Joyce Claiborne-West

Mark Twain understood America's hopes and joys--and its fears too. From the big cities of the east to the wilds of the west, his words made it all come alive. We know Mark Twain as the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but it was so nearly not to be. As a boy, Twain lived by the banks of the Mississippi and dreamed of becoming a riverboat pilot, steering ships safely the length of America. When the Civil War brought his career to an end he picked up a pen instead. Children ages 6 to 11 will be delighted by the beautifully-illustrated story of how Mark Twain captured the spirit of America in its pioneering years, when the West was still wide open to exploration and anything was possible. Find out why he was a true hero of liberty: - Learn how Mark Twain got his pen name while piloting boats on the Mississippi River. - A work of art waiting on every page, crafted by a first-class international artist. - Explore key moments in his life that made Twain the author we know and love today.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Writing the American Story

Mark Twain

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John Grisham

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Ford County: Stories

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A Novel

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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Mildred D. Taylor

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A book that adds a new dimension to the saga of the Logan family in rural 1930's Mississippi.

Mississippi Bridge

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#paperback #Biloxi #Mississippi #bestseller #uncoveredsecrets #familymystery 

New Jersey

Julie first knew loss at the age of twelve, when her younger sister disappeared from their back yard - never to be found. As her once close-knit family grew apart, Julie's mother obsessively searched for the girl, and when her mother died, Julie took up the search. Then Julie meets Monica Guidry - a struggling artist and single mother who reminds Julie so much of her sister... Monica paints a vivid picture of her southern family through stories, but never says how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret: a heart condition that will soon take her life.

The Beach Trees

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Greg Iles

Iowa

Enjoying a happy marriage and fatherhood while remembering an obsessive love affair years earlier with a woman who subsequently died, John Waters encounters a woman with a secret only his ex-girlfriend knows, and when she, too, is killed, Waters's life is enveloped by guilt and suspicion. 100,000 first printing.

Sleep No More

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Book includes an essay by the author as well as a reading group guide.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a backdrop of the budding civil rights era. Includes reading-group guide. Reissue. A #1 best-selling novel.

The Help

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Richard Grant

Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize

Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.

Dispatches from Pluto

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#mississippi #truecrime #1940s #matricide #southerncrime #mississippidelta #racism

Maine

A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home.

In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.
 
In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry--who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons' home--tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.

Deer Creek Drive

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Allan W. Eckert

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One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history, Allan W. Ecker now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness.  Here is the powerful, compellingly human story of the white man's struggle to claim the rich land of the Northern Mississippi--ancestral home of the Fox and Sac tribes--from the legendary war chief Black Hawk.  Having killed his first enemy at sixteen.  This proud, brooding warrior extends a hand in friendship to the Spanish and the British, but harbors a lifelong hatred for the Americans, who once burned his home village.  Now charged by the president himself, the ambitious governor of Illinois Territory leads a brave and illustrious group of settlers and soldiers to wrest the beautiful land from a nation of destiny and a noble chieftain fated to be betrayed by his own kind.

Twilight of Empire

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Ace Atkins

Fans of Justified and James Lee Burke will love Mississippi lawman Quinn Colson in this Edgar® Award Nominee for Best Novel from the author of The Ranger...

When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, the new sheriff of Tibbehah County, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, what he finds is a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen empty cribs, and a shoe box full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town--but Colson's sure they'll come back for the cash.

Meanwhile, Colson's sister has returned--clean and sober for good, she says. His friend Boom has been drinking himself into oblivion and picking fights at the local bar. And his old flame is pregnant. But Colson can't focus on his personal problems. He and Deputy Lillie Virgil are convinced that Janet and Ramon have a taste for guns, drugs, and human trafficking. Soon Colson and Virgil find a link between the fugitive couple and a drug cartel that controls most of the Texas border, taking their investigation far beyond the rough hills of northeast Mississippi...

The Lost Ones

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The first novel of consequence about Washington in all of American writing, The Gilded Age is Twain's political roman a clef--a direct and caustic attack on Washington, Wall Street, and Westward expansion.

Life on the Mississippi

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100th anniversary edition - 1987. Inside cover shows severe tanning but otherwise in great condition. 

**Also being sold as part of a bundle.**

Arizona

The classic 1885 story of Huck and Jim on the Mississippi.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Lynne L. Hall

Alabama

Strange but True Mississippi

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Mississippi University for women alumni directory 1988

#hardcover #blackhistory #Mississippi #first #history 

Tennessee

Amazing Grace; with Charles Evers in Mississippi

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Published 1963, Reader’s Digest Edition 

Doc Stops A War: From High Water at Catfish Bend

Laurie Parker

Mississippi

An alphabet book about things in or relating to Mississippi, from azaleas and armadillos to Yazoo and the great Jackson zoo.

Mississippi Alphabet

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Utah

Eudora Welty

Vermont

Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral

The Optimist's Daughter

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Florida

Richard Wright

Jerry W. Ward

Light marginalia in first 70 pages, but pages and spine condition are perfect. 

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

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