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TIM CALLAHAN
Book Title: Come Home, Joe
Book Description:
After four years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Joe Hawkins was released. Traumatized by the events, Joe fled to the mountains of Washington State instead of returning home. Thirty five years later, Joes comes home to Lexington, Kentucky to find his family's farmhouse which now sits in a subdivision. The world is so much different than the one he had left. reluctantly Joe begins to reenter society with the help of 12 year-olds Kevin and Belinda, but will he be able to overcome the war within and accept the love a family offers him?
Over 58,000 Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam War that left a deep scar on this nation and on individual hearts. Join author Tim Callahan in honoring the Vietnam veterans in an inspiring tale of compassion and love.
Author Biography:
Tim Callahan began writing in the summer of 2005 after a visit to his birthplace in Morgan County, Kentucky, sparked an idea for a book. His first book was published in 2007. He found a love in writing that has now created six other novels since then. Tim does school visits in multiple states talking to students about writing and his books. He retired from AT&T in 2009 after a 35 year career in telecommunications.
CHESTER D. CAMPBELL
Book Title: The Good, The Bad and The Murderous
Book Description:
Medicare fraud, drug trafficking, a hired killer, a crooked cop, it's a nightmare scenario PI Sid Chance finds himself in when he takes a tough assignment—prove a young man just out of prison for a murder when he was twelve did not commit a new homicide. Everything is thrown upside down when Jaz LeMieux, the wealthy ex-cop working with him on the case, finds herself accused of a despicable crime, and the evidence is damning. When a hit man comes after Sid, all hell breaks loose.
Author Biography:
The Good, The Bad and The Murderous is the second Sid Chance mystery by Chester Campbell featuring a Nashville PI who is a former Green Beret in Vietnam, National Park ranger, and small town police chief. Also author of five books in the Greg McKenzie PI mystery series, Campbell has pursued writing in various fields for more than 60 years, including newspaper and magazine journalism, advertising, public relations, and political speechwriting An Air Force intelligence officer in the Korean War, he retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. Former secretary of the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and past president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in Crime, he lives in Nashville, TN, where most of his books are set.
G. DENNIS CANTRILL
Book Title: Gray Roads to Grass Roots
Book Description:
Gray Roads To Grass Roots is a travel memoir / semi biographical. In it travel can be much like life , filled with humor , suprises ,happines and sorrow. In Gray Roads to Grass Roots Dennis Cantrill tells a story of a lifetime of travel on the highways and backroads of America. It offers a view of what makes this Country an awesome place to live and tells of many interesting places and people he has run across in his journreys on the gray roads.
Author Biography:
Author G. Dennis Cantril began his writing career after retiring from a career with the USDA. A native of central Kentucky he has pursued three of his life's dreams after retirement by farming , traveling and writing. He and his wife Diane live in the Eden Hills in Anderson County Kentucky. They have five children , eight grandchildren and several critters.
KELLI CARMEAN
Book Title: Creekside: An Archaeological Novel
Book Description:
"Creekside" offers a unique opportunity to engage with an archaeologist in a compelling story. The setting is a Kentucky pasture slated for destruction--the location where the new Creekside housing subdivision will soon stand. And yet, that same beautiful stretch of land was once home to a settler family who crossed Cumberland Gap and built their log cabin beside that very same creek. In alternating chapters with interconnected storylines, "Creekside" tells the tale of one place in two very different times, and one in which dedicated archaeologist Meg Harrington struggles to protect the legacy of the past before bulldozers rip it to shreds.
Author Biography:
Kelli Carmean holds a PhD in anthropology, and has taught archaeology at Eastern Kentucky University since 1993. As an archaeologist, she brings both a unique perspective and uncommon experiences to her fiction. Her goal is to remold her scholarly work in ways that spark curiosity in readers of all kinds, sharing with them not only the joys and challenges of archaeology, but also offering anthropological insight into other times and places.
