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  • MAKE WAY FOR HER
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    MAKE WAY FOR HER
    KATIE CORTESE
    A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer—who is, in t...

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  • STONER'S BOY
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    STONER'S BOY
    ROBERT F. SCHULKERS
    Mr. Stoner is bad, and it seems his son is turning out just the same. Masked and dressed all in gray, Stoner's Boy moves like a ghost up and down the river, stealing and causing mischief. Seckatary Hawkins and his club have crossed this dangerous lad, and (to make matters worse) Briggen and the Pelham gang across the river won't leave the ruthless thief alone: They know that he...

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  • KENTUCKY AND THE GREAT WAR
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    KENTUCKY AND THE GREAT WAR
    DAVID J. BETTEZ
    From five thousand children marching in a parade, singing, "Johnnie get your hoe.... Mary dig your row," to communities banding together to observe Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays, Kentuckians were loyal supporters of their country during the First World War. Kentucky had one of the lowest rates of draft dodging in the nation, and the state increased its coal product...

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  • CROSSING THE RIVER
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    CROSSING THE RIVER
    FENTON JOHNSON
    Make no mistake: Martha Bragg Picket is a headstrong southern woman with a rebellious spirit, a characteristic her son Michael shares. Yet to see her after almost twenty years of marriage, it might no longer seem clear. A Yankee contractor's arrival in town catalyzes her dissatisfaction, leading her to turn her life upside down—unaware that her son will follow suit. Both heartf...

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  • THE BIRTH OF BOURBON
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    THE BIRTH OF BOURBON
    CAROL PEACHEE
    An award-winning photographer celebrates Kentucky’s bourbon heritage with this tour of historic distilleries across the Bluegrass State.   Whiskey making has been an integral part of American history since frontier times, but the craft of making bourbon was perfected in the Bluegrass region. Before Prohibition began, Kentucky was home to more than two hundred commercial distill...

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  • HAUNTED HOLIDAYS
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    HAUNTED HOLIDAYS
    ROBERTA SIMPSON BROWN / LONNIE E. BROWN
    With its tales of benevolent and malicious specters, terrifying monsters, and unexplained phenomena, Halloween is the holiday most people associate with spooky stories. But do spirits remain hidden the rest of the year? In the rich storytelling customs of the commonwealth, the supernatural world is also connected with holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, a...

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  • FOR A VOICE AND THE VOTE
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    FOR A VOICE AND THE VOTE
    LISA ANDERSON TODD
    During the summer of 1964, hundreds of American college students descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community members canvassed black neighborhoods to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), a group that sought to give a voice to black Mississippians and demonstrate their...

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  • BOURBON DESSERTS
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    BOURBON DESSERTS
    LYNN MARIE HULSMAN
    The flavor of bourbon adds flair and sophistication to every occasion. Celebrations in the Bluegrass State—or any state, for that matter—are never complete without the unique richness of this signature drink. Every holiday party is made warmer with bourbon balls and velvety bourbon eggnog, and no respectable Kentucky Derby party is complete without ice-cold mint juleps. Bourbon...

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  • ART FOR EQUALITY
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    ART FOR EQUALITY
    JENNY WOODLEY
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended beyond gaining political support. It also required changing social attitudes. Th...

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  • FROM THE MOUNTAIN, FROM THE VALLEY
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    FROM THE MOUNTAIN, FROM THE VALLEY
    JAMES STILL
    James Still first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet. Although he is better known today as a writer of fiction, it is his poetry that many of his essential images, such as the "mighty river of earth," first found expression. Yet much of his poetry remains out of print or difficult to find. From the Mountain, From the Valley collects all of Still's poems, inclu...

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  • SIDELINED
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    SIDELINED
    SIMON HENDERSON
    In 1968, noted sociologist Harry Edwards established the Olympic Project for Human Rights, calling for a boycott of that year's games in Mexico City as a demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States and around the world. Though the boycott never materialized, Edwards's ideas struck a chord with athletes and incited African American Olympians Tommie Smith and...

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  • THE OLD FASHIONED
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    THE OLD FASHIONED
    ALBERT W. A. SCHMID
    American tavern owners caused a sensation in the late eighteenth century when they mixed sugar, water, bitters, and whiskey and served the drink with rooster feather stirrers. The modern version of this "original cocktail," widely known as the Old Fashioned, is a standard in any bartender's repertoire and holds the distinction of being the only mixed drink ever to rival the Mar...

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  • AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK SOCIALIST
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    AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK SOCIALIST
    NIKKI M. TAYLOR
    In pursuit of his foremost goal, full and equal citizenship for African Americans, Peter Humphries Clark (1829–1925) defied easy classification. He was, at various times, the country's first black socialist, a loyal supporter of the Republican Party, and an advocate for the Democrats. A pioneer educational activist, Clark led the fight for African Americans' access to Ohio's pu...

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  • AFRICAN AMERICAN FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES
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    AFRICAN AMERICAN FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES
    The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence that endures on today's campuses, African American fraternities and sororitie...

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  • GHOSTS OF THE BLUEGRASS
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    GHOSTS OF THE BLUEGRASS
    JAMES MCCORMICK / MACY WYATT
    In Ghosts of the Bluegrass, James McCormick and Macy Wyatt present stories of Kentucky ghosts past and present. Some of the tales are set in rural areas, but many take place in urban areas such as the haunted house on Broadway in downtown Lexington and in buildings on the University of Kentucky campus, where Adolph Rupp is said to have conversed with the deceased biology profes...

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  • THIS IS HOME NOW
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    THIS IS HOME NOW
    ARWEN DONAHUE
    At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to coreligionists offered a measure of cultural and social support. However, some survivors settled in smaller cities and rural ar...

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  • REFORMERS TO RADICALS
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    REFORMERS TO RADICALS
    THOMAS KIFFMEYER
    In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to do something for their country. Thousands of young people answered his call, launching an era of flourishing social activism that eclipsed any in U.S. history. Citizens rallied behind an endless variety of social justice organizations to change the country's social and political landscape. As these soci...

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  • TALES FROM KENTUCKY DOCTORS
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    TALES FROM KENTUCKY DOCTORS
    WILLIAM LYNWOOD MONTELL
    The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky Doctors present illuminating portraits of doctors and patients, drawing stories fr...

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  • BREAKING THE MAGIC SPELL
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    BREAKING THE MAGIC SPELL
    JACK ZIPES
    This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that...

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  • FILM'S FIRST FAMILY
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    FILM'S FIRST FAMILY
    TERRY CHESTER SHULMAN
    “A fascinating [and] beautifully written portrait of a tempestuous family that played a pivotal role in the development of American film” (Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies).   Adultery, secret marriages, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, alcoholism—the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written w...

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