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Ballroom A
Time Topic/Speaker
9:45 a.m. Kentucky Literary Awards Announcements
10:00 a.m Mitch Albom
11:00 a.m Harlan Coben
12:00 p.m. Digging in Kentucky Dirt: Gardening with Karen Angelucci & Jon Carloftis
1:00 p.m. Lorna Landvik
2:00 p.m.

Remembering Lincoln: The President, The Man
Orville Vernon Burton
Bryan Bush
Ron Elliot
Allen Jayne
John C. Waugh

3:00 p.m. Reading Rainbow Awards
Ballroom D

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Meeting Room 1
Time Topic/Speaker
10:00 a.m.

Both Sides Now: Heroes, Angels & Guerrillas of the Civil War
Thomas A. Forehand
Richard Taylor
Glenn LaFantasie

11:00 a.m. Through Change & Calamity: Southern Novels with a Dramatic Side
Carl T. Smith
Steven Cleaver
Michael Lee West
Gwynne Forster
John Sims Jeter
Terry Kay

12:00 p.m.

Tradition, Legends, Troubadours: Music of the American South
Nolan Porterfield
Carlton T. Jackson
Michael Ann Williams
Diane J. Diekman
Ellen Wright
Karren Pell                                  

1:00 p.m.

My Old Kentucky Home Revisited: Novels about Kentucky
Laura Benedict
Janna McMahan
Ann Gabhart

2:00 p.m.

Searching for Meaning in the Kudzu: Southern Novels with a Lighter Side
Robert Dalby
Man Martin
Ad Hudler
J.L. Miles

 
Meeting Room 2
Time Topic/Speaker
10:00 a.m.

Case Solved!: Murder, Mayhem & Mysteries
Suzanne Arruda
Beverle Graves Myers
Virginia Smith
Virginia Boyd
Con Lehane

11:00 a.m. Fresh Ingredients: Cookbooks for Today
Bev Shaffer
Linda Hawkins
Jayna & Kelli Oakley
Martha Stamps
12:00 p.m.

Whodunit in the Heartland: Murder & Ghost Stories            
Will Lavender
Patricia Bryan
Thomas Wolf
William R. Drennan

1:00 p.m.

Plots, Secrets & Politics: Legal Thrillers & Espionage Tales
Karna Small Bodman
Jerome Teel
Miriam Herin
Larry Berman

2:00 p.m.

Life Reflected: Essays & Memoirs
Constance Alexander
Georgia Green Stamper
Lisa Alther
Lucille Carloftis

 
Meeting Room 3
Time Topic/Speaker
10:00 a.m.

Capturing Kentucky Spirit: Kentucky Women Poets
Lynnell Edwards
Jane Gentry
Leatha Kendrick

11:00 a.m.

A Woman’s Life: Four Biographies
Stephen W. Hines
Marilyn Irvin Holt
Richard King
Pamela Bauer Mueller

12:00 p.m. Love, Laughter & Faith: Christian Fiction          
Charlene Baumbich
Irene Brand
Ginger Kolbaba
Katherine Valentine
1:00 p.m.

Faith is the Word: Inspirational Nonfiction
Philip Carlson
Bonnie St. John
Beth Dotson Brown
Mary Thurlkill

2:00 p.m. Fitting In: Women on the Outside Looking In
Joy Jordan Lake
Bethany Pierce
 
Meeting Room 4
Time Topic/Speaker
10:00 a.m.

Perspective: New Views of Two Wars
Earl Wassom
Ruth Beaumont Cook
Timothy Henderson
Andrew McMichael
David F. White

11:00 a.m.

Breaking Barriers & Blazing Trails: The People & Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Charles E. Cobb
Huston Diehl
Dawn Knight

12:00 p.m.

Fitting in: A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Culture Clash
Brian Leung
Rodney Lofton

1:00 p.m.

Brief but Deep: Short Story Collections
John Chattin
Gerald Duff
Paul Ruffin
Jimmy Carl Harris
Simon Van Booy

2:00 p.m.

Tough Guys: Poems with Sharp Edges & Gentle Rims
Blas Falconer
Curtis Crisler
John Guzlowski
Norman Minnick

 
Meeting Room 5
Time Topic/Speaker
10:00 a.m.

Is Pluto a Planet?
David Weintraub

10:30 a.m.

From 1 to 43: U.S. Presidents & Their Legacies
Paul Boller
Gerard Magliocca

11:00 p.m.

Ghosts Across Kentucky
William Montell

12:00 p.m.

Media Pioneers in Broadcasting & Print
James Baughman
Craig Havighurst
Glenn D. Smith
Russell & Virginia Vassallo

1:00 p.m.

Appalachian Journeys
Morris Grubbs
Gasey Clabough
Fred Sauceman

2:00 p.m.

Murderous Queens, A Lost Continent, & Swashbuckling Pirates: Truth & Fiction in History
Tasha Alexander
David King
Benerson Little
Robert A. Prather
Robert McCammon

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Our Mission is to encourage reading and the love of books and to be a positive force in reducing illiteracy in our region and state.

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Last Updated: April 21, 2008