In The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler provide a reader-friendly handbook featuring more than 100 recipes including seasonal drinks, after-dinner bourbon cocktails, Derby cocktails, and even medicinal toddies. (more…)

In The Last of His Mind: A Year in the shadow of Alzheimer’s, the reader is allowed to share the painful and touching journey of caring for a parent struggling with Alzheimer’s.  Although the books ends, the story does not – you can find poignant and informative posts from John concerning developments in Alzheimer’s research and treatment, mingled with memories of his father, on his blog.

Click below to listen to Tricia Springstubb talk about What Really Happened on Fox Street!

Podcast- What Happened on Fox Street

After years of waiting, it is finally Libby Ryan’s turn to shine at the Practical County Fair. Libby is filled with excitement as she and her granddad pick out two calves for her to raise on her family’s cattle farm, in hopes of winning the annual steer competition. Against her father’s advice, Libby gives the calves names, even though both steers will eventually be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

What’s the big deal?  She’s lived on a cattle farm forever.  But, after a few months of preparing for the Practical County Fair, Libby finds that she is becoming more and more attached to her steers.  When Libby’s mother convinces her to enter the Beef Princess pageant, Libby realizes that she’ll have to face off against the dreaded Darling sisters.  Suddenly, everything related to the Practical County Fair feels like a big deal. 

The Beef Princess of Practical County is a refreshing tale that rural readers and their urban cousins alike will enjoy!

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there’s no delete button. She’s the smartest kid in her whole school—but NO ONE knows it.

Most people—her teachers and doctors included—don’t think she’s capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows. But she can’t. She can’t talk. She can’t walk. She can’t write.

Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind—that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.

From multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Sharon M. Draper comes a story full of heartache and hope. Get ready to meet a girl whose voice you’ll never, ever forget.