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UPK SIgns with Kindle
On
November 19, 2007, the literary world was changed with the introduction of the Amazon.com Kindle. The Kindle is a convenient
device which allows you to read electronic copies of books and other digital
media-all in the palm of your hand. It uses Amazon's own wireless, Whispernet, which
is provided through Sprint, to access online copies of books and is available
everywhere in the US, free of charge. Kindle's newest model, the Kindle DX,
allows you to read and save up to 3500 non-illustrated texts as well as access
the internet without a fee. Kindle software is even available as an app for the
iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing you to take and read books virtually anywhere.
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 THE KENTUCKY BOURBON COCKTAIL BOOK
Format: cloth
$14.95 cloth Bourbon is a staple of Kentucky tradition and excellence. September is Bourbon Heritage Month, the highlight of which being the Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown, KY. This year, the University Press of Kentucky was pleased to launch its new book, "The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book" by Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler, a collection of exquisite and tasty bourbon cocktails.
The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler $14.95 cloth
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 Behind the Embalming
People have always feared
death, and judging from the popular and critical success of shows such as HBO's
Six Feet Under, they are also
fascinated with the business of death. Folklorist and oral historian William
Lynwood Montell draws upon this interest in his latest work, Tales
from Kentucky Funeral Homes, offering readers entertaining, often hilarious,
and occasionally poignant accounts that provide unique glimpses into an often
overlooked but vital profession.
Both humorous and touching, Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes reveals
an insider's perspective of the funeral business, compiling anecdotes and
recollections from funeral home directors and embalmers with lifetimes of experience
serving families throughout the Commonwealth. From long-winded preachers and
fainting relatives to snake-handling funerals and pallbearers who fall into
graves, these tales offer a surprising firsthand record of the history and
culture of death in Kentucky. While these personal accounts from and about
funeral homes will not be found in formal history books, this collection is
essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the culture and tradition
of Kentucky funerals.
By combining personal accounts
with descriptions of local traditions, the book surveys the many ways in which
funeral directors and embalmers have played pivotal and indispensable roles in Kentucky
communities. For many, like Connie Hughes Goodman, the funeral business has
been the family business. The Hughes Funeral Home was passed down from her
grandfather, Edison Hughes, to her parents, and Connie joined the family
business in 2003, dedicating her life to helping Fountain Run community members
in times of loss.
While many of the stories
relayed are from recent history, some take the reader back to the era of
horse-drawn hearses and in-home embalming. Charles McMurtry of Summer Shade
recalls, "Back in my father's time he would go to the home of the dead person
in a horse-drawn hearse as the means of hauling the body to and from the
funeral home. . . . He had a good team to pull the hearse, and he would bring
the body here to the funeral home and put it in a casket." By presenting
accounts that document a wide range of history, Montell provides insight into
the changing funeral practices in Kentucky.
Handed down to Montell in
the oral tradition, these stories are relayed nearly verbatim, maintaining the
language used by the funeral directors and embalmers to vividly illustrate the
emotion and style with which the stories were told. Personal experiences,
humorous anecdotes, and local legends collected from all corners of the
Commonwealth make the collection a fascinating panorama of Kentucky funeral
homes and the communities they serve.
William
Lynwood Montell, professor emeritus of folk studies at Western
Kentucky University, is the author of many books, including Tales from
Kentucky Lawyers, Tales from
Kentucky Doctors, and Haunted
Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky.
MORE INFORMATION:
Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes William Lynwood Montell $24.95 cloth
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UPK Breaks Top-25
www.booksXYZ.com, the Nonprofit Bookstore Supporting Education, today
initiated a top 25 list of books from public university presses. The rankings
will become a weekly listing of noteworthy books from public universities that
are performing well by sales and other metrics. Included in the inaugural list
is The University Press of Kentucky's recent title, Something's
Rising: Appalachian Fighting Mountaintop Removal, by Silas House and Jason
Howard.
