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Just published this week: A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV writer; and a brand new Karin Slaughter thriller.

LGBTQ+ journalist Nico Lang told the story of seven American families with transgender and nonbinary teens in their book, "American Teenager."

The Louisville Free Public Library hopes to spend $2 million on thousands of books to shorten the backlog.

"The Fate of the Day" the second book in a trilogy of the American Revolution, focuses on the middle years. A time where the outcome of the war was hanging in the balance. He speaks about it Monday in Louisville.

Colm Toibin is an Irish author whose best selling novel, “Brooklyn” became an Oscar-nominated film. He has written a follow up to the story titled “Long Island.” Before his appearance Monday night at the Kentucky Author Forum, he spoke with LPM’s Bill Burton.

University of Virginia professor John Owen IV is the winner of the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for World Order for his book, "Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order."

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

Sebastian Junger will be the guest at the Kentucky Author Forum Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. He'll talk about his book with NPR podcast host, Rachel Martin.

"Lessons from the Foothills: Berea College and its unique role in America" studies the importance of what the school calls its, "eight great commitments."

There are so many great books to look forward to in 2025. But first, you'll want to catch up on these perspective-shifting titles from 2024, exploring art, the afterlife, nuns, nuclear war — and more.