Locality/Memphis
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The Rainmaker
$10.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – Grisham returns to the courtroom and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed.
It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor’s shirt- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0345531930
- Language: English
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The Client
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb….
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a for- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0385339089
- Language: English
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The Reivers
$18.00 Add to cartOne of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741925
- Language: English
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Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
$17.99 Add to cartBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street thro
- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352137
- Language: English
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
$18.99 Add to cartAlice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.“–Bustle
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked th
- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1936976609
- Language: English
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A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartAn unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of rac- Author: Ash, V. Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0809068303
- Language: English
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Explorer’s Guide Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Great Destination
$23.99 Add to cartWith a strong focus on modern-day arts and music enclaves, as well as the storied sites where the blues got their start; hundreds of top-notch dining, lodging, and recreational recommendations; over o
- Series: Great Destinations Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail #0
- Author: Gage, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1581571011
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Memphis
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the little known and unknown rich heritage of Memphis, TN.
Step inside the fascinating annals of the Bluff City’s history and discover the Memphis that only few know. G. Wayne Dowdy, longtime
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Dowdy, G. Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1596298758
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Read moreMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Tony Kail traces Memphis’s colorful Hoodoo heritage from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke joints and Spiritual Churches.
Widely known for its mus
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137391
- Language: English
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Haunted Memphis
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Laura Cunningham expertly blends fright with history and presents the ghostly legends of haunted Memphis.
Much like its muddy riverbanks, the mid-South is flooded with tales of shadowy spirits l
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Cunningham, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596297123
- Language: English
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A Summons to Memphis
$16.95 Add to cartOne of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Taylor, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701176
- Language: English
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
$21.00 Add to cartThe story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pit
- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1608194167
- Language: English
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The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
$24.99 Add to cartBestselling author, James Earl Ray’s defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK.
William Pepper was James Earl Ray’s lawyer in the trial fo- Author: Pepper, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 772
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1510729623
- Language: English
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Secret Memphis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$20.95 Add to cartWhat happened in 1954 at the Chisca Hotel in downtown Memphis that sparked a worldwide musical phenomenon? How did an eccentric businessman living in a pink mansion invent the first self-service groce… [more below]
- Series: Secret
- Author: Whitfield, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1681062321
- Language: English
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
$17.99 Add to cartCoretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book – School Library Journal Best Book of the Year – Booklist Editors’ Choice – Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book – Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Gra… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Alice Faye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1629797189
- Language: English
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The Firm
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the master of legal thrillers, a page-turning classic of “suit-and-dagger suspense” (The New York Times): At the top of his class at Harvard Law, Mitch McDeere had … [more below]
- Series: Firm
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08, 1997
- ISBN10: 0385319053
- Language: English
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Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
$18.99 Add to cart*A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH*
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story? In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of ju- Author: Leveritt, Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743417607
- Language: English
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll
$33.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0316042730
- Language: English
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Naughty Girls
$18.68 Add to cartIvy Lee Jones and Candy Cane are a couple of sexy girls gone wild. Their first introduction came a bit premature due to a near fatal dilemma, but their next reunion was coerced and proved timely thank
- Author: Yvonne, Alisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 20, 2010
- ISBN10: 0974636738
- Language: English
