Published 1963, Reader’s Digest Edition #paperback #vintage #fiction #childrens #illustrated #mississippi #juvenilefiction

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Doc Stops A War: From High Water at Catfish Bend

- Softcover 
- In good condition- shows shelf and reading wear and has yellowing of pages 
- From a Smoke Free Home
- Genre: Romance 

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Wyoming

A Novel

A paperback rerelease of a popular title by the author of Sweet Revenge finds a small Mississippi town shattered by a serial killer who targets the community's most attractive women. (Romantic Suspense). Reprint.

Carnal Innocence

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#paperback #history #Mississippi #Grant #war #Union #Confederate

Missouri

A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

Presents a first installment in a trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg that follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful crossing of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering.

A Chain of Thunder

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #mississippi #johngrisham #firstedition #legalsuspense #an 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Convicted of the murder of a young mother in a 1970 trial that ended with his threat to seek revenge against the jurors, Danny Padgitt is paroled after nine years in prison and returns to the scene of the trial in Ford County, Mississippi.

The Last Juror

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##socialscience #history #mississippi #paperback 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A State In Conflict With Itself 

The Other Mississippi 

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#paperback #cookbook #mississippi #louisiana #vintage #vintagecookbook #bobbypotts

Virginia

Gourmet French and English Recipes From Louisiana and Mississippi Plantations and Paddle Wheelers

Cookin’ on the Mississippi 

Connecticut

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Daughter's Memoir

A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother's life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985. Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet's attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.

Memorial Drive

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#paperback #history #jimcrow #africanamerican #blackliterature #mississippi #rural #nonfiction 

California

The Classic Autobiography of Growing up Poor and Black in the Rural South

Anne Moody provides a first person account of growing up black in the rural south during the nineteen forties and fifties.

Coming of Age in Mississippi

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#hardcover #fiction #mississippi #suspensethrillers #johngrisham 

Pennsylvania

#africanamericans #autobiography #mississippi

A Record of Childhood and Youth

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years

Black Boy (American Hunger)

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#history #american-history #nonfiction #historical #nature #mississippi #1927flood #mussissippiriver #floodcontrol

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever. The flood brought with it a human storm: white and black collided, honor and money collided, regional and national powers collided. New Orleans’s elite used their power to divert the flood to those without political connections, power, or wealth, while causing Black sharecroppers to abandon their land to flee up north. The states were unprepared for this disaster and failed to support the Black community. The racial divides only widened when a white officer killed a Black man for refusing to return to work on levee repairs after a sleepless night of work. In the powerful prose of Rising Tide, John M. Barry removes any remaining veil that there had been equality in the South. This flood not only left millions of people ruined, but further emphasized the racial inequality that have continued even to this day.

Rising Tide

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"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ..." The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encompassed it for so many years suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest and the appearance of Jesse and Fletcher to the plantation as cotton pickers. These two brothers, the sons of the house servant Silva, awaken a vengeful seed within the Missus of the house as she plots to punish not only her husband but Silva's family as well. When the Missus starts flirting with Jesse, she sets into motion a dangerous game that could get Jesse killed and destroy the lives of the rest of the servants. Bernice walks the fine line between emissary and accomplice, as she tries her best to draw secrets from the Missus's heart, while using their closeness to protect the lives of the people around her. Once the Missus's plans are complete, families will be severed, loyalties will be shattered, and no one will come out unscathed. With a dazzling voice and rich emotional tension, Pale explores the ties that bind and how quickly humanity can fade and return us to primal ways.

Pale

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#hardcover #fiction #mississippi #johngrisham #suspensethrillers #legalthriller

South Carolina

#paperback #nauvoo #mormon #mississippi #religion #history #josephsmith


Florida

Nauvoo in Mormon History

     "A significant collection . . . that provides a depth and breadth
        of understanding reflective of the latest and best in Mormon history."
        -- Paul M. Edwards, author of Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History
        of the RLDS
      Who were the Nauvoo Mormons? Were they Jacksonian Americans or did they
        embody some other weltanschaung? Why did this tiny Illinois town
        become such a protracted battleground for the Mormons and non-Mormons
        in the region? And what is the larger meaning of the Nauvoo experience
        for the various inheritors of the legacy of Joseph Smith, Jr.'
      Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited includes fourteen thoughtful
        explanations that represent the most insightful and imaginative work on
        Mormon Nauvoo published in the last thirty years. The range of topics
        includes the Nauvoo Legion, the Mormon press, the political kingdom of
        God, the opposition of non-Mormons, the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, and
        the meaning of Nauvoo for Mormons. The introduction provides a critique
        of Nauvoo scholarship, and a closing bibliographical essay analyzes the
        historical literature on the Mormon experience at Nauvoo.
 

Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited

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#photography #greatdepression #history #mississippi #welty

Maryland

Mississippi in the Depression


Eudora Welty is among the very few authors who are acclaimed for their work in both literature and photography. In 1971 she surprised her readers with this important book, for in One Time, One Place many of them discerned for the first time that this revered writer was also a gifted photographer. Throughout her writing career, Welty's camera was a close companion. The one hundred pictures included here are her selections from many she took during the Great Depression as she traveled in her home state of Mississippi. These pictures are poignant images of human endurance. For her, looking back, they showed a record of a time and a place, an impoverished world that against great odds sustained a sense of community. Both black and white, the men, women, and children she photographed, unaware that they are coping with dire conditions, press onward with their lives. "The Depression, in fact," Welty says in her introduction, "was not a noticeable phenomenon in the poorest state in the Union." In the foreword to this Silver Anniversary edition of One Time, One Place, William Maxwell, Eudora Welty's dear friend and esteemed colleague in literature, offers an appreciation of this photographer's special genius and a loving glimpse into her artistic world.


