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2023 PAST EVENTS
Event with Jeff Roberson
Friday, November 22nd | 3:00pm
Signing at 3pm
Jeff Roberson signs, THE EGG BOWL. From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the latest battle in 2023, The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Third Edition updates the two previous editions to give the most accurate, in-depth overview of the Ole Miss–Mississippi State rivalry. For each game the narrative includes every scoring drive, every player who crossed the goal line, and every final score... Read More...
Event with John Anderson
Friday, November 22nd | 12pm
Signing at 12pm
John Anderson signs, THE BICYCLE LOGS OF WALTER ANDERSON. An explorer as well as an artist, Walter Anderson consistently kept logs and created artwork on his journeys. Whether he was walking through China toward Tibet, sailing a small boat out to camp on a wilderness island, or bicycling two thousand miles, his travels are fascinating and paint an image of a unique life. The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson gives an extraordinary opportunity to look through the eyes of an artist as he is becoming an artist... Read More...
Event with Anthony Thaxton, Amy Bryant Thaxton
and Robert St. John Friday, November 22nd | 12pm
Signing at 12pm
Anthony Thaxton, Amy Bryant Thaxton and Robert St. John sign, EUDORA. Renowned short story writer Eudora Welty is explored through intimate and charming interviews, both with Eudora herself and with family and friends. Seen through the backdrop of Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora is a revealing portrait of adventure, daring, humor and love as we meet a writer we only thought we knew.... Read More...
Event with Lynn Oldshue
Thursday, November 21st | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Lynn Oldshue signs, OUR SOUTHERN SOULS VOL. II. Renowned journalist and photographer Lynn Oldshue will release the much-anticipated Our Southern Souls, Vol. II on October 20, 2024. Three years after the success of the first Souls book, which sold out in 2021, Oldshue once again invites readers into the lives of everyday people she meets through chance encounters on the street. This captivating collection of 160 stories, originally published on the website of the same name, highlights tragedy and triumph and everything in between... Read More...
Event with Sherye Green
Tuesday, November 19th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Sherye Green signs, THROUGH A DARK VALLEY. Through a Dark Valley, Book Two in The Timothy House Chronicles, continues the story of Abbie Richardson and Keith Haliday—two individuals who have suffered incredible losses that could have destroyed their lives. Instead, moving forward on shaky legs of faith, they discover that hope can spring anew despite deep sorrow and heartache. Taking a leap of faith, Abbie has accepted a new job as a member of the Timothy House faculty. One primary determiner was Keith’s position... Read More...
Event with Steve Robertson
Saturday, November 16th | 1:00
Signing at 1pm
Steve Robertson signs, THE DUDE. Every year, a sea of baseball fans flock to Dudy Noble Field, a majestic cathedral that stands as the epitome of college baseball. The atmosphere is electric, charged with the passion and anticipation of the game, making it an experience like no other. The pinnacle of the Mississippi State athletic facilities, Dudy Noble Field, is a marvel. It has witnessed the gathering of 24 out of the 25 largest on-campus crowds in college baseball history, earning the endearing nickname “The Dude.”... Read More...
Event with Ken Murphy
Saturday, November 16th | 12:00
Signing at 12pm
Ken Murphy signs, MY SOUTH COAST HOME REVISITED. My South Coast Home: Revisited invites you to rediscover the enchanting beauty of the Mississippi Gulf Coast through the lens of native photographer Ken Murphy. This sequel coffee table book is a captivating visual journey, showcasing the timeless allure of the region, from serene beaches to vibrant coastal communities.... Read More...
Event with Hal Kitchings
Thursday, November 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Hal Kitchings signs, DOG-GONE, IT HURTS. Hal Kitchings, pastor of Easthaven Baptist Church in Brookhaven, Mississippi, is a lifelong dog lover and knows how difficult it is to grieve over a beloved pooch. Dog-Gone, It Hurts is a thirty-day devotional that mixes relevant scripture with gentle encouragement and includes the wisdom of thinkers, pastors, and celebrities like C.S. Lewis, Dr. Billy Graham, and Tim Tebow. Dog-Gone It Hurts will provide support for anyone who has lost any pet (not just dog lovers), and it can be enjoyed day by day as a true devotional, or in one straight read... Read More...
Event with Adam Trest
Tuesday, November 12th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Adam Trest signs, AZUL. Azul: A Story Told in Blue invites you into the world of artist Adam Trest, where nearly 50 pieces of his artwork come to life, all in shades of blue. The book takes you on a journey from the inspiration sparked by an unforgettable trip to Portugal, through the sketches, and finally to the stunning finished pieces. Alongside the artwork, Adam shares personal stories about his relationship with his dad and growing up in Mississippi, adding a heartfelt layer to the experience. It's a mix of art, memories, and the color blue that tells a deeply personal story... Read More...
STORYTIME Event with Robyn Wall
Saturday, November 9th | 10:00
Storytime at 10am | Signing to follow
Robyn Wall signs, I WORKED HARD ON THAT. As a spider, Kiara has always made webs to catch food, but one day, she discovers a web so beautiful that she’s inspired to spin a masterpiece of her own. So, Kiara starts creating, but even though she works hard on her webs, they are carelessly destroyed by others. How frustrating! It’s not until Kiara meets Orb, a spider who eats every web he weaves, that she gains a fresh perspective: the artistic process isn’t about the destination but the journey and the friends you make along the way.... Read More...
Event with Charles King + Michael Beattie
Thursday, November 7th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Charles King signs, EVERY VALLEY. George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by renowned choirs and orchestras, as well as by audiences singing along with the words on their cell phones. But this work of triumphant joy was born in a worried age. Britain in the early Enlightenment was a place of astonishing creativity but also the seat of an empire mired in war... Read More...
Event with Anne Dickerson
Saturday, November 2nd | 10:00
Storytime at 10AM | Signing to follow
Anne Dickerson signs, WATERFALL SECRET. When Rabbit is caught in a net, an unknown voice gives Rabbit a message to find help deep in the woods behind a waterfall. A mysterious figure in a hooded robe waits there to reveal a wonderful secret that will save Rabbit and his friends. Bravery and teamwork make for a happy ending. Only Rabbit ever knows the secret and, of course, the reader. Kindergartners through third graders should find it exciting to discover the secret too. The last page has a fun song that sums up the story... Read More...
Event with Abbott Kahler + John Evans
Wednesday, October 30th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Abbott Kahler signs, EDEN UNDONE. An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park. At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the searing heat, on the shore of a remote Galápagos island... Read More...
Event with Marie Still
Tuesday, October 22nd | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Marie Still signs, MY DARLINGS. A chilling suburban noir set in the deceptively serene Washington D.C. suburbs, where a respected philanthropist and PTO president's secret life as a serial killer enthralls readers seeking a deep, psychological thrill. No one was supposed to know. I've always been so careful. My Darlings, how did we get here?... Read More...
Event with Cynthia Reeves + Gerry Wilson
Saturday, October 19th | 12:00
Signing at 12pm | Reading at 12:30pm
Cynthia Reeves signs, THE LAST WHALER. THE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station when they misjudge ice conditions and fail to rendezvous with the ship meant to carry them back to their home in southern Norway. Beyond enduring the Arctic winter’ s twenty-four-hour night, the couple must cope.... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Friday, October 18th | 12:00
Signing at 12pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2025 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2025 calendar, titled "In the Year 2025", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt.... Read More...
Event with Bill Crawford + Lloyd Gray
Thursday, October 17th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Bill Crawford signs, A REPUBLICAN LAMENT. A political writer's compelling mix of history, political analysis, and personal angst. Bill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil Carmichael's vision for good government conservatism. A Republican's Lament tells of Crawford's dedicated efforts to implement Carmichael's vision, his keen observations of Mississippi's struggles, and his critical commentaries over the past half century..... Read More...
Event with James Wiggins + Vangela Wade
Tuesday, October 15th | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
James Wiggins signs, OUTLIVING THE WHITE LIE. An unflinching chronicle of one Mississippian’s reckoning with history. Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James Wiggins, who was raised in rural Mississippi, pairs thorough historical research with his own lived experiences. Outliving the White Lie looks squarely at the many untruths regarding the history and legacy.... Read More...
Event with Diane McPhail
This event has been cancelled. Diane McPhail signs, FOLLOW THE STARS HOME. A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who – 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow – braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississippi River and redefine America. The acclaimed author of The Seamstress of New Orleans brings to life Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt’s defiant journey of 1811 in this lush, evocative biographical novel for fans of Paula McLain, Gill Paul, Allison Pataki, and stories... Read More...
Event with Marshall Ramsey
Saturday, October 5th | 10:00
Storytime at 10am | Signing to follow
Marshall Ramsey signs, SAVING SAM. Banjo, the little brown dog who could, is back — this time on a mission to find his missing friend Sam. With the help of his niece Pip (and a giant new friend too), Banjo battles evil squirrels and discovers the power of friendship, teamwork, and courage. Award-winning cartoonist Marshall Ramsey brings to life an action-packed and heartwarming tale that reminds Banjo — and kids of every age — that families come in all shapes and sizes.... Read More...
Event with Erin Austen Abbott
Thursday, October 3rd | 5:00
Signing at 5:00 | Reading at 5:30
Erin Austen Abbott signs, SMALL TOWN LIVING. Big changes are taking place in how we live—and what we look for in the place we call home. From remote work options to the pull of wide open spaces and simpler lives, families, couples, and singles alike are looking away from major metropolitan areas and towards small towns. But where to go? How? When? There’s a lot to consider when you’re thinking about making the move to a small town—or just daydreaming about doing so. With the wisdom of an author... Read More...
Event with Wright Thompson + Anna Wolfe
Wednesday, September 25th | Happy Hour 4:30pm + Conversation 6:00pm
This event will be held at Cathead Distillery
Wright Thompson signs, THE BARN. A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till, laying bare the global forces that converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was hidden for so long. Wright Thompson’s family farm in Mississippi is twenty-three miles from the site of one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history, yet he learned of it only when he left the state for college. To this day, fundamental truths about the crime are hidden... Read More...
Event with David Magee
Tuesday, September 24th | 5:00
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
David Magee signs, A LITTLE CRAZY. From the father who won over critics and readers with Dear William, a memoir about his late son, comes David Magee’s own story of recovery from addiction—all while battling ADHD, depression, anxiety, as well as grief and a costly midlife crisis. A Little Crazy is a powerful call to action to embrace differences and create a life unbound by stigma and stereotypes, leading to redeeming purpose and joy. Adopted into a family that never quite fit, David Magee battled loneliness and a lack of self-esteem as a teen... Read More...
Event with Marion Barnwell + JoAnne Prichard Morris
Thursday, September 19th | 4:30
Signing at 4:30 | Reading at 5:30
Marion Barnwell signs, ALL THE THINGS WE DIDN'T SAY. 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 readers a unique and moving exploration of growing up in Mississippi and the intersections of family, motherhood, and self-discovery.... Read More...
Event with Anne Byrn + Malcolm White
Thursday, September 12th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00 | Reading at 5:30
Anne Byrn signs, BAKING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. Experience mouthwatering Southern baking—from humble home kitchens to innovative new Southern chefs. One of the world's richest culinary traditions comes to life through this essential cookbook from bestselling author Anne Byrn. With 200 recipes from 14 states and more than 150 photos, Baking in the American South has the biscuits, cornbread, cakes, and rolls that will help you bake like a Southerner, even if you aren't. ... Read More...
Event with Anthony Thaxton, Amy Bryant Thaxton
and Robert St. John Thursday, September 5th | 4:30
Signing at 4:30 | Reading at 5:30
Anthony Thaxton, Amy Bryant Thaxton and Robert St. John sign, EUDORA. Renowned short story writer Eudora Welty is explored through intimate and charming interviews, both with Eudora herself and with family and friends. Seen through the backdrop of Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora is a revealing portrait of adventure, daring, humor and love as we meet a writer we only thought we knew.... Read More...
Event with R.J. Lee
Saturday, August 31st | 12:00pm
Signing at 12:00pm
R.J. Lee signs, THE MAJESTIC LEO MARBLE. Leo Marble quickens in the womb during a Broadway show, but his life is lived in the Deep South in conservative Mississippi and laid-back New Orleans. He eventually emerges from the closet to become a journalist and advocate for gay rights and visibility. Along the way, he experiences heartache on an international scale, but keeps his indomitable spirit alive with show tune concerts at his spinet, eventually falling in love with a dedicated meteorologist with higher math skills... Read More...
Event with Julie Liddell Whitehead + Steve Yates
Saturday, August 24th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Julie Liddell Whitehead signs, HURRICANE BABY. In 2005, Wendy Magnum of Hattiesburg, Mississippi suffers remorse after having an intimate encounter with Judd McKay, a friend her husband, Ray, trusted with his family during Hurricane Katrina. Tommy Hebert turns to alcohol to handle what he saw in search-and-rescue in Metairie, Louisiana. Mike Seabrook’s relationships with his God and his wife... Read More...
Event with Snowden Wright + Matthew Guinn
Thursday, August 15th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm
Snowden Wright signs, THE QUEEN CITY DETECTIVE AGENCY. Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream. Meridian, Mississippi—once known as the Queen City for its status in the state—has lost much of its royal bearing by 1985... Read More...
Event with Scott Lenoir
Thursday, August 8th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Scott Lenoir signs, THE AMENDMENT. When south Mississippi banker and former sheriff’s deputy Blake Weaver learns of the arrest of Philip Mason, superior and abbot of the Christian Center for Peace and Life, he’s elated, sickened, and infuriated all at once. Mason, charged with tax evasion, money laundering, and fraud, loudly proclaims his innocence for the TV cameras. But Blake knows better. One of Mason’s victims was the late Sandra Weaver, Blake’s beloved wife. Sweet-talked and conned by Mason... Read More...
Event with Shad White
Tuesday, August 6th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm
Shad White signs, MISSISSIPPI SWINDLE. This riveting exposé details how a small team of auditors and investigators, led by the youngest State Auditor in the country, uncovered a brazen scheme where the powerful stole millions in welfare funds from the poor in a sprawling conspiracy that stretched from Mississippi to Malibu. Well-connected donors, highly placed officials, and popular public figures diverted tens of millions of dollars from the federal government's TANF — temporary assistance for needy families — program until a Republican auditor, his small team of dedicated investigators... Read More...
Event with Amanda Bellows + Andrew Lang
Thursday, August 1st | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Amanda Bellows signs, THE EXPLORERS. A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny. The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas... Read More...
Event with Ellis Nassour
Friday, July 26th | 5:00pm
Signing at 5:00pm
Ellis Nassour signs, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. In 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea they were about to embark on one of the most popular, boundary-pushing, and influential musicals ever. The show’s success was hardly assured at first: unable to secure enough funding, they initially resorted to just releasing its title song as a single. A full album followed to widespread acclaim, and only then could... Read More...
Event with Steve Yates + Julie Liddell Whitehead
Thursday, July 25th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Steve Yates signs, THE LAKE OF SOUTHERN HOLLOW. Casey, Tyndall, and Devon—kids from Southern Hollow subdivision—have been falling in and out of love with each other, and always at the wrong time. It’s a Thursday night in September 2019, their senior year. Anything seems possible. And Casey’s band, New Wave Vultures, packs them in on teen night at the Cedar Shake, a club on the square in downtown Springfield, Missouri. While all three feel trapped in... Read More...
Event with Shaun Hamill + Ellen Rodgers Daniels
Tuesday, July 23rd | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Shaun Hamill signs, THE DISSONANCE. From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances. "You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain... Read More...
Event with Eli Cranor + Snowden Wright
Thursday, July 18th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Eli Cranor signs, BROILER. Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone’s throw away from the trailer park where they’ve lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay... Read More...
Event with Larry Wells
Tuesday, July 16th | 5:00pm
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Larry Wells signs, GHOSTWRITER + FAIR YOUTH. GHOSTWRITER: Two people, principal and ghostwriter, collaborate on the controversial story of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and his alleged affair with Queen Elizabeth I. Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor (“Mrs. F,” 75), who was convinced that Edward de Vere... FAIR YOUTH:"Fair Youth" explores the legend that a love affair between Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 20, Lord Great Chamberlain, and Queen Elizabeth I, 37, produced a son, Henry, born in secret and given to a nobleman whose heir died in infancy. Acting as Lord Chamberlain in charge of producing plays for Elizabeth's court, Oxford circulates sonnets that idolize a "Fair Youth" and hint that he Read More...
Friday, July 12th | 6:00
Event with Anthony Thaxton + John Anderson
Tuesday, July 2nd | 4:30
Signing at 4:30pm | Reading at 5:00pm
Anthony Thaxton + John Anderson sign, THE BICYCLE LOGS OF WALTER ANDERSON. An explorer as well as an artist, Walter Anderson consistently kept logs and created artwork on his journeys. Whether he was walking through China toward Tibet, sailing a small boat out to camp on a wilderness island, or bicycling two thousand miles, his travels are fascinating and paint an image of a unique life. The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson gives an extraordinary opportunity to look through the eyes of an artist as he is becoming an artist... Read More...
Event with Boyce Upholt + Ernest Herndon
Monday, June 24th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Boyce Upholt signs, THE GREAT RIVER. A sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America. The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country, Mark Twain’s travels on the river inspired our first national literature, and jazz and blues were born in its floodplains and carried upstream... Read More... 
Ernest Herndon signs, PADDLEWAYS OF MISSISSIPPI. A celebration of the Magnolia State's exceptional waterways Mississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state’s geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and politics. Mississippi's paddleways—its rivers, rills, creeks, and streams—are its arteries, its lifeblood, and the connective tissues that tie its stories and histories together and flood them with a sense of place and impel them along the current of time. m... Read More...
Event with Kwame Moore
Saturday, June 22nd | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Kwame Moore signs, GAME OVER. On November 18, 2013, my life would be forever altered. Not only was my life upended, but my family’s as well, especially my kids. I was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a plant that is now being sold legally in 40 of the 50 states in the US. Over 20 years ago, we introduced medical marijuana to the state. It is a legally sold commodity now, but because of my felony conviction, I am forever barred in participating... Read More...
Event with Garth Risk Hallberg
Saturday, June 15th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm | Reading at 12:30
Garth Risk Hallberg signs, THE SECOND COMING. When thirteen-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has long struggled to see beyond himself. But then a call from New York makes him fear his daughter’s in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. And believing he’s the only one who can save her... Read More...
Saturday, June 8th | 1:00
Event with Frank Thurmond
Saturday, June 8th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Frank Thurmond signs, LOTTIE DENO. Thurmond's novel follows a girl becoming a woman in pre-Civil War Kentucky, through a romantic involvement in Detroit, and then into adulthood as she becomes the notorious gambler, Lottie Deno, in postwar New Orleans, San Antonio, and points Southwest. Her business acumen and fearlessness bring opportunities. Her love life takes several turns, and her character matures in often colorful, surprising ways.. Read More...
Event with Mike Frascogna + Joe Lee
Thursday, June 6th | 4:30 to 7:00pm
Signing from 4:30 to 7:00
Mike Frascogna + Joe Lee sign, THE SAINTS OF ST. MARY'S. Mike Frascogna Jr. was newly married, running his own business, and taking law courses in the summer of 1969, but he just couldn’t say no to a request from his parish priest to coach the St. Mary’s fifth and sixth grade elementary school football team in Jackson, Mississippi. As Mike knew, this was a volunteer position nobody else wanted. Supported by his beloved wife, Judy, a teacher at the school, the first-time coach vowed to make winners of a group of boys who weren’t little kids but not yet young men... Read More...
Event with Henry Wise + Matthew Guinn
Wednesday, June 5th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Henry Wise signs, HOLY CITY. Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his sheriff's department over his unwillingness to look the other way when an innocent man is arrested for murder. After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat... Read More...
Event with Garrett Ashley
Tuesday, June 4th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Garrett Ashley signs, PERIPHYLLA AND OTHER DEEP OCEAN ATTRACTIONS. Garrett Ashley’s debut short story collection, Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions, introduces a cast of characters both strange and strangely familiar: a father struggling to reconcile modern co-parenting with his past life as a yak, a brother and sister fighting to survive in an alligator-infested swamp, residents of a seaside town where the cadence of life and loss follows the heartbeat of the mythical Leviathan... Read More...
Event with Barry Willis, II + Tasha Helm
Saturday, June 1st | 10:00
Storytime at 10am | Signing at 10:30am
Barry Willis signs, THE MAGIC CASTLE. This book is for all ages, it was inspired by the author’s mother wanting his mind to stay imaginative during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone was instructed to shutter in their residences and schools were migrating to a virtual instance. During the pandemic, a story was born! The Magic Castle, is about a seven-year-old boy named BJ who attends school. He gets ready for school one day and begins to daydream in class as the teacher is calling for the children... Read More...
Event with Greg Iles
Tuesday, May 28th | 5:00 This event will take place at Cathead Distillery
Happy Hour begins at 5:00 | Reading at 6:30
Greg Iles discusses, THE SOUTHERN MAN. The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love. Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal... Read More...
Event with Mary Annaise Heglar + Ko Bragg
Thursday, May 16th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Mary Annaise Heglar signs, TROUBLED WATERS. In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to be family, Black women, and alive in a world on fire. The world is burning—and Corrine will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother died aboard an oil boat on the Mississippi River in 2013, Corrine awakened to the realities of climate change and its perpetrators. Now, a year later, she finds herself trapped in a lonely cycle of mourning both her brother and the very planet she stands on. She’s convinced that in order to save her future, she has to make sure that her brother’s life meant... Read More...
Event with Bob Drury
Wednesday, May 15th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Bob Drury signs, THRONE OF GRACE. The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous... Read More...
Event with Julian Randall + Dr. Nadia Alexis
Thursday, May 9th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Julian Randall signs, THE DEAD DON'T NEED REMINDING. This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture. The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather. ... Read More...
Event with Jeff Barry
Tuesday, May 7th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Jeff Barry signs, GO TO HELL OLE MISS. Big John, a former POW in WWII, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his wife learn their beloved daughter has been beaten to the point of death by the man Big John pressured her to marry... Read More...
Event with Aimee Nezhukumatathil + Nina Parikh
Thursday, May 2nd | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Aimee Nezhukumatathil signs, BITE BY BITE. From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from nature. In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. ... Read More...
Saturday, April 27th | 10:00
Event with Adam Clay + Todd Osborne
Saturday, April 27th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Adam Clay signs, CIRCLE BACK. How does one make sense of loss—personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with “a year meant to end all / those to come,” acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is “wide enough to contain what’s left / of hope.” In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of Circle Back wander grief’s strange and winding path. Along the way, the line between reality and dreams blurs... Read More... 
Todd Osborne signs, GATHERER. What does it mean to belong when all the foundations are cracked? This debut poetry collection works toward many answers, attempting to shape a life inside deep loss and abiding love. Todd Osborne navigates questions of home and family amidst the complexities of Southern culture and personal grief. At its heart, Gatherer seeks solace in a faith that eludes without entirely fading. In every setting... Read More...
Event with Max Hipp
Saturday, April 27th | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Max Hipp signs, WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU OPENS YOUR HEART. The characters in Max Hipp’s debut story collection howl with loneliness. They've reached the ends of their coping mechanisms and bank accounts and are making terrible life choices and trying to recover in the wake of them. We've got folks who can’t let go of the past, folks obsessed with sex and music, lovers stuck in dismal relationships, and clueless romantics... Read More...
Event with Candace Cox Wheeler
Thursday, April 25th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Candace Cox Wheeler signs, SUNSET IN THE SOUND. Mac Simpson, a fresh-faced eighteen-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, is studying electronics at Keesler Air Force Base as part of his four-year commitment to the country he loves. When Mac meets Vickie Burns, a gorgeous musician with a beautiful voice who dreams of sharing the stage one day with Hank Williams, he thinks he’s found the girl of his dreams.... Read More...
Event with Earl Swift
Saturday, April 20th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00
Earl Swift signs, HELL PUT TO SHAME. From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921—a crime which exposed for the nation the existence of “peonage,” a form of slavery that gained prominence across the American South after the Civil War... Read More...
Event with Mary Annaise Heglar
Saturday, April 20th | 10:00
Signing at 10:30am
Mary Heglar signs, THE WORLD IS OURS TO CHERISH. The world is a big, beautiful place full of natural wonders--everything from bees to rainfall can seem magical. The world is also changing. Climate change has already had a devastating effect on the planet. But it's not too late! If we work together and show a little more care, both for the environment and each other, we can keep this world beautiful. This moving debut from climate writer Mary Annaïse Heglar is perfect for budding environmentalists and anyone in need of a little hope for the future of our planet.... Read More...
Event with Clint Smith
Thursday, April 18th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Clint Smith signs, ABOVE GROUND. A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the... Read More...
