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The optimist's daughter
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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 … |
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Hunting season
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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… |
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Ford County
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John Grisham |
Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham. His first collection of stories, it was published by Doubleday in the United States on November 3, 2009. The book contains 7 short stories: Bl… |
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The quiet game
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Greg Iles |
Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forc… |
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A Piggly Wiggly Wedding
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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… |
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Glory be
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Augusta Scattergood |
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating i… |
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Freedom school, yes!
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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… |
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Gathering of waters
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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 … |
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Drama
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Raina Telgemeier |
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's… |
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A chain of thunder
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Jeff Shaara |
Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain… |
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The healing
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Odell, Jonathan |
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes … |
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His small-town family
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Lorraine Beatty |
Nicki Latimer never expected to be back in her tiny Mississippi hometown - much less running a store with a baby on her hip. But when her father falls ill, Nicki will do anything to save the family b… |
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The right thing
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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… |
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The Nanny's Secret Child
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Lorraine Beatty |
Widower Gil Montgomery's new nanny has a secret. There's a reason Julie Bishop and Gil's daughter, Abby, connect so perfectly Julie is Abby's birth mother. Julie gave her daughter up for adoption yea… |
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In a Farther Country
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William Goyen |
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Mississippi morning
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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. |
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A gift of bones
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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… |
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Revolution
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Deborah Wiles |
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother… |
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The redeemers
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Ace Atkins |
The 5th "novel in [the author's] series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless-- voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, … |
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Rock-a-bye bones
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Carolyn Haines |
"Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are still recovering from the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club in Zinnia, Missippia, and Sarah Booth herself is still overcoming her grief at ending things wi… |
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