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- Location(s): Tupelo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
This is Tupelo, Mississippi, the town where Elvis grew up. Each year the people have a Best Elvis Competition that brings in thousands of his fans to the town. The hairdresser Callie Valentine Jones has the real “Elvis”, the...
- Location(s): Florida, Natchez, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
It is 1861, and Angel Woolsack is a Confederate about to breathe his last, as the Union forces make their inexorable approach. Rejected by his wife, his wealth no longer useful to him, he sets about recording his testament....
- Location(s): Clanton, Mississippi
- Genre(s): Crime
Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence…as he delivers...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner’s masterpiece. Although the novel’s complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book’s literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America’s finest...
- Location(s): Biloxi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A profound new novel about a paralyzed young man’s unexplainable recovery–a stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members — including Addie herself — as...
- Location(s): Louisiana, Mississippi, New York State, Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Civil War (19th Century)
At the birth of the Civil War, Scots-Irish Mabel McCrutchon is ready for love, but because her skin color reveals the family’s secret black ancestry, Mabel is ridiculed in public and her own mother excludes her from social gatherings....
- Location(s): Louisiana, Mississippi, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Civil War (19th Century)
As the Civil War threatens the serenity of the small Louisiana town of Spanish Springs, Monique Holmes overhears the gossip of jealous girls, suggesting that her heritage is not pure white. Her search for answers leads her to the...
- Location(s): Cahokia, Mississippi
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1922
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently — from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet,...
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