Annie Jones
is a best-selling author of traditional romance, wife, and mother (not necessarily in that order). She and her family live in Versailles, Kentucky, where Annie writes full time when she isn't running the family taxi service, Mom's emergency ... [... more]
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Green Beans Stewed with Onions, Tomatoes and Dill
This one is one of those that is better in the tasting than in the reading, I suspect... This way of cooking green beans is ideal for the kind of green beans we find in supermarkets, the rather long Blue Lakes or Kentucky Wonders, which require ... [... more]
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Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino is the head coach at the University of Louisville. He boasts a 476-168 record, and has led three different teams to the Final Four (the only coach to do so). He won the NCAA Championship in 1996 with the University of Kentucky and has ... [... more]
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Edgar Prado
Edgar Prado is one of the world's premier jockeys, with almost six thousand wins, including the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. He was born in Lima, Peru, and now splits his time between Hollywood, Florida, and Elmont, New York. [... more]
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Penny Colman
Penny Colman's Rosie the Riveter was named an IRA Teachers' Choice and Young Adult Choice and an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction. Born in Denver, Colorado, Penny Colman also lived in Oregon, Washington, and Kentucky before ... [... more]
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Jane Mayhall
Jane Mayhall was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1918 and attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina. She has taught at the New School for Social Research, Hofstra University, Morehead State University, and the Summer Writers' Workshop at ... [... more]
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Susan Sloate
The life and times of America's most famous champion of liberty, a man of peace whose fate was to lead a nation at war with itself. Join young Lincoln in the Kentucky wilderness and see how his thirst for knowledge and justice led him to the ... [... more]
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Silas House
After his mother is killed, four-year-old Clay Sizemore finds... click for more> It is the early 1900s in rural Kentucky, and young Saul Sullivan is heading up to Redbud Camp to look for work. He is wary but unafraid of the Cherokee girl there ... [... more]
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D.W. Moffett
Mitchell McDeere, raised in the coal-mining region of rural Kentucky, has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. He's young. He's bright. He's ambitious. Mitch could have the pick of the big firms in New York and ... [... more]
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David King
A Fulbright scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, DAVID KING is the author of the acclaimed Finding Atlantis. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children. How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and ... [... more]
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Bryan Collier
Written by Charles R. Smith Jr., Illustrated by Bryan Collier From the moment a fired-up teenager from Kentucky won 1960 Olympic gold to the day in 1996 when a... Twelve Rounds to Glory The Story of Muhammad Ali Charles R. Smith Jr. Bryan Collier [... more]
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Heather Henson
Heather Henson was born and raised in Kentucky and later moved to New York City, where she studied creative writing at the New School University and at City College/City University of New York. She has worked as an editor of books for young ... [... more]
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