Event with Margo Cooper
Wednesday, April 17th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Margo Cooper signs, DEEP INSIDE THE BLUES. Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues musicians, their families and homes, neighborhoods, festivals, and gigs. Her photographic work combines iconic late-career images of many legendary figures including Bo Diddley, Honeyboy Edwards, B.B. King... Read More...
Event with Gene Holiman
Tuesday, April 16th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Gene Holiman signs, ONCE A DELTA BOY, ALWAYS A DELTA BOY. In this book I am reliving memories of many families about the lives and times in the mid-Twentieth Century Mississippi Delta as I experienced them. Hopefully, these recollections can help readers recognize events and places that were integral to their own upbringing during these formative years. Or maybe inspire others to jog their own images of Delta life they remember. Read. Reflect. Laugh. Cry. Relive growing up in the Delta from your own perspective.... Read More...
Event with Meredith Coleman McGee
Saturday, April 13th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Meredith Coleman McGee signs, BILLIE HOLIDAY: JAZZ SINGER. This is a full-length biography about Billie Holiday, known famously as Lady Day, from her birth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to her childhood in Baltimore, Maryland, through her 30-year career as a singer, actor, and author by Meredith Coleman McGee. The late great Lady Day became the defining voice in jazz in Harlem, New York in 1933. Her 1939 recording of the protest song, Strange Fruit, made her a superstar, a race woman, and a target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics... Read More...
Thursday, April 11th 2024
Event with J.L. Holloway
Monday, April 1st | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
J. L. Holloway signs, NOTHING TO LOSE. Nothing to Lose tells the story of the businesses Holloway built (and sometimes lost); the cast of characters he encountered along the way (including well-known politicians, public figures, life-long friends, and eccentric acquaintances); the public highs and the embarrassing lows; and the marriage that was his saving grace. Holloway’s vulnerability, candor, and willingness to let the reader experience his most difficult moments adds a rare depth — and meaning — to this remarkable story... Read More...
Event with Anna Marie Valentine
Saturday, March 30th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Anna Marie Valentine signs, SIMPLY BEGIN.... Life is full of seasons, many of which keep us searching for more. Simply Begin explores the psychology of how and why we find ourselves feeling stuck in life. Our brains are hardwired for meaning, connection, and purpose; yet we can often feel held back by the tendency to doubt, overthink and cling to the shame of our past. Anna Valentine will take you on a journey of how to make sense of your story and use it to move confidently into your unique callings... Read More...
Event with Di Rushing
Thursday, March 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Di Rushing signs, THE DELTA IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR. After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back on their family farm near Merigold, Mississippi, with 350 acres and no real clue what to do. The couple decided to open the first winery in Mississippi, and with it, a successful business was born. Six years later, a small restaurant joined the Delta winery. Both businesses were thriving by 1990, with eight national award-winning wines, a beautiful vineyard, and a successful restaurant... Read More...
Event with Dale Beasley
Saturday, March 16th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Dale Beasley signs, What I Learned At Bastogne. IN THIS PREQUEL to his Mississippi Top Ten Best Selling Novel, What I Learned at the 'Zoo, set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Dale Beasley tells the story of the devilish and charming Dallas Crabtree who saw his well-laid plans waylaid, ambushed for a greater call. One phone call took the college senior away from his carefree life of fraternity parties and sorority formals to being surrounded by the German army in the Siege of Bastogne... Read More...
Event with Gerry Wilson
Thursday, March 7th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Gerry Wilson signs, THAT PINSON GIRL. In a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she is convinced, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous brother, and a dwarf aunt. When, instead, her lover returns with a wife in tow, her dreams are shattered. As her brother’ s violence escalates and her aunt flees, Leona must rely on the help of Luther Biggs... Read More...
Event with Viviauna Brown
Tuesday, March 5th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Viviauna Brown signs, DESERTS TO MOUNTAINTOPS. Deserts to Mountaintops: Choosing Our Healing Through Radical Self-Acceptance is a collection of nineteen women's voices, born out of Jessica's own struggle to love and accept her body, soul, and mind. Operating under the belief that we cannot heal fully in isolation, she has assembled a group of courageous women to generously share their stories... Read More...
Event with Ben Wynne
Saturday, March 2nd | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Ben Wynne signs, A HOUND DOG TALE. The release of the song “Hound Dog” in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. Ben Wynne’s A Hound Dog Tale discusses the stars who made this rock ’n’ roll standard famous, from Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton to Elvis Presley, along with an eclectic cast of characters... Read More...
Event with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Wednesday, February 28th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Maurice Carlos Ruffin signs, THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS. Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are an inseparable duo. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the pair spend their days dreaming of a loving future and reminiscing on their family's rebellious and storied history. When mother and daughter are separated, Ady is left hopeless and direction-less, until she stumbles into the Mockingbird Inn and meets Lenore... Read More...
Event with Walter Beamon
Saturday, February 24th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Walter Beamon signs, INMATES IN CHARGE. Inmates in Charge: Top Level Leadership, Lacking Vision, Corrupt, and Couldn’t Be Trusted is a compelling memoir of an African American chaplain’s journey in the US Air Force Chaplaincy, exposing racism within leadership. The author highlights his career in 1975 as one of just 26 African American chaplains on active duty in the entire Air Force Chaplaincy... Read More...
Event with Ronald Collins
Thursday, February 22nd | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Ronald Collins signs, TRAGEDY ON TRIAL. Tragedy on Trial reveals as never before the entire and shocking story of the 1955 trial of Emmett Till's murderers. Based on extensive research, and accompanied by photos of the trial and a "For the Record" Introduction by Lonnie G. Bunch, III (Secretary of the Smithsonian), the brisk narrative brings the story alive, revealing all its manipulations of justice, including... Read More...
Event with Stephen Mack Jones + Matthew Guinn
Tuesday, February 20th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Stephen Mack Jones signs, DEUS X. Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit’s Mexican town for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling—especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding?... Read More...
Event with Jason Garbo
Saturday, February 17th | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Jason Garbo signs, KOBOLD. Just like in the first novel, Hammerhead, you will not be able to put this fast-paced thriller down. From the first few paragraphs until the end, Garbo delivers in this sequel a story that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Garbo's writing style features realism and attention to detail. The reader can almost smell the gunsmoke and feel the vibration of the helicopter rotors... Read More...
Event with Joy-Ann Reid + Dr. Ebony Lumumba
Tuesday, February 13th | 5:00
This event is at the Mississippi Two Museums
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 6:00pm 
Joy-Ann Reid discusses, MEDGAR AND MYRLIE. Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation... Read More...
Event with Karl Marlantes
Saturday, January 27th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm | Reading at 12:30
Karl Marlantes signs, COLD VICTORY. Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly – but secret – cross-country wilderness race... Read More...
Event with Caroline Criado Perez
Wednesday, January 24th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Caroline Criado Perez signs, INVISIBLE WOMEN. Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time, in money, and often with their lives... Read More...
Event with Ellen Ann Fentress + Katy Simpson Smith
Saturday, December 23rd | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Ellen Ann Fentress signs, THE STEPS WE TAKE. 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 Southern Reckoning. As a good southern woman, Fentress felt a calling to help others. As a teenager, she volunteered as a March of Dimes quarter collector and sang hymns at a soup-and-salvation homeless shelter... Read More... 
Katy Simpson Smith signs, THE WEEDS. A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own... Read More...
Event with Robert St. John + Anthony Thaxton
Saturday, December 23rd | 1:00pm
Signing at 1:00pm
Robert St. John signs, MISSISSIPPI MORNINGS. Anthony Thaxton signs, WALTER ANDERSON. There is no doubt that Robert St. John is a breakfast guy. Between running his seven restaurants, publishing a weekly syndicated column, guiding dozens of groups through Europe every spring and fall, and working with his charity Extra Table, somehow Robert has found the time to publish his thirteenth book, Mississippi Mornings (it must be all those fantastic breakfasts!)... Read More...
Event with Nash Nunnery + Marshall Ramsey + Rick Cleveland
Thursday, December 21st | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Nash Nunnery + Marshall Ramsey sign, MAGNOLIA GRIDIRON CATHEDRALS. Nothing gets the blood pumping in Mississippi cities and towns quite like high school football, and first-time Mississippi author Nash Nunnery is ready to take you on a guided tour of 47 legendary high school football stadiums around the state that are truly worthy of being called hallowed ground. In Magnolia Gridiron Cathedrals, illustrated by Marshall Ramsey, the veteran sports journalist doesn't just give you the who, what, when, and where... Read More... 
Rick Cleveland signs, THE MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL BOOK. Veteran sportswriter Rick Cleveland and writer/publisher Neil White have partnered to produce a new coffee-table book, The Mississippi Football Book. Part narrative, part encyclopedia, and part Guinness Book of World Records, The Mississippi Football Book features the greatest teams, coaches, and players from Mississippi’s remarkable football past — and present. Rick Cleveland, the most decorated sportswriter in Mississippi history, wrote in his introduction... Read More...
Event with Michael Farris Smith
Wednesday, December 20th | 1:00pm
Signing at 1:00pm
Michael Farris Smith signs, SALVAGE THIS WORLD. There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley. In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence... Read More... 
Matthew Guinn signs, THE SCRIBE. On the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition, disgraced former detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city to track a serial murderer who seems to be targeting its wealthiest black entrepreneurs. The killer's method is both strange and unusually gruesome: on each victim's body, a letter of the alphabet is inscribed. Intent on shielding the city's celebration of New South industry, its most prominent businessmen the Ring pressure Canby to tie up the case... Read More... 
Wesley Shoop signs, MISSISSIPPI'S NATURAL HERITAGE. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Event with James Herring
Tuesday, December 19th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00PM
James Herring signs, THE SWITCHER. The son of passionate conservative Democrats, Jim Herring ultimately became the only state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to serve previously on the Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee. Given his family’s deep Democratic roots, this proved quite a journey! Jim’s father was a Mississippi state senator. His father-in-law’s college roommate was a future U.S. senator, Jim Eastland, and the two men were best friends for life... Read More...
Event with Thomas Wiley + Wesley Shoop
Monday, December 18th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Thomas Wiley signs, PUSHMATAHA. On the morning of September 27, 1830, on the banks of a small stream in present day Noxubee County, Mississippi, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed which resulted in the transfer of all remaining Choctaw land east of the Mississippi to the United States. Within two years, removal of the Choctaws to their new home in Oklahoma began. Of the sixteen thousand men, women, and children who made the six-hundred-mile journey... Read More...
Wesley Shoop signs, MISSISSIPPI'S NATURAL HERITAGE. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Storytime with Diane Pleasant
Saturday, December 16th | 2:00pm
Signing at 2:00pm
Diane Pleasant signs, THE CREEPY CREEK CHORUS. Join us in "The Creepy Creek Chorus" where animals speak, a deception unfolds and life lessons are discovered. Mr. Frog, Miss Spider and Mr. Grasshopper are coaxed to split up their musical endeavors with influence from an outside source. Arguing breaks up our diverse friends but in this adventure they learn that love is the glue that holds them together. Illustrated by the author in bright colors that stir the imagination, this adventure will captivate young readers and guide them through essential life lessons... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, December 16th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with John Ramsey Miller
Saturday, December 16th | 11:00
Signing at 11:00
John Ramsey Miller signs, MCCARTY JEWELRY. The 124 page coffee table book isolates and spotlights the art of these jewelry makers. Author, John Ramsey Miller has captured the beauty of the jewelry they produced from 1948-2015. Miller spent eight months photographing the jewelry and writing the text of this volume, which follows the book Miller produced on the pottery of the McCartys in 2016 that was created over the course of their remarkable career. Miller had a close relationship with the couple that began in the 1970s.. Read More...
Event with Robert St. John + Anthony Thaxton
Saturday, December 16th | 10:00am
Signing at 10:00am
Robert St. John signs, MISSISSIPPI MORNINGS. Anthony Thaxton signs, WALTER ANDERSON. There is no doubt that Robert St. John is a breakfast guy. Between running his seven restaurants, publishing a weekly syndicated column, guiding dozens of groups through Europe every spring and fall, and working with his charity Extra Table, somehow Robert has found the time to publish his thirteenth book, Mississippi Mornings (it must be all those fantastic breakfasts!)... Read More...
Event with Steve Robertson
Friday, December 15th | 12:00pm
Signing at 12:00pm
Steve Robertson signs, WHEN THE BOTTOM FALLS. In When the Bottom Falls, Steve recounts his path from drug-addicted convicted felon to best-selling author. With over 30 years of recovery under his belt, Steve shares a work of experience, strength, and hope in an attempt to help the still-suffering addict and those who love them. Addiction comes in many forms. The disease works to break down the host and leaves a path of destruction that most never recover from... Read More...
