Nothing pairs better with a Kentucky road trip than a book written by someone who actually knows these roads.

Salt River hosts Friday After 5 events with live music, and has quickly become a place to gather, celebrate, and make memories together.

One book for you, one for a friend. Grab your next read, then grab something for the person who's always borrowing your books anyway. Half off makes it an easy yes.

Every reader has one. Some people keep it in a notebook by the bed. Some people have forty tabs open on Goodreads. Some people just have a stack of books on the nightstand that keeps growing sideways because there's no more room to grow up.

There's a particular kind of quiet that happens when the teapot arrives at the table. Conversation slows down. For a few minutes, nothing else matters except the steam rising off a fresh pot and the tiered tray of treats waiting to be shared. That feeling is exactly what Pinkies Out was built to give you, and now it's happening every week in two communities. Two Locations, One Experience Pinkies Out started in Shepherdsville and has since grown into something bigger: a year-r

Issue No. 1, July 5, 2026 The Official Publication of From the Ground Up Books Welcome to The Signal Welcome to the very first issue of The Signal! Over the years, From the Ground Up Books has grown into so much more than a bookstore. Between Pinkies Out Tea Parlor, author events, Weirdos in the Wild, Salt River Current, workshops, community events, and everything else happening, it became clear that we needed one place to bring it all together. That's why we created The Sign