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41) Kentucky Woman
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For single mom and ex-jockey Alexis Marsden, years of hard work are finally paying off. She has a solid nine-to-five job, her independence, and an avocation she loves-exercising horses. But she still can't give her ten-year-old son everything he needs, especially a father.Dutiful. Loyal. Honorable. Workaholic banker Jackson Breckinridge has spent his life meeting his parents' expectations and protecting his younger brother, the reckless kid who'd...
42) Kentucky Cowboy
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Professional bull rider Judd Romeo defies death for a living, but there's no escaping his grief when he returns home to settle his mother's estate after her death. She's the only one who encouraged him in his pursuit of his exhilarating but dangerous career. Going home means confronting his past, including the one woman he's never forgotten. Maybe it's time to extinguish the torch he's carried too long.Veterinarian Mandy Sullivan doesn't have room...
43) Kentucky Magic
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Nicki Sanchez sucks at magic. Fading spells, and total misfires drive her mad. Finding trouble excites her, and people need her help. Arrested for killing a man she never met, Nicki Sanchez, Magical Private Investigater, despairs. Nicki must prove her innocence before her powers are stripped. KENTUCKY MAGIC: Solutions, Inc. Story Collection One leads off with the riveting story, "Are You Killing Me?", a must read for all paranormal mystery fans.
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Kentucky Wildcats is a beginner's history of the University of Kentucky men's basketball team. Beginning with program's early years, readers will experience the team's highest and lowest moments and meet the key players and legendary coaches who made it happen. Short biographies, fun facts, informative sidebars, and revealing quotes and anecdotes combine with action-packed photographs to enhance the Wildcats' story, allowing your readers Inside College...
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“When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky. Here they used cold limestone spring water to make bourbon and found that corn produced even better yields of whiskey than rye. Thus, the licit and illicit branches of the distilling...
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Within these pages are vintage postcards, created between 1900 and 1950, that depict an area known across the country as Kentucky's Bluegrass. From its horse farms to its military forts and river commerce, this seventeen county region exemplifies the spirit and pride of Kentucky, and the images preserved on these postcards bring the history of this unique area to life.
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Who needs a hero when there's a scapegoat?Laurel Sapphire's dinner parties have never been a huge hit. But that all changes when her guests discover that it never warmed up after winter ... and it's now the middle of August. As word spreads from Wimbledon, Kentucky, to the rest of the world, which is also downright chilly, so does total panic, and suddenly Laurel's hometown finds itself at the epicenter of a global crisis.After a multinational summit...
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Scientific Breakthroughs in the Bluegrass State
Scientists and inventors who lived, worked or were educated in the Bluegrass State have made fundamental contributions to biology, chemistry, physics and technology. Biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan laid the foundation for modern genetics. Chemist William Lipscomb made important discoveries about the structure of molecules and chemical bonding. Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott is a leading expert on cosmology,...
49) Kentucky Derby
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This title explores the history of the Kentucky Derby. Readers will meet important people in Kentucky Derby history such as Meriweather Lewis Clark, Jr. Readers will learn about the race's dirt track at historic Churchill Downs. Readers will learn the rules of the race from the Kentucky Derby Championship Series qualifying events to the finish line. Famous horses such as Aristides, Regret and Citation, Secretariat and Seattle Slew are introduced,...
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Along the picturesque southern banks of the Ohio River, the African-American communities of Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties have provided laborers and entrepreneurs to aid in the economic growth of the region from the earliest settlements to today. Despite numerous obstacles and against seemingly insurmountable odds, African Americans in Northern Kentucky made significant contributions in many fields, ranging from music, medicine, and literature...
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William S. Burroughs, Jr.-son of the legendary outlaw author of Naked Lunch-often felt he was "cursed from birth." Following in his father's footstep in tragically uncanny ways, Burroughs chronicled his own experiences in the novels Speed and Kentucky Ham. Each presents a methedrine-inspired odyssey, and a vision of alienated youth at its most raw and uncensored.
Speed follows Billy as he hustles for dope and money, crashing in garbage-strewn apartments...
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Recipes with spirit for every meal and every season: “A great resource and an essential for unlocking the flavors of bourbon in the kitchen.” ―Tucson Citizen
Once thought to be only the tipple of southern gentlemen and the companion of confederate roughnecks, bourbon has gained a steady resurgence in popularity over the years with an ever-expanding and diverse audience. A beverage distilled almost
53) Kentucky Pride
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The Civil War left Clete Slater with three things: a price on his head for a crime he didn't commit, his new assumed name of Slate Creed, and a savage thirst for vengeance. To follow the trail of his brother's killers, he left his family, the girl he intended to marry, and his ravaged Texas home-town behind. The Union Army wants Creed, dead or alive. But even far from Texas in the wide-open gambling dens of New Orleans, the bluecoats are just a hoofbeat...
54) Kentucky Wonder
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Kentucky Wonder is a compilation of 70 poems written and read by Ronald Franklin Saia about love, family experiences, and the wonders of God. Some poems will bring tears, some poems will make you laugh, and some will draw you closer to our Lord. Most of all, this audiobook will bring you joy.
55) Burning Kentucky
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A young woman searches for the truth of the event that killed her family. When the truth is revealed, she must choose between love or revenge.
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Andrew Jackson fought a duel in rural Logan County, Kentucky. Jesse James robbed a bank there, and frontier lawyers began political careers. But a resentful Al Smith knew none of this when he got off the bus at Russellville, rented a room at a shabby hotel and asked for the nearest bootlegger. After losing two newspaper jobs in New Orleans, he was the new tramp editor of Russellville's little country weekly. He was thirty-one, and his life was in...
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Folks gave this small town its peculiar moniker as early as 1847, and they've been doing things their own way ever since. Beginning as an important stop for commerce along the Ohio River, the tiny town has endured floods, ice, economic upheaval and all manner of modernization, remaining a beacon of bygone ways in the present day. Always bucking trends, people here elected their first dog for mayor in 1998, sparking a tradition that led to three more...
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Kentucky has a rich culinary tradition with distinctive regional recipes that reflect the unique heritage of the Commonwealth. Ten years after the publication of Kentucky's Best: Fifty Years of Great Recipes, Linda Allison-Lewis's celebrated first collection, the book has become a staple in kitchens state- and nationwide. Now, Allison-Lewis is back with Kentucky Cooks: Favorite Recipes from Kentucky Living, presenting recipes handpicked from the pages...
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The Kentucky League of Cities is a nonprofit association that provides a number of services including legal research and information, legislative advocacy, training, insurance, loss control, and employee benefits to nearly 400 cities across the state.
Our job at the Kentucky League of Cities is to connect members with educational opportunities that will deepen your understanding of your role as a city official and help you to be the public servant...
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