Event with Judy Turner + Sydney Thaxton
Tuesday, December 12th | 4:00 to 6:00
Signing begins at 4pm
Judy Turner + Sydney Thaxton sign, THE ADVENTURES OF RUDY THE DISTRACTED DOG. Follow the adventures of Rudy the Distracted Dog who wants to do the right thing but finds so many interesting diversions along the way. If you have a young child with ADHD, then this book with its colorful characters will speak to their challenge of keeping their attention on things that need to be done... Read More...
Event with Valencia Lloyd
Monday, December 11th | 5:00pm
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Valencia Lloyd signs, LOVE AT SUKKOT Issa Chambers is the executive assistant for the richest black man in Jackson, Mississippi. She's a hard worker, but she's given up on finding a faithful, Yah-fearing man. Dominik Yates is a member of the hated Abrahamic Elites, looking for a place to call home. When fate brings them together at the Feast of Tabernacles, things are electric between them. But with Issa's fear of the Abrahamic Elites and Dom's desire to keep his head down and avoid women, the odds seem stacked against their chances... Read More...
Event with Elizabeth Crook
Thursday, December 7th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Elizabeth Crook signs, THE MADSTONE. With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee vengeful outlaws, even as an unlikely love blossoms, in "a brilliant, beautiful page-turner" (Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Double Blind).Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger... Read More...
Event with Elizabeth Varon
Tuesday, December 5th | 5:30
Reading at 5:30pm | Signing to follow
Elizabeth Varon signs, LONGSTREET. An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle.... Read More...
Event with Christina Dent
Saturday, December 2nd | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Christina Dent signs, CURIOUS: A FOSTER MOM'S DISCOVERY OF AN UNEXPECTED SOLUTION TO DRUGS AND ADDICTION. Curious is the story of Christina Dent's learning journey after a life-changing experience with the mother of her foster son sparks curiosity about the best way to reduce harm from drugs. With addiction touching many families and potent drugs available almost everywhere, better solutions are needed. Curious offers one. Christina was born, raised, and homeschooled in a conservative Christian home in Mississippi. The proverbial good girl, she stayed away from drugs and earned a degree in Bible before leading ministries at her church. She's the last person you might think would give a TEDx Talk... Read More...
Event with Felecia Marshall
Monday, November 27th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Felecia Marshall signs, GRANT ME JUSTICE. On March 14, 2017, everything about Felecia Marshall's life as she knew it changed when her daughter Alexia was murdered. At the time, it seemed like a pit that she would never be able to ascend. But God! Reflecting on, and growing from, this experience, she penned the book Grant Me Justice and founded Grant Me Justice: A Voice for the Victim, where she has been given the privilege of connecting with women worldwide who have lost their children to violence.... Read More...
Event with Robert St. John
Saturday, November 25th | 12:00pm
Signing at 12:00pm
Robert St. John signs, MISSISSIPPI MORNINGS There is no doubt that Robert St. John is a breakfast guy. Between running his seven restaurants, publishing a weekly syndicated column, guiding dozens of groups through Europe every spring and fall, and working with his charity Extra Table, somehow Robert has found the time to publish his thirteenth book, Mississippi Mornings (it must be all those fantastic breakfasts!).... Read More...
Event with Dale Gray
Friday, November 24th | 12:30pm
Signing at 12:30pm
Dale Gray signs, SOUTH OF SOMEWHEREE. South of Somewhere is a unique culinary tour of beloved food blogger Dale Gray’s life to date. Her journey goes way back to South Africa on the outskirts of Cape Town. Dale grew up with a close-knit family who has resided in her hometown for generations, but it’s almost impossible to encapsulate her heritage in a few words. She describes the people of South Africa as a product of centuries of colonization, enslavement, apartheid, and intermarriage between people from Asia, Africa, and Europe—now compromising a colorful blend of Eastern, Western, and African heritage... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Friday, November 24th | 11:00am
Signing at 11:00am
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Sidney Thompson
Saturday, November 18th | 2:00pm
Signing at 2:00pm
Sidney Thompson signs, THE FORSAKEN AND THE DEAD All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defining hubris, but few rise from the ashes to achieve greater heights. In 1884 Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was arrested for murder and placed among his own prisoners in Hell on the Border, the infamous federal jail in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It was the single greatest setback of his illustrious career, but it wouldn’t be his last mistake or trial by fire... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, November 18th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Rick Cleveland + Neil White
Friday, November 17th 2023 | 4:30pm
Signing at 4:30 | Reading at 5:00
Rick Cleveland + Neil White sign and discuss, THE MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL BOOK. Veteran sportswriter Rick Cleveland and writer/publisher Neil White have partnered to produce a new coffee-table book, The Mississippi Football Book. Part narrative, part encyclopedia, and part Guinness Book of World Records, The Mississippi Football Book features the greatest teams, coaches, and players from Mississippi’s remarkable football past — and present. Rick Cleveland, the most decorated sportswriter in Mississippi history, wrote in his introduction... Read More...
Event with Ellen Ann Fentress + Lauren Rhoades
Thursday, November 16th 2023 | 5:00pm
Signing begins at 5:00pm
Ellen Ann Fentress + Lauren Rhoades discuss, THE STEPS WE TAKE. 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 Southern Reckoning. As a good southern woman, Fentress felt a calling to help others. As a teenager, she volunteered as a March of Dimes quarter collector and sang hymns at a soup-and-salvation homeless shelter... Read More...
Event with Grace Elizabeth Hale
Wednesday, November 15th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Grace Elizabeth Hale signs, IN THE PINES. In this “courageous and compelling … essential and critically important” book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff—a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America... Read More...
Event with Tom Clavin
Tuesday, November 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Tom Clavin signs, THE LAST OUTLAWS. The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves, before graduating to robbing banks and trains... Read More...
Event with Susan Cleland + Sherye Green
Thursday, November 9th 2023 | 5:00pm
Signing begins at 5:00pm
Susan Cleland + Sherye Green sign, MISSION VIGILANT. Susan Cleland found herself on a new life path, one she would never have willingly taken, following the loss of her Air Force veteran son, Michael Ryan Vinson, on June 9, 2019. As a result of this devastating tragedy, Susan has made it her mission to share the lessons God taught her in the wake of Michael's death. Even though Susan and her family will never fully recover from the emotional wounds caused by grief and deep sorrow, she offers encouragement, hope, and purpose to other survivors of veteran suicide... Read More...
Event with Jesmyn Ward + Margaret McMullan
Saturday, November 4th | 2:00
This event will take place at Millsaps College
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex | Recital Hall 
Jesmyn Ward discusses, LET US DESCEND. Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother... Read More...
Event with Kacey Kowars
Thursday, November 2nd | 4:00pm
Event begins at 4:00pm | Reading to follow
Kacey Kowars signs, CHASING THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT A literary biography of the life of Walter Tevis; author of the Queen's Gambit, The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Color of Money among others... Read More...
Event with Sarah Francis Hardy
Saturday, October 21st | 10:30
Signing + Storytime at 10:30AM
Sarah Frances Hardy signs, ONE MISSISSIPPI. Based on “One Mississippi,” the newly-proclaimed official state song of Mississippi, by award-winning performer Steve Azar, and illustrated by award-winning children’s book author Sarah Frances Hardy.... Read More...
Event with Wesley L. Shoop
Saturday, October 14th | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Wesley L. Shoop signs, Mississippi's Natural Heritage. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Event with Ann Dickerson
Saturday, October 14th | 10:30
Signing + Storytime at 10:30AM
Ann Dickerson signs, HALLOWEEN MAGIC. Ann Dickerson has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Southern Miss and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Mississippi College. She taught English before her children were born. Halloween Magic began in the early 2000s as letters in installments mailed to out of state grandchildren. For the grandchildren living in the Jackson area, she visited their kindergarten class and presented the story with props. The story reflects Ann’s own fond childhood memories when Halloween was a simpler... Read More...
Event with Loki Mulholland + Joan Truampuer Mulholland
Tuesday, October 10th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Loki Mulholland and Joan Truampuer Mulholland sign, GET BACK TO THE COUNTER. Her Freedom Rider mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. By the time she was 23 years old, Joan participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations. From her cell on death row to the infamous Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, Joan helped change the world. Through highs and lows, victory and death, her story is captured in seven core principles we all can harness to get back to the counter no matter how many times life pulls us off... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, October 7th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Ron Rash
Friday, September 29th 2023 | 5:00
This event will take place at The Eudora Welty House
Ron Rash signs, THE CARETAKER. It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob’s wife, Naomi, as well... Read More...
Event with Judith Reifsteck
Thursday, September 28th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Judith Reifsteck signs, MEMORIED AND STORIED. A meaningful form of racial justice advocacy leading to social change through rituals of remembrance. Memoried and Storied moves beyond the outrage and horror of Post-Civil War lynchings by sharing details about the victims' lives, saying their names, and bringing compassion and healing to their memory through multi-racial, multi-generational, community-led rituals of remembrance. Full-color photos enhance the narrative depicting historical monuments, events, people of the communities, and families of the victims... Read More...
Event with Rick Cleveland + Neil White
Saturday, September 23rd 2023 | 12:00pm
Signing at 12pm
Rick Cleveland + Neil White sign, THE MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL BOOK. Veteran sportswriter Rick Cleveland and writer/publisher Neil White have partnered to produce a new coffee-table book, The Mississippi Football Book. Part narrative, part encyclopedia, and part Guinness Book of World Records, The Mississippi Football Book features the greatest teams, coaches, and players from Mississippi’s remarkable football past — and present. Rick Cleveland, the most decorated sportswriter in Mississippi history, wrote in his introduction... Read More...
Event with Robert P. Jones
Tuesday, September 19th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Robert P. Jones signs, THE HIDDEN ROOTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY. Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy. Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged... Read More...
Event with Nyani Nkrumah
Thursday, September 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Nyani Nkrumah signs, WADE IN THE WATER. Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s... Read More...
Event with E.R. Lutken
Tuesday, September 12th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
E.R. Lutken signs, A THOUSAND PLACES LEFT BEHIND. TA veteran's harrowing remembrance of jungle warfare and intelligence operations Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the British V Force, then the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA) after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions behind Japanese lines... Read More...
Event with Jason Garbo
Saturday, September 9th 2023 | 2:00pm
Signing at 2pm
Jason Garbo signs, HAMMERHEAD. No one can dispute that the fentanyl and heroin crisis in the United States is out of control, with the majority of illegal narcotics flooding across the southern border. In this fast-moving thriller, the President sends special operators into Mexico to apprehend the head of one of Mexico's largest cartel's. The operation is code named Hammerhead. FBI agent Nick Bradshaw is thrust into a key operational role as he and American special operators race to stop this global threat... Read More...
Saturday, September 2nd 2023
Event with Phyllis R. Dixon
Saturday, August 26th 2023 | 12:00
Signing at 12pm
Phyllis R. Dixon signs, INTERMISSION. As glittering as their name, The Diamonds were on the brink of 1990s pop music stardom—until betrayal tore them apart. Now these four very different women are getting a second shot at success. But will reuniting mend their rift—or will lasting secrets, unspoken betrayals, new temptations, and the hard-knocks of today’s music industry destroy them, and their dreams, for good?... Read More...
Event with Michael Oher
Monday, August 14th 2023 | 5:00
Signing begins 5pm to 6pm
Michael Oher signs, When Your Back's Against the Wall. The NFL champion whose life inspired the hit movie The Blind Side is back with an inspiring and motivating book on overcoming any obstacle, no matter how tough the odds. Millions of people became part of Michael Oher’s story when they watched a version of him on the big screen; read his memoir, I Beat the Odds; or cheered him on from the stands. After speaking to so many of them over the years, Oher knows that more than anything, people want to believe great things can happen... Read More...
Event with Ellen Ann Fentress
Thursday, August 10th 2023 | 4:30
Signing at 4:30pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Ellen Ann Fentress signs, THE STEPS WE TAKE. 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 Southern Reckoning. As a good southern woman, Fentress felt a calling to help others... Read More...
Event with J. Stephen Beam
Tuesday, August 8th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
J. Stephen Beam signs, THE DEATH LETTER. A humble, unassuming war hero from a tiny town in northeast Mississippi, Jesse Travis has dealt with a lot in his short life, including the untimely death of his beloved parents in a fatal automobile crash. What has Jesse perplexed is that no one even talks any more about his wife, Mary, who went missing more than a year ago. Once Jesse himself was cleared of the crime by state investigators and the local sheriff, it’s as if Mary never existed... Read More...