One Time, One Place

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#hardcover #Mississippi##murder#historical#orphan#bootleg

Illinois

Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly

The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who'd been on the trail of a local bootlegger, they are astonished to find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.

Ingersoll, an orphan raised by nuns, is determined to find the infant a home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A strong woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she's the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the agents' disappearance. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows full well that he is an enemy who can never be trusted.

When Ingersoll learns that a saboteur might be among them, planning a catastrophe along the river that would wreak havoc in Hobnob, he knows that he and Dixie Clay will face challenges and choices that they will be fortunate to survive. Written with extraordinary insight and tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where they least expect it--in each other.

The Tilted World

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JOHN GRISHAM is the author of seventeen #novels. The Last Juror is his first novel since A Time to Kill to be set in Ford County, #Mississippi.

#hardcover #protectivecover #formerlibrarybook #americanhistory #mississippi #louisianapurchase

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

And the Making of a Nation

On a map, the Mississippi River cuts America neatly in half coursing from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and separating East from West. But the Mississippi is in fact the "spine of our nation," says Stephen Ambrose. It knits the nation together and connects the heartland to the world. It is our great natural wonder, a priceless treasure bought for a fledgling America by the visionary Thomas Jefferson just 200 years ago.  Distinguished historians Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, with acclaimed National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, explore the length of the Mississippi--from its mouth at Delacroix Island, Louisiana, to its source at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. The result is this lavish, entertaining, engrossing chronicle of the "father of the waters," which has shaped the history, the culture, and the very landscape of America.  Highlighted by Sam Abell's evocative contemporary photographs and wonderful period illustrations, artwork, documents, and maps, this extraordinary panorama of America's heartland offers a lively, informative journey through the history and the landscape carved by the mighty Mississippi.

Mississippi

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A time of unrest and drastic change.

Tennessee

When the discovery of a schoolmate's lynched body puts her own life in jeopardy, Alena is sent by her parents from her beloved Mississippi home. With thousands of other African-Americans, Alena begins making her way north to the Promised Land of turn-of-the-century Chicago. On the way she meets two men who will dramatically impact her life: James, a young African-American believer determined to establish a newspaper in Chicago, and Pearl, a man with questionable intentions. A stirring novel by an exciting new writer, Passing by Samaria beautifully shows readers the path to truth, purpose, reconciliation, and joy.

Passing by Samaria

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Texas

A tale spanning a traumatic single day follows Laurel Shields, who awakens in her small-town home to discover her husband frantically preparing for what he claims is an IRS audit, but she soon realizes that he has discovered the truth about her affair with another man.

Third Degree

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#paperback #western #military #forts #mississippi

Military Forts and Presidios and Posts Commonly Called Forts West of the Mississippi River To 1898

The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in any sense, so designated. The lists of posts are arranged alphabetically within the boundaries of present states. Pertinent information is included for each fort: date of establishment, location, and reason for establishment; name, rank, and military unit of the person establishing the post; origin of the post name and changes in name and location; present status or date of abandonment; and disposition of any existing military reservation. A map for each state shows the location of the posts discussed. A prime reference for historians, Forts of the West will prove useful to readers of western history as well.

Forts of the West

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#hardcover #suspense #thriller #quinncolson #mississippi #theforsaken #aceatkins #fiction #firstedition 

Massachusetts

County sheriff Quinn Colson is determined to find those responsible for lynching an innocent black man in Jericho, Mississippi 30 years prior, in the fourth book of the series following The Broken Places.

The Forsaken

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Ben Lucien Burman

Doc Stops A War: From High Water at Catfish Bend

Nora Roberts

Carnal Innocence

Jeff Shaara

A Chain of Thunder

John Grisham

The Last Juror

David Sansing

The Other Mississippi

Bobby Potts

Cookin’ on the Mississippi

John Grisham

The Last Juror

Natasha Trethewey

Memorial Drive

Anne Moody

Coming of Age in Mississippi

John Grisham

The Last Juror

Richard Wright; Jerry W. Ward (Introduction by)

Black Boy (American Hunger)

John M. Barry; John M. Barry

Rising Tide

Edward A. Farmer

Pale

John Grisham

The Last Juror

Roger D. Launius (Editor); John E. Hallwas (Editor)

Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited

Eudora Welty; William Maxwell (Foreword by)

One Time, One Place

Tom Franklin; Beth Ann Fennelly

The Tilted World

John Grisham

The Last Juror

Douglas Brinkley; Stephen Ambrose; Sam Abell (Photographer)

Mississippi

Sharon Ewell Foster

Passing by Samaria

Greg Iles

Third Degree

Robert W. Frazer

Forts of the West

Ace Atkins

The Forsaken

John Grisham

The Last Juror, the partner , the brethren