SHERRY CHANDLER
Book Title: Weaving a New Eden
Book Description:
Kentucky was the New Eden and Rebecca Boone was its Eve. Taking Rebecca as its center, Weaving a New Eden gives voice to a chorus of the women who settled and populated Kentucky over two centuries. These are the women Moses Austin saw in 1798, crossing the Appalachians in dead of winter, "with barely as maney raggs as covers their Nakedness," to find Paradise. These are the descendants of those women, not the plantation belles but the women of the washed-out hill farms, the women of the ruined wilderness of the Ohio Valley. If Earth is a fertile mother and the farmer is her fertilizing husbandman, Weaving a New Eden lets Kentucky’s earthy women rise up and have their say. They are not reverent.
Author Biography:
Sherry Chandler’s first full-length poetry collection, Weaving a New Eden, was released by Wind Publications in March 2011. She has had professional development support from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Chandler’s work is most recently published in Calyx, The William and Mary Review, and The Cortland Review.
EVELYN CHRISTENSEN
Book Title: Coin Clues: Making Change
Book Description:
Cash in on the puzzle fun while mastering the essential skill of learning to make change. COIN CLUES: MAKING CHANGE includes more than 100 challenging puzzles designed to help students become proficient with this skill. Clever clues also build logic and deductive reasoning skills.
To begin, pop out the 'coins' and follow the clues provided for each puzzle. Before putting the coins in the proper order solvers will need to make the correct change with the correct number of coins. The puzzles begin with easy ones (appropriate for 8 year olds) and get progressively more challenging.
Author Biography:
Evelyn B. Christensen, Ed.D., is a veteran teacher and loves to create resources to make learning fun. More than 45 of her educational puzzle books and math games have been published. Her INCHIMALS has won a Teachers' Choice Award and a NAPPA Gold Award; her ABA-CONUNDRUMS has won a Parents' Choice Award. Ev and her husband Ralph live in Lexington, Kentucky and have four grown children. Visit her website at: http://evelynchristensen.com.
AMY CLARK
Book Title: Success in Hill Country
Book Description:
Success in Hill Country is based on the oral histories of eleven men and women, all natives of the Appalachian mountains. Though they come from various fields (stock car racing, literature, business, medicine, education, and professional football) they are united in their individual commitments to principles as defined by Dr. Napoleon Hill, a native Appalachian and groundbreaking inspirational author of bestsellers like "Think and Grow Rich" and "Keys to Success". Of this book, Earl Hamner, creator of "The Waltons," writes: "When I was growing up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during the Great Depression I dreamed the impossible dream of becoming a writer. In time I found heroes like Thomas Wolfe, Jon Fox, Jr., and Jesse Stuart, who inspired me. In her interviews with folks who have achieved success in every area from sports to medicine, from writing to education, Amy Clark's stories will inspire the reader to achieve his or her dreams. As a proud son of the 'hill country' who has achieved a degree of success, I recommend this book with enthusiasm and admiration." Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani writes that the book includes "the best and brightest of our hills and taps their infinite powers of faith, ambition and belief, to show us all a better way to live."
Author Biography:
Amy Clark teaches courses in writing and Appalachian studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise where she is founding Director of the Appalachian Writing Project. Clark's work on Appalachia has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Tampa Tribune as well as Blue Ridge Country, Now and Then, and Appalachian Heritage magazines. She is currently co-editing a book on the dialects of the Appalachian region. A native of Lee County, Virginia, Clark now makes her home in Big Stone Gap, Virginia with her husband, son and daughter.
KEVIN COMER
Book Title: Louisville and Nashville Railroad in South Central Kentucky
Book Description:
At the midpoint of the 19th century, people and goods moved by river or muddy roads, which made traveling difficult; a stagecoach trip from Louisville to Nashville took 36 hours. Railroads were coming into prominence at the time, and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was chartered in 1850. It was completed between the namesake cities in 1859, overcoming many obstacles such as Muldraugh’s Hill, Green River, and Tennessee Ridge. The line became a pawn during the Civil War, used by both Union and Confederate forces, and endured heavy damages to survive and prosper. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad would grow into one of America’s great success stories, expanding to nearly 7,000 miles of track throughout the Southeast. This volume covers the L&N Main Line in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, the Memphis Line, the Mammoth Cave Railroad, the Glasgow Railway, the Portage Railroad, and a branch to Scottsville.
