Vince Venturini and Doug Shanks discuss their book, One Direction Home, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

For decades, south Jackson was thought of as the other part of the city. It was considered home to persons who were lower class compared to their counterparts in north and west Jackson. Some even dismissed it as the least desirable and progressive part of the city. For those of us who grep up in south Jackson, it was a special place, a safe place and a place where life-long friendships and impressions were made...

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Wright Thompson discusses his book, Pappyland, with Ray Mabus, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family’s heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply...

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David Hill discusses his book, The Vapors, with John Evans, on Facebook Live
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In this riveting work of forgotten history, the native Arkansan David Hill plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America’s fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported veterans hospitals and a burgeoning...

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Rick Bragg discusses his book, Where I Come From, with Helen Ellis, author of Southern Lady Code on Facebook Live
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From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun. A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal...

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Live panel discussion with Mary Alice Welty White, Suzanne Marrs, and Carolyn Brown on Facebook Live
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Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is “profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write” (Los Angeles Times)...

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Connor Towne O'Neill discusses his book, Down Along with That Devil's Bones, with Jerry Mitchell, author of Race Against Time on Facebook Live
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In Down Along with That Devil’s Bones, journalist Connor Towne O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Through the lens of these conflicts, O’Neill examines the legacy of white supremacy in America, in a sobering and fascinating work sure...

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Virtual Discussion with Stephanie Kent and Lemuria Booksellers on Facebook Live
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For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs, checklists, and more, from the creators of the popular multimedia project...

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Catherine Pierce discuss their new books, World of Wonders and Danger Days on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

WORLD OF WONDERS: From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction—a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.

DANGER DAYS: The poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks...
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John Grisham discusses his book, A Time For Mercy, with John Evans, on Facebook Live. Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that showcases #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham at the height of his storytelling powers...

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Emily Alexander Moore and Kristen Ley discuss their book, Words are like Magic, on Facebook Live
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Words Are Like Magic is a whimsical collection of rhymes about showing up to life's awkward and painful seasons. Inspired by the stories of women who have been hurt by thoughtless words, or worse, no words at all, these poems help us understand how our friends may be feeling so that we can be there for them with courage and grace....

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David James Poissant discusses his book, Lake Life, with M.O. Walsh, author of The Big Door Prize on Facebook Live
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From the award-winning author of the acclaimed story collection The Heaven of Animals, called “a wise debut…beautiful [stories] with a rogue touch” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a sweeping, domestic novel about a family that reunites at their North Carolina lake house for one last vacation before...

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Lawrence Wells discusses his book, In Faulkner's Shadow, with Ace Atkins, author of The Revelators on Facebook Live
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Full of personal insights, this memoir features unforgettable characters and exciting behind-the-scene moments that reveal much about modern American letters and the southern literary tradition. It is also a love story about a courtship and marriage, and an ode to Dean Faulkner Wells and her family...

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George Singleton discusses his book, You Want More, with author Chris Offutt, on Facebook Live
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Thirty stories, collected in one volume for the very first time, from one of the South's best known and most acclaimed short story writers. With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this...

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Katherine St. John discusses her book, The Lion's Den, with author Lisa Patton, on Facebook Live
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A dream vacation on a luxurious yacht turns deadly in this pulse-pounding beach read and perfect book club pick about glamour, friendship, romance, and betrayal on the Riviera. Belle likes to think herself immune to the dizzying effects of fabulous wealth. But when her best friend...

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Pam Fessler discusses her book, Carville's Cure, with author Marcia Gaudet, on Facebook Live
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The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shameful” disease. The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America’s most painful secrets...

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Susan Minot discusses her book, Why I Don't Write, with Mary Miller, author of Biloxi on Facebook Live
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A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a hapless fifteen-year-old boy finds himself in sexual peril; two young people in the 1990s fall helplessly in love, then bicker just as helplessly, tortured by jealousy and mistrust. In each of these stories Minot explores...

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M.O. Walsh discusses his book, The Big Door Prize, with author Katy Simpson Smith on Facebook Live
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he New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be...

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A Virtual Conversation with
Richard Grant and Greg Iles


Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other.
Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions....

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James Lee Burke discusses his book, A Private Cathedral, with author Lee Child on Facebook Live
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The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s father...

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Tiffany McDaniel discusses her book, Betty with Ellen Daniels of the MS Book Festival on Facebook Live
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A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.This is a novel that shows the depths of love, imagination and family. Tiffany McDