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Recommended for Christmas!

True Christmas Stories From the Heart of Appalachia

Publishing by the JSF in 2019 and a great Christmas Gift for an adult, “True Christmas Stories From the Heart of Appalachia” is a full-color, 216-page book that captures the spirit of Christmas in 43 stories by 39 authors.

Another World: Ballet Lessons from Appalachia

This boundary-crossing JSF new release by Edwina Pendarvis views ballet through the eyes of twenty-four Appalachian women — most from the Tri-State area — who began their ballet lessons in childhood.

Free book with any order over $50.00!

Nov. 25 through Dec. 31: Receive a copy of Appalachian Christmas Stories with any website order over $50.00.

SHIPPING NOTE: To receive shipments by Christmas, please place online orders by Dec. 17. Contact the JSF directly at 606.326.1667 for express shipping options.

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HOLIDAY HOURS: Our store will be open for walk-in customers this holiday season! Monday, Nov. 25, through Tuesday, Dec. 31, noon to 3 p.m.

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Allan Eckert’s Winning of America Series

This Jesse Stuart Foundation best-selling series details accounts of frontiersmen and Native Americans and many dramatic events of the time period. Many years of research went into this popular series that also tells the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement.

Shop any of the 6 books in the series below, or BUY THE WHOLE SET!

Jesse Stuart Junior Books

Shop this popular book set for the young reader!

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Latest JSF News

Kentucky Book Festival returns in November

The 40th annual Kentucky Book Festival returns to Lexington this November. Weekday events are scheduled Nov. 1-5. The festival will conclude on Saturday, Nov. 6 with the Kentucky Book Fair at Joseph-Beth Booksellers. KBF features 140 authors who will sign books and participate in discussions. JSF Board member Cathy Roberts is among the featured authors and will sign copies of the Jesse Stuart junior book she edited, Bluetick Pig. [...]

By |October 12, 2021|Categories: Kentucky Book Fair|

Book of Matches: The Life, Murder and Family of an Appalachian War Veteran

In the 1930s and ’40s, Peebles, Ohio, was a sleepy farm town populated by good-natured, hard-working, religious and patriotic people who represent the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps ethos of rural Appalachia. And those people form the backdrop for A Book of Matches: The Life, Murder and Family of an Appalachian War Veteran, a book written by Robert E. Hawkins, who grew up in Adams County in the 1980s. [...]

By |October 12, 2021|Categories: Appalachia|

Regional Readers to meet Oct. 26; The Enduring Hills book focus

The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, October 26 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. The October selection is The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles. The Enduring Hills was the first of many novels Giles wrote in her lifetime. Based in part on her own [...]

By |October 11, 2021|Categories: Regional Readers|
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