Author Biography:
Author Kevin Comer has long held an interest in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Kentucky's history, especially Bowling Green. His hometown railroad became the subject for his second local history book, following BOWLING GREEN in Arcadia's Then & Now series. Comer, also a photographer specializing in historical subjects, supports historic preservation and serves on the board of directors at the Historic Rail Park and Train Museum, located in Bowling Green’s restored 1925 Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station.
LORI COPELAND
Book Title: Lost Melody
Book Description:
The beautiful piano sitting in the corner of Jill King's apartment begs to be played. For over a year, it has sat untouched, ever since a terrible accident shattered Jill's ambition of becoming a concert pianist. The ragged scar on her left hand is a cruel and constant reminder of the death of her dream.
But another dream is about to come to life--an unexpected, horrifying dream that will present Jill with a responsibility she never wanted, and choices she never wanted to make.
Hundreds of lives depend on Jill's willingness to warn her small, oceanside town in Nova Scotia of a nameless, looming disaster. But doing so could cost Jill her reputation, jeopardize the political career of the man she loves, and ruin their plans of a future together.
The fate of an entire community hangs in the balance as Jill wrestles with the cost of heeding one still, small voice.
Author Biography:
Lori Copeland is the bestselling author of inspirational contemporary and historical novels and presently publishes with Zondervan and Harvest House. Lori makes her home in the Ozarks surrounded by her husband, Lance, and their ever-growing family.
KAREN COX
Book Title: 1932
Book Description:
The story behind 1932 had been floating in my mind for some time before I started writing it. The Great Depression in the US has always been interesting to me. I grew up hearing tales about those years from my grandmothers, and I was always impressed by the bravery and resourcefulness of people living in that time. I wondered how my favorite characters would respond to that level of economic and societal upheaval and how it would change the dynamics between them. So, during a particularly long bout of winter weather that kept me ensconced at home, I hammered out the first draft of what would become 1932. I hope it conveys my appreciation for the fortitude of those who endured the Depression, and my belief that love, all types of love, can conquer the toughest obstacles.
Author Biography:
Karen has been a Jane Austen fan since she read Pride & Prejudice as a diversion from the grind of graduate school. Years later, in 2006, she found Jane Austen fan-fiction, lurked for a couple of years, and began writing and posting stories in 2009.
Karen was born in Everett, Washington, and at age 11, after a somewhat nomadic childhood, moved to her family's home state of Kentucky. She still lives there, in a quiet little town with her husband, son, and daughter.
BERRY CRAIG
Book Title: History of Western Kentucky
Book Description:
Hidden History of Western Kentucky: What makes western Kentucky so unique? It is people like Fate Marable, the Paducah-born jazz innovator whose steamboat Kentucky jazz band featured a young Louis Armstrong and places like Wheel, the tiny community in Graves county that gave birth to Vice President Alben Barkely. There are forgotten stories of how the aroma of frying bacon and eggs purpotedly paved the way for the creation of Carlisle County and how Willis P. Westray's burial instructions were carried out: he was interred standing up with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a brickbat or a hatchet in the other. These stories and others will ensure that western Kentucky's hidden history will no longer linger in the shadows.
Author Biography:
Berry Craig is a professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah. A native of Mayfield, where he lives with his wife and their son, a freshman trumpet player in the Murray State University Racer Band, Craig was, for many years, a daily newspaper feature writer and columnist and an Associated Press freelance columnist. He has written articles and book reviews for the Filson Club History Quarterly and the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. He also contributed entries to the Kentucky Encyclopedia. In addition, he was the 2001 recipient of the Richard H. Collins Award from the Kentucky Historical Society. In 2011, he received the Jesse Stuart Media Award from the Kentucky School Media Association. Craig holds master's degrees in history and in journalism from Murray State.