Event with Nash Nunnery
Saturday, August 5th 2023 | 2:00
Signing begins at 2pm
Nash Nunnery signs, MAGNOLIA GRIDIRON CATHEDRALS. Nothing gets the blood pumping in Mississippi cities and towns quite like high school football, and first-time Mississippi author Nash Nunnery is ready to take you on a guided tour of 47 legendary high school football stadiums around the state that are truly worthy of being called hallowed ground. In Magnolia Gridiron Cathedrals, the veteran sports journalist doesn't just give you the who, what, when, and where -- Nash puts you at the fifty-yard-line... Read More...
Event with Zelda Lockhart
Tuesday, July 18th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Zelda Lockhart signs, TRINITY. Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus, if that ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi’s red clay tobacco fields... Read More...
Event with Elizabeth Boyd
Tuesday, July 11th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Elizabeth Boyd signs, SOUTHERN BEAUTY. Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism. In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for ... Read More...
Event with C.E. O'Banion
Saturday, July 8th 2023 | 12:00
Signing at 12pm
C.E. O'Banion signs, CHINESE NEW YEAR. In the twilight of the twenty-first century, Alton B. Tapscott battles hurricanes, his children, the trappings of polite society, organized religion, and the inescapable control of technology - his only weapons being his cat, a pair of prescription arthritic socks, and his new WiFi-enabled hearing aide. With humor and heart, Chinese New Year details the life of an average American Hero of a certain age as he catches an Uber, enters an assisted living facility, sees a baseball... Read More...
Event with Susan Cushman
Saturday, June 24th 2023
Signing at 2pm | Discussion at 2:30pm
Susan Cushman and contributors Christa Allan, Averyell Kessler, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson discuss ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY. There is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking, of course, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels, but also mothers, fathers, sisters... Read More...
Event with Harrison Scott Key
Saturday, June 17th 2023 | 1:00
Signing at 1:00pm | Reading at 2:00pm
Harrison Scott Key signs, HOW TO STAY MARRIED.  From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells the hilarious, shocking, and spiritually profound story of one man’s journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage. One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking action of How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” ... Read More...
Event with Patrick Dean
Tuesday, June 13th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Patrick Dean and Jeff Good discuss, NATURE'S MESSENGER. A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby—who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century— and his influence on how we understand American wildlife. In 1722, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years, this young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World... Read More...
Event with Neilson Hubbard
Thursday, June 8th 2023
Signing at 4:30pm
Neilson Hubbard signs, THE AMERICAN SOUTH. The American South is a collection of over 80 photographs, taken across the southern United States. A powerful story is shown through the faces and characters of the area.... Read More...
Event with James H. Herring
Tuesday, June 6th 2023
Signing at 4:30pm | Reading at 5:30pm
James H. Herring signs, THE SWITCHER. The son of passionate conservative Democrats, Jim Herring ultimately became the only state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to serve previously on the Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee. Given his family’s deep Democratic roots, this proved quite a journey! Jim’s father was a Mississippi state senator. His father-in-law’s college roommate was a future U.S. senator, Jim Eastland, and the two men were best friends for life.... Read More...
Event with Carolyn Brown
Monday, June 5th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Carolyn J. Brown and Carla S. Wall discuss, TO DANCE, TO LIVE. A moving biography of a dancer, teacher, and arts patron recognized internationally for her efforts in dance education and for bringing world-class ballet to Mississippi. 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... Read More...
Event with Wright Thompson
Thursday, June 1st 2023
6pm for VIP | 7pm for general admission
Books & Bourbon at THE CEDARS co-hosted by Jackson Friends of the Library with hors d'oeuvres from Elvie's 
Wright Thompson discusses PAPPYLAND. The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of the Pappy Van Winkle distillery, now is thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon. His grandfather presided... Read More...
Event with A. J. Wolfe
Saturday, May 20th 2023
Signing at 12pm
A. J. Wolfe signs, THE AETHER CHRONICLES: REBELLIUM. Family isn’t always defined by blood, but it means everything to eighteen-year-old Natalia Rhys—especially after her brother was ripped away from her. With no power to make a difference, there’s nothing she can do… Unless the powerless become the powerful. Natalia has grown up in the oppressed sectors of Araedia, avoiding the brainwashed soldiers of the tyrannical President Vayne Averie. Vayne rules the sectors with fear and suppression as he searches for Elementals—individuals who can harness the power of one of the four elements... Read More...
Event with Allie Stuart Povall
This Event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled!
Allie Stuart Povall signs, UNION WARRIORS AT SUNSET. Ulysses S. Grant was appointed general-in-chief of the U.S. Army after the Civil War and served two terms as president. His former subordinates, Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman, also served as generals-in-chief—Sherman indulging his passion for young women until his death. Two other former generals ran for president, one against his old commander, Grant. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Gettysburg... Read More...
Event with Robert Hitt Neill
This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled!
Robert Hitt Neill signs, THE BOOK OF BETSY. After a three-decade career of writing humorous, nostalgic books, stories, articles, and columns about the Great Outdoors, country living, hunting and fishing, raising kids, praising God, and enjoying life, Robert Hitt Neill turns to telling a real-life Love Story of his 55-year marriage to Betsy, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." Once nominated for Southern Gentleman of the Year, Robert Hitt Neill, like any other Southern Gentleman, admits to having "Married Above Myself" to Betsy,... Read More...
Event with Matthew Ruddick
Thursday, May 11th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Matthew Ruddick signs, FUNKIEST MAN ALIVE. Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of the founding fathers of early rock ’n’ roll. In the early 1960s, his songs “The Dog” and “Walking the Dog” made a huge impact on the emerging British “mod” scene, influencing the likes of the Georgie Fame, the Rolling Stones... Read More...
Event with Tom Piazza
Wednesday, May 10th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Tom Piazza signs, THE AUBURN CONFERENCE. It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers’ Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic... Read More...
Event with Lee Durkee
Tuesday, May 9th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Lee Durkee signs, STALKING SHAKESPEARE. A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point.... Read More...
Event with Katy Simpson Smith
Thursday, May 4th 2023 | 5:00 at The Eudora Welty House and Garden 
Katy Simpson Smith and Kathryn Savage discuss, THE WEEDS. Co-hosted by The Eudora Welty House and Garden Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires. A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own.... Read More...
Event with Simon Winchester
Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 | 5:00 
Simon Winchester signs, KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW. From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available ... Read More...
Event with Karin Cecile Davidson
Monday, May 1st 2023 | 5:00pm 
Karin Cecile Davidson signs, THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES. In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as complicated, bewildering, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collecting boyfriends and all the while considers... Read More...
Event with Angela Cherry
Saturday, April 29th 2023 | 12:00pm 
Angela Cherry signs, LIFTING THEM UP. A generation of teachers dedicated their lives to lifting up African American students and embraced the opportunity to give back to their communities. Education was the path to freedom from oppression while segregation was law in the United States. Even after Brown vs. Board of Education, de facto segregation was still the norm, and African American teachers knew that separate would never be equal... Read More...
Event with Michael Farris Smith
Wednesday, April 26th 2023 | 5:00
Michael Farris Smith signs, SALVAGE THIS WORLD. In Michael Farris Smith’s latest gritty epic, a young woman returns home with her child, to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may hold the key to the region’s apocalyptic future. There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.... Read More...
Event with Devery Anderson
Tuesday, April 25th 2023 | 12:00pm 
Devery Anderson signs, A SLOW CALCULATED LYNCHING. In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kennard (1927–1963), a Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attempted repeatedly to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College—now the University of Southern Mississippi—in the late 1950s.... Read More...
Event with Brenda Novak
Monday, April 24th 2023 | 5:00 
Brenda Novak in conversation with Erica Spindler for, THE SEASIDE LIBRARY. In this sequel to the highly successful Bookstore on the Beach, this book about books sees three friends reunite in the beach community where they grew up twenty years after a tragic incident changed the course of their lives. Three friends--Ivy, Ariana and Cam--reunite in the touristy beach town where they grew up together, coming together at the local library at which Ivy works. Twenty years ago their town, mostly frequented by tourists in summer but with a small local population, was shattered when a young girl ... Read More...
Event with Thomas Wiley
Saturday, April 22nd 2023 | 12:00pm
Thomas Wiley signs, PUSHMATAHA. PUSHMATAHA—THE FORGOTTEN WARRIOR tells the story of Chief Pushmataha, the Choctaw Nation, and early Mississippi. On the morning of September 27, 1830, on the banks of a small stream in present day Noxubee County, Mississippi, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed which resulted in the transfer of all remaining Choctaw land east of the Mississippi to the United States. Within two years, removal of the Choctaws to their new home in Oklahoma began. Of the sixteen thousand men, women, and children who made the six-hundred-mile journey,... Read More...
Event with Ann Fisher-Wirth
Thursday, April 20th 2023 | 5:00 at The Eudora Welty House and Garden 
Ann Fisher-Wirth signs, PARADISE IS JAGGED. Co-hosted by The Eudora Welty House and Garden In this extraordinary collection, Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive, bringing her incisive nuance to subjects ranging from the loss of a beloved sister to Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary to our imperiled natural world to the comforts of marital love. In "Wooden Comb," Fisher-Wirth writes, "I cannot reconcile how the world is sweet, how the world is burning."... Read More...
Event with Robert Mugge
Monday, April 17th 2023 | 5:00pm 
Robert Mugge signs, NOTES FROM THE ROAD. In Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey through American Music, Mugge describes the genesis of his twenty-five key music films, the methods employed in making them, and the experiences shared by him, his crews, and his subjects. This retrospection is organized not so much chronologically as thematically, in order to reveal connective tissue among efforts made over multiple decades.... Read More...
Event with Charles Frazier
in conversation with John Evans Friday, April 14th 2023 | 5:00 
Charles Frazier discusses his new book, THE TRACKERS. From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression. Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office... Read More...
Event with Maryemma Graham
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 | 5:00 
Maryemma Graham signs, THE HOUSE WHERE MY SOUL LIVES. Co-hosted by The Margaret Walker Center This first biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She promoted the idea of the artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and an institution builder... Read More...
Event with Josh Foreman + Ryan Starrett
Saturday, April 8th 2023 | 12:00 
Josh Foreman + Ryan Starrett sign, HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. The conquistadors staggered through the Delta half-starved, mostly naked, dripping with swamp water. They became the first Europeans to walk in the shade of the Delta's ancient cypress trees, hear the howl of the red wolf, and eat the maize that would give the Delta its signature dish: the hot tamale. Over the centuries, the bountiful soil of the Delta would beckon to those from all over the world. Others came because they had no choice, tilling the land while they gave... Read More...
Event with Jeannette Walls
Friday, April 7th 2023 | 5:00 
Jeannette Walls signs, HANG THE MOON. From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege... Read More...
Event with Angie Thomas
Thursday, April 6th 2023 | 4:30 
Angie Thomas signs, NIC BLAKE AND THE REMARKABLES. Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore. It’s not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool—like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much—like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor.... Read More...
Event with Eli Cranor
Saturday, April 1st 2023 | 1:00 Eli Cranor signs, OZARK DOGS. After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his teenage granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Arkansas junkyard. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but when the girl goes missing, Jeremiah fears the dreaded Ledfords, fanatical white supremacists and notorious meth dealers, have finally come to collect a long-overdue blood debt... Read More...
Event with Wayne Flynt
Tuesday, March 28th 2023 | 5:00 
Wayne Flynt signs, AFTERNOONS WITH HARPER LEE. Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when Lee relocated back to Alabama after having had a stroke, Flynt and his wife Dartie became regular visitors at the assisted living facility that was Lee’s new home... Read More...
Tuesday, March 7th 2023
Event with Shirley M. Harrington
Thursday, February 23rd | 5:00pm Shirley Harrington signs, Grown @ 13. Grown@13 has thirteen chapters starting with the CEN of Life in chapter one that still needs new planters like you. This book outlines how to make connections, achieve exchanges and completely design lasting networks. The author wrote Grown@13 to help others see themselves as change agents to make better worlds for future generations of young. Reflections at the end of each chapter... Read More...
Event with Luis Mirón
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 | 5:00 
Luis Mirón in conversation with Vince Venturini for, Resisting Racism and Promoting Equity Through Community-Engaged Social Action. This book challenges pre-service and in-service educators to reflect critically on their assumptions and engage in praxis promoting racial and social equity. Grounded in policy contexts, historical understandings, and critical theories, this book describes innovative community-engaged approaches to resisting racism and promoting equity and features reflections and personal narratives from partners in change—including on-the-ground... Read More...
