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Grisham, John.

Summary: In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

Twain, Mark

Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Johnstone, William W.

Summary: "Ace and Chance Jensen serve on a jury that convicts a killer. The brother of the hanged killer comes to town with plans to slaughter the jurors one by one, but the Jensen boys don't plan to let him succeed"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOH

Sunmi

Summary: "Caroline Kim is feeling the weight of sophomore year. When she starts tutoring infamous senior Kimberly Park-Ocampo--a charismatic lesbian, friend to rich kids and punks alike--Caroline is flustered . . . but intrigued. Their friendship kindles and before they know it, the two are sneaking out for late-night drives, bonding beneath the stars over music, dreams, and a shared desire of getting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SUN

Ward, Jesmyn.

Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAR

Summary: This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Huckleberry 2005

Darraj, Susan Muaddi

Summary: Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAR

Cantrell, Julie

Summary: In Mississippi during the Depression, Millie Reynolds turns to a gypsies caravan to find where she really belongs and they help her unlock generations of shocking family secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAN

Taylor, Mildred D.

Summary: 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 Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAY

Lee, Lyla

Summary: "Determined to go to an elite art camp, young Korean American girl Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money, but when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end up sacrificing more than she bargained for to achieve her dreams"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEE

Scattergood, Augusta.

Summary: In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Scattergood 2012

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLI

Love, Jeremy.

Summary: Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into this fantastic and frightening alternate world. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2009

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOV

Walls, Jasmine

Summary: "It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WAL

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WAL

Love, Jeremy.

Summary: Lee continues her journey through the parallel world of Nawlins, accompanied by the blues-singing swamp monster Bayou, in a search for Brer Rabbit in order to find her kidnapped friend Lily and save her father from a lynching.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOV

Iles, Greg.

Summary: In Natchez, Mississippi, lawyer Penn Cage investigates a civil-rights murder which has been unsolved for thirty years. He discovers an FBI cover-up and that places his life in danger. By the author of Mortal Fear.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999

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Patterson, James

Summary: Successfully arresting Dominic "the Electrician" Cavello, an influential mafia boss, in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PAT

Shrum, Brianna R.

Summary: "Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn't know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs is the right tutor. Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. But a flunking grade in US History is threatening her acceptance to her dream school. All she needs is the right tutor. Margo agrees to help Abbie get her history grade...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHR

Grisham, John

Summary: Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the 1960s and were childhood friends. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith's father became a legendary prosecutor, and Hugh's father became the "Boss" of Biloxi's criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father's footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father's clubs. The...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC GRI

Ward, Jesmyn

Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WAR

Everett, Percival

Summary: "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC EVE

Jordan, Apple

Summary: While traveling to Troll Valley to celebrate the Crystal Ceremony, Anna, Elsa, and their friends help a young troll named Little Rock.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN JOR

Crandall, Susan.

Summary: Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion to an African-American woman at whose side she learns harsh lessons about segregation and family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crandall 2013

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