Something's Rising gives voice to those people whose daily lives are
increasingly affected by the destructive phenomenon of mountaintop removal
mining. House and Howard have collected the testimonies of citizens from
Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting this
devastating form of mining which is destroying some of America's most scenic
landscapes. These accounts serve not only as a cry against mountaintop removal,
but also as a reflection of the strong beliefs of the people involved and of
aspects of Appalachian life that are slowly disappearing along with the
mountaintops.
"We're
very excited about this new project," says booksXYZ.com President Joseph N. Abraham, MD. "This combines
several of our key objectives:
education; books & reading; a well-informed electorate; and how the
university interacts with the public, a key objective of the public university
in a democracy."
booksXYZ.com
is a full-service online bookstore sending all proceeds to education. Five
percent of each purchase may be directed to the school of the customer's
choice. All 120,000 schools in the
US, kindergarten through college, are listed in the website database and are
eligible for the 5% dedication program.
booksXYZ.com is a project of The Acadiana Educational Endowment
& The American Public School Endowments. The AEE+APSE have distributed over $600,000 to public
schools, much of it in south Louisiana after the hurricanes. A full listing of
AEE+APSE donations is available on booksXYZ.com.
Comprehensive
information on the following titles is available at booksXYZ.com.
The
Top 25 books from public university presses for the week of August 16, 2009:
1. Stubborn Twig, Oregon
State University Press
2. Pedaling Revolution, Oregon
State University Press
3. The Circuit, University
of New Mexico Press
4. Pathologies of Power, University
of California Press
5. To the Gates of
Stalingrad , University Press of Kansas
6. The Last Century of Sea
Power, Indiana University Press
7. Cooking from the Heart,
University of Minnesota Press
8. Simulacra and
Simulation, University of Michigan Press
9. Worried Sick,
University of North Carolina Press
10. The Sheriff of Ramadi,
Naval Institute Press
11. We Used to Own the
Bronx, SUNY Press
12. The Madness of Mary
Lincoln, Southern Illinois University Press
13. The Adventures of Ibn
Battuta, University of California Press
14. Last Days of Last
Island, University of Louisiana Press
15. Truth, Lies, and
O-Rings, University Press of Florida
16. Why Evolution Works,
Rutgers University Press
17. Edible Wild Mushrooms
of Illinois, University of Illinois Press
18. Proudly We Speak Your
Name, University of Arkansas Press
19. Death in a Prairie
House, University of Wisconsin Press
20. American Salvage,
Wayne State University Press
21. Something's Rising, University of Kentucky Press
22. The Armchair Birder,
University of North Carolina Press
23. Solidarity Stories,
University of Washington Press
24. Ignaz Friedman,
Indiana University Press
25. Going Green,
University of Oklahoma Press
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Former UPK Intern Publishes her First
Book
Holly
Goddard Jones, who was a marketing intern at UPK during most of her time as an
undergraduate at The University of Kentucky, has just published her first book.
Girl
Trouble: Stories, which was
released on September 1 by Harper
Perennial as a paperback original, is Jones's
debut short story collection, set around small-town Southerners caught in moral
and sometimes mortal quandaries. Written with extraordinary empathy and
maturity, and with the breadth and complexity of a novel, these eight
beautifully written, achingly poignant, and occasionally heartbreaking stories
explore the fine line between right and wrong, good and bad, love and violence.
Jones
was born and raised in western Kentucky, the setting for her fiction. Her short
stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The
Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Epoch, and elsewhere,
and they've been anthologized in two volumes of New Stories from the South
(2007 and 2008) and in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. She was
honored with a Peter Taylor Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2006
and was the winner in 2007 of a Rona
Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a prize of $25,000 given to only six
emerging women fiction writers each year. A graduate of the MFA program in
creative writing at Ohio State University,
she has taught at Denison University, the
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, Murray
State University, and The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro. She lives there with her husband, Brandon,
and two dogs, Bishop and Martha.
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Upcoming Events
Thursday, September 24: Chris Holbrook, Upheaval: Stories, 7:00 pm, Joseph-Beth
Booksellers, 161 Lexington Green Circle, Lexington, KY; signing.
