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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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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

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 Ranging from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2009, these twelve interviews give insight to Campbell's unique religious beliefs and highlight pivotal moments of his career.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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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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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

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

Pride of the Fleet: The USS Mississippi (1841-1997)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: MS Department of Archives and History:

Seller ID: 136975

ISBN: 281ALK1003860

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Stylus, Volume 61, 2011 (Millsaps Journal of Creativity)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 2011

Seller ID: 138347

ISBN: 281ALK1003867

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Governor's Mansion: A Pictorial History

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mississippi Executive Manion Commission: January 1975

Seller ID: 145308

ISBN: B003PY2VWS

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.,Brinkley, Douglas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: National Geographic: October 2002

Seller ID: 143761

ISBN: 0792269136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 ...
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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

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

By: Barry, John M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 1998

Seller ID: 140343

ISBN: 0684840022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lilli...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

By: Barry, John M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 1998

Seller ID: 145502

ISBN: 0684840022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lilli...
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Jackson: A Special Kind of Place

By: Brinson, Carroll

Price: $10.00

Publisher: City of Jackson: January 1977

Seller ID: 143333

ISBN: B0006CTXAU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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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

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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

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Singing His Song

By: Cheney, Winifred Green

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Winifred Green Cheney: January 1990

Seller ID: 141060

ISBN: B000BH8KX6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Signed and inscription by author. 'To my dear Robert, May God bless your life in every wonderful way and bring you peace of heart and mind. Lovingly, Winifred Green Cheney Feb. 8, 1993'
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Zeitoun

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: June 2010

Seller ID: 99667

ISBN: 0307387941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

National Bestseller
The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home...
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Mississippi River Country Tales: A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History

By: Frasier, Jim

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Pelican: November 2000

Seller ID: 144127

ISBN: 156554787X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The people who live in towns and cities along the Mississippi River in the southern United States are a special breed, steeped in 500 years of history as rich as the coffee they drink, or the soil where once the river ran.
Mississippi River Country Tales is a fast-paced, easy to read history that covers everything from the early conquistadors and the first Mardi Gras to Fannie Lou Hamer and Archie Manning, and covers the geographic region from Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana.
The book has received hearty praise from reviewers across the South:
" Mississippi ...
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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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