Signing Event with Steven Manheim
Saturday, February 18th 2023 | 11:00am 
Steven Manheim signs, MISSISSIPPI SIGNS. Signs are a nostalgic connection to the past and an important link to Mississippi’s rich history. From every corner of the state, these signs have become part of Mississippi’s landscape. In the decades before mass technology, when commerce was based in local business, signs were an important form of identification and advertising. These signs of businesses, products, and services all tell the story of Mississippi. This book includes signs from all of Mississippi’s regions... Read More...
Event with Sadeqa Johnson
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 | 5:00 
Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels for, THE HOUSE OF EVE. From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and... Read More...
Virtual Event with Tiffany McDaniel
Tuesday, February 14th 2023 | on Facebook LIVE at 3:00pm 
Virtual Event with Tiffany McDaniel for, ON THE SAVAGE SIDE. Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own... Read More...
Event with Jeff Guinn
Thursday, February 9th 2023 | 5:00 
Jeff Guinn signs, WACO. The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid speak on the record... Read More...
Event with Andrew Maraniss
Wednesday, February 8th 2023 | 5:00 
Andrew Maraniss signs, Inaugural Ballers. Co-hosted by the Mississippi Humanities Council From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women’s Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women’s basketball on the map. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown. A League of Their Own meets Miracle in the inspirational true story of the first US Women’s Olympic Basketball team and their unlikely rise to the top... Read More...
Event with Mesha Maren
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | 6:00 
Mesha Maren in conversation with local poet, M.C. Smith for, Perpetual West. Location: End of All Music | 3011 N. State St. The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar Run, Perpetual West is a brilliant and evocative story of borders—between countries, between lovers, and between facets of the self. When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born... Read More...
Event with Gabriella Saab
Friday, February 3rd 2023 | Begins at 4:30 
Gabriella Saab signs, DAUGHTERS OF VICTORY. From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women…their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war. Perfect for readers of Kate Quinn, Pam Jenoff, and Elena Gerokhova.... Read More...
Signing Event with Robert McElvaine
Saturday, January 28th 2023 | 12:00pm 
Robert McElvaine signs, TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'. If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964—or rather, the long 1964, from JFK’s assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965—was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of “American,” with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement.... Read More...
Saturday, December 17th 2022
Signing with author Michael Farris Smith 
Saturday, December 17th 2022 | 12:30pm
In-person event with Vishwesh Bhatt 
Vishwesh Bhatt signs his new book, I AM FROM HERE. I Am From Here organizes 130 recipes by ingredient, emphasizing staples, spices, and vegetables that are as beloved on the Indian subcontinent as they are in the American South. Summer means okra, tomatoes, corn, and peas. Winter brings sweet potatoes and greens: mustards, collards, kale, and spinach. Rice is a constant throughout. Bhatt vividly recounts the special meals cooked by his mother and grandmothers—vegetarian comfort food such as Khichadi, custardy rice pudding... Read More...
Saturday, December 17th 2022 | 11:00AM
In-person event with Paul T. Brown 
Paul T. Brown signs his 2023 WILDLIFE Calendars. Paul T. Brown's 2023 WILDLIFE calendar, features 13 beautiful images.... Read More...
Saturday, December 17th 2022 | 11:00AM
In-person event with Steve Robertson
Steve Robertson signs his book, DAWG PILE. The 2021 college baseball season will live in the hearts and minds of Mississippi State fans forever. At long last, the Bulldogs became the national champions of college baseball. Tanner Allen, Will Bednar, and Rowdey Jordan became living legends in Omaha. They accomplished something no other team in Mississippi State history has ever done before.... Read More...
Saturday, December 17th 2022 | 10am
In-person storytime event with Kay Meadows 
Kay Meadows signs her new book, LOUISIANA ANIMALS ABC. Artful images grace the pages of this alphabet book; a visual feast of Louisiana's wildlife accompanied by informative facts and lyrical descriptions. Author and bard Rickey E. Pittman takes us on an adventure through the wilds of the state, embracing each animal's nature and providing short snippets of information perfect for the littlest of listeners and the youngest readers. Graceful images from artist Kay Meadows enhance Pittman's prose providing a gorgeous snapshot of these creatures from alligators, crawfish, and fox to opossums, pelican, vultures, and yellow jackets... Read More...
Tuesday, December 13th 2022 | 4:00 Signing - 5:30 Reading
In-person event with Darden North 
Darden North signs and discusses his new book, PARTY FAVORS. In Party Favors a financially struggling, young orthopedic surgeon on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is tempted to sell his patients’ leftover narcotics to save his drowning surgical practice, even hook new patients on opioids for financial gain. Local police work to connect his medical practice to a drug trafficking ring run by his secretary’s family. Written by a practicing physician, Party Favors was inspired by true stories... Read More...
Monday, December 12th 2022 | 2:00pm
In-person event with Robert St. John + Anthony Thaxton 
Robert St. John and Anthony Thaxton sign, WALTER ANDERSON: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander. Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable output and presents a thoughtful progression of his life and art. With complete access to the Anderson family archives and the vaults of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, this comprehensive... Read More...
Saturday, December 10, 2022 | 12:00
In-person event with Wyatt Waters & Malcolm White
Wyatt Waters and Malcolm White signing their books, WATERCOLOR ROAD and HAL AND MALS Order WATERCOLOR ROAD: Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination.... Read More... Order HAL AND MALS: The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's is a collaboration between artist Ginger Williams Cook and author Malcolm White about the people, the place, and the history of Hal & Mal's, an iconic institution in downtown Jackson, Mississippi.... Read More...
Saturday, December 10th 2022 | 11:00am
In-person event with Charles Poole 
Charles Poole signs his new book, THE PATH TO DEPTH. "The path to depth" is a simple name for the never-ending journey to a deeper life with God. "The path to depth" sounds a little like "the path to death." Which, in a way, it is... Read More...
Saturday, December 10th 2022 | 10:00am
In-person STORYTIME event with Jacki Kellum 
STORYTIME with Jacki Kellum and her new book, THE DONKEY'S SONG. Children will experience the first Christmas through new eyes in this heart-tugging story of the Nativity, told by the gentle but determined donkey that carried Jesus's parents to Bethlehem. It's a perfect Christmas gift book for snuggling up and sharing. This luminous, soothing song of hope, friendship, conviction, and faith is one that families will return to each Christmas for years to come... Read More...
Thursday, December 8th 2022 | 4:30 to 6:30
In-person event with Dr. John L. Cox 
Dr. John L. Cox signs his new book, THE ONE STORY. The One Story is a warm walk through the core stories of the Bible with an ear for how they are all woven together. The truth is that all of God’s stories are one healing narrative: the tale of how God’s heart longs for and seeks us all. The One Story is told both with an ear for spiritual development as well as a psychologist’s insights into emotional and relational growth... Read More...
Saturday, December 3rd 2022
Signing Event with Tim Elko, Neil White and Chase Parham 
Saturday, December 3rd 2022 | 11:00AM
In-person event with Robert Hamblin 
Robert Hamblin signs his new book, CRITICAL ESSAYS ON WILLIAM FAULKNER. Critical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to 2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer—particularly in his treatment of race—the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts. The volume includes discussions of Faulkner’s techniques and the psychological underpinnings... Read More...
Saturday, December 3rd 2022 | 11:00AM
In-person event with Jack Elliott 
Jack Elliott signs his new book, TO THE RAMPARTS OF INIFINITY. Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825–1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefly touched on the life of the Colonel due to his influence on the writer’s work and life, there have been no new biographies dedicated to Falkner until now... Read More...
Saturday, December 3rd 2022 | 11:00AM
In-person event with Paul Hardin Kapp 
Paul Hardin Kapp signs his new book, HERITAGE AND HOOP SKIRTS. For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the “Old South,” but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of history first concocted during the Great Depression. In Heritage and Hoop Skirts: How Natchez Created the Old South, author Paul Hardin Kapp reveals how the women of the Natchez Garden Club saved their city, created one of the first cultural tourism economies in the United States, changed... Read More...
Saturday, December 3rd 2022 | 10:00AM
In-person event with Scott Jeffrey 
Scott Jeffrey signs his new book, SHADOWS ON LIGHT. “Shadows on Light: Rise of the Dark Shark” is a contemporary supernatural/spiritual thriller about the complexities of good and evil, clashing and colliding into each other in modern times, much like a lethal virus attacking a healthy cell. The novel tells the fictional account of two ex- specially trained military men, who together, competing in a challenge maneuver in Southern Jamaica in the early 1970s, are both struck and wounded by a lightning flash... Read More...
Sunday, November 27th, 2022 | 11AM
In-person event with Vince Venturini & Doug Shanks 
Vince Venturini signs his new book, ONCE WE CROWNED ROYALTY. West Jackson was once the city’s ethnic and cultural palette. Living there were Greeks, who immigrated from the cradle of western civilization; Lebanese, descendants of the seafaring Phoenicians; Italians, descendants of the empire that birthed Christianity even after it first tried to abort it; and African-Americans, whose ancestors came from the cradle of mankind. While Jackson’s Jewish population tended to live in other parts of the city, their businesses were... Read More...
Saturday, November 26th, 2022 | 2:00PM
In-person event with Scott Billington 
Scott Billington signs his new book, MAKING TRACKS. From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primarily in Louisiana for Boston-based Rounder Records, Billington produced such giants as Irma Thomas, Charlie Rich, Buckwheat Zydeco, Johnny Adams, Bobby Rush, Ruth Brown, Beau Jocque, and Solomon Burke. The loving and sometimes irreverent profiles in Making Tracks reveal... Read More...
Saturday, November 26th, 2022 | 2:00PM
In-person event with Julie Mabus 
Julie Mabus signs her new book, CONFESSIONS OF A SOUTHERN BEAUTY QUEEN. In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse and the press ate it up. But Patsy’s story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. As Patsy grows up, she buries the memories of her unspeakable childhood trauma... Read More...
Saturday, November 26th, 2022 | 11:00AM
In-person event with Susan Annah Currie 
Susan Currie signs her new book, THE PREVENTORIUM. Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide... Read More...
Saturday, November 26th, 2022 | 10:00AM
In-person STORYTIME event with Johnette Downing 
Johnette Downing reads from her book, DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI. There's more to learn than just M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i! Acclaimed children's-book author Johnette Downing pays homage to the cultural legacy of Mississippi in this charming book that incorporates many of its native flora and fauna. Her delightful text, adapted from a traditional song, presents a lyrical and visual tribute to the many iconic images and symbols to be found in the state. From dolphins splashing in the surf along the coast... Read More...
Friday, November 25th, 2022 | 11AM
In-person event with Wyatt Waters & Malcolm White
Wyatt Waters and Malcolm White signing their books, WATERCOLOR ROAD and HAL AND MALS Order WATERCOLOR ROAD: Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination.... Read More... Order HAL AND MALS: The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's is a collaboration between artist Ginger Williams Cook and author Malcolm White about the people, the place, and the history of Hal & Mal's, an iconic institution in downtown Jackson, Mississippi.... Read More...
Saturday, November 19th, 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with T.K. Lee 
T.K. Lee signs his new book, SCAPEGOAT. Scapegoat features the same unnamed narrator, introduced in Lee’s first collection, To Square a Circle, in more intimate moments of vulnerability: Having Love and Having Loved. Scapegoat ebbs and flows, catching and releasing the reader along with the narrator, as he struggles to learn that to fully live, one must finally leave...whether that be a job, a home, or a marriage... Read More...
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 6:00pm
In-person event at The Old Capitol Museum 
Margaret Sullivan signs and discusses her new book, NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL at The Old Capitol Museum.   This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE! Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times... Read More...
Saturday, November 12th, 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Tyler Keith 
Tyler Keith signs his new book, THE MARK OF CAIN. In a world that has changed much during the six years he’s been in prison, Ronnie Harris struggles to piece together a new life from the wreckage of his old one. As a condition of his early parole, Ronnie must stay at a halfway-house for ex-cons called Camp Eden, where things are not exactly what they seem. As Ronnie realizes that he may still be imprisoned, a man from his past, Travis Campbell, shows up to bring Ronnie back into the world that led him to prison the first time... Read More...
Saturday, November 5th, 2022 | 11AM
In-person event with William Lester 
William Lester signs his new book, THE GOODNESS. “The Goodness” is handbound with paper handmade from Nepal. The images in each book were printed by the author. “The Goodness” comes linen bound and numbered 1-400. The book also is available with a leather binding numbered A-Z. This story of a young Delta boy who tries to save his father is told through the boy’s memories... Read More...
