE ANN MASON

QUINN MACHOLLISTER

SHARYN MCCRUMB

Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes Through 80 recipes and stories gathered on her travels in the region, former Courier-Journal critic and Southern Foodways Alliance founder Ronni Lundy shares dishes that distill the story and flavors of the Mountain South.

Each chapter explores a specific defining food or tradition of the region — such as salt, beans, corn (and corn liquor). The essays introduce readers to their rich histories and the farmers, curers, hunters, and chefs who define the region’s contemporary landscape.

What Rough Beast Having battled warring tribes of native peoples, serial killers, drug dealers, and spies, the town of Woodhole, Kentucky, probably needs a warning sign that something wicked dwells within the county limits. Now, Sheriff Ron Motley and his best deputy, must face a vicious superwolf, created by shady experiments, that is turning their town into its personal hunting ground. Quinn MacHollister is the pen name for four authors and educators based in Richmond, Kentucky: Marie Mitchell, Mason Smith, Hal Blythe, and Charlie Sweet.

DONNA MACMEANS

The Girl in the Blue Beret Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Mason has crafted the profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he learns about those who helped him escape in 1944. Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of 14 books, including the Pulitzer finalist Clear Springs and the PEN/Hemingway Award winning Shiloh & Other Stories. She lives in central Kentucky.

Prayers the Devil Answers Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family after her husband’s tragic death, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic, except for one task only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner.

Sharyn McCrumb is the author of numerous New York Times bestselling novels and two short story collections. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

Charming the Professor The Charm Gates have stood at The Court of Two Sisters for more than a century. But they have a secret: French “charm teacher” Madeline Charlebois’s essence is inside the gates — at least, until a grieving professor touches them during a storm and Madeline tumbles out, not in her own 19th century Spain, but in 21st century New Orleans. Donna MacMeans lives in Ohio where she is a licensed CPA, a job she finds far less exciting than her other job of writing romance.

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GERALDINE ANN MARSHALL

CATHERINE MCKENZIE

Spider’s Gift In a stable in Bethlehem, a spider, a cricket, and a honeybee watch the birth of the baby Jesus. All but Spider have the perfect gift for the new baby — but Spider hasn’t figured out that he has the best gift of all! Spider’s Gift tells the story of how everyone has something valuable to offer, as long as it’s offered with love. Geraldine Ann Marshall has published 12 books. She has a degree in zoology from the University of Kentucky. She lives in Paducah.

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The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Featuring entries on the African-American individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state’s history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. Karen Cotton McDaniel is professor emeritus at Kentucky State University, where she was a tenured full professor and director of libraries.

Fractured Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who has been terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel. Julie doesn’t know anyone in her new town, so when she meets her neighbor John Dunbar, their instant connection brings hope for a new beginning. But she never imagines that a benign conversation with him could set her life spinning so far off course. Catherine McKenzie is the author of five internationally bestselling novels. She practices law in Montreal, where she was born and raised.

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Water Temple - Wielders Book 7 “Weeks ago, four of my friends and I were living normal lives as ordinary middle school students. Our lives turned upside-down when we were transported to a new world. Since then, we have become Wielders, trainers of magical creatures known as Phasers. With no way home, we are just trying to make our way in this new world, one adventure at a time.” Father-daughter writing team Lucas and 16-year-old Sophia McWilliams live with their family on a hilltop close to the Kentucky River Palisades.

FRED MINNICK

Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey Award-winning whiskey author Fred Minnick traces bourbon’s entire history, from the 1700s through today’s booming resurgence, to unravel the mystery of its most likely inventor.

Minnick is the “bourbon authority” for the Kentucky Derby Museum and regularly appears in the media, including “CBS This Morning,” Esquire, Forbes, and NPR.

MARY ALICE MONROE

A Lowcountry Christmas In this continuation of the best-selling Lowcountry Summer series, a wounded warrior, his younger brother, and their splintered family must come together to rediscover their strengths, family bond, and the true meaning of Christmas. Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. An active conservationist, she lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina.

WILLIAM LYNWOOD MONTELL

Tales from Kentucky Collection In seven new paperback books, noted oral historian William Lynwood Montell has assembled fascinating collections of memoirs from across Kentucky. Each book focuses on a unique topic or profession, from doctors and lawyers and sheriffs to Kentuckians’ first-hand experiences with ghosts.

Ranging from humorous to heartwarming to tragic, the stories are authentic and captivating — essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the culture and tradition of Kentucky. He currently lives in Bowling Green.

KATHERINE MOONEY

Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack History professor and lifelong horsewoman Katherine Mooney uncovers the stories of enslaved black men who were

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some of the first celebrities on the American racetrack, and then follows them and their children into freedom. The central characters are not the elite white slave- and horse-owners but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run — until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.

LORI MOORE

My Cold Kentucky Home Karma states that every action performed in life creates another reaction, which in turn produces a new counter action; in other words, “As ye sow, so also shall ye reap.” In this short but suspense-filled novella, Moore tells the story of a house where something was sown long ago in history, and now it is time for the reaping. Lori Moore is an award-winning author and professor. She, her husband, and their cat, Grady, live in Louisville.

LAUREN MORRILL

My Unscripted Life Working as a summer intern on the set of a movie being filmed in her small Georgia town, 17-year-old Dee meets famous pop star turned actor Milo Ritter, who is offending everyone with his rudeness. Too bad he’s been her crush since eighth grade. Lauren Morrill grew up in Maryville, Tennessee, and now lives in Macon, Georgia, with her family. When she’s not writing, she spends a lot of hours on the track getting knocked around playing roller derby.

CARRIE MULLINS Night Garden

Devastated by a family tragedy, 17-yearold Marie Massey runs away from her safe and privileged life in a small Kentucky college town to live with an older man and his criminal family in a neighboring county. Her encounter with the charismatic, 30-year-old Bobo Owens sets in motion the central story of the novel. Carrie Mullins lives in Mt. Vernon, where she grew up. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies. Night Garden is her first novel.

GAIL NALL

You’re Invited Too (RSVP #2) After successfully establishing their party-planning venture, the four friends behind RSVP feel ready to handle their first wedding. As the demands of the Bridezilla become increasingly loony, the girls must figure out how to deal with her and throw the best wedding ever — even as a hurricane bears down on Sandpiper Beach. Gail Nall is the author of

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She lives in Louisville with her family and more cats than necessary.

BILL NOEL

Silent Night Chris Landrum is dragged out of peaceful retirement when the theft of a priceless figurine from a church’s nativity scene threatens to suck the spirit of Christmas out of Folly Beach, South Carolina. Chris is joined by a cadre of quirky characters in his quest to catch the thief. Bill Noel is a fine arts photographer and retired university administrator who took up writing fiction later in life. He lives in Louisville with his wife, Susan.

GURNEY NORMAN

Crazy Quilt Crazy Quilt is a mixture of fiction, journalism, diary entries, correspondence, interviews, folk tales, memories, dreams, reflections and autobiography. The protagonist in some of the

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stories is Wilgus Collier, first introduced to Kentucky readers in Norman’s short story collection, Kinfolks. Gurney Norman is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where he has taught creative writing for 37 years. Norman was named Kentucky Poet Laureate, 2009-2010.

MIKE NORRIS & MINNIE ADKINS

Mommy Goose: Rhymes from the Mountains Mike Norris honors this special piece of American heritage with a one-of-a-kind collection of fifty original nursery rhymes celebrating Appalachian tradition and speech, complete with photographs of more than one hundred new hand-carved and -painted works by renowned folk artist Minnie Adkins. Mike Norris is an author, musician, and former director of communications at Centre College. Minnie Adkins is a folk artist with permanent collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors National Gallery of Art, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Kentucky Folk Art Center.

JIM OBERGEFELL

Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality Jim Obergefell was a plaintiff in Obergefell v.

Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court case that made marriage equality the law of the land in 2015. Through intimate interviews and insider perspectives, this definitive account reveals dramatic, previously unreported events and the stories of the plaintiffs, lawyers, and judges at the center of this momentous event in American civil rights and jurisprudence.

JANE OLMSTED

Seeking the Other Side Olmsted presents a collection of poems about grief, heal-

ing, and our connections with each other and with nature.

The poems seek understanding, beauty, most eloquently expressed in the small, the simple, the sacred. Jane Olmsted is a professor and head of the diversity and community studies department at Western Kentucky University.

PAT OWEN

Crossing the Sky Bridge Pat Owens’ debut collection of poetry from Larkspur Press is centered on love, loss, family, and the natural world. She lives in Louisville.

JEREMY PADEN

Ruina Montium Paden tells the stories of “Los 33,” the Chilean miners trapped underground in 2010, with poems that cover their lives before, during and after their entrapment and rescue, as well as poems that provide context for the accounts. Paden was born in Milan and raised in Central America and the Carribbean. He is an associate professor of Spanish at Transylvania University, faculty member at the Spalding University MFA program, and a member of the Affrilachian Poets.

C. L. PARKER

Coming Clean (Monkey Business Trio, #3) The intense competitive rivalry that began between sports agents Shaw Matthews and Cassidy Whalen — a rivalry that quickly transformed into a game of seduction — comes to a close in this emotional and fiery conclusion to the Monkey Business trilogy. C. L. Parker is the author of nine novels. She lives in Frankfort.

ERIN PEABODY

A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World’s First National Park Peabody recounts the first scientific expedition to Yellowstone in 1871 that helped prompt one of America’s most triumphant conservation programs: the National Park Idea. Erin Peabody has worked as a park ranger in the National Mall in Washington, D. C., the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico, and Yellowstone. A Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Kentucky, she lives in Cincinnati with her husband, daughter, and yellow lab, Luna.

RAY PEDEN

Prime Cut Following his takedown of the multinational corporation that murdered his wife 12 years earlier, Patrick Grainger is settling down to watch his daughter grow up in Frankfort, when a string of deadly events, all seemingly unconnected,

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Laureate, is the author of 20 books, 1,300 published poems, nine plays, a Hollywood script, and thousands of articles. Lee is a graduate of Berea College and the University of Iowa.

He taught English and creative writing for nearly 40 years, before retiring in 1999.

WILLIAM PENN

JOY PERRINE

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County Drawing on dozens of period newspapers as well as personal journals, memoirs, and correspondence from citizens, slaves, soldiers, and witnesses, Penn provides an illuminating look at divided loyalties and dissent in Union Kentucky.

LEE PENNINGTON

Appalachian Newground Lee Pennington addresses the world of nature and spirit in a unique way, born in him and nurtured by his eastern Kentucky birthplace. Lee Pennington, former Kentucky Poet

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More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails Following up on their bestselling The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, Perrine and Susan Reigler return with a new volume, featuring more than 50 delicious new concoctions, recipes from leading bartenders, prize-winning drinks from cocktail competitions, and a bourbon-inspired buffet that will be a feast for aficionados.

CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS

The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War on the Middle Border and the Making of American Regionalism Phillips, the author of seven books on the Civil War and

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors Reconstruction, reveals the complex history of the western border states as they struggled with questions of nationalism, racial politics, secession, neutrality, loyalty, and even place, as the Civil War tore the nation, and themselves, apart.

Dr. Christopher Phillips is professor of history and department head at the University of Cincinnati.

collection of drawings features the state bird and flower of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as the American Bald Eagle, our national bird. The book also includes facts about the formation of states by date and the list of official state flowers and birds, and full-color renderings of each bird and flower.

TIM PHILPOT

EDDIE PRICE

Judge Z: Irretrievably Broken For 10 years, family court judge Atticus Zenas has struggled to protect helpless children. Now, he’s on the ragged edge of falling apart himself. Amidst the chaos of family court, Judge Z takes a journey of discovery to find that marriage is more than a legal contract — it’s God’s best metaphor for his love for us. Tim Philpot is a family court judge and has served as a state senator, trial lawyer, and president of a Christian outreach ministry. He and his wife of 45 years live in Lexington.

HARRY PICKENS

In Tune: Lessons in Life from a Life in Music Harry Pickens is an award-winning pianist, composer, and educator whose music and wisdom have touched the lives of thousands of people throughout the world. He is a recipient of the Kentucky Governor’s Award for the Arts in Education. In Tune: Lessons in Life from a Life in Music condenses a lifetime of wisdom into 38 essays exploring creativity, purpose, music, and the keys to a meaningful life.

ROBERT A. POWELL

Little Miss Grubby Toes Steps on a Bee! Little Miss Grubby Toes tries to be a good girl, but when she doesn’t obey her parents, she gets into trouble! One day, her mother warns her to keep her shoes on outside because the bees are out collecting nectar. But Little Miss Grubby Toes loves to run around barefoot! What do YOU think will happen? Eddie Price is a Kentucky native and the author of the novel Widder’s Landing. He taught history for 36 years. He lives in Hancock County.

IAN PUNNETT

A Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle Just in time for the 80th anniversary of the death of Verna Garr Taylor and the trial of Henry H. Denhardt, radio personality Ian Punnett has uncovered the final missing, convincing details that bring A Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle to life. With unprecedented access to family information, Punnett also reveals the unknown truth behind Denhardt’s ignoble demise, a death that is considered the last “code of honor” slaying in Kentucky history.

CAROLYN PURCELL Saving Jane Doe

State Birds & Flowers: Color Me Symbolic Kentucky Heritage artist Robert A. Powell’s complete

As a consequence of having an illegal abortion, Jane Doe nearly loses her life and does lose her family. A family saga about forgiveness and healing for women dealing with unplanned pregnancies. Dr. Carolyn Purcell, a retired obstetrician/gynecologist, devoted 25 years to her patients. She lives in Lexington.

S. G. REDLING

At Risk Colleen McElroy grew up wealthy and pampered, the daughter of a prominent family in Lexington. But her privileged upbringing could not prepare or protect her from her cruel and abusive first husband. Now, she’s found new love and a new life, but it seems her dark past isn’t done with her yet.

S. G. Redling is an author and now-retired morning radio personality in her native West Virginia.

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Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea For Reece, life was good. He was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. Yet he was haunted by a sense that the world — or, more specifically, his country — could be better. Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. What followed was a road trip through the sites of America’s utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic.

KIM MICHELE RICHARDSON

GodPretty in the Tobacco Field RubyLyn Bishop longs to escape the prejudice and hardship that ripple through her hometown of Nameless, Kentucky. The elaborate paper fortunetellers she makes for the townsfolk aren’t magic, but through them, she is able to imagine life as it could be; where her kinship with Rainey Ford, an African-American neighbor, wouldn’t be frowned upon, and her life wouldn’t be overshadowed by her caring but overbearing uncle. Kim Michele Richardson is the author of the bestselling memoir The Unbreakable Child, and the novel Liar’s Bench.

She resides in Kentucky.

SUSAN REIGLER

Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide This second edition of Kentucky Bourbon Country offers essential information and practical advice from Courier-Journal travel writer and James Beard Award judge Susan Reigler.

Featuring 200 full-color photographs, the book is organized by region and provides valuable details about the Bluegrass, including attractions near each distillery and notes on restaurants, lodging, shopping, and seasonal events.

TIFFANY REISZ

The Bourbon Thief When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger named Paris, it’s to discover he’s been robbed of a $1 million bottle of Red Thread bourbon. In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the Red Thread distillery that became an empire. Tiffany Reisz is a Kentucky native and the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series.

