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Carnal Innocence

Carnal Innocence
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Innocence, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Nora Roberts, bestselling author of The Reef and Genuine Lies, mixes scorching passion with icy suspense in her classic novel of murder and infatuation in a southern town now available in hardcover for the first time. In the small...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Author(s): Tennessee Williams
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The...

Catfish Alley

Catfish Alley
  • Author(s): Lynne Bryant
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1931 onwards

A moving debut novel about female friendship, endurance, and hope in the South. Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider...

Club Dead

Club Dead
  • Author(s): Charlaine Harris
  • Location(s): Jackson
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): early 21st century

There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with – at least voluntarily – and that’s Bill. But recently he’s been a little distant – in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss Eric has an idea where...

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
  • Author(s): Fannie Flagg
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she...

Dominion

Dominion
  • Author(s): Addie E Citchens
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the town of Dominion, Mississippi, Reverend Sabre Winfrey, Jr. is more than a preacher. From his pulpit at the Seven Seals Baptist Church to the airwaves of his local radio station, he exerts influence over every aspect of...

Double Whammy

Double Whammy
  • Author(s): Gretchen Archer
  • Location(s): Biloxi, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Davis Way thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she lands a job as the fifth wheel on an elite security team at the fabulous Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. But once there, she runs straight into her...

Fat Man Blues

Fat Man Blues
  • Author(s): Richard Wall
  • Location(s): Clarksdale
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Present Day / 1930s

“Hobo John” is an English blues enthusiast on a pilgrimage to present-day Mississippi. One night in Clarksdale he meets the mysterious Fat Man, who offers him the chance to see the real blues of the 1930s. Unable to refuse...

Ford County

Ford County
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Ford County, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a...

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses
  • Author(s): William Faulkner
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1990s

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”...

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