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  • Touring Literary Mississippi

    by Patti Carr Black, Marion Barnwell ...
    By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours--through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast--this book captures the phenomenal abundance and diversity of Mississippi literature.More than a guidebook, this book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Touring Literary Mississippi

    by Patti Carr Black, Marion Garrard Barnwell ...
    By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours—through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast—this book captures the phenomenal abundance and diversity of Mississippi literature.More than a guidebook, this book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • All the Things We Didn't Say

    Two Memoirs

    by Marion Garrard Barnwell, Mary DuBose Trice Clark ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life WritingIn this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired by the memoir of her maternal grandmother, Mary DuBose Trice Clark, affectionately known as “Ganny,” the narratives, though separated by decades, are brought together to offer readers a unique and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fannye Cook

    Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist

    by Dorothy Shawhan ...
    Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society Outstanding BookConservationist Fannye Cook (1889-1964) was the most widely known scientist in Mississippi and was nationally known as the go-to person for biological information or wildlife specimens from the state. This biography celebrates the environmentalist instrumental in the creation of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission (now called the ... Read more

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    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

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  • Southern Writers

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