KELLY CREAGH
Book Title: Nevermore
Book Description:
Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongues, Varen makes it clear he's rather not have anything to do with her, either. But soon Isobel finds herself making excuses to be with Varen. Steadily pulled away from her friends and her possessive boyfriend, Isobel ventures deeper and deeper into the dream world Varen has created through the pages of his notebook, a realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life.
As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined and that the most frightening realities are those of the mind. Can she save Varen from the madness taking hold of him? Or will they both be consumed by the shadows of his nightmares?
Author Biography:
Kelly Creagh is a 2008 graduate of Spalding University's MFA in Writing program. When not writing, haunting bookstore coffee shops, or obsessively studying Poe, Kelly's passions include the ancient art of belly dancing. She lives with her squirrely, attitude-inused terrier, Annabel, in the heart of Old Louisville, Kentucky's largest and spookiest Victorian neighborhood. Nevermore is her first novel.
MARK CRILLEY
Book Title: Brody's Ghost
Book Description:
BRODY'S GHOST is the story of a young man whose life is turned upside down when Talia, the ghost of a teenaged girl, enlists his help in uncovering the identity of a dangerous killer. What follows is a race against time in a dystopian urban future as Brody learns to unlock his supernatural powers and use them to save a young woman's life before the "Penny Murderer" can strike again.
MIKI FALLS is a series of four graphic novels that tell the story of a Japanese high school student who falls for Hiro, the new boy in town, a young man who turns out to be much more than the brooding outsider he appears to be. Over the course of four seasons, Miki is drawn into Hiro's world of supernatural mystery that builds toward the two of them running off together into the mountains of Hokkaido, where shadowy "Delivers" are determined to catch them and separate them forever. Optioned by Brad Pitt's Plan B for development as a feature film!
Author Biography:
Mark Crilley was raised in Detroit and currently lives in Novi, Michigan with his wife, Miki, and children, Matthew and Mio. After graduating from Kalamazoo College in 1988, he taught English in Taiwan and Japan for nearly five years. His first comic series, Akiko, published in 1995, led to a popular series of chapter books from Random House. His work has been featured in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and on CNN Headline News, and his popular YouTube videos have been viewed 73 million times and counting.
KENNETH CROSLIN
Book Title: Calluses and Character: The Life and Times of a Kentucky Sharecropper
Book Description:
A collection of personal narratives of my family as sharecroppers in Warren County Kentucky. A collection of stories about my parents and their eleven children beginning with my father's birth in 1910 until 2010. A life time of personal tragedies, victories, and humor! One hundred years are covered,a tear and a smile at a time!Author Biography:
Kenneth Croslin was born in Warren County Kentucky into a family of sharecroppers Dec. 12th 1949. The second youngest of eleven children, a high school dropout that knows hard work and hard times, and like his siblings, was able to rise up out of the poverty that he shared with so many other farm families of that time to become a successful business man and author.
STACY CURTIS
Book Title: The Seven Habits of Happy Kids
Book Description:
For the Seven Oaks friends, there is always something to do. Whether they're singing along with Pokey Porcupine's harmonica or playing soccer with Jumper Rabbit, everyone is having fun and learning all sorts of things. These seven stories show how practicing the 7 Habits makes this possible for the whole Seven Oaks Community. From learning how to take charge of their own lives to discovering how balance is best, the Seven Oaks friends have tons of adventures and find out how each and every kid can be a happy kid!
Author Biography:
Stacy Curtis is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and printmaker who draws editorial cartoons, comics and illustrations for various publications and web sites. He also creates hand-pulled screenprinted movie posters, gigposters and art prints through his company, Mile 44, which he co-founded with his buddy, Dave Windisch. Stacy has illustrated several children's books including The Seven Habits of Happy Kids written by Sean Covey. Stacy lives in the Chicagoland area with his wife, Jann, and their dog, Derby.
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