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 TAYWiles, Deborah
Summary: It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILIles, Greg.
Summary: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ILECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ILECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Iles 2009Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ILEIles, Greg.
Summary: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ILEPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATJordan, Hillary
Summary: Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JORMorris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle)
Summary: After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trails. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORNkrumah, Nyaneba
Summary: A novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NKRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NKRLove, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVLove, 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 LOVMcFadden, Bernice L.
Summary: The story is narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit. Forty years later, after the death of her husband, Tass returns to Money and fanstasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the waters of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFFair, Ronald L.
Summary: In an imaginary Mississippi county, a group of downtrodden Negroes write about their plight to the President of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FAIIles, Greg
Summary: Former prosecutor and bestselling novelist Penn Cage is now serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Frustrated by his limited ability to change the system, Cage is plunged into a deadly duel of wits with some bad guys after a childhood friend, Tim Jessup, now a card dealer, alerts him to illegal dog fighting and sexual abuse connected with a floating casino. Before Jessup can...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA M ILEIles, Greg.
Summary: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC ILEGrisham, John.
Summary: The suspense never rests when A Time to Kill's Jake Brigance fights the good fight once again. Often named an all-time favorite by John Grisham's legions of fans, the book that started it all gets a brand-new chapter. America's favorite storyteller returns to Ford County, Mississippi, where defense attorney Jake Brigance will have to fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICrandall, 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 CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crandall 2013Jordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JorJackson, Linda Williams
Summary: In 1967, when his teacher loans him a copy of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown is amazed to encounter a family worse off than his own and wonders if happy endings only come in books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JACTwain, 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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Summary: "In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 WATNnachi, Ngeri
Summary: "Voting gives people a voice in their communities. In the past, racist laws and practices kept Black American voices silent. No place was more affected by this racism than the state of Mississippi. In 1964, organizers and volunteers brought change to Mississippi. This movement to register Black voters became known as Freedom Summer, and it led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024