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The optimist's daughter The optimist's daughter Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to … OL113982W
Hunting season Hunting season Nevada Barr Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous foehuman naturein Nevada Barr's New York Times bestseller, Hunting Season.The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippis Natchez Trace is swif… OL134401W
A Piggly Wiggly Wedding A Piggly Wiggly Wedding Robert Dalby The enchanting follow-up to Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly and Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly—a Southern charmer about second chances in love and life, and the odd—and oddly funny—events that bri… OL15189628W
Once a Princess Once a Princess Johanna Lindsey *Once Upon A Time...* In a rustic Missiissippi tavern, a beautiful exiled princess was forced to dance for the pleasure of others--unaware of her regal birthright...and infuriated by a magnificent… OL15622W
New mercies New mercies Sandra Dallas Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house hoping to forget her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt's unti… OL15827591W
Antiques flee market Antiques flee market Barbara Allan Moving back in with her mother, Vivian, Brandy Borne finds her life in the town of Serenity anything but serene, especially when their antiques booth at the mall is overwhelmed with holiday business … OL16069549W
Fishtale Fishtale Bauer, Hans Twelve-year-old Sawyer Brown, his sister Elvira, and friends head into the Mississippi bayou seeking "Ol' One Eye," the biggest, oldest, and meanest catfish around, in hopes of finding Sawyer's widow… OL16318178W
Freedom school, yes! Freedom school, yes! Amy Littlesugar When their house is attacked because her mother volunteered to take in the young white woman who has come to teach black children at the Freedom School, Jolie is afraid, but she overcomes her fear af… OL16515814W
The Ravine The Ravine James Williamson A compelling story, "The Ravine" evokes the South during the early years of the Civil Rights movement where a complex mixture of love and hate, ignorance and enlightenment, and guilt and innocence co… OL16607513W
Gathering of waters Gathering of waters Bernice L. McFadden The story is narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May … OL16704300W
Elvis and the tropical double trouble Elvis and the tropical double trouble Peggy Webb "It's two times the turmoil for mayhem magnet Callie, her curvaceous cousin Lovie, and Elvis, the King reincarnated as nothin' but a hound dog. This time they're finding a lot more than relics on an … OL17664191W
Ain't she sweet Ain't she sweet Susan Elizabeth Phillips The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friend… OL17709W
Inhuman (Fetch #1) Inhuman (Fetch #1) Kat Falls America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone f… OL17766175W
Sing, Unburied, Sing Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward **A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD** In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning *Salvage the Bones*, this singular American… OL17826879W
Scene of the crime Scene of the crime Carla Cassidy "A family tragedy brings Bo McBride to his Mississippi town two years after a devastating loss made him leave. Now he's back and only Claire Silver is ready to welcome him home. The sassy blonde teac… OL17880081W
The right thing The right thing Amy Conner On a scorching August day in 1963, seven-year-old Annie Banks meets the girl who will become her best friend. Skinny, outspoken Starr Dukes and her wandering preacher father may not be accepted by po… OL17897848W
Visible spirits Visible spirits Steve Yarbrough "The Mississippi Delta, fabled "South of the South," is replete with plantations carved from the wilderness, rich soil and King Cotton, with field chants and blues laments, violence and tragedy. In t… OL1898317W
In a Farther Country In a Farther Country William Goyen 182 p. ; 21 cm OL19381W
Mississippi morning Mississippi morning Ruth Vander Zee Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan. OL1966196W
A gift of bones A gift of bones Carolyn Haines Christmas comes to Zinnia, Mississippi--Sarah Booth Delaney must solve a case as the holiday approaches, in this new cozy mystery from Carolyn Haines. Christmas is just around the corner and Sarah Bo… OL19754730W
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