Edited by Dianne Aprile • Designed by Julius Friedman Hardcover • 12 x 10 • 195 pages • Full color throughout The story of Louisville's largest parks project, the nearly 4,000-acre Olmsted-inspired Parklands of Floyds Fork, comes to life on the pages of a new large-format book, A Landscape and Its Legacy: The Parklands of Floyds Fork. Edited by writer Dianne Aprile and designed by artist Julius Friedman, this 195-page, fully illustrated hardcover volume covers the rich history of the landscape, the colorful characters it produced and the innovative process that led to the creation of the Parklands by 21st Century Parks, the Louisville nonprofit responsible for its development. Illustrated with full-color images by photographers Ted Wathen, John Nation and Bob Hower, the text features engaging essays by Aprile and dozens of lively portraits of Floyds Fork wildlife, plant life and landowners by naturalist Michael Gaige and former Courier-Journal columnist Bob Hill. The book tells the story of Floyds Fork in three parts. The first section, Vistas, is an introduction to the landscape, the natural history and the unique flora and fauna that make the Floyds Fork valley unique. From the Paleozoic fossils of the creek bed to the distinctive bark of the Eastern Sycamore, Michael Gaige provides the reader a taste of the depth and breadth of the natural resources found along Floyds Fork, and provides an introduction to the philosophy of interpretation that is known as "reading the landscape." The second section, Voices, is a collection of Bob Hill's stories about the people who have inhabited its valley, from the adventures of pioneer and namesake John Floyd to the contemporary stories of people from whom land was purchased. "Although the Parklands of Floyds Fork will provide an even greater future for Louisville, another part of its mission is to honor the river's past, and its namesake, John Floyd," said Hill. "Over the last four years I have been documenting that 240-year history while compiling the stories, oral histories and old photographs of families that grew up along Floyds Fork — some going back seven generations." And finally, the third section, Vision, is the story of how The Parklands of Floyds Fork was created, from an ambitious dream to a world-class reality, by a remarkable combination of public-private partnership and dedicated civic leadership. "This is the vision that will keep Louisville the City of Parks for the next century," said Chairman and CEO of 21st Century Parks, Dan Jones. "A project of this size could not be achieved without the help of many people, and perhaps its most striking characteristic is the strength of the partnerships that created it." About 21st Century Parks: 21st Century Parks, established in 2004, is responsible for fundraising, land acquisition, construction, operations and maintenance of The Parklands of Floyds Fork. The new, 4,000-acre parks system is comprised of four parks linked by a park drive, a world-class urban trail system and a 22-mile water trail, all tracing Floyds Fork, a classic Kentucky stream. In addition to numerous planned community spaces, The Parklands will preserve 80 percent of the land in natural habitat.

A Landscape and Its Legacy: The Parklands of Floyds Fork

Edited by Dianne Aprile

Butler Books

The sold out success of "Behind Closed Doors" inspired the books author and editor June Tafel to start a sequel, "Behind Closed Doors II". Like its predecessor, the second edition offers readers a unique opportunity to see inside many of Louisville's most beautiful homes. In collaboration with photographer Stephen Driver, the book seeks to reflect and record the finest in architecture, personal styles, design trends, accessories, and the taste of some of the most interesting citizens in Louisville.

Behind Closed Doors 2: Another Private Glimpse of Louisville Homes

June Tafel

Indian Blood: Finding Your Native American Ancestor, Volume I (Indian Blood Series, Volume I)

Richard L. Pangburn

Has a nice black & white picture section in center. Biography of the early years of Dolly's life.

Dolly Parton The Early Years Alanna Nash

Alanna Nash

La cocina cubana sencilla =: Simple Cuban cooking

Adams, Paul L.

Calling It Like I See It: True Stories and Tall Tales About Kentucky Sports

Cox, Earl

Local bicycle enthusiast Joe Ward believes that Louisville and Southern Indiana are among the best places in the world to ride a bike. In this handy travel-ready book, he describes 25 of his favorite bike rides around the greater Louisville area. For each of these rides and throughout the book he includes map directions, route sheets, travelogues of things to see and places to stop along the way, as well as important safety warnings route by route. For riders of all skill levels covering a variety of cycling environments, Wheeling Around Louisville is your guide to great local cycling.

Joe Ward's Wheeling Around Louisville: 25 Great Bike Rides Around Louisville, Jefferson County and Southern Indiana

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Joe Ward

Exercise & Fitness

"A Basketball Family Album For All Kentuckians" 
Hardwood Heaven chronicles the great coaches, the great teams and the great players from the state’s rich high school and college basketball history, concentrating principally on the years for which still photography, rather than film or video, was the main imaging medium – an era that begins at the turn of the century and ends in the middle of the 1960s. 
This is Kentucky’s Golden Age of basketball, an age that may be of special interest to longtime fans who remember when the game was still a game; when Adolph and Peck and Uncle Ed and Paul strode the sidelines; and when Clem and Cotton, Turner and Tyra, and Westley and Wah Wah played for their dear old alma maters and not much else.

Hardwood Heaven: Basketball in Kentucky 1895-1966

In over four decades of sportswriting, Billy Reed has covered virtually every major sporting event in America. But nothing means as much to him as the Kentucky Derby. He has become something of an authority on the race, not just because he loves it, but because he has covered it so closely for so long. He has met and written about most of the personalities, celebrities, trainers, owners, and horses that have added such drama and intrigue to the first Saturday in May. 
Now he has compiled 23 of his favorite stories, selected from his columns in The Courier-Journal, the Lexington Herald-Leader, and Sports Illustrated. In them you will read about the great horses – Northern Dancer, Secretariat, Alydar, Spectacular Bid, Canonero; the colorful trainers – Johnny Campo, Woody Stephens, Buddy Delp, and the current Three Amigos Bob Baffert, D. Wayne Lukas and Nick Zito; and interesting owners – Bob and Beverly Lewis, W.T. Young, and Arthur Hancock, to name a few. These are 23 slices of Derby life, told in inimitable Reed style. 
Complementing the stories is a Preface by Tom Hammond, Kentucky’s native son who now is one of the nation’s premier sportscasters and the host of NBC’s coverage of the Kentucky Derby.

My Favorite Derby Stories

Reed, Billy

You are invited to join Grady Clay with these selections from his long-running and popular public radio essay series, "Crossing the American Grain," on Public Radio’s "Morning Edition," broadcast weekly since 1991 by WFPL, Louisville, KY.  Longtime fans will recognize old favorites from Clay’s repertoire, and newcomers will delight in discovering his unique word-centric approach to an understanding of natural and man-made environments, history, urban design and the visual landscape.

Crossing the American Grain

GRADY CLAY

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