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African American veterans Fiction Farm life Mississippi Fiction Mississippi Fiction Mississippi History 20th century Fiction Mississippi Race relations Fiction Murder Fiction Natchez (Miss.) Fiction Race relations Fiction Wilderness areas Mississippi Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Veterans FictionCrandall, 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.
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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 2013Iles, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ILECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Iles 2009Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ILEJordan, 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.
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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 JorPatterson, 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 PATTaylor, Mildred D
Summary: When she returns to her home in Mississippi after finishing law school, Cassie Logan becomes involved in voter registration drives and other aspects of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYHaines, Carolyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HAIJordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JORPatterson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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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 GRIWatson, Brad.
Summary: Having won and lost the woman he has loved since seeing her do a naked cartwheel in 1916, Finus Bates wonders if the colorful characters from their hometown hold the secrets to her elusive character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATOdell, Jonathan
Summary: Two young mothers have each lost a child, but they overcome their racial differences to bring about justice in a pre-Civil Rights Mississippi town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEFrench, Albert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRETaylor, 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 TAYIles, 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 ILETaylor, Mildred D
Summary: A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC TayloCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TAYJohnson, Deborah
Summary: Working for a prominent member of the NAACP in 1946 when a request comes from her favorite childhood author to investigate the murder of a black war hero, Regina Robichard travels to Mississippi, where she navigates the muddy waters of racism, relationships, and her own tragic past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJordan, 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 JORWiles, 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 WILLove, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVMorris, 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 NKRMcFadden, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFIles, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009