This weather has us all discombobulated here at the bookstore, summer is spring and fall is summer, and it is hard to tell which end is up anymore. In the spirit of lack of pattern, this reading list is all over the map. Drawing from several genres and with no consistent theme, this winter and early spring will be sure to keep you on your toes! Book club meets the last Tuesday of each month at 7pm at our Frankfort Ave. location. 

Founded in October 2014, Carmichael's Community Book Club was formed by the people and for the people. We select books quarterly reading the best titles around. Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month at 7pm. We do not meet November and December. Our club has over 20 members and we are growing daily! Come for one book or join us for all of our meetings. We provide a venue, a facillitated book discussion and refreshments. For more information about book club contact us at info@carmichaelsbookstore.com or stop into the store.

Founded in October 2014, Carmichael's Community Book Club was formed by the people and for the people. We select books quarterly reading the best titles around. Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month at 7pm. We do not meet November and December. Our club has over 20 members and we are growing daily! Come for one book or join us for all of our meetings. We provide a venue, a facillitated book discussion and refreshments. For more information about book club contact us at info@carmichaelsbookstore.com or stop into the store.

Frank Bill is the author of the novel Donnybrook and the story collection Crimes in Southern Indiana, one of GQ's favorite books of 2011 and a Daily Beast best debut of 2011. He lives and writes in southern Indiana. Please join us for a reading and book signing of his newest novel, The Savage.

A reading and book signing featuring four authors with new books from the legendary Larkspur Press. 12/7/17 @ 7pm, Frankfort Ave. Maurice Manning, Trina Peiffer, Frederick Smock, and Richard Taylor.

Bob Thompson is a writer, storyteller, engineer, handyman, tree hugger, and explorer of other dimensions. He is chairman and program director for E.A.R.S., which produces the Corn Island Storytelling Festival and the Kentucky Homefront Radio show. Please join us for a reading and book signing!

In today’s heated political climate, we commonly hear, “That’s not what the Founders intended” or “The nation’s Founders addressed that.” What did our country’s Founders really say—about liberty, democracy, the role of states, the military, equal protection under the law, First Amendment rights, and more? Please join us for a reading and book signing with Thomas Graham Jr.

“This is a rich book. One can read it all in a single sitting, or take a moment to read a passage or two at a time. . .”

—Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Please join us for what is sure to be a delightful conversation about the writing life between authors Fenton Johnson and Kim Edwards. 

“A writer with deep Appalachian roots rehearses his life story, positioning it under the most exacting of microscopes. . . . In taut, sometimes-tense prose, Johnson shows us so many varieties of human pain as well as many glimmers of hope.”

                  — Kirkus Review

Goat has always dreamed of having his very own space.

But Goat lives in a petting zoo, surrounded by hugs and rubs and grabby little hands.

Determined to find his perfect alone space, Goat escapes into the big zoo. But space is not an easy thing to find . . .

Please join us for a kid-friendly reading and book signing!

One day, Jesse Donaldson wakes up in Portland, Oregon, and asks his wife to uproot their life together and move to his native Kentucky. As he searches for the reason behind this sudden urge, Donaldson examines both the place where he was born and the life he’s building. 

The result is a hybrid—part memoir, part meditation on nostalgia, part catalog of Kentucky history and myth. Organized according to Kentucky geography, with one passage for each of the commonwealth’s 120 counties, On Homesickness examines whether we can ever return to the places we’ve called home.

Please join us for a reading and book signing!