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- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s/60s
Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
Rather than be ‘sivilized’ by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn – the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk – sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1997
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy – or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major...
- Location(s): Biloxi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side....
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim’s family, the only thought is...
- Location(s): Oxford MS
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the ‘unadoptable’ girls at the town’s orphanage,...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1927
Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him to small-town Tennessee where he oversees...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): early 21st century
In the corridors of Chicago’s top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years,...
- Location(s): Natchez
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of...
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