Holiday Shopping!

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.

Other great Christmas ideas!

ONLINE SHOPPING: While our physical storefront remains closed to the public, we are continuing daily operations with in many cases same-day processing of online book purchases. Please considering SHOPPING THE JSF ONLINE.

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.

Find a book …

Use this search field for quick results!

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!

Did You Know?

The JSF has over 6,000 books on Amazon!

Can’t find what you’re looking for here? That’s OK …

Try our loaded Amazon platform but please make sure you are buying JSF books by shopping directly from the storefront link below and by making sure “JSFBOOKS” is showing in your Amazon search bar when you search for book titles or keywords (below is an example of what this looks like):

Learn more about Amazon Smile and how you can designate a portion of your eligible Amazon purchases to the Jesse Stuart Foundation:

Latest JSF News

Review: Jesse Stuart: Immortal Kentuckian

Reviewed by Elaine Fowler Palencia ~ More than 30 years have passed since the winds generated by Jesse Hilton Stuart’s astonishing energy blew through eastern Kentucky. The experiences of subsistence farming and teaching in one-room schools that he drew on to become “America’s most famous chronicler of rural life” (9), are mostly gone. The way of life that molded Stuart, the son of uneducated tenant farmers, is as unknown [...]

By |February 22, 2024|Categories: Appalachia, Jesse Stuart Foundation, Review|

Review: “Jesse Stuart: An Extraordinary Life”

Reviewed by Ted Olson ~ Most authors would hope to receive after their deaths a similarly high level of sustained interest from their readers as Jesse Stuart continues to receive from his. Stuart’s literary output is impressive, and some of his works are classics of Appalachian literature (for instance, the 1949 autobiographical book The Thread That Runs So True). One organization is primarily responsible for Stuart’s continued readership in [...]

By |February 15, 2024|Categories: Appalachia, Review|

Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars

February is Black History Month, and the Jesse Stuart Foundation recognizes the contributions of generations of African Americans with my review of “Hidden Heroism” by Robert Edgerton. This book investigates the history of African-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian Wars to the present. Edgerton chronicles black heroism in every U.S. conflict since the Revolutionary War, recalling the little-known Buffalo Soldiers and the black cavalry that [...]

By |February 14, 2024|Categories: James M. Gifford|

The Women with Silver Wings

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her students were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. When the U.S. Army Air Forces put [...]

By |January 29, 2024|Categories: James M. Gifford|

Icy Sparks is a fresh and original novel

Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s novel revolves around Icy Sparks, a young girl growing up in the hills of eastern Kentucky during the 1950’s. Icy Sparks is an unforgettable heroine in the tradition of Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The author lives in Kentucky and her novel became an Oprah Book Club selection. This is the sweet, optimistic story of a young girl who learns to accept and embrace what [...]

By |December 28, 2023|Categories: Appalachia, James M. Gifford|
Go to Top