Ananta Ripa Ajmera The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self Cultivate inner wisdom and strength through simple, sacred rituals from the ancient Indian goddess tradition. In our chaotic and isolating times, it’s...
Emily S. Bingham My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song The long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing...
Patricia Bryan The Plea THE PLEA tells the story of Wesley Elkins, a young boy, who was sentenced to life in an adult prison for the murders of his abusive father and stepmother. The crime occurred in Iowa in 1889. Wesley was only eleven years old at the time of his...
Kevin Cook House of Champions: The Story of Kentucky Basketball’s Home Courts The stories and accounts of Kentucky basketball’s players, iconic coaches, and epic games have been told and retold, but lesser known are the stories of the arenas and venues that have...
Roger Givens A History of Woodbury, Kentucky: A Once Thriving Riverboat Town Hungry, mouthwatering Mike can’t wait to get home and eat his favorite dessert. Although he’s ready to devour the warm sweet brownies, Mike’s mom tries to teach him patience...
Oliva Hill Travel North Black Girl Standing on the Cordova dock looking out at the ocean, I knew I was not in Kansas City anymore. As a black woman, I had rarely been past the invisible racial line of the Troost corridor in Kansas City. Going to a small, indigenous...
Jason Howard A Few Honest Words In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree–a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised thoroughbred. A Few Honest Words explores how Kentucky’s landscape, culture and...
Erin Keane Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing...
H.H. Leonards Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership is a collection of inspiring and instructive memories compiled from the decade that Mrs. Parks was a guest in author H. H. Leonard’s...
Travis L. Martin War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation In War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation, Travis L. Martin explores how a new generation of veterans is redefining what it means to come home. More than...
Dr. James Paisley Moss My Recovery Companion This book will support you and serve as your companion on the Recovery journey. James P. Moss, M.D. has been on the road to Recovery for the past 25 years. Along the way, he has picked up a treasure trove of timeless wisdom...
Stephen Reily Promise, Witness, Remembrance The New York Times called the Speed Art Museum’s Promise, Witness, Remembrance — centered around artist Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor and originally commissioned by Ta-Nehisi Coates for the cover of...
Wes Swietek The Cemetery Road Murders: The Shocking True Tale of Kentucky’s Murder Mansion Most people who grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky have heard of the so-called Murder Mansion on Cemetery Road. However, many people don’t know the reason it was given that...
Dr. Alicestyne Turley Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad explores the existence of an organized, interracial Underground Railroad freedom network below the Mason-Dixon...
Susan Verde (non-fiction) Say One Kind Thing For readers of Anne Lamott and Glennon Doyle, comes an original essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author and mindfulness expert Susan Verde. Say One Kind Thing emphasizes the power of positive self-talk...
Gary P. West Murder On Youngers Creek Road On January 13, 1975, the enterprising community of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (a few miles from Fort Knox and the gold vault) was rocked with the news that one of their own, Peggy Rhodes-beloved housewife, mother, and...
