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New Stories from the South 1998: The Year's Best

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books: September 1998

Seller ID: 135345

ISBN: 1565122194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

THE ONLY ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY SHOWCASING THE BEST SHORT FICTION WRITTEN IN AND ABOUT THE SOUTH. With a preface by Padgett Powell. The thirteenth edition of NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH proves that literature from and about the South continues to evolve. Whether it's a surreal meditation by a man on night watch in contact with everything from space aliens to a charming Southern belle, or how life looks to two stock boys in a grocery store, or the stories hidden within the covert language of an art book, or the intricate jealousies that both cement and divide two couples, this newest collection of nin...
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New Stories from the South 1999: The Year's Best

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books: January 1999

Seller ID: 135346

ISBN: 156512247X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It was an anthology that began simply enough: as a way to gather together the best kinds of writing going on in the South. It was also a way, back then, for editor Shannon Ravenel to keep tabs on who was writing what. Some of those voices that she heard first are now well-known: Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Olen Butler, Marly Swick, Rick Bass, Abraham Verghese, James Lee Burke, Larry Brown.

Our goal is still the same-to find the most original and affecting stories. And this year, in our newest tradition, we're pleased to include a preface by Tony Earley, which calls into question the message ...
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Conversations with Will D. Campbell (Literary Conversations Series)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi: March 2018

Seller ID: 136854

ISBN: 1496818148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2009, these twelve interviews give insight to Campbell's unique religious beliefs and highlight pivotal moments of his career.

Will D. Campbell (1924-2013) was born poor in rural Mississippi and became an ordained minister when he was barely seventeen years old. After ser...
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All Shook Up: Mississippi Roots of American Popular Music

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mississippi Department of Archives & History: January 1996

Seller ID: 136976

ISBN: 0938896652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jackson Landmarks

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Junior League of Jackson Mississippi: January 1982

Seller ID: 136981

ISBN: B002CCP24S

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Journal of Mississippi History, Volume LIX, No 2 Summer 1997

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: 1997

Seller ID: 112888

ISBN: 281ALK1003182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Faulkner, fifty years after The marble faun

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Alabama Press: January 1976

Seller ID: 138007

ISBN: 0817376097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Former library book; front endpaper has been torn out. Binding is tight and dust jacket is covered with mylar cover. Some markings on text in book, but does not obscure any text.
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William Johnsonâ€™s Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: LSU Press: September 1993

Seller ID: 138009

ISBN: 0807118559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The discovery in 1938 of the diary and personal papers of William Johnson (ca. 1809-1851), a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi, made possible the publication of this fascinating volume. Johnson's diary offers a firsthand account of a former slave who rose from harsh circumstances to become a successful businessman. It is also an intimate portrait of life and social relations in a southern town in the years leading up to the Civil War.

A barber by trade, Johnson was also a landlord, moneylender, slave owner, and small farmer, and despite his color he became a prominent, well-re...
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Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes and Predecessor Firms - A History (Story of one of Mississippi's oldest and most prominent law firms)

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: G. Hewes: January 2002

Seller ID: 138366

ISBN: B003GDUZDA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The South: A Treasury of Art and Literature

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Assc: October 1993

Seller ID: 139167

ISBN: 0883635933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Greater Jackson MS Welcome Home

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Image Publishing: January 2004

Seller ID: 139232

ISBN: 0974703702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mississippi: An Illustrated History

By: Akin, Edward N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Windsor Pubns: October 1987

Seller ID: 127659

ISBN: 0897812255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Inscription on end paper from giver of book; signed by the author on the title page, inscription reads: 'For Gladys Bingham - Mississippi always onward!' Edwin N. Aiken, Christmas 1987
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Lee Bailey's Southern Food And Plantation Houses

By: Bailey, Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Clarkson Potter: March 1990

Seller ID: 139233

ISBN: 051757280X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Touring Literary Mississippi

By: Black, Patti Carr, Barnwell, Marion

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi: September 2002

Seller ID: 138000

ISBN: 157806368X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours--through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast--this book captures the phenomenal abundance and diversity of Mississippi literature.