RON RHODY

Concerning the Matter of the King of Craw Set in the Roaring Twenties in Kentucky’s capital, Rhody spins a story based on Bluegrass legend John Fallis, the King of Craw: champion of the poor and powerless, and scourge of the establishment. Ron Rhody was born and raised in Frankfort. A former journalist and PR executive, he is retired and lives with his wife Patsy in North Carolina.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors NANCY RICHEY

Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitar Master Richey and the late Carlton Jackson (1933-2014) tell the story of true Kentucky legend Mose Rager, who preferred his quiet life to the fame he could’ve earned playing the Country music circuit. Many Country guitar legends — Chet Atkins, Merle Haggard, Randy Travis, and Eddie Pennington, to name a few — trace the roots of their music to this virtuoso from Muhlenberg County.

DANA RIDENOUR

Behind the Mask An idealistic FBI agent goes deep undercover to befriend and infiltrate a dangerous group of domestic terrorists. When events spiral out of control, she begins to realize that her sworn duty may require her to betray the surprisingly deep friendships she has formed with the people who have let her into their secretive world. Dana Ridenour was born and raised in Kentucky. She graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a BS in police administration. She earned a juris doctor from Salmon P. Chase Law School. Ridenour retired from the FBI after more than 20 years of service. She lives in South Carolina.

KYLE ROMINES

The Keeper of the Crows Following a very public humiliation, disgraced journalist Thomas Brooks is looking for a story to get him back on the map. The apparent murder of a stranger in the rural town of Gray Hollow, Kentucky, seems to be just what the opportunistic reporter needs, until he discovers the death is merely the start of something bigger. Kyle Romines is currently a third-year medical student at the University of Louisville.

PATRICIA ROSE

Iron Mike They came, but not in peace. They came to destroy us. Mike Sanderlin survived the first attack, but could he survive the war? To keep his sister alive, he must get her from Louisville to the safety of Fort Knox. He becomes Iron Mike, a man unafraid of making the hard decisions, a man unafraid of war, of killing or being killed. Debut novelist Patricia Rose lives in Shepherdsville with her husband, two dogs, four cats, a snake, and a tarantula.

ANN B. ROSS

Miss Julia Inherits a Mess (Miss Julia, #18) When Miss Julia hears that Mattie Freeman has taken a fall and is in the hospital, she wishes she’d spent more time getting to know the woman! So when the tumble proves fatal,

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the last thing Miss Julia expects is a phone call naming her executor of Mattie Freeman’s last will and testament. Faced with a house full of clutter, Miss Julia enlists people to sort through the mess and find something of value for Miss Mattie’s beneficiaries. But when a peculiar young man claiming to be Miss Mattie’s great-nephew turns up, Miss Julia finds herself closer to Mattie Freeman and her mysterious family than ever before.

Ann B. Ross is the author of 18 novels in the bestselling Miss Julia series. She lives in North Carolina.

DEIRDRE A. SCAGGS

The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today’s Cook Deirdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw collected more than 100 19th- and 20th-century recipes from handwritten books, diaries, scrapbook clippings, and out-of-print cookbooks from the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections to bring together a variety of classic dishes, complete with descriptions of each recipe’s origin and helpful tips for the modern chef. Deirdre A. Scaggs is associate dean of the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center and the author of Women in Lexington.

JOHN SCALZI

The End of All Things Humans expanded into space only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Now, the Colonial Union, formed to help protect them, is living on borrowed time. In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson races against the clock to keep humanity’s union intact...or else risk oblivion, extinction, and the end of all things. John Scalzi is a multiple Hugo Award winner and the New York Times bestselling author of 27 books, including the Old Man’s War series. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

JAN SCARBROUGH

Kentucky Blue Bloods When her father loses four of the yearlings from their central Kentucky horse farm in a poker game, Reggie knows it’s up to her to save what’s left of her family’s homestead and her proud Kentucky heritage. But then, Parker Stuart, the most arrogant and infuriating Brit she’s ever met, shows up in the Bluegrass. Jan Scarbrough is the author of the popular Bluegrass Reunion series. She lives in Louisville.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors FRED SCHLOEMER

DORIS SETTLES & DIXIE HIBBS

ALBERT W. A. SCHMID

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (The Lily Singer Adventures, Book 1) Archivist and wizard Lily Singer studies magic and tries to keep her witch friend Sebastian out of trouble. From unmaking ancient curses to rescuing a town lost in time, Lily and Sebastian fight to avert magical mayhem. Meanwhile, Lily’s mysterious past begins to unfold — can she find the truth

Where the River Birches Beckon Impoverished after her abolitionist parents’ death, Sarah Brinley accepts a post as a governess for the son of a wealthy Kentucky planter. Her young charge is withdrawn and mute after witnessing the violent death of his mother. As a series of mysterious events unsettle her, she resists falling in love with the charismatic planter. When the truth finally surfaces, she is astounded.

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide to the Whiskey Classic This essential guide covers everything the Manhattan aficionado needs to know about the classic cocktail through an examination of its history and ingredients, and even answers the age-old question: “Shaken or stirred?” Albert W. A. Schmid is a professor and program director at Sullivan University’s National Center for Hospitality Management and the author of five books.

Prohibition in Bardstown: Bourbon, Bootlegging & Saloons Some Bardstown residents argued for an alcohol ban as early as the mid-1800s despite the fact that whiskey and bourbon were local staples. When Prohibition finally arrived, inventive residents secretly kept the city wet, and crime ran so rampant that the state revenue collector threatened to have the governor summon the state militia. Join Hibbs and Settles as they detail the history of Bardstown booze.

LYDIA SHERRER

DIANE SCHNEIDER

Seckatary Hawkins Mystery Series Before Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, Seckatary Hawkins and his friends from the Fair and Square Club were solving mysteries and thrilling readers with tales of adventure, loyalty, and courage. Now, Robert Schulkers’ tales of the Fair and Square Club are back in print and ready to ignite the imaginations of devoted fans and new readers of all ages.

Diane Schneider is a full-time harpist, practitioner and researcher. She is the great-niece of author Robert Schulkers and co-captain of the Secketary Hawkins Club.

LOIS SEPAHBAN

Paper Wishes In 1942, 10-year-old Manami and her family are forced to move from their home on Bainbridge Island to an internment camp for Japanese Americans. Manami must find a way to let go of her guilt over losing her dog, Yujiin, so that she can reclaim the piece of herself she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family. Lois Sepahban lives in Kentucky with her husband and children, where she teaches middle school reading and writing.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors about herself, hidden by those she trusted most? Lydia Sherrer lives in Louisville with her supportive husband and their very vocal cat.

STACY SIMS

When We Are Quiet Quiet your child’s mind and body before bed with this soothing read-aloud, designed to help families and children rediscover the positive power of silence. Stacy Sims is a mind/body educator and author. She travels internationally to work with trauma survivors and clinical staff and has created in-school, after-school, and other curriculum leadership trainings. She lives in Ohio.

JASON SIZEMORE

Best of Apex Magazine With stories by award-winning authors such as Ursula Nernon, Ken Liu, Rachel Swirsky, and more, Best of Apex Magazine brings the popular and award-winning sci-fi/horror zine to print – and to your bookshelf. Jason Sizemore is a

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Hugo-nominated author and owns the Hugo, Stoker, and Nebula Award-nominated Apex Publications.

ELLEN SKIDMORE Ellen

Ellen has a very big problem for such a very little girl. If she could just get her words out without jumbling them up, she would be perfect. When she finds the things she loves, Ellen realizes that your voice doesn’t have to come from your mouth, and that no one, no matter how good they are at words, is perfect. Artist Ellen Skidmore uses her luminous paintings as illustrations for her first book. As a stutterer, she found the non-verbal communication in painting profoundly grounding. She lives in Paris, Kentucky.

