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Bestsellers
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine
- By: Donn Fendler, Joseph Egan
- Narrated by: Jacob McNatt, James Fouhey
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin Mountains, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages....
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Loved it!
- By chaser on 02-03-22
By: Donn Fendler, and others
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History Smashers: The Mayflower
- History Smashers
- By: Kate Messner
- Narrated by: Annette Amelia Oliveira
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and made friends with Wampanoag people who gave them corn. RIGHT? WRONG! It was months before the Pilgrims met any Wampanoag people, and nobody gave anybody corn that day....
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Wonderful account of what happened
- By person on 11-27-22
By: Kate Messner
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Gone West
- Bold Adventures of American Explorers and Pioneers
- By: Jim Weiss
- Narrated by: Jim Weiss
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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America's founders dreamed of a day when the United States would reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Follow their dream into reality, as Jim Weiss thrillingly tells these stories of explorers, Native Americans, and pioneers....
By: Jim Weiss
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Guts & Glory: The Vikings
- Guts & Glory, Book 2
- By: Ben Thompson
- Narrated by: Will Collyer, Matt Wolf
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Ferocious raids, heroic battles, larger-than-life leaders, and courageous explorers that changed the course of human history....
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Ben Thompson going fishing
- By SAMA on 11-26-17
By: Ben Thompson
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Sterling Point Books: Admiral Richard Byrd: Alone in the Antarctic
- By: Paul Rink
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of personal courage and dedication, all set against a backdrop of perhaps the harshest environment on earth....
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Extraordinary feat of endurance
- By Jane on 02-18-12
By: Paul Rink
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name
- And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Wacky, daring, just plain nuts - extreme sports lead to extreme fun in new stories from Gary’s boyhood....
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YES YES YES
- By Paul or Teresa Jackson on 06-04-23
By: Gary Paulsen
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine
- By: Donn Fendler, Joseph Egan
- Narrated by: Jacob McNatt, James Fouhey
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin Mountains, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages....
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Loved it!
- By chaser on 02-03-22
By: Donn Fendler, and others
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History Smashers: The Mayflower
- History Smashers
- By: Kate Messner
- Narrated by: Annette Amelia Oliveira
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and made friends with Wampanoag people who gave them corn. RIGHT? WRONG! It was months before the Pilgrims met any Wampanoag people, and nobody gave anybody corn that day....
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Wonderful account of what happened
- By person on 11-27-22
By: Kate Messner
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Gone West
- Bold Adventures of American Explorers and Pioneers
- By: Jim Weiss
- Narrated by: Jim Weiss
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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America's founders dreamed of a day when the United States would reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Follow their dream into reality, as Jim Weiss thrillingly tells these stories of explorers, Native Americans, and pioneers....
By: Jim Weiss
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Guts & Glory: The Vikings
- Guts & Glory, Book 2
- By: Ben Thompson
- Narrated by: Will Collyer, Matt Wolf
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Ferocious raids, heroic battles, larger-than-life leaders, and courageous explorers that changed the course of human history....
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Ben Thompson going fishing
- By SAMA on 11-26-17
By: Ben Thompson
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Sterling Point Books: Admiral Richard Byrd: Alone in the Antarctic
- By: Paul Rink
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of personal courage and dedication, all set against a backdrop of perhaps the harshest environment on earth....
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Extraordinary feat of endurance
- By Jane on 02-18-12
By: Paul Rink
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name
- And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Wacky, daring, just plain nuts - extreme sports lead to extreme fun in new stories from Gary’s boyhood....
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YES YES YES
- By Paul or Teresa Jackson on 06-04-23
By: Gary Paulsen
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Before Columbus
- The Americas of 1491
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A companion book for young listeners based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking best seller by Charles C. Mann....
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A Great Intro, Abridged and Edited
- By Chris Hummel on 10-24-20
By: Charles C. Mann
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Cuentos para niños que se atreven a ser diferentes [Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different]
- By: Ben Brooks
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Historias verdaderas de chicos asombrosos que cambiaron el mundo sin matar dragones. Un libro que todo papá debe regalarle a sus hijos....
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Me parece horrible,
- By Ana on 03-01-21
By: Ben Brooks
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History Smashers: Christopher Columbus and the Taino People
- History Smashers, Book 8
- By: Kate Messner, Jose Barreiro
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about Christopher Columbus, and learn all about the Taino people. Perfect for fans of the I Survived books and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales....
By: Kate Messner, and others
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South
- By: Ernest Shackleton, John MacKenna
- Narrated by: Michael Darbowe
- Length: 44 mins
- Abridged
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At five o'clock on the evening of November 21st, after the ice had drawn back like pall bearers at a funeral, Endurance slipped lower in the water, her stern pointing skywards....
By: Ernest Shackleton, and others
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Who Was Leif Erikson?
- By: Nico Medina, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own....
By: Nico Medina, and others
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Life on the Mayflower Ship in 1620
- History, Book 40
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Brian Downs
- Length: 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1620. We Pilgrims do not agree with the Church of England and decide to sail to America which is known as the New World. Ahead of us is a wooden cargo ship with no sails. We see a wooden mayflower carved and painted on the stern or back of the ship. I wonder what the ship is called?
By: Rich Linville
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Woodsong
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Gary Paulsen
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning creator of popular survival stories turns his attention to his own real life adventures in Minnesota and Alaska as he prepares for the grueling Iditarod sled dog race....
