​Good books make good readers. . . and that's what you'll find at the Jesse Stuart Foundation Bookstore. . . good books about Kentucky and Appalachian history, literature, and culture . The Jesse Stuart Foundation has a book for everyone at 4440 13th Street Ashland, and at jsfbooks. com. Wholesale and classroom discounts available. At present, we are the second largest publishing house in Kentucky and the major publisher of Appalachian books in America. As a regional press, we have become a sensitive interpreter of the hopes, dreams, and accomplishments of a great regional people. We have become your voice, too, speaking your unspoken thoughts, dreaming with you about things that you had never hoped to realize, and stirring ambitions within you that had long lain dormant in your soul. That's what books do.