The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
Presents a brief biography of civil rights leader Robert Parris Moses, providing information on his childhood in Depression-era Harlem, his work on the Algebra Project, his accomplishments, and his legacy.
A biography of the Medgar Evers, African American civil rights leader, discussing his childhood in Mississippi, his work speaking out for civil rights, and his assassination and the resulting trial.
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse is enraged to learn that her vampire lover Bill has betrayed her with his vampire ex-girlfriend, but when his boss tells her that Bill is missing and likely in danger, she finds that she still cares and enters a bizarre Mississippi club scene frequented by werewolves to try to find him.
A Chicago born young black man pays the ultimate price for speaking a few words in French to a white women while visiting relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.
inside the smash-mouth world of college football recruiting
Feldman, Bruce
2007
An account of the author's year spent inside the "war room" of Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron offers a close-up view of events leading up to National Signing Day 2007, when Orgeron and his Ole Miss staff picked twenty-five players from a list of one thousand names.
