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2012 KBF Schedule
*Please note a few changes to the above schedule:
- Harriet Lerner speaks at 10 a.m., not 10:30 a.m.
- Wyatt Townley’s book is titled The Afterlives of Trees.
-Our entertainment line up has changed and is as follows:
9 a.m. – Thad Beach, Children’s performer
10 a.m. – Kyler Carpenter, Children’s performer
11 a.m. – Kansas Youth Chorale
11:30 a.m. – Beverly Bernardi Dance
Noon – Dennis Lee Rogers, Native American Spirit Dancer
1 p.m. – Judy Coder
2 p.m. – Luke Broxterman
3 p.m. – TBA
Author Lineup
Thomas Fox Averill, rode
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Roy Bird, Little Ike
Children’s Non-fiction
Elizabeth Bunce, Liar’s Moon
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Joshua Charles, The Original Argument
Non-fiction, History
Julie Courtwright, Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Kelly Enright, Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Shane Evans, Underground
Children’s books
Greg Fox, Fresh, Recipes from RowHouse
Cookbook
Lisa Harkrader, The Adventures of Bean Boy
Children, middle grades
Katherine Karlin, Send Me Work
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Fiction, Short Stories
Louise Krug, Louise: Amended
Memoir
James Leiker, The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Western History
Harriet Lerner, Marriage Rules
Psychology/Relationships
Diana Lambdin Meyer, Myths and Mysteries of Kansas
Travel
Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Nonfiction
Judith Miller, To Love and to Cherish
Historical Christian Fiction/Romance
Chester Nez (with co-author Judith Avila), Code Talker
Non-Fiction, WWII
Mary O’Connell, The Sharp Time
Young adult novel
Marci Penner, 8 Wonders of Kansas Guidebook
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Travel
Matthew Polly, Tapped Out
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Sports, Non-fiction
Ramon Powers, The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Deb Raney, After All
Women’s Fiction
Mary Doria Russell, Doc: A Novel
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Novel
Tracy Seeley, My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Memoir
Molly Shapiro, Point, Click, Love
Novel
Wade Sisson, Racing Through the Night
Historical Non-Fiction
Brad Sneed, Cock a Doodle Doo. Creak. Pop. Pop. Moo
Children’s author/illustrator
Roderick Townley, The Door in the Forest
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Novel, Young Readers
Wyatt Townley, The Afterlives of Trees
Kansas Notable Book Winner
Poetry
Ralph Voss, Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
Nonfiction/American Cultural History