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Turn off the music!
- By Janet on 04-10-16
By: Gary Paulsen
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The JStu Survival Guide
- 100 Days to Conquer Your Fears, Shatter Your Limits, and Build Your Faith
- By: Justin Stuart, Andrew Scites, Steve Wacksman - illustrator, and others
- Narrated by: Justin Stuart, Andrew Scites
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Are you ready for the ultimate challenge to build up your faith? Join best friends Justin and Andrew from the hit YouTube channel JStu for this daring 100-day devotional that will test your limits, call for courage, and level up your adventure with Jesus.
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The best book ever
- By Mihai on 11-19-24
By: Justin Stuart, and others
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Ernest Shackleton: Going South
- Heroes of History
- By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
- Narrated by: Tim Gregory
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As adventurers from around the world raced to reach the South Pole and achieve other polar firsts in the early 1900s, outsider Ernest Shackleton and his motley expeditions would outshine even the British navy, becoming icons of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.....
By: Janet Benge, and others
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Who Was Marco Polo?
- By: Joan Holub
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Marco Polo was 17 when he set out for China...and 41 when he came back! More than 700 years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed....
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Good narration
- By Veronica Tift on 01-31-24
By: Joan Holub
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Dinosaurs for Kids
- The Most Fun, Cool, and Interesting Dinosaur Facts for Kids of All Ages
- By: Audio Education Academy
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered how fast a T-Rex could really run, or how much a Triceratops weighed? How about how long a Brachiosaurus’s neck is, or how high a Velociraptor could jump? This audiobook has all of these answers and more....
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Entertaining and educational
- By ziggy on 11-10-22
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Ladybird Audio Adventures: Volcanoes
- By: Ladybird
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith
- Length: 53 mins
- Original Recording
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On this adventure, we're going to encounter a phenomenon of nature—the volcano! We'll travel through the different layers of the earth to reach its core and learn about how scientist document changes over years and years....
By: Ladybird
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
- The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
- By: Jennifer Armstrong
- Narrated by: Taylor Mali
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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It's a survival story almost too incredible to believe, but it's the extraordinary true tale of endurance in the harshest environment on earth...
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Shorter account with some colorful voices
- By Levi on 05-02-03
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The Silk Roads
- The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Children's Edition
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the East married the West with a remarkable voyage at its heart - the journey along the Silk Roads....
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too easy to confuse with the full version
- By Alex on 01-10-23
By: Peter Frankopan
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Who Was Charles Darwin?
- By: Deborah Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle....
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Short, easy to understand life of Charles Darwin
- By Rick B on 02-18-22
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Race to the Bottom of the Earth
- Surviving Antartica
- By: Rebecca E.F. Barone
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. In 2018, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task: the first solo crossing of treacherous Antarctica....
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Two stories of attempts to reach the South Pole
- By #EmptyNestReader on 02-10-23
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2
- By: Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo
- Narrated by: Alicia Keys, Ashley Judd, Danai Gurira, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2 features 100 more bedtime stories inspired by the lives and adventures of extraordinary women, from Nefertiti to Beyonce....
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Love the stories but difficult to navigate chapters
- By EG&CBC on 12-01-23
By: Elena Favilli, and others
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Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind
- Bizarre and Brilliant Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture, and Much More! (Ageless Explorers Series: Fun Facts for Kids, Teens, and Adults, Book 1)
- By: Brice Brant
- Narrated by: Daniel Cryer-Muthedath Ryder
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind unveils a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. This isn't just a collection of trivia; it's a meticulously curated portal to the wonders of our universe, tailored for the eternally curious of all ages.
By: Brice Brant
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History for Kids: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Stacy Hinkle
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the most fabled and storied journey in American history. From 1804-1806, the first expedition across the North American continent was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson....
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Stopped short
- By Jordan River on 07-11-15
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Interesting Stories for Curious Kids
- An Amazing Collection of Unbelievable, Funny, and True Stories from Around the World!
- By: Cooper the Pooper
- Narrated by: Derrick Magolski
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Do your fantasy-loving kids find history class too boring? Do they wonder if maybe some really awesome stories from the past never made it into their library books? Absolutely! Get ready to unlock hours of engaging listening for your young one with this new collection of amazing stories....
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Amazing stories!
- By MS on 04-29-24
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Great Explorers
- By: David Angus
- Narrated by: Frances Jeater, Sam Dastor, Kerry Shale
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the frontiers of man's knowledge of the world....
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Love love love
- By bruce on 08-24-15
By: David Angus
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Wild Outside
- Around the World with Survivorman
- By: Les Stroud
- Narrated by: Les Stroud
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From surviving a frigid night in northern Canada to munching on grubs in the Australian Outback, Les Stroud’s passion for the outdoors has driven him to some of the planet’s most remote and beautiful locations. In Wild Outside, he invites listeners into his world....
By: Les Stroud
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Balto and the Great Race (Totally True Adventures)
- How a Sled Dog Saved the Children of Nome
- By: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog - until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish - and the closest supply is 650 miles away....
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very good read
- By Barry Rhodes on 04-18-16
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The Story of Salt
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the team that created the ALA Notable Book The Cod's Tale comes the fascinating history of salt, which has been the object of wars and revolutions and is vital for life....
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Nice snapshot for the young
- By IreneMBBT on 07-03-17
By: Mark Kurlansky