April 7 — 8, 2006
Sloan Convention Center
Bowling Green, KY

Adult Presentations

Southern Kentucky Book Fest April 8, 2006

Meeting Rooms 1 & 2
10:00 Pat Conroy
Moderator:  Gary Ransdell
1:00

Chuck Barris
Moderator:  Tony Pelaski

11:00

Elizabeth Berg
Moderator:  Barbara Deeb

2:00

Cathie Pelletier
Moderator: Gayla Warner

12:00

Rick Bragg
Moderator:  Jack Sheidler

   
  Ballroom A Ball Room D
11:00

War Comes to the Commonwealth:  Kentucky and the Civil War
W. Matthews, J. Klotter, McKnight
Moderator: Drew McMichael

Another Time, Another Place:  Historical Fiction
Tasha Alexander, Beverle Graves Myers, Anne Landsman
Moderator: Lee Anglea

A Perfect Match:  Secrets and Southern Fiction
Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Kim Edwards
Moderator:  Mary Ellen Miller

Learning, Coping, Healing—When Disease Strikes the Family
Elinor Fuchs, Gail Griffith
Moderator: Katrina Phelps

Accused of Murder in the Early Twentieth Century: Two Women’s Stories
Patricia Bryan, Thomas Wolf, Sharon Hatfield,
Moderator: Ryan Reed

Free to Be Beautiful:  Ordinary Principles for an Extraordinary Life
Karen Ford, Tina Keil
Moderator: Christine Sowders

12:00

Comes a Spirit:  The Supernatural in Fiction
River Jordan, Elizabeth Dewberry,
Moderator:  Diana McQuady

Second Shot:  Characters Return for Another Whodunit
J. D. Rhoades, Bob Morris
Moderator: Bart Darrell

Southern Influence in Washington:  FDR, Truman, Lyndon, and Strom
William Leuchtenburg, Marilyn Thompson
Moderator:  Brian Sullivan

Murder, Mysteries, Miracles, and Mid-Life Female Characters
Sallie Bingham, Vicki Lane
Moderator: Laura Harper Lee

How Wrongs Were Set Right:  Civil Rights in America
David Chalmers (The History of the KKK: 140 Years & Counting),
Bobby Lovett
Moderator:  John Hardin

They’re Playing Basketball:  A Kentucky Legend and AAU
Robert Ikard, Gary West
Moderator: Paul Just

1:00

Coming of Age in A Changing America:  Three Novels Look at the 1960’s
Olympia Vernon, Suzanne Hudson, Daniel Omotosho Black
Moderator: Lou-Ann Crouther

The Greatest Generation:  Before and After the War
Krista Lindemeyer
Moderator: Ray Buckberry

Faith, Hope, and Silence
J. Brent Bill, Ray Waddle
Moderator: Larry Snyder

The Vietnam Effect:  The War in Fiction and Biography
Danielle Trussoni, Thomas Vasseur
Moderator: Doug Ault

Courts and Culture:  Decisions That Shaped Us
John Perry, Janice Law
Moderator: Alan Palmer

Romance Today:  Not Your Mother’s Romance Novels
Denise Hildreth, Peggy Webb, Emilie Richards, Carole Bellacera
Moderator:  Ellen Micheletti

2:00

Mystery She Wrote, Again and Again:  Two Authors and Their Series
Marcia Talley, Lynn Hightower
Moderator: Connie Mills

The Land Beneath Us:  Gardening and Experiencing the Outdoors in Kentucky
Jon Carloftis, Ron Ellis
Moderator:  Timothy Mullin

American Groundbreakers
Jerry Weinberger, James Hansen
Moderator:  Jim Johnson

Jedi, Narnia, and Muggles:  Examining Their Influence on Our World
Jason Eberle, Devin Brown, George Beahm
Moderator: Mark Griffin

The Battle to Baghdad:  The Inside Story on War Today
Ron Martz
Moderator:  Michael Harper

Who Rescues Whom?:  Dogs, Shelters, Disasters, and Compassion
Ken Foster
Moderator: Jennie Brown

  Announcers:  Barry Williams, Chris Sowers

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