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Black Diva of the Thirties
The Life of Ruby Elzy
Häftad, 2015
351 kr
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While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera. Although now in the shadows, she was a shining star in her day. She entertained Eleanor Roosevelt in the …
Delta Rainbow
The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson
Inbunden, 2016
321 kr
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Betty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922), a seventh-generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied her cultural heritage - and caused great personal pain for her parents and herself - when she became an activist in the civil rights movement. Never fearing to break the mold in her search for the ""best,"" …
Freedom Rider Diary
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Häftad, 2017
291 kr
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Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and …
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Häftad, 2018
217 kr
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This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars, …
Something Inside So Strong
Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage, and Change
Inbunden, 2019
332 kr
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In 1922, Mildred Pitts Walter was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, to a log cutter and a midwife/beautician. She became the first member of her family to go to college, graduating in 1940. Walter moved to California, where she worked as an elementary school teacher. After being encouraged by a …
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Inbunden, 2020
486 kr
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Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy is the story of a gay preteen, his seven siblings, their violent father, overwhelmed mother, unstoppable grandmother, and the sordid array of customers they encounter at their family's roadside motel, situated in the hot, prairie town of Eunice, Louisiana. When …
Deep South Dispatch
Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist
Häftad, 2020
291 kr
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Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of …
Power of One
Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic
Inbunden, 2020
413 kr
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For thirty-four years Sister Anne Brooks, a Catholic nun and doctor of osteopathy, served one of the nation's most impoverished towns and regions, Tutwiler, in Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta. In 1983, she reopened the Tutwiler Clinic, which had remained closed for five years, as no …
In Faulkner's Shadow
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2020
304 kr
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What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean …
Flights from Fassberg
How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace
Inbunden, 2021
352 kr
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Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the postwar world through a moving recollection and exploration of Fassberg, a small town in Germany few have heard of and fewer remember. Created in 1933 by …
Mama Chronicles
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2021
304 kr
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Growing up in the Delta town of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Teresa Nicholas believed that she and her country-born and -bred mother weren’t close. She knew little of her mother’s early life as a sharecropper during the Great Depression, but whenever she brought up the subject, her taciturn mother …
Political Animal
The Life and Times of Stewart Butler
Av Frank Perez
Inbunden, 2022
366 kr
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During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle’s money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to …
With Hawks and Angels
Episodes from a Southern Life
Av Joel Lafayette Fletcher III
Inbunden, 2023
422 kr
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With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life chronicles the fortunate life of a man born in the Cajun country of Louisiana and his interaction with the three distinct parts of his home state: the swampy, laissez-faire South where he was born, the red clay hills and piney woods of northern …
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
Inbunden, 2023
304 kr
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, Becoming Ezra Jack Keats covers the breadth of Keats’s life, taking …
To Dance, to Live
A Biography of Thalia Mara
Inbunden, 2023
333 kr
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Thalia Mara’s story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During …
Steps We Take
A Memoir of Southern Reckoning
Inbunden, 2023
306 kr
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Ellen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She’s also a seasoned southern woman, specifically a white Mississippi one. "Women do a lot for free, no matter the era, no matter the location," she observes in The Steps We Take: A Memoir of …
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Häftad, 2023
291 kr
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In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores—handling a …
Larry Brown
A Writer's Life
Av Jean W. Cash
Häftad, 2024
407 kr
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Larry Brown (1951–2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them—his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Rick Bass, and Kaye Gibbons, among others—he was neither a product of a writing program, nor did he teach at one. In fact, he did …
All the Things We Didn't Say
Two Memoirs
Av Marion Garrard Barnwell, Mary DuBose Trice Clark
Inbunden, 2024
304 kr
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In 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 …
Deep Roots, Broken Branches
A History and Memoir
Inbunden, 2025
333 kr
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Best known for her award-winning book The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum turns now to her own history in this multigenerational American saga spanning from 1840 to 1979. Through meticulous historical research, personal letters, diaries, and the …
Poe
Häftad, 2025
348 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American original—a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe’s life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves.And …
Invitation Only
A Delta Debutante Meets the Second Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2026
304 kr
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In 1963, the Mississippi Delta was exploding with racial violence. And yet, the Delta Debutante Club (DDC) continued with its celebratory season of festivities including dances, teas, and luncheons while civil rights activists were harassed, beaten, jailed, and lynched. As a reluctant and naïve …
Echoes of War
A Marine Squad Leader’s Vietnam Memoir
Inbunden, 2027
304 kr
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Echoes of War is a searing, immersive memoir that plunges readers into the brutal reality of small-unit combat in Vietnam in 1966. At twenty, Charlie Spillers led a Marine rifle squad through the rice paddies and hamlets south of Danang, where death waited in trip wires, sniper fire, and sudden …
Defender of the Citrus
A New Orleans Love Story
Inbunden, 2027
333 kr
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What does it mean to survive a pandemic? When the outside world turns lethal, how do we adapt to this new reality? In Defender of the Citrus, award-winning poet Benjamin Morris offers an intimate account of navigating the COVID years in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city where the party never learned …
Am I Dead Yet?
Memoirs of a Medic
Inbunden, 2027
1177 kr
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Am I Dead Yet? Memoirs of a Medic follows the remarkable journey of a young Mississippi paramedic who grows into an emergency medicine physician through years of intense, unpredictable, and often life-changing experiences in rural Mississippi towns, on the streets of small cities, and in the trauma …
Am I Dead Yet?
Memoirs of a Medic
Häftad, 2027
241 kr
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Am I Dead Yet? Memoirs of a Medic follows the remarkable journey of a young Mississippi paramedic who grows into an emergency medicine physician through years of intense, unpredictable, and often life-changing experiences in rural Mississippi towns, on the streets of small cities, and in the trauma …
German Boy
A Refugee's Story
Inbunden, 2000
425 kr
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What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir, the voice of innocence is heard.""This is great stuff,"" exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose.""I love this book.""In this gripping account, a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives to forge a path …
Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
A New Orleans Family Memoir
Av Randy Fertel
Häftad, 2015
313 kr
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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde, with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney …
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Inbunden, 2016
363 kr
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This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars, …
My Triumph Over Prejudice
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2016
403 kr
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My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when …