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BIANCA SPRIGGS

JANET SPARKMAN

JIM SQUIRES

The Room with the Second-Best View Between Millie’s accident, the chaos of the upcoming 200year anniversary celebration, and the possibility of an early opening of the B&B, more Creeker feathers are ruffled than a whole flock of enraged geese. Goose Creek has lasted 200 years, but can it survive the next month? Virginia Smith is the bestselling author of 30 novels, an illustrated children’s book, and more than 50 articles and short stories. She loves writing about places she knows best, especially her native Kentucky.

The Missouri Trail Hope Lewis returns to Kentucky after a 25-year exile determined to unravel the mystery of why she and her parents were abandoned by their once loving family. Janet Sparkman is the author of several books and regularly contributes to magazines and newspapers. She lives in London, Kentucky.

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Call Her by Her Name: Poems Poet and performance artist Bianca Lynne Spriggs’ newest collection is a 21st century feminist manifesto suffused with metaphoric depth. This collection is a call and response of women — divine and domestic, legend and literal — who shape-shift and traverse generations. Bianca Lynne Spriggs is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, and doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky.

West End In 1960s Nashville, David Arthur and Tate Weston – born on opposite sides of a great river that not only divides their Southern town but also sets them worlds apart for years to come — are drawn into the magic sphere of Jack Hickenlooper, publisher of a crusading Southern newspaper ded-

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors icated to equal justice under the law. Jim Squires is the former editor of the Chicago Tribune and the author of Headless Horsemen and Horse of a Different Color, an account of his wild ride as the breeder of Monarchos, the winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby. He lives in Versailles.

EDWARD STANTON

Wide as the Wind Wide as the Wind is the first crossover novel to deal with the stunning, tragic story of Easter Island. Stanton tells a story of love, war, environmental collapse and the Polynesian voyages across the Pacific Ocean: the greatest adventure in human prehistory. Edward Stanton is the author of 10 books. He lives with his wife, author Melissa McEuen, in Lexington.

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LIN STEPP

Welcome Back After 10 years, Lydia Cunningham is moving back to North Carolina, looking to strengthen ties with her daughter, build a relationship with her grandsons, and perhaps rekindle the bond with the husband she left behind. Dr. Lin Stepp is a native Tennessean, a businesswoman, educator, and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nine novels.

RICHARD TAYLOR

Rain Shadow From the title poem of this collection, we learn that a rain shadow is a trick of climate and geography, whereby one side of a mountain may be “drenched and verdant, a riot of green” while the other is “barren slope.” In the masterful hands of former Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, this image becomes the perfect metaphor for life, and the organizing principle undergirding the three sections of this perfectly composed volume.

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Fire in the Water As war correspondent Paddy Quinn travels to cover the funeral of President Lincoln, the boat he is traveling on, the steamboat Sultana, stops to take on 2,000 sick and ragged survivors of Andersonville Prison Camp. While he is interviewing them about life in the notorious prison, the Sultana explodes and Quinn is blown overboard with one of the veterans. In the worst night of his life, Quinn proves himself a better man than he had ever imagined he could be. James Alexander Thom is the award-winning author of eight novels. He lives in the Indiana hill country with his wife, Dark Rain of the Shawnee Nation, United Remnant Band.

JUAN F. THOMPSON

Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson An intimate, close-up portrait of not only Hunter S. Thompson the man, but more pointedly of the father — the alcoholic, drug fueled, charismatic, irresponsible, idealistic, sensitive man — by the son who lived through it all and thrived to tell the dangerous, complex, loving tale. Thompson, who now lives in Denver, recounts the 41 fraught years he and his father spent together; of how far they ricocheted away from each other, and of how they found their way back before it was too late.

KRISTIN O’DONNELL TUBB

C. ROBERT & VICTORIA A. ULLRICH

Germans in Louisville: A History The first German immigrants arrived in Louisville nearly 200 years ago, and by 1850 they represented nearly 20 percent of the population. The Ullriches, fourth-generation German Americans themselves, have edited a collection of illustrations, pictures, and essays about German immigrants and their fascinating past in the Derby City. Net proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to immigrant and refugee resettlement agencies in Louisville.

J. D. VANCE

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.

“It’s an important book, especially for those concerned about the social and economic disintegration among what used to be called the working class...” — Paul Prather, Lexington Herald-Leader. J. D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He is a Marine veteran, a graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, and a principal at an investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.

(writing as E. F. Abbott) John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy Determined to fight for his country, nine-year-old John Lincoln Clem sneaks onto a train filled with men from the 3rd Ohio Union Regiment in 1861. Taken in by the older soldiers, Johnny becomes a drummer boy, and later, takes up his own musket. As the war rages on, Johnny experiences the brutalities of battle as well as the rampant illness and gnawing hunger in between. But the most dangerous part of Johnny’s journey is yet to come. E. F. Abbott is a pseudonym for Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, author of Selling Hope and The 13th Sign. She and her family live in Tennessee.

MARGARET VERBLE

E. CAROLYN TUCKER

MARSHA WALKER

House of Doors: Surviving Love in the Rural South Inspired by a desire to speak for child abuse victims, Dr. Tucker presents a collection of stories that play out in the often “good ol’ boy” culture of the rural south. Written from the perspective of “Katie,” the stories follow her journey in coping with, surviving, and ultimately triumphing over “love” expressed as manipulation and abuse, until she eventually learns how to put the pieces of her shattered self back together.

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Maud’s Line In this 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, 18-year-old Maud Nail lives on one of the allotments parceled out by the U. S. Government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated.

Maud’s days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures but often marked by violence and tragedy. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a newcomer with good looks and books rides down her section line, she takes notice. Margaret Verble is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Maud’s Line is set on her family’s Indian Allotment land.

She lives in Lexington.

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Walker’s collection of short stories traces the life of Amy Pritchett from her beginnings in a small, industrial town in eastern Kentucky to a tough Philadelphia neighborhood. Ashland native Marsha Walker holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana and an MFA in film from Temple University.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 Authors FRANK X WALKER

JIM WAYNE

MARYJEAN WALL

ALLAN WEISS

Affrilachian Sonnets As the Affrilachian Poets celebrate their 25th anniversary, Frank X Walker’s newest book of poems wraps us in a lyrical kudzu, revealing the simultaneous virtue and turpitude of the region. This heartfelt collection is imbued with an honesty drawn from familial and community breaches and bonds, and it reaffirms a powerful legacy in the midst of an ominous reality. Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker is a professor at the University of Kentucky, co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, and author of six collections of poetry.

Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel In this revealing book, Wall offers a tantalizing true story of vice and power in the Gilded Age South, as told through the life and times of the notorious Miss Belle. Following Brezing from her birth amid the ruins of the Civil War to the height of her scarlet fame and beyond, Wall uses her story to explore a wider world of sex, business, politics, and power. Maryjean Wall served as the turf writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader for 25 years. The author of How Kentucky Became Southern, she holds a doctorate and is an instructor in the department of history at the University of Kentucky.

TOM WALLACE

University of Kentucky Basketball Encyclopedia Sports writer and editor Tom Wallace presents this newly revised edition of the University of Kentucky Basketball Encyclopedia, the most comprehensive book ever assembled on the history of this extraordinary team, its players, coaches, and eight NCAA championships — a must-have for any Kentucky fan!

J. R. WARD

The Angels’ Share (The Bourbon Kings, #2) New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series, a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a facade of privilege and prosperity, while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation. J. R. Ward is the author of more than 20 previous novels, including those in her #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood. She lives in Louisville.

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The Unfinished Man The scholarly and unsociable Father Justin Zapp has positioned himself within the church in a situation that allows him to pursue scholarly work, but his capacity for human interaction is severely limited. When news comes to Father Zapp of current sexual abuse within his diocese, he must come to terms with his own sexual abuse to protect his innocent flock from the same.

Rep. Jim Wayne is a theologian and practicing psychotherapist who earned his MFA in fiction from Spalding University. As a state representative in Kentucky, he worked to tighten the reporting requirements and penalties for sexual abuse of minors.

Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture Kentucky by Design offers the first comprehensive examination of the objects from the Bluegrass state featured in the Index of American Design, part of the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and 1940s. It showcases a wide array of offerings, including architecture, furniture, ceramics, musical instruments, textiles, clothing, and glass- and metalworks — a lavish exploration of the Commonwealth’s distinctive contribution to American culture and modern design.

JOY CHRISMAN WELCH

The Road Builders Carrie Baxter is five years old, living with her parents in Kentucky when the roads that connect her life are destroyed by global disasters; her family, like so many others, is separated as people rush to escape the terror that remains. Years later, the protected haven her grandparents shaped for her in Stears Branch is shaken again, by a 19-year-old boy who comes barreling into their secluded valley in his yellow El Camino. Joy Chrisman Welch holds a master of arts degree in creative writing from Eastern Kentucky University. She lives with her husband in Lexington.

MARJORY WENTWORTH

We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel On June 17, 2015, a young man opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth, with co-authors Herb Frazier and Bernard Powers Jr., not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel AME church and the wider denominational movement.

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Hillbilly Jim: The Incredible Story of a Wrestling Superstar Gary West tells the true story of “Hillbilly” Jim Morris, from his humble beginnings in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his glory days as one of the most loveable characters in the WWF, and on to his current gig as the host of Hillbilly Jim’s Moonshine Matinee on SiriusXM Radio.

ALECIA WHITAKER

The Way Back Home (Wildflower, #3) Music sensation Bird Barrett is hitting the road, headlining her first national tour. Her older brother, Dylan, and her best friend, Stella, are along for the ride to keep her grounded.

When Dylan and Stella pair off as more than friends, Bird throws all of her energy into her performances and celebrity life. But the constant distractions push everyone away-including her longtime crush, Adam Dean. Alecia Whitaker grew up on a small farm in Cynthiana. She is the author of The Queen of Kentucky and the Wildflower series, as well as an actress. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and three children.

MARK WILKERSON

Tomas Young’s War Louisville author and U. S. Army veteran Mark Wilkerson tells the tragic yet life-affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last 10 years battling with his injuries while courageously speaking against America’s wars. Based on hours of interviews, the book puts the reader alongside Young as he struggles with life as a paralyzed veteran, his fight to balance his precarious health with his drive to speak out for veterans care and against the war, and the impact his injuries had on his family and his relationships.

CRYSTAL WILKINSON

The Birds of Opulence A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in the bucolic southern black township of Opulence as they live with, and sometimes surrender to, madness. Crystal Wilkinson is an award-winning author, and writing instructor at Berea College and the MFA program at Spalding University. She and her partner Ron Davis own and operate The Wild Fig Bookstore in Lexington.

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UNCORKED! Kentucky Sports Legend Corky Withrow UNCORKED! is the true story of Corky Withrow of Central City, one of the greatest high school basketball players in Kentucky, and baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Williams details Corky’s time on the basketball court and his time in professional baseball, including his struggles in the minor leagues and playing alongside Stan Musial, and gives readers an appreciation for the hard work and raw talent of one of Kentucky’s best athletes.

MICHAEL WITWER

Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons Michael Witwer is a lifelong gamer and gaming enthusiast. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, where this book first emerged as the subject of his thesis. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive biography of geek and gaming culture’s mythic icon, Gary Gygax, and the complete story behind his invention of Dungeons and Dragons.

BEN WOODARD

Whispers of Trees An ancient forest, a dark night, a strange woman — and whispers. A young boy enlists the help of a bent, gnarled woman to find his lost brother and enters an eerie Irish forest where his life is changed by the whisper of trees. Ben Woodard grew up to write the kind of adventure stories he remembered — adventures that inspire and educate, and most of all, entertain. He lives in Lexington.

EDMUND ZIMMERER

Amphibians and Reptiles of Land Between the Lakes Zimmerer, professor emeritus of biology at Murray State University, presents a detailed guide to the salamanders, frogs, toads, turtles, lizards, and snakes found in the unique ecosystem of Land Between the Lakes. Professional and backyard naturalists alike will find an indispensable resource for understanding these fascinating creatures.

JEREME ZIMMERMAN

Make Mead Like a Viking: Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermented, Honey-Based Wines and Beers Zimmerman presents readers with a cultural manifesto in which he discusses the wild mead movement, outlining the importance of making mead (honey wine) from local, raw honey and natural, organic ingredients. Grounded in history and mythology, but focused on modern self-sufficiency, Zimmerman unlocks the brewing secrets of the ancient Norse and shows how to bring a sense of wildness, mysticism, and individuality to home-crafted brews.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 KBF Kids Day 6th Annual KBF Kids Day Reaches Capacity Quickly

Kids Day for 3rd-8th Grades

The 2016 KBF Kids Day includes tracks for school groups to follow plus all sessions will take place inside the Frankfort Convention Center on Friday, November 4, 2016. Registration for this free event opened August 1st and reached capacity before the end of August for the groups in grades 3-8. There is an exciting line-up of presentations offered to the more than 500 students attending this free event.

Students will meet more than 45 authors and participate in presentations by several of them. All Children and Young Adult authors will also be available on Saturday, November 5th from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the 35th Annual Kentucky Book Fair to meet the general public and sign books.

New to KBF Kids Day: Master Class for High School Students

More than 300 high school students will participate in a “Master Class” presented by Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist Maria Henson, formerly a Lexington Herald-Leader reporter. Based upon the journalism class she currently teaches at Wake Forest University called Is It Journalism? How Do You Know? the students will have the opportunity to explore issues related to news literacy, research, developing, and executing a news story, etc. Professor Henson will also discuss her processes in researching, developing, and executing the series that eventually brought her to the attention and acclaim of the Pulitzer Prize.

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KBF Kids Day is an active and fun-filled educational experience for students in grades 3-8. Students will enjoy a full day of interactive activities with authors, as well as time for lunch and book shopping. Working with our children, young adult, and even some adult authors, we’ve developed five unique age-appropriate tracks that feature programs on a wide variety of topics.

Authors scheduled to present on Kids Day: Mike Norris & Minnie Adkins Mountain Mother Goose: Kentucky in Arts, Language, and Song Nancy Kelly Allen Kiss Your Brain! The Ideas Behind Books Crystal Bradshaw Finding Eliza: Writing Your Roots Roberta Simpson Brown Ghost Stories Debbie Dadey Mermaid (and Zombie and Seahorse) Tales Amanda Driscoll Double Duty: Writing and Illustrating a Book Kristen Heimerl StreetStories: Artful Story Crafting for Kids Heather Henson Digging for Inspiration: Unearthing the Unsung Heroes of Kentucky A. Y. Hodge Creating Quirky Creatures Mary Knight Words are Your Super Power Lucas & Sophia McWilliams You Just Write!

Gail Nall What’s in the Trash?

Eddie Price How to Develop a Children’s Book Lois Sepahban Manami’s Mementos: Artifacts from Paper Wishes Ellen Skidmore Getting Words Out with Art Kristin Tubb Everyone’s a Writer Alecia Whitaker Stories from the Sidewalk Ben Woodard What is a Story?

Dr. Edmund Zimmerer Slithery Citizens of Land Between the Lakes

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR 2016 KBF Kids Day Sixteen Schools Awarded Transportation Grants to Attend KBF Kids Day

Schools in 16 Kentucky districts have been provided transportation grants to attend the 6th Annual KBF Kids Day. This is the fifth year travel grants have been offered to schools in order to provide financial assistance to make it possible to transport students to this free educational event.

