Geographic Orientation/Mississippi
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
$21.99 Add to cartMen and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers f… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139890
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Read moreTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
$18.00 Add to cartBlues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginni… [more below]
- Author: Palmer, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 1982
- ISBN10: 0140062238
- Language: English
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Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize
Winner of an Army Historical Founda… [more below]- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1451641397
- Language: English
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Growing Weeders Into Leaders: Leadership Lessons from the Ground Level
$16.95 Add to cartAn inspiring look into the practices that cultivate greatness from the ground up.
- Author: McManus, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1683503309
- Language: English
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The Ranger
$22.00 Add to cartTHE FIRST NOVEL IN ACE ATKINS’ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING QUINN COLSON SERIES.
“In Quinn Colson, bestselling author Ace Atkins has created an American hero in a time when we need him.”–C. J. Box Afte- Series: Quinn Colson Novel #1
- Author: Atkins, Ace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 042524749X
- Language: English
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The Beginning
$17.95 Add to cartPatrick D. Smith, award-winning author of A Land Remembered, Forever Island, and other classic novels about Mississippi and Florida, wrote The Beginning in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights
- Author: Smith, Patrick D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1561644501
- Language: English
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The Last Juror
$20.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the ow… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0385339682
- Language: English
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Through the Storm
$9.99 Read moreSable, a slave on the run to escape the cruel man she’s been sold to is forced to betray the charming Union officer Raimond LeVeq, who had romanced her and championed her. Brought together again by fa… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0380798646
- Language: English
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New Mercies
$24.00 Add to cartNatchez, Mississippi, in 1933 is a place suspended in time. The silver and china is still dented and cracked from Yankee invaders. And the houses have names…and memories. Nora Bondurant is running a
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312336209
- Language: English
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Pale Horse Coming
$10.99 Add to cartPale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter’s beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chic- Author: Hunter, Stephen
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0671035460
- Language: English
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The Help
$15.99 Read moreThree ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, an
- Author: Stockett, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 719
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1594133883
- Language: English
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Joe
$18.99 Add to cart“Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” —The Washington Post Book World
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by Davi
- Author: Brown, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 1565124138
- Language: English
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Jewel
$22.99 Add to cartJewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle a- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Lott, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 19 1999
- ISBN10: 0671038184
- Language: English
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Swamp Man
$7.99 Add to cartGeorge Jackson was a “Swamp Man,” born and bred in the dark watery woods of Mississippi. He was a gentle young man who turned as deadly as a water moccasin after he saw what the four hill boys did to … [more below]
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0870679473
- Language: English
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The Last Juror
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In 1970, one of Mississippi’s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 y… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 385510438
- Language: English
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
$19.99 Add to cartA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After tw- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774051
- Language: English
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Absalom, Absalom!
$26.00 Add to cartFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner–also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Selected Sho… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 09 1993
- ISBN10: 0679600728
- Language: English
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The State-Line Mob: A True Story of Murder and Intrigue
$17.99 Add to cartThe story that could not be written till now
I have been collecting this informatin for more than twenty years. I was personally acquainted with many of the outlaws who nested in the dives along the T
- Author: Morris, W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 30 2001
- ISBN10: 1558538615
- Language: English
