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No Good Deed

No Good Deed
  • Author(s): Ewan Lawrie
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Sequel to Gibbous House. Moffat’s further adventures in ante bellum USA.

North Toward Home

North Toward Home
  • Author(s): Willie Morris
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s / 1960s

With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural,...

Revolution

Revolution
  • Author(s): Deborah Wiles
  • Location(s): Greenwood, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1964

It’s 1964, and Sunny’s town is being invaded.  Or at least that’s what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi, are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote.  They’re calling...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Author(s): Mildred Taylor
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Why is the land so important to Cassie’s family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she’s black—to show...

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Sing, Unburied, Sing
  • Author(s): Jesmyn Ward
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power – and limitations – of family bonds. Jojo...

Sleep No More

Sleep No More
  • Author(s): Greg Iles
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series explores the dangers of obsession in this gripping psychological thriller. John Waters is a successful businessman and a happy family man–but his life comes crashing down around...

Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe

Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
  • Author(s): Jo Watson Hackl
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A Mississippi ghost town and an art mystery combine! How far would you go to find something that might not even exist? All her life, Cricket’s mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious...

Soil

Soil
  • Author(s): Jamie Kornegay
  • Location(s): Cameroon, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture. Within a year,...

Southern Man

Southern Man
  • Author(s): Greg Iles
  • Location(s): Mississippi, The American South
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A senseless tragedy When a brawl at a rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting in Mississippi, Penn Cage finds himself in a country on the brink of eruption. As the stunned cities of Natchez and Bienville reel, antebellum...

Sycamore Row

Sycamore Row
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21s century

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black...

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