Transportation grants were awarded to the following schools: • Dry Ridge Elementary School, Grant County • Owsley County Elementary School, Owsley County • Jackson Independent School, Jackson County • Stanford Elementary School, Lincoln County • Mount Sterling Elementary School, Montgomery County • Clinton County Gifted & Talented Program, Clinton County • Meadow Lands Elementary School, Daviess County • Owen County Elementary/Middle School, Owen County • Beaver Creek Elementary School, Knott County • Niagara Elementary School, Henderson County • Franklin County Gifted & Talented Program, Franklin County • Dawson Springs Jr. & Sr. High Schools, Hopkins County • Henry County High School, Henry County • Pleasure Ridge Park High School, Jefferson County • Pikeville High School, Pike County • West Carter High School, Carter County In addition to the schools receiving travel grants, students and teachers from three other schools will be attending the KBF Kids Day: Walton-Verona Middle School, Wolfpack Christian Academy, and Bridgeport Elementary School.

“Kids Day continues to be an exciting part of the annual Kentucky Book Fair,” said Judith Gibbons, KBF Grants Chair. “We are thrilled with the addition of Maria Henson’s presentation for the high schoolers. We are also very grateful that Graviss McDonalds’s Restaurants continues to assist with the transportation grants.” Other grants came from proceeds from the 2015 Kentucky Book Fair.

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7th Annual KBF Kids Day Friday, November 10th

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PULITZER CENTENNIAL Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence in Journalism and the Arts This program is part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative, a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Councils in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the Prizes. The initiative seeks to illuminate the impact of journalism and the humanities on American life today, to imagine their future and to inspire new generations to consider the values represented by the body of Pulitzer Prize-winning work.

For their generous support for the Campfires Initiative, we thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Pulitzer Prizes Board, and Columbia University.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a news organization’s staff. Nominated Finalists are selected by the Nominating Juries for each category as finalists in the competition. The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category. The names of nominated finalists have been announced only since 1980. Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an “entry” or “submission.”

he iconic Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal is awarded each year to the American news organization that wins the Public Service category (one of the 21 Pulitzer categories). It is never awarded to an individual.

One side of the medal displays the profile of Benjamin Franklin. Decorating the other side is a husky, bare-chested printer at work, his shirt draped across the end of a press. Surrounding the printer are the words: “For disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year….”

The name of the winning news organization is inscribed on the Franklin side of the medal. The year of the award is memorialized on the other side.

The medal, about two and three-quarter inches in diameter and a quarter-inch thick, is not solid gold. It is silver with 24-carat gold plate and presented to the winning newspaper in an elegant cherry-wood box with brass hardware. Individual Pulitzer Prize winners receive a $10,000 cash award and certificate.

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ormal announcement of the Prizes occurs each April. The awards are made public by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The Pulitzer Prizes are usually awarded at a luncheon in late May, about a month after the names of the winners have been announced. During the Centennial, the awards will be given at a dinner in October.

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ulitzer Prizes are awarded by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. This formulation is derived from Joseph Pulitzer’s last will and testament, which established Columbia as the seat of the administration of the prizes. In his will Pulitzer bestowed an endowment on Columbia of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a School of Journalism, one-fourth of which was to be “applied to prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public service, public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education.”

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n the latter years of the 19th century, Joseph Pulitzer stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism. Hungarian-born, an intense, indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skillful of newspaper publishers, a passionate crusader against dishonest government, a fierce, hawk-like competitor who did not shrink from sensationalism in circulation struggles, and a visionary who richly endowed his profession.

His innovative New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reshaped newspaper journalism. Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism.

Pulitzer made provision for broad changes in the system of awards. He established an overseer advisory board.

He also empowered the board to withhold any award where entries fell below its standards of excellence.

he first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 under the supervision of the advisory board to which Joseph Pulitzer had entrusted his mandate. Pulitzer envisioned an advisory board composed principally of newspaper publishers.

Others would include the president of Columbia University, scholars, and “persons of distinction who are not journalists or editors.” Today, the 19-member board is composed mainly of leading editors or news executives. Four academics also serve, including the president of Columbia University and the dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. The dean and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member. The board is self-perpetuating in the election of members. Voting members may serve three terms of three years. In the selection of the members of the board and of the juries, close attention is given to professional excellence and affiliation, as well as diversity in terms of gender, ethnic background, geographical distribution and size of newspaper.

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PULITZER CENTENNIAL Passion and Principle in a High-Stakes Debate Over...Poetry A snail-mail debate gave three Pulitzer Prize-winning poets time to dig in their heels over who should win the 1967 Poetry Prize. The drama lasted right up until the final curtain.

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he Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 1967 might easily have been awarded to the Pulitzer Prize jury in Poetry. The jurors deadlocked over a perennial issue: Should dead writers be eligible for the prize? They clashed over which books were worthy. And they failed to reach a unanimous decision on a winner, leading Barry Bingham Sr., a member of the Pulitzer Advisory Board, to intervene.

The three jurors, all Pulitzer Prize winners in Poetry, were Phyllis McGinley, 61 (1960), Louis Simpson, 44 (1964) and Richard Eberhart, 62 (1966).

Other characters in the drama were John Hohenberg, secretary of the Pulitzer Advisory Board, and Bingham, the board member, who was editor-in-chief and president of The Louisville Courier-Journal.

The drama unfolded long before texting and email, but a three-way phone conversation was possible — and even suggested early in the process. But, in part because of Eberhart’s two-week holiday trip to Switzerland, Hohenberg’s December 31 deadline for a nomination passed before the plot was even joined.

Although all the jurors argued for other poets, three main contenders for the prize emerged: Theodore Roethke’s posthumous Collected Poems, Anne Sexton’s Live or Die and Sylvia Plath’s posthumous Ariel.

Here, in key excerpts of their correspondence, is how the script played out by U. S. mail.

December 2, 1966, John Hohenberg to Richard Eberhart Because the members of the Pulitzer Poetry Jury are so widely separated, we would like you to serve as chairman to present the final report to the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer Prizes.

The methods you adopt to arrive at an agreed verdict are up to you ...

So far as I know, in the 50 years of the Pulitzer Prizes, the selection of the Poetry winner has been unanimous with only one exception – and in that case the Advisory Board chose to uphold the Chairman. I would hope that three Pulitzer Prize-winning poets would make a decision, out of their expert knowledge, which I am sure the Advisory Board would be glad to adopt. I have never known of a Poetry Jury’s being reversed — and cannot conceive of a circumstance in which it could happen.

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December 8, 1966, Hohenberg to Eberhart The other two jurors, by now, have received copies of my letter to you. ...

Naturally we’d appreciate receipt of your report before December 31; in any event, please try to get it to us as soon as possible after that date.

January 6, 1967, Eberhart (just back from a two-week vacation in Switzerland) to Phyllis McGinley and Louis Simpson May I suggest that you each send me your vote or votes, with any comments. ... We can then have free exchange of views hopefully to achieve the best decision. This is my first experience of having to do all this by letter.

January 11, 1967, McGinley to Eberhart I have a suggestion: Columbia [University] has told me that they would pay any phone or travel expenses for us, and I think it would be splendid if we could set up a three-cornered telephone conversation at some specified time. The telephone company is happy to set up such a “conference” and has the facilities. Almost any time except the weekend would do for me.

As for my choices, of a book of poetry — well, it seems to me that the Roethke Collected Poems is so much better than any other on the list that the rest dwindle away. (Whether he’s legal, however, I don’t know, since besides being a posthumous book it is also a re-publication of all the other books.)

Then, I very much like (if I have to make other choices) Anne Sexton’s Live or Die, quite enjoyed Philip Booth, think Plath’s Ariel has excitement even though I do not consider it the masterpiece the reviewers — carried away, no doubt, by her frenetic life — have called it.