Saturday, September 26: Melba Porter Hay, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Battle for a New South, 2:00 pm, Hastings,
2193 Lantern Ridge Drive, Richmond, KY; signing
Saturday, October 3: William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Giles Arts & Crafts
Fest, Giles House, on Spout
Springs Road, just off Highway 76, Knifley, KY; reading, signing.
Saturday, October 3: Linda Allison-Lewis, Kentucky Cooks: Favorite Recipes from Kentucky Living, 4:00 pm, The
Incredible Food Show, The Lexington Center, 430 West Vine Street,
Lexington, KY; signing.
Sunday, October 4: Joy Perrine, The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, 3:00 pm, The Incredible Food Show, The
Lexington Center, 430 West Vine Street, Lexington, KY; signing.
Thursday, October 15: Joy Perrine, The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, 6:30 pm, Westport Whiskey & Wine, 1115
Herr Lane, Suite 140, Louisville, KY, talk, signing.
Saturday, October 17: Keeneland's Ted Bassett: My Life, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Keeneland
Shop, Keeneland, 4201 Versailles Road, Lexington, KY; signing.
Saturday, October 17: Books by the Banks, Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH;
the following UPK authors will be signing their books:
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Chris Holbrook, Upheaval: Stories
· Linda Allison-Lewis, Kentucky Cooks and Kentucky's Best
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James McCormick, Ghosts of the Bluegrass
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Susan Reigler, The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks
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Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler, The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book
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Robert K. Wallace, Thirteen Women Strong
Saturday, October 17: Macy Wyatt, Ghosts of the Bluegrass, Georgetown College Homecoming Book Signing Showcase, Outside the Cafeteria in Cralle Student Center,
Georgetown, KY; signing
Sunday, October 18: William Lynwood
Montell, Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes,2:00 pm, Joseph-Beth
Booksellers,
161 Lexington Green Circle, Lexington, KY;
talk, signing.
Sunday, October 18: James McCormick and Macy Wyatt, Ghosts of the Bluegrass, 2:00 pm, The
Morris Book Shop, 408 Southland Drive, Lexington, KY; signing.
Tuesday, October 20:William Lynwood Montell, Ghosts across Kentucky,6:30
pm, Midway Free Public Library, 428 S Winter Street, Midway, KY; talk,
signing.
Thursday, October 22:William Lynwood Montell, Ghosts across Kentucky,7:00
pm, McCraken County Public Library, 555
Washington Street, Paducah, KY; talk, signing.
Saturday, October 24: Chris Holbrook, Upheaval: Stories,
4:00 pm, The Morris Book Shop, 408
Southland Drive, Lexington, KY; signing.
Monday, October 26:William Lynwood
Montell, Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes,6:30 pm, Paul
Sawyier Public Library, 139 Wapping Street, Frankfort, KY; talk, signing.
Tuesday, October 27: James McCormick and Macy Wyatt, Ghosts of the Bluegrass, 6:00 pm, The University of
Kentucky Bookstore, 106 Student
Center Annex, Lexington, KY; signing.
Wednesday, October 28: James McCormick and Macy Wyatt, Ghosts of the Bluegrass, 7:00 pm, Joseph-Beth
Booksellers,
161 Lexington Green Circle, Lexington, KY;
talk, signing.
Thursday, October 29:William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, 7:00 pm, Kentucky Live!, Barnes
& Noble Booksellers, 1680 Campbell Lane, Bowling Green, KY; talk, signing.
Saturday,
October 31:
Fleming County Book Fair, Fleming
County Public Library, 201 Bypass Blvd., Flemingsburg, KY, 10:00 am - 2:00
pm; the following UPK authors will be
signing their books:
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Chris Holbrook, Upheaval: Stories
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James McCormick and Macy Wyatt, Ghosts of the Bluegrass
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Susan Reigler, The
Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks and The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book
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University Press of Kentucky
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books listed: Contact Mack McCormick,
Publicity Manager (859-257-5200/fmmcco0@uky.edu).
To purchase books: Hopkins Fulfillment Services, 800-537-5487 (toll-free), 410-516-6998
(fax) or visit our website.
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