More than a guidebook, this book includes capsule biographies and well over a hundred photographs of writers, their residences, and their literary environments. It also provides maps and gives explicit directions to writers'...
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Southern Stuff: Down-Home Talk and Bodacious Lore from Deep in the Heart of Dixie

By: Brooks, Mildred Jordan

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Avon Books: February 1992

Seller ID: 134393

ISBN: 0380764911

Condition: Used - Good

Greg Cartmell Mississippi Light

By: Cartmell, Greg

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Whitesands Publishing, LLC: January 2004

Seller ID: 126599

ISBN: 097483551x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Clinton (MS) (Images of America)

By: Chisholm, Chad

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing: January 2007

Seller ID: 138490

ISBN: 0738543543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Clinton, Mississippi, is the home of Mississippi College, the state s oldest existing institution of higher learning. Clinton produced statesmen such as Walter Leake, writers and artists such as Barry Hannah and Wyatt Waters, and modern celebrities such as Lance Bass and Mandy Ashford. Today Clinton serves as a bedroom community for Jackson. Clinton began as the Mount Dexter trading post on the Old Natchez Trace. The town was founded as Mount Salus in 1823 by Walter Leake, one of Mississippi s first U.S. senators and the third governor. Six years later, Clinton fell one vote short of becoming ...
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Mississippi Memories: The Early Years 1860-1939

By: Clarion-Ledger, The

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pediment Publishing: January 2000

Seller ID: 129320

ISBN: 1891395416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The East End Tea Room: Honky Tonk Fighters in the Second Reconstruction of Mississippi

By: Clarke, Hewitt

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Lone Star Press: January 2002

Seller ID: 138346

ISBN: 0964923130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Hometown Mississippi: An Address and Date Book

By: Cooper, Forrest

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi: October 1992

Seller ID: 138147

ISBN: 0878056084

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dream State: Stories

By: Crone, Moira

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd): September 1995

Seller ID: 127189

ISBN: 0878058133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Old South

By: DANIELS, Bennet and Else

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mallard Press: January 1990

Seller ID: 139170

ISBN: 0792452321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Architecture in Claiborne County, Mississippi

By: Douglas, Ed Polk

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss.: January 1975

Seller ID: 137889

ISBN: B0011V1RJ0

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Beluga (Nick Reid Novels)

By: Gavin, Rick

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Minotaur Books: October 2012

Seller ID: 123347

ISBN: 1250015227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A few months ago in "Ranchero," Rick Gavin's much-acclaimed Delta noir novel, Nick Reid and his compadre Desmond liberated some money from a nasty meth dealer, and now they need to launder it. After lending out a couple thousand dollars here and there, with hopes of getting a small return, all kinds of "investment opportunities" are coming out of the woodwork, and one of them has trouble written all over it.

The brother of Desmond's ex-wife wants a small sum to set up a scheme involving a trailer full of stolen tires. Which sets off all kinds of alarm bells for Nick, but Shawnica insists ...
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The Mississippi

By: Geus, Theodor

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky: October 1989

Seller ID: 137837

ISBN: 0813117135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi and Huckleberry Finn have stamped on the world's imagination for all time the picture of Mississippi River travel. Forever the big river will be locked in the ninteenth century, flanked by live oaks festooned with Spanish moss and peopled by steamboat pilots spinning gigantic steering wheels to battle treacherous currents, scalawag boys running away on jerry-built rafts, and handsome card sharps skinning their victims with their irresistible charm and appalling morals."

So writes Bern Keating in the introduction to this extraordinary...
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Jackson: The Good Life (Urban Tapestry Series)

By: Grayson, Walt, Ford, Gil, Carter, Marlo Kirkpatrick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Towery Pub.: June 1998

Seller ID: 133468

ISBN: 1881096572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Signed on front endpaper by Walt Grayson.
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Incidentals: Seven Years of Photography

By: Haien Gretchen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 2016

Seller ID: 116582

ISBN: 281ALK1003453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Light gray wraps with inlaid color illustration and dark gray lettering. 55 pp. Color illustrations. Portraits. Signed by Gretchen Haien on half title page in ink. Contains artist statement and artist chronology
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

By: Horne, Jed

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: July 2006

Seller ID: 139184

ISBN: 1400065526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize--winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city's collapse into chaos and its continuing struggle to survive. As the Big One bore down, New Orleanians rich and poor, black and white, lurched from giddy revelry to mandatory evacuation. The thousands who couldn't or wouldn't leave initially con...
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Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia

By: Humes, Edward

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gallery Books: July 2010

Seller ID: 135800

ISBN: 1439186650

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NOW UPDATED WITH EXPLOSIVE COURTROOM DETAILS. . . .

The riveting true-crime account of the heartbreaking murder that shook a Southern city to its corrupt foundation

BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: After the fatal shooting of one of the city's most prominent couples--Vincent Sherry was a circuit court judge; his wife, Margaret, was running for mayor--their grief-stricken daughter came home to uncover the truth behind the crime that shocked a community and to follow leads that police seemed unable or unwilling to pursue. What Lynne Sposito soon discovered were bizarre connections to the Dixie Mafia...
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Heritage of the South

By: Jacobson, Timothy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crescent: January 1992

Seller ID: 110860

ISBN: 0517689081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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