January 14, 1967, Eberhart to McGinley I am opposed to giving it to [Roethke] posthumously on principle. ...

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Phil Booth’s book is admirable. I am on record on his jacket and am strongly for him.

His election would constitute a sound literary judgment for a man his age [41]. ...

Anne Sexton’s book is the best of her so far for me. I read it with keen interest, yet had a reaction later that in almost every poem she tells us how crazy she is and that this not only becomes monotonous but becomes incredible. Thus later I felt less of it than at first.

January 17, 1967, Simpson to Eberhart As I understand it, the prize is to be given to the best book published during the year, regardless of whether the author is dead, and disregarding — which is sometimes not easy to do — his reputation. On this principle therefore, I have no hesitation in recommending Theodore Roethke’s Collected Poems for the prize. I am delighted to see that Phyllis is of the same opinion. I agree with Phyllis that this book is superior to all the others. ...

My second choice — that is, to echo Phyllis, “If I had to make other choices” — is Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. ... The book is original in its use of images and has unusual intensity. I prefer her work to Sexton’s for these reasons; Sexton, who is also confessional, does not improve with time.

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January 22, 1967, Eberhart to Simpson This particular prize, which one thinks of in terms of others, should not go to the dead but praise the living. This is especially true in Roethke’s case inasmuch as he won every (or practically every) prize while living so it seems redundant to me to add another. If we had to decide between Plath and Roethke as dead poets, it would be more meaningful for us to credit Plath, although Roethke’s work is more significant than hers. ...

Trying to think of absolute values the best book of poetry published last year was Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in its original form, published by the new Eakins Press in New York. ... However, it was not entered on our list for understandable reasons, yet on absolute values I would vote for Walt.

January 27, 1967, Simpson to Eberhart Your arguments are reasonable. Roethke died in 1963 and he has had the prize before. ... I don’t think it is fair to compare his book to Whitman’s, who died in 1892. But if Phyllis agrees with your reasons for not wishing to give the prize to Roethke, I am willing to go along.

However, a very serious question arises out of your “principle of dead poets.” ...

When it is applied to Plath a large injustice appears. It seems that poets who die young are not to receive recognition and that poets who live to a great age will be rewarded.

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PULITZER CENTENNIAL The Medal — Pulitzer’s Gold This strikes me as giving prizes for longevity, not poetry. I think that principles are fine except when they do not work.

Plath’s book is very much alive in the mind of the public; I do not think that it is reasonable to eliminate her because she had the misfortune to die.

February 1, 1867, McGinley to Eberhart I am afraid I am still backing Roethke.

I cannot get around the fact that his poetry is so much better than the rest that the others tend to disappear. (And after all, it is a book we are supposed to give the prize to, rather than a man.) ...

I still like Sexton and Plath. But I am coming around to Mr. Simpson’s side. Both women are neurotics and their poetry is based on the fact. But except for one wonderful poem in Live or Die (“Pain for a Daughter”), I begin to think Plath’s Ariel has more passion and excitement than Sexton’s book.

Do I seem obstinate? I don’t mean to appear so. I just think Roethke’s verse demonstrates the enchantments and delights that poetry ought to own and so seldom, these intellectual days, really possesses.

February 5, 1967, Eberhart to McGinley and Simpson On further thought I feel stronger against giving the prize to Roethke than I did before. I do not feel the prize will best be bestowed on a dead poet. ... Rather than representing in your view the best book of last year it is a multibook none of it written after 1963 and much of it going back many years. Other prizes are more suited to the life-effort concept. ...

Please send me by return mail two lists. The first is your list of dead poets, first and second. The second is your list of living poets, first, second and third.

February 11, 1967, McGinley to Eberhart I have been giving long and serious thought to your request for two lists — one of dead poets, one of those alive at the moment. And I find I am unable to compile such a list. ...

I have come to the conclusion that I have no other choice than Roethke. Everything else seems pale, contrived or academic by comparison.

So I’ll just have to go on record as an unregenerate one-woman enthusiast.

If you and Mr. Simpson overrule me I shall, of course, accept your choice gracefully. After all, I lay no claim to infallibility — only to an overwhelming feeling that this is a kind of classic and, whether its author is quick or dead, the book ought to receive the prize.

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February 14, 1967, Simpson to Eberhart It seems that we have come to an impasse. I am sorry about this.

I see that Phyllis wants to give the Prize to Roethke. So do I. You, on the other hand, feel that the Prize should go to someone who is alive at this moment. ...

In order to simplify matters I am simply going to cast my vote for Theodore Roethke. The rest is up to you.

February 25, 1967, Eberhart to McGinley (similar letter sent to Simpson) Your and Louis’ votes for Roethke make it two to one for him, a majority. I was left with putting in a minority report and plea for giving it to the living rather than the dead, analyzing how we felt about the main living contenders, also Plath, and sending the Advisory Board all relevant documents.

Whatever their decision is will be all right with me as I assume it will be with you and I thank you both for the pleasure of serving with you on the Pulitzer board this year.

February 25, 1967, Eberhart to Pulitzer Advisory Board [After a long, detailed account of the jury’s deliberations.]

It has been my pleasure to serve you and I regret that I could not turn in a unanimous decision ...

I should like to make three suggestions for the future.

First, I feel that by some wording you should rule out posthumous prizes in all fields, except in rare cases. There could be a case, as in an O’Neill year in drama when there was no other book worthy of the prize, but that is not the case this year in poetry, and conceivably might not happen again.* Second, in future the poetry jury should meet on person in January, no matter what the cost of transportation.

Third, I think you should raise the poetry prize from $500.00 to some figure appropriate for a major literary prize, now and in the future. [*Eugene O’Neill was awarded the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Long Day’s Journey into Night. He had died in 1953. O’Neill wrote the play in 1941-42, but it was not published or publicly performed until 1956.]

March 24, 1967, Barry Bingham of the Pulitzer Advisory Board to John Hohenberg As you know, I have been concerned about the matter of the jury’s recommendation for this year’s Pulitzer award in poetry. ...

I felt that I would like to make one more try to obtain a recommendation from the jury. ... I indicated to [Richard Eberhart] that the members of the Advisory Board

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Mr. Eberhard [sic] undertook to consult further with the other two jurors, Phyllis McGinley and Louis Simpson. He called back the following day to say that they had held a

three-way conference call, and had come up with a unanimous recommendation for Anne Sexton, for her collection Live or Die. Postscript: Sexton killed herself in 1974. Fifteen years after the 1967 Poetry debate, The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, who had killed herself in 1963 at the age of 30, was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize. The Poetry jury that year called publication of the book “an extraordinary literary event.”

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PULITZER CENTENNIAL 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners Journalism Public Service

Associated Press For an investigation of severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.

Breaking News Reporting

Los Angeles Times Staff For exceptional reporting, including both local and global perspectives, on the shooting in San Bernardino and the terror investigation that followed.

Investigative Reporting

Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune For a stellar example of collaborative reporting by two news organizations that revealed escalating violence and neglect in Florida mental hospitals and laid the blame at the door of state officials.

Explanatory Reporting

T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project For a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement’s enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims.

Local Reporting

Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of Tampa Bay Times For exposing a local school board’s culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic consequences for the community.

National Reporting

The Washington Post Staff For its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be.

International Reporting

Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times For thoroughly reported and movingly written accounts giving voice to Afghan women who were forced to endure unspeakable cruelties.

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Feature Writing

Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker For an elegant scientific narrative of the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line, a masterwork of environmental reporting and writing.

Commentary

Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe For extensively reported columns that probe the legacy of busing in Boston and its effect on education in the city with a clear eye on ongoing racial contradictions.

Criticism

Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker For television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing.