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Jasmine Holmes 
Jasmine Holmes signs her new book, CARVED IN EBONY. Through the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and others, Jasmine Holmes shares the significant role that Black women have played in the formation of our faith. As these historical figures take the stage, you will be inspired by what the stories of these women can teach us about education, birth, privilege, and so much more... Read More...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Bob Drury
Bob Drury signs and discusses his new book, THE LAST HILL. They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit the Army had. In December 1944, they would be the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler’s homeland at last. Their colonel was given this objective: Take Hill 400. The second objective: Hold Hill 400. To the last man, if necessary. The battle-hardened battalion had no idea that the German Volks-Grenadiers, who greatly outnumbered the Rangers, had been given the exact same orders. The clash of the two determined forces was one of the bloodiest and costly ones of World War II... Read More...
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Event with Jeff Kinney at Jackson Prep 
Thursday, October 27th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Andy Davidson 
Andy Davidson signs his new book, THE HOLLOW KIND. Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow. It turns out that the "estate" is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet.... Read More...
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 | 12:00pm to 2:00pm
In-person event with Wyatt Waters
Wyatt Waters signs his new book, THE WATERCOLOR ROAD. Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination... Read More...
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 | 10:30AM
In-person event with Neil White & Chase Parham 
Neil White and Chase Parham discuss their new books, CHAMPIONS and RESILIENT REBELS Pre-Order OLE MISS CHAMPIONS book: Ole Miss 2022 National Baseball Champions. A Commemorative Photographic Book... Read More... Pre-Order RESILIENT REBELS book: Ole Miss, under head coach Mike Bianco, has been one of the most consistent teams in college baseball for two decades, routinely making the NCAA Tournament and playing in front of one of the nation's top atmospheres at Swayze Field... Read More...
Thursday, October 20th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Tom Piazza
Tom Piazza signs and discusses his new book, BLUES AND TROUBLE. Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate, from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane. Tom Piazza’s debut short story collection, originally published in 1996, heralded the arrival of a startlingly original and vital presence in American fiction and letters... Read More...
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Brian Noyes 
Brian Noyes signs his new cookbook, THE RED TRUCK BAKERY COOKBOOK at The Eudora Welty House and Gardens. Brian Noyes, founder of the beloved Red Truck Bakery in Marshall, Virginia, and author of the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook, presents more than 95 all-new, comforting recipes celebrating ingredients and traditions from the bakery's home on the edge of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge mountains. With small-town charm, an emphasis on local, seasonal produce, and country comfort inspiration from the 170-year-old farmhouse where the bakery began, The Red Truck Bakery... Read More...
Monday, October 17th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with E. M. Tran + Dr. Ebony Lumumba 
E.M. Tran signs her new book, DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR. In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen–turned-refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi, and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined to learn more about her familial and cultural past... Read More...
Saturday, October 15th, 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Ramona Reeves 
Ramona Reeves signs her new book, IT FALLS GENTLY ALL AROUND. Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to re-forge their lives, a task easier said than done in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history... Read More...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Margaret Burnham + Jerry Mitchell 
Margaret Burnham signs her new book, BY HANDS NOW KNOWN. A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process... Read More...
Saturday, October 8th, 2022 | 2:00pm
In-person event with Johnnie Bernhard 
Johnnie Bernhard signs her new book, HANNAH AND ARIELA. Two worlds collide when a seventy-three-year-old widow finds the semi- conscious body of a fourteen-year-old Mexican national in a ditch along a Central Texas remote byway. The question of justice for a victim of human trafficking and the elderly woman who kills the perpetrator lies in the hands of a biracial border patrol officer and an unconventional small-town sheriff... Read More...
Friday, October 7th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Tema Stauffer + Kathryn Savage 
Tema Stauffer and Kathryn Savage discuss their new books, SOUTHERN FICTION and GROUNDGLASS SOUTHERN FICTION explores the history of the American South using its literary tradition as a road map by focusing on environments that have shaped the imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers. These large-format color photographs depict domestic settings, vernacular architecture, and rural landscapes that visually resonate with the history, culture, and atmosphere of the Deep South... Read More... GROUNDGLASS takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of U.S. Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors... Read More...
Monday, October 3rd, 2022 | 4:30pm
In-person event with John Patrick Green 
John Patrick Green signs and reads from his new book, INVESTIGATORS: Heist and Seek.  New York Times bestsellers and sewer surfing super-sleuths Mango & Brash are back in the sixth volume of the smash hit InvestiGators series! When rare paintings go missing, the Investigators are called on the scene . . . the art scene! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of crime! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum’s fundraising gala before it's too late... Read More...
Thursday, September 29th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Kendall Kirk Singleton 
Kendall Kirk Singleton signs her new book, A COLORFUL COLLECTION. Art lovers, especially those who are drawn to color, are sure to enjoy Kendall’s unique artwork, style, and voice. This delightful coffee table book is filled with colorful oil paintings Kendall Kirk Singleton has done over the past 10+ years, giving a glimpse into how her art developed to where it is now. It is filled with flowers, beach scenes, sunsets, and other subjects she has been inspired by. Her artwork is truly joyful and inspiring.... Read More...
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 | 4:30pm
In-person event with Katherine St. John 
Katherine St. John signs her new book, THE VICIOUS CIRCLE. On a river deep in the Mexican jungle stands the colossal villa Xanadu, a wellness center that’s home to The Mandala, an ardent spiritual group devoted to self-help guru Paul Bentzen and his enigmatic wife Kali. But when, mysteriously, Paul suddenly dies, his entire estate—including Xanadu—is left to his estranged niece Sveta, a former model living in New York City... Read More...
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Lisa McNair + Jerry Mitchell 
Lisa McNair and Jerry Mitchell discuss her new book, DEAR DENISE. Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement... Read More...
Saturday, September 17th, 2022 | 12:30pm to 2:00pm
In-person event with Wyatt Waters
Wyatt Waters signs his new book, THE WATERCOLOR ROAD. Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination... Read More...
Thursday, September 15th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with C.T. Salazar 
C.T. Salazar signs his new book, HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING. The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South’s historic and ongoing violence. His restless relationship with religion (“a child told me there was a god / and because he was smiling, I believed him”) eventually includes... Read More...
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 | 4:00pm
In-person STORYTIME event with Sophie Blackall 
Sophie Blackall signs and reads from her new book, FARMHOUSE. This glorious new picture book from two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall is as lavish and moving a tribute to a storied, beloved place as Hello Lighthouse. Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns stands a farmhouse. Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish in the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse where Sophie salvaged facts and artifacts for the making of this spectacular work, page after page bursts with luminous... Read More...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Saturday, September 10th, 2022 | 11:00am
In-person event with Sarah C. Campbell 
Sarah Campbell signs her new book, INFINITY. What is infinity? Explore this fascinating and complex math concept and its purpose in our world in this picture book that both demystifies and explains. Perfect for kids who grew up on Baby University books like Quantum Physics for Babies. Defining infinity is difficult. But there is one thing people do every day that leads to infinity—counting. No matter what large number you name, there is always a larger... Read More...
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Woodrow Hartzog 
Woodrow Hartzog signs his new book, BREACHED! A novel account of how the law contributes to the insecurity of our data and a bold way to rethink it. Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, it is alarming how difficult it is to create rules for securing our personal information. Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches are increasing at a record pace... Read More...
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 | 7:00pm CST
Virtual Zoom Event with Colson Whitehead and Adam Serwer 
Colson Whitehead and Adam Serwer discuss HARLEM SHUFFLE. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked." To his customers and neighbors on 125th Street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family... Read More...
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Candace Cox Wheeler
Candace Cox Wheeler signs her new book, SQUALL IN THE GULF. As the Roaring Twenties come to a close, it’s a great time to live, work, and play on the Mississippi Coast. But beneath the calm surface of the warm Gulf waters, a storm is brewing at the height of Prohibition; a squall that will shatter the lives of many Coast residents if law enforcement ends the transportation of contraband liquor. The practice is known as rumrunning—and the demand for booze is staggering... Read More...
Thursday, August 4th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Joe Lee 
Joe Lee signs his new book, RESTING PLACE. Set in 1984 and a prequel to Joe Lee’s long-running Oakdale suspense series, Resting Place introduces young Billy Joe Stone, a hard-charging sheriff’s deputy who vows to clean up what he understood from now-missing incumbent sheriff Robert Glass is a vast web of corruption. But does Billy Joe know too much for his own good? Are the people close to him already in danger?... Read More...
Saturday, July 30th, 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Vince Venturini 
Vince Venturini signs his new book, ONCE WE CROWNED ROYALTY. West Jackson was once the city’s ethnic and cultural palette. Living there were Greeks, who immigrated from the cradle of western civilization; Lebanese, descendants of the seafaring Phoenicians; Italians, descendants of the empire that birthed Christianity even after it first tried to abort it; and African-Americans, whose ancestors came from the cradle of mankind. While Jackson’s Jewish population tended to live in other parts of the city... Read More...
Thursday, July 28th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Dr. Jay Wellons 
Dr. Jay Wellons signs his new book, ALL THAT MOVES US. In riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, a pediatric neurosurgeon recounts pivotal moments from his life and career—and what his brave young patients have taught him about the meaning of life and our struggle to live it. Tumors, injuries, ruptured blood vessel malformations—there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon... Read More...
Tuesday, July 26th, 2022 | 4:30pm
In-person event with Charles Marsh 
Charles Marsh signs his new book, EVANGELICAL ANXIETY. In this riveting spiritual memoir, the writer, scholar, and commentator tells the story of his struggles with mental illness, explores the void between the Christian faith and scientific treatment, and forges a path toward reconciling these divergent worlds. For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will.... Read More...
Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 | 12pm
In-person event with Michael Hewes 
Michael Hewes signs his new book, THE MILK WAGON. For Matt Frazier, Jason "Hop" Hopkins, and Mark Ragone, 1986 was the year that changed everything, and it was the year that everything changed. It was the year Matt fell in love. It was the year Mark started a band. It was the year Hop actually almost, kind of, but not really got a girlfriend. And it was the year Nate Mayes disappeared. Matt, Hop and Mark have been friends since elementary school... Read More...
Thursday, July 14th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with June Gervais + Jamie Dickson 
June Gervais signs her new book, JOBS FOR GIRLS WITH ARTISTIC FLAIR. An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own terms. Introvert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long Island town. But this is 1985, when tattooing is still a gritty, male-dominated fringe culture, and Gina’s funky flash is not exactly mainstream tattoo fare. The good news is that her older brother Dominic owns a tattoo shop, and he reluctantly agrees to train her.... Read More...
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Grace Valentine + Madison Wheat Weeks 
Grace Valentine signs her new book, WHAT WILL THEY THINK? In this inspiring guide for young women, Grace Valentine shines a spotlight on nine courageous women in the Bible who lived their faith boldly. In a world that pressures you to seek validation from others, learn to focus on what truly matters. "What will they think?" It's a question that consumes many women and may even stop them from living the lives God has called them to live. Whether it's don't be too loud, don't be too aggressive, or your role is to be a sidekick for men, women struggle to live a life that is about pleasing others. . . Read More...
Saturday, July 2nd 2022 | 12pm
In-person event with Brooks Eason 
Brooks Eason signs his new book, REDEMPTION: THE TWO LIVES OF HARRY BROOKS. In the first half of Harry's life, he embezzled money from the Uniontown, PA, school district where he was the elected superintendent, left his wife for another woman, and sought to escape by booking passage on a Cunard liner to Liverpool. But his plan was foiled, Scotland Yard arrested him when the ship docked, and he was extradited, tried, convicted, and served three years in Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. In the second half of Harry's life... Read More...
Thursday, June 30th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Alexander Blevens 
Alexander Blevens signs his new book, BYCATCH. A fisherman’s murder in Mississippi unwinds the dark truth from Vietnam and exposes unfathomable guilt. Rex Thompson has not spoken of the felony he committed in Vietnam for over two decades. When his ne’er-do-well sons scuttle a shrimp boat in the Biloxi Bay and drown an immigrant fisherman who had witnessed this crime, Rex is flooded with remorse but remains silent.... Read More...
Friday, June 17th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Matt Bondurant 
Matt Bondurant signs his new book, OLEANDER CITY. In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage-except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision... Read More...
Thursday, June 16th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with James Dickson 
James Dickson signs his new book of poetry, SOME SWEET VANDAL. Some Sweet Vandal is a poetry collection that gives Dickson’s observations of and thoughts on fatherhood, the fragility of life, youth, and living in the South.... Read More...
