Author: Anthony Walton
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Summoning the full expanse of its rich and tragic history--from the subjugation of the Natchez empire to the Civil War, from the Ku Klux Klan to Civil Rights--and a huge roster of martyrs, bigots, writers, bluesmen, planters, and sharecroppers, black and white alike, Walton reveals both the Mississippi that was and the complex racial realities of the present day.
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395273999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Author: Barry Hannah
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555846424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick
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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034398
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, assesses the most vital concerns of the citizens, gauges how the state has changed, and beholds what the state is like as it enters the 21st century. 105 full-color photos.
Author: Antoine Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198218180X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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A novel in which a successful art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airport bar--a story that begins with his rescue and resuscitation of a drowning man with whom he becomes inextricably and disturbingly linked.
Author: David Crews
Publisher: Nautilus
ISBN: 9781949455304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: David T. Dockery
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi/Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
ISBN: 9781496803139
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The first comprehensive treatment of the state's fascinating geological history
Author: Michael Shoulders
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585361885
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Presents a children's counting picture book in poetry and prose based upon the history, heritage, and industry of Mississippi.
Author: Maryanne Vollers
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316914857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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An examination of a noted civil rights case involving the murder of an NAACP official and his killer's three trials draws comparisons between the case and the racial climate in the Deep South
Author: Mary Winstead
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786867967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Mary Winstead grew up in Minneapolis, captivated by her fathers tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a child, she visited her relatives down South, and her nostalgia for that world and its people would compel her to collect her fathers stories for her own children. But Winsteads research into her family history led her to a series of horrifying revelations: about her relatives ingrained racism, their involvement with the Klan, and their connection to the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.Writing with dignity, humility, and a profound sense of time and place, Winstead chronicles her awakening to painful truths about people she loved and thought she knew. She profiles her father, a man of remarkable charm and secretiveness. She traces her familys roots through post-Civil War poverty, Southern pride, and Jim Crow laws, exploring racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Most movingly, she details her own inner war, a battle between her love for her family and their untenable beliefs and practices.
