The 3rd Annual Holiday Book Fair is an exciting event that celebrates the joy of reading and the holiday spirit, bringing together book lovers of all ages. This festive gathering features a diverse selection of books from local authors. Attendees can enjoy author signings, engaging author discussions, and a childrens' reading workshop.   Additionally, the fair provides an excellent opportunity for holiday shopping, allowing visitors to discover perfect literary gifts for friends and family. 

See below for our list of attending authors and their books.  


Rick Childers

Lucy Perley is nine-years-old and as far as she can tell her world is solid as packed dirt. She spends her summers jumping on the trampoline, visiting her Mamaw, and wading in the creek. Her mother and father aren’t perfect, but she loves them with all of her heart. Her family’s strange friends often visit, but one familiar face brings her candy and cream soda. The only problem is he’s also fueling her parents’ painkiller addiction.
The Eastern Kentucky community of Turkeyfoot is ravaged by the opioid epidemic and Sweetie Goodins has played no small part in feeding his neighbors’ bad habits. Having spent his life peddling painkillers, Sweetie struggles between accepting responsibility for his actions versus blaming the will of the addicts around him.
As his pill-pushing partner begins selling fentanyl for more profit, Sweetie’s attempts to justify his business dealings crumble. Sweetie witnesses the unraveling life of Lucy as her parents fall deeper into the pit of addiction. The Perleys, like so many others on Turkeyfoot Mountain, become willing to do whatever it takes to get their daily fix. Their bad company leaves Lucy vulnerable to a type of evil she has yet to encounter.
Before Sweetie can atone for any of his wrongdoings, he must either acknowledge his role in the lives ruined or continue paving a path of destruction.

Tashia Fugate

What do you do when the past you start to remember is quickly becoming a past you wished would stay forgotten? On the surface, Samantha Walker is your average human. She's working hard to rebuild her future, but there's more than one fanged skeleton in her closet and they're about to be released. In the sleepy town of Glenwood this should've been a piece of cake, but when mystery man, Deacon Vasileios, shows up at her feet bleeding from a gunshot wound her life gets turned upside down. Something about him isn't human, but the glow of his icy blue eyes holds all the keys to unlock her past. People she thought she trusted are lying to her as she struggles to understand her twisted memories. Hunters want to use her while an alpha wants her to become his. As the fire rekindles between Samantha and Deacon, she must make a choice. Is her life in fate's hands or is she in control? Choices are dangerous things to make.

Jason Strange

”You’re either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.” That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today.

Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society—only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.

Tina Parker

In Lock Her Up, Tina Parker gives voice to the women from the not too distant past who were not allowed to make decisions about their own bodies and mental health. In this thought-provoking collection, Parker brings to life three characters and highlights their stories through poems and research. We grow in care and concern about Mattie M. Roberts, Rachel Wells and Emma Darby and are able to relate to their struggles and circumstances.

Richard Cavendish

Kentucky. Known today for its bluegrass, horse racing, and bourbon; it's very name, embedded in Iroquois history, means Land of Tomorrow. The song birds are the sweetest, thoroughbreds fleetest, wrote James Mulligan, "The landscape is the grandest--And politics-the damnedest In Kentucky." It's a hard look that we must face at European settlers, frightened by differences in heritage, religion, and skin, unable to respect the beauty in other races. They did not understand the sexual orientation of God's creation. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," wrote George Santayana. We romanticize the old days maybe because they are behind us and can no longer harm us. And from the good that was there, we build a better tomorrow. 
Here in this book are five historical dramas of Kentucky: 
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The Botanic Garden
Sabbath of the Soul
Emma of Elmwood
The Dust of Summer
The Two Villages

Jackie Burnside

After the Civil War, black families were invited to Berea by white abolitionist Rev. John G. Fee to develop an interracial school and church. From 1866 to 1904, residents' lives revolved around Berea College, which åeducated black and white students together from primary school through college. In 1904, the Day Law prohibited interracial education. College trustees retained white students while funding blacks to attend allblack colleges elsewhere. From 1904 to 1950, when the Day Law was amended, many residents upheld racial equality principles.

Amy Leann Richardson

Who You Grow Into is a celebration of cultivation, in all possible nuances. Richardson’s poems lead us to gather acorns, hoe the garden, can venison, and browse seed catalogs. And threading throughout these moments, they’re cultivating connections between human and nature, ancestors and descendants, past and future, death and life. The poems start with simple lines like “We’re building an off-grid cabin” and “I cleaned the kitchen today” and then take us out to the border between the wilds of human experience and its tended garden, where we can remember what was, care for what is now, and dream of what will be.

Shannon McCarthy

Some Days Feel Stormy is a children's book about BIG emotions and how to work with and through tough times by finding your happy thoughts.  
Mismatch Kids focuses on what makes us unique is what's worth celebrating and sharing. 

Write Night
​Every Tuesday  from 6:00-7:30pm

Every Tuesday, we host a "Write Night" from 6:00-7:30.  
If you've ever struggled to find the time or place to write, to get into a regular habit of writing, or just need some accountability from a group or a friend, this might just be the right place for you.  Wear something comfy, bring your favorite mug of joe or tea, a pen/pencil and your favorite notebook or journal.    Grab a spot on the couch and write til your heart's content.  

Hope to see you Tuesday!