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Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding American history writ large. Using newly accessible sources, Park recreates the Mormons' 1839 flight from Missouri to Illinois. There, under the charismatic leadership of Joseph Smith, they founded Nauvoo, which shimmered briefly-but Smith's challenge to democratic traditions, as well as his...
83) The hidden gold
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
84) The redeemers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"One of the best crime writers at work today."--Michael Connelly The electrifying new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins's acclaimed series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless--voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got...
85) A gift of bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"As Christmas approaches, Sarah Booth Delaney must help find a pregnant young woman who has been kidnapped before something terrible happens on what should be the merriest day of the year"--
86) The empress file
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidd and LuEllen, a wining pair of lovers and liars, get embroiled in a deadly con involving false identities, small-town scandals, and big-time murder.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the 1862-63 battle for Vicksburg through the eyes of three children: ten-year-old Lucy, the daughter of a Vicksburg merchant; eleven-year-old Willie, the son of a minister; and twelve-year old Frederick, the son of Ulysses S. Grant.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi...
89) Native guard
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Language
English
Description
Natasha Trethewey's muscular, luminous poems explore the complex memory of the American South--history that belongs to all Americans. The sequence forming the spine of the collection follows the ''Native Guard'', one of the first black regiments mustered into service in the Civil War. In Trethewey's hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, a plaque honors Confederate POWs, but there is no memorial to these vanguard Union soldiers. ''Native Guard'' is both...
90) Hunting season
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Park Ranger Anna Pigeon answers a call to historic Mt. Locust, once a producing plantation and inn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway, the last thing she expects to encounter is a naked and very dead man. His body bears what looks like the brutal scars from an S&M ritual gone terribly wrong. When the deceased turned out to be the brother of a candidate for the office of local sheriff, a host of cover-ups, hidden agendas, old allegiances and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
92) The heathens
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 11
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run"--
93) The blind side
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
97) The help
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While visiting home from college, Grace Hale learned of her grandfather's legend: as sheriff in 1947 Mississippi, he saved a Black man from a lynch mob, only for the man to die during an escape. A deeper investigation, spurred by her studies on white supremacy, revealed a disturbing truth. Using a Carnegie fellowship, she delved into the story and discovered her family's narrative was skewed: the man's death was a lynching, challenging her perceptions...
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses events leading up to the removal of the Cherokee from their homelands, hardships faced on the Trail of Tears, challenges of the new territory in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee nation today.
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