mississippi

This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who's ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.

After discovering his father is terminally ill, Marshall returns to Bienville, Minnesota, the place he never wanted to go back to. With two deaths occurring, Marshall teams up with his former lover to uncover the cities secrets and history.

A decorated war hero commits murder and his defense attorney tries desperately to help him.

Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the horrors of a KKK cross-burning rampage before she fully understands the importance her family places on having land of their own.

An introduction to Mississippi, providing information about the land and climate, natural resources, plants and animals, tourism, industry, goods and services, history, population, politics and government, cultural groups, sports, and arts and entertainment of the state.

After witnessing a murder by one of Chicago's toughest gangs, LeRoy flees his native city to hide at the home of his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi and must decide if he will risk his life to testify.

Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.

An introduction to the circumstances surrounding the murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who visited family in Mississippi in 1955.

"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, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe"--From publisher's description.

A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.