Editorial Writing

John Hackworth and Brian Gleason of Sun Newspapers, Charlotte Harbor, FL For fierce, indignant editorials that demanded truth and change after the deadly assault of an inmate by corrections officers.

Editorial Cartooning

Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee For cartoons that convey wry, rueful perspectives through sophisticated style that combines bold line work with subtle colors and textures.

Breaking News Photography

Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times For photographs that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the struggle of host countries to take them in.

Photography Staff of Reuters For gripping photographs, each with its own voice, that follow migrant refugees hundreds of miles across uncertain boundaries to unknown destinations.

Feature Photography

Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe For the raw and revealing photographic story of a boy who strives to find his footing after abuse by those he trusted.

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PULITZER CENTENNIAL 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners Letters, Drama & Music Fiction

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press) A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a “man of two minds” — and two countries, Vietnam and the United States.

Drama

Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible.

History

Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,

by T. J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf) A rich and surprising new telling of the journey of the iconic American soldier whose death turns out not to have been the main point of his life.

Biography or Autobiography

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan (Penguin Press) A finely crafted memoir of a youthful obsession that has propelled the author through a distinguished writing career.

Poetry

Ozone Journal, by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press) Poems that bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.

General Nonfiction

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick (Doubleday) A deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State.

Music

In for a Penny, In for a Pound, by Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings) Recording released on May 26, 2015 by Zooid, a highly original work in which notated music and improvisation mesh in a sonic tapestry that seems the very expression of modern American life.

2015-2016 Pulitzer Prize Board. Front row left to right: Junot Díaz, Robert Blau, Keven Ann Willey, Paul Gigot, Mike Pride, Joyce Dehli, Gail Collins. Back row left to right: Neil Brown, Katherine Boo, John Daniszewski, Randell Beck, Eugene Robinson, Stephen Engelberg, Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, Tommie Shelby, Steven Hahn, Steve Coll. Not pictured: Lee C. Bollinger.

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PULITZER CENTENNIAL Experiencing the Meaning of Journalism

By Maria Henson

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ant a newspaper reprint with your barbecue sandwich? How’s that for a message near the capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, at Scotty’s Pink Pig restaurant?

I know the grim news about what we do, but I’m going to throw my lot with the optimists in large part because of my experience in Kentucky and a woman named Clayton Bradley. She read a series of investigative editorials I wrote for the Lexington Herald-Leader about how certain judges, prosecutors and police officers had failed to protect battered women and their children. Turns out that one of the women I featured — by name and ghastly emergency-room photo — was the daughter of Clayton’s friends from church. Until she saw the editorials, Clayton thought this young woman had been in an accident. When she learned that a boyfriend pummeled the young woman and that the law didn’t offer the same relief to girlfriends as it did married women, Clayton got angry, and she got active.

She asked for a stack of series’ reprints, put them on the front counter at her restaurant, and distributed them with barbecue. She posted a sign instructing diners to tell legislators to support domestic violence legislation; she even included the number for the Capitol switchboard. Across partisan lines, she and others around the state were relentless in their advocacy. As a result, the legislature — among the last in the country to define marital rape as a crime and with a member who publicly worried about such legislation causing “vengeful women” to come out of the woodwork — experienced a curious conversion and passed every domestic violence reform proposed with hardly a whisper of dissent.

Witness the privilege of practicing journalism and the power of citizens to push for change.

Can journalism survive in this age of punditry and attitude? Of course it can. Here I’m speaking of journalism: Its business model is another matter entirely and, at the moment, lends little cause for optimism. Our roots lie in unruly partisan newspapering, from the nasty jousting of the Republican vs. Federalist press in our country’s earliest days.

Surely, the anarchic, chaotic fireworks of talk show shouting, Internet blogging, and 24/7 “news you can choose,” as a National Journal writer put it, are our modern-day version of rowdy pamphleteering.

What concerns me more is the state of the citizenry. Before I left the Austin American-Statesman last summer, I was editing an ongoing project called “The Great Divide,” in which reporter Bill Bishop and statistician Robert Cushing analyzed voting and demographic patterns since World War II. They found that during the past 30 years, we have sorted

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ourselves into politically homogenized, no-compromise clusters, where we talk to like-minded people and limit our intake of dissenting views.

By 2000 about half of the nation’s voters lived in counties where one party won the presidential election by 20 percentage points or more.

This worries me. If citizens are looking only for news that affirms their point of view and don’t live in places where there is an exchange of ideas, democracy is weakened and people get angrier about politics and institutions. Compromise becomes a sign of defeat. The individual is extreme and supreme, and the common good seems passé. Our work as journalists is based on a particular view of citizens: that they care about their rights, the conduct of their government, their role in governing — that they care about the country as a whole. No matter the period in history, journalism in a democratic society has a continuous duty to offer information that is accurate, rich in context and history, balanced and able to withstand peer review.

The question for us is whether citizens will want it.

There will always be a need for “real news,” which Bill Moyers observed has been defined by Richard Reeves as “the news you and I need to keep our freedoms.” I’m counting on people like Clayton to have an appetite for that kind of news and the ability to distinguish between punditry and journalism and on a country where the common good again counts for something. The top-down method of deciding and delivering news is distasteful to many today, but it’s also true that in a world where information bombards us a journalist can be a useful guide in making sense of this world, exposing abuses and injustices that might rile a citizen to act. I’m counting as well on individual journalists to see journalism as a calling that requires one to report with depth and rigor, not just to rant.

This article was originally published in Nieman Reports, Winter, 2004.

Maria Henson, journalism lecturer, associate vice president, and editor-at-large of Wake Forest Magazine, won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for her series about battered women in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

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Joel Pett was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Pett has worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 1984.

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KENTUCKY BOOK FAIR Other Important Information My Morning Coffee & Newspaper

Where: Frankfort Convention Center Plaza When: 8 a.m. – 9 a.m.

Can’t wait to get your morning java jolt and newspaper to start your day? Come early to the KBF for My Morning Coffee & Newspaper. This event will be on the Plaza of the Frankfort Convention Center. Thanks to a grant from the Pulitzer Prizes Foundation, Nate’s Coffee will be providing one free cup of coffee each to any and all patrons between 8 and 9 a.m. There will be outdoor seating available as well as copies of the Courier Journal, State Journal, and Lexington Herald-Leader for you to read before the doors open to the Book Fair. In case of rain? Bring an umbrella!

New to the KBF: Food Trucks on the Plaza

Where: Frankfort Convention Center Plaza When: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

This year we are test-driving the concept of food trucks on the Plaza. We hope that this addition proves to be something that patrons of the Kentucky Book Fair enjoy.

This year’s vendors include:

Book Fair Parking

Free parking for the Kentucky 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 locations are convenient to the Frankfort Convention Center.

Price List

The 2016 Kentucky Book Fair price list is available at kyhumanities.org. You can also pick one up at the Frankfort Convention Center on the day of the Book Fair at the Information Desk.

Sponsors

The 35th Annual Kentucky Book Fair is supported by these generous sponsors: Presenting Sponsor Blue -- Pantone 2945C C-100 M-70 Y-17 K-3 R-0 G-83 B-1159

Media Partner Please note: No food or beverages will be allowed on the arena floor or upper concourse, however, you may eat and drink in the seats throughout the building. We ask that you kindly use the trash and recycling receptacles provided. There will also be picnic tables on the Plaza if the weather cooperates.

Vendors

Kentucky Monthly University Press of Kentucky Butler Books BiblioRemedy Larkspur Press Kentucky Humanities Council Friends of Kentucky Libraries

Official Bookseller

Gold Sponsor

Supporting Sponsors Ad-Venture Promotions Brown-Forman Franklin County Democratic Party Graviss McDonald’s Restaurants Rory Harris

Thank you to the many volunteers who helped make this event possible.

We are grateful for your participation in the 2016 Kentucky Book Fair!

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