Saturday, June 11th 2022 | 10:30am
In-person event with Susan Cushman
Susan Cushman signs her new book, PILGRIM INTERRUPTED. The title essay in this collection, “Pilgrim Interrupted,” is set on the island of Patmos, Greece, during one of Susan’s pilgrimages with her husband, Father Basil Cushman, an Orthodox priest. Pilgrimages. Orthodoxy. Icons. Monasteries. It’s all in here. But so are stories about mental health, caregiving, death, family, and writing, including a section on “place,” a key element in Southern literature. And how is Susan’s pilgrimage “interrupted”? By life itself... Read More...
Tuesday, June 7th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Diane c. McPhail 
Diane C. McPhail signs her new book, THE SEAMSTRESS OF NEW ORLEANS. Against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Diane McPhail’s mesmerizing historical novel tells of two strangers separated by background but bound by an unexpected secret—and of the strength and courage women draw from and inspire in each other. The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise... Read More...
Saturday, June 4th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Donald W. Davis + Carl A. Brasseaux 
Donald W. Davis and Carl A. Brasseaux sign their new book, ASIAN-CAJUN FUSION. A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana's shrimping industry. Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou provides insightful analysis of this paradox and a detailed, thorough history of the industry in Louisiana... Read More...
Friday, June 3rd 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with David Rae Morris 
David Rae Morris signs his new book, LOVE, DADDY. A poignant collection of letters from Willie Morris accompanied by photographs by his son, David Rae Morris. Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. Willie Morris wrote scores of letters to his only son, David Rae Morris, from the mid-1970s until Willie’s death in 1999. From David Rae’s perspective, his father was often emotionally disconnected and lived a peculiar lifestyle, often staying out carousing well... Read More...
Saturday, May 28th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Mary Evelyn Brown + Judy Gilliam 
Mary Evelyn Brown and Judy Gilliam sign their new book, THE MAGICAL HEART OF T DOG. This story is based on a real-life Boston Terrier who assists children in counseling sessions. In this story, T Dog helps a child deal with bullying by providing steps to address this issue through practical actions and comforting support. . . Read More...
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Steve Yarbrough 
Steve Yarbrough signs his new book, STAY GONE DAYS. After a childhood in Mississippi marred by a horrific family scandal, teenage sisters Ella and Caroline Cole escape their hometown, losing all connection to each other. While Ella finds stable domesticity in Boston, Caroline travels the world, from California to Poland, fleeing regrets and a man intent on violence. Despite the decades apart, each sister is never far from the other’s thoughts. Then, one day, Ella walks... Read More...
Saturday, May 21st 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Debby Thompson 
Debby Thompson signs her new book, PULLING BACK THE IRON CURTAIN. While the world was reading one story, God was writing another. In 1977, amidst the bitterly cold days of the frigid Cold War, a young couple responded to God’s dramatic call on their lives to go and live covertly behind The Iron Curtain. Filled with faith and buffeted by fear, they left the familiar of family and the security of NATO to locate behind enemy lines inside Communist Poland in order to establish a Kingdom beachhead of evangelism and discipleship... Read More...
Saturday, May 21st 2022 | 1:30pm
In-person event with Julie Mabus
Julie Mabus signs her new book, CONFESSIONS OF A SOUTHERN BEAUTY QUEEN. A coming-of-age story of a young woman navigating a turbulent and changing South. In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse... Read More...
Thursday, May 19th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Sherye S. Green 
Sherye S. Green signs her book, ABANDON NOT MY SOUL. Abbie Richardson and Keith Haliday have suffered devastating losses. Both share a common link—Abbie’s dead husband, Joe. Four years after his death, Abbie still struggles to put the pieces of her life back together and wonders if God has abandoned her. Many areas of her life—especially her current teaching job—do not make sense anymore. A mysterious letter and a serendipitous meeting during a week volunteering... Read More...
Tuesday, May 17th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-Person Event with David J. Dennis, Jr. + David J. Dennis, Sr. 
David J. Dennis, Jr. and David J. Dennis, Sr. in conversation with Dr. Ebony Lumumba to discuss their new book, THE MOVEMENT MADE US. A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr., a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr., a journalist working on the front lines of change today... Read More...
Saturday, May 14th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Karen Hinton + Mike Espy 
Karen Hinton signs her new book, PENIS POLITICS with Former MS Congressman and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy. This is a compelling coming-of-age story, set both in small-town Mississippi and big-city New York, with a long layover in the nation’s capital. Karen Hinton chronicles her life from tiny Soso, Mississippi (pop. 408), to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), where she played on the Lady Rebels basketball team, had embarrassing encounters with literary luminaries such as William Styron and Willie Morris, and received a degree in journalism . . . Read More...
Saturday, May 7th 2022 | 2:00pm
In-person event with Tom Sancton 
**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED** Tom Sancton signs his new book, THE LAST BARON. A riveting on-the-edge-of-your-seat story about the famous 1970s Patty Hearst-style kidnapping of Baron Edouard “Wado” Empain, juxtaposed with the story of his famous grandfather, the first Baron, who built the Paris Metro, all with the fascinating alternating backgrounds of both Belle Epoque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one alive? And what does... Read More...
Wednesday, May 4th 2022 | 12:00pm CST
Virtual Event with Emily St.John Mandel + Katy Simpson Smith 
Emily St. John Mandel in conversation with Katy Simpson Smith on Facebook LIVE to discuss her new book, SEA OF TRANQUILITY. The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound... Read More...
Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Taylor Brown 
Taylor Brown signs his new book, WINGWALKERS. Wingwalkers is one-part epic adventure, one-part love story, and, as is the signature for critically-acclaimed author Taylor Brown, one large part American history. The novel braids the adventures of Della and Zeno Marigold, a vagabond couple that funds their journey to the west coast in the middle of the Great Depression by performing death-defying aerial stunts from town to town, together with the life of the author (and thwarted fighter pilot) William Faulkner... Read More...
Saturday, April 30th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with R.J. Lee 
R.J. Lee signs his new books, THE KING FALLS and COLD READING MURDER. In R.J. Lee’s fourth Mississippi-set Bridge to Death Mystery, it’s up to newly-married reporter and bridge player Wendy Winchester Rierson to finesse a homicide investigation where the killer holds a master hand... Read More...
Wednesday, April 27th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Erika Berry 
Erika Berry signs her new book, MOTHERLAND, FATHERLAND, WHATEVERLAND. Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout’s father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942. While young Smalhout adapted to life in rural Australia, his sister and father back home were placed in Japanese prison camps, an experience that proved fateful for his father and changed his sister’s life forever... Read More...
Tuesday, April 26th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-Person Event with Robert Mayer + Jerry Mitchell 
Robert Mayer in conversation with Jerry Mitchell to discuss his new book, IN THE NAME OF EMMETT TILL. The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These children, however, would rise up against the culture that made Till’s death possible. From the violent Woolworth’s lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people of Mississippi picketed... Read More...
Monday, April 25th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Kevin Maurer 
Kevin Maurer signs his new book, DAMN LUCKY. The incredible true story of John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who survived 25 missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in WWII. When Second Lieutenant John “Lucky” Luckadoo—a wide-eyed 21-year-old assigned to the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group—arrived in England, “Axis Sally,” an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during World War II, welcomed his squadron by name... Read More...
Saturday, April 23rd 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with W.H. Flint 
W. H. Flint (Gerry Helferich) signs his new book, HOT TIME. For fans of The Knick, The Alienist, and The Last Days of Night, an entertaining, atmospheric crime thriller set in the Gilded Age. New York, August 1896. A “hot wave” has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. In this presidential election year, the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring, while anti-immigrant sentiment has turned virulent.... Read More...
Saturday, April 16th 2022 | 2:00pm
In-person event with David Greenspan 
David Greenspan signs his new book of poetry, ONE PERSON HOLDS SO MUCH SILENCE. One Person Holds So Much Silence explores the intersection of physical and emotional traumas through surprising and jaw-dropping language. Simultaneously lush and bizarre, the poems in One Person Holds So Much Silence culminate in a striking deepdive into the pain and experiences of existing within a body. From self-harm to suicidal ideation, Greenspan tackles... Read More...
Saturday, April 9th 2022 | 2:00pm
In-person event with Berkley Husdon 
Berkley Hudson signs his new book, O.N. PRUITT'S POSSUM TOWN. Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents... Read More...
Wednesday, April 6th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Tara Stringfellow 
Tara Stringfellow signs and discusses her new book, MEMPHIS.  A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s violence, seeking refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis... Read More...
Saturday, April 2nd 2022 | 2:00pm
In-person event with Olivia Clare Friedman 
Olivia Clare Friedman signs her new book, HERE LIES. The debut novel from the “Munro-esque” (Houston Post) author of Disasters in the First World, Here Lies is Olivia Clare Friedman’s visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravaged by climate change. Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects of climate change, states have closed graveyards and banned burials, making cremation mandatory and the ashes of loved ones state-owned unless otherwise claimed. In the small town of St. Genevieve... Read More...
Saturday, March 26th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman 
Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman sign their new book, Death Along the Natchez Trace. The Natchez Trace is the “Path of Nations,” a 450-mile-long game trail stamped into the earth by primeval bison. Once the domain of the Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee tribes, the Trace nurtured these groups, but it was also watered with the blood of tribesmen long before any white man trod on it. European settlers eventually used the path to navigate between the backwoods Cumberland settlements... Read More...
Thursday, March 24th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Alex Kershaw 
Alex Kershaw signs and discusses his new book, AGAINST ALL ODDS. The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of the four most decorated soldiers of World War II—Medal of Honor recipients all—from North Africa to Hitler’s own mountaintop fortress. During World War II, as the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, reporters learned of four American soldiers, all in the same regiment, who had earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism.... Read More...
Friday, March 11th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Jack E. Davis 
Jack E. Davis signs and discusses his new book, THE BALD EAGLE. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts... Read More...
Thursday, March 10th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Eli Cranor 
Eli Cranor signs and discusses his new book, DON'T KNOW TOUGH. Friday Night Lights gone dark with Southern Gothic; Eli Cranor delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott. In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother’s abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger... Read More...
Sunday, March 6th 2022 | 6:30PM CST
Virtual Event with Dolly Parton & James Patterson! click below for full details 
Thursday, February 24th, 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Chris McLaughlin 
Chris McLaughlin in conversation with Pat Hall about, MISSISSIPPI BARKING. On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and around the world, Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost 2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished... Read More...
Ticketed Event
Wednesday, February 16th 2022 | 6:00pm In-person event with Imani Perry at Jackson State University 
This is a ticketed event. Imani Perry in conversation with Ebony Lumumba at Jackson State University to discuss her new book, SOUTH TO AMERICA. An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America. We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow... Read More...
Saturday, February 12th 2022 | 12:00 to 2:00pm
In-person event with Robert St. John + Anthony Thaxton
Robert St. John and Anthony Thaxton sign, WALTER ANDERSON: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander. Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable output and presents a thoughtful progression of his life and art. With complete access to the Anderson family archives and the vaults of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, this comprehensive... Read More...
Saturday, February 12th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Steve Robertson
Steve Robertson signs his new book, DAWG PILE. The 2021 college baseball season will live in the hearts and minds of Mississippi State fans forever. At long last, the Bulldogs became the national champions of college baseball. Tanner Allen, Will Bednar, and Rowdey Jordan became living legends in Omaha. They accomplished something no other team in Mississippi State history has ever done before... Read More...
Friday, February 11th 2022 | 12:00pm
In-person event with Alice Rhea Mitchell 
Alice Rhea Mitchell signs her new book, SCOOTER MOUSE AND THE POTHOLE. After observing the action and considering the facts, Scooter Mouse encourages a community solution to the pothole problem in Scooter Mouse and the Pothole, written by Alice Rhea Mitchell and illustrated by Sheryl K. Perry... Read More...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | 5:00pm
Virtual Event with Chantal James + Maurice Carlos Ruffin 
Chantal James in conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Facebook LIVE to discuss her new book, NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS. Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction. In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escapes New Orleans ... Read More...
Thursday, January 27th 2022 | 5:00pm
Virtual Event with Ben Raines + Jerry Mitchell 
Ben Raines in conversation with Jerry Mitchell to discuss his new book, THE LAST SLAVE SHIP. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution... Read More...
Monday, January 24th 2022 | 5:00pm
In-person event with Antoine Wilson 
Antoine Wilson signs and discusses his new book, MOUTH TO MOUTH. A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “sleek, swift, and graceful” novel “with unexpectedly sharp teeth” (Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author). In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life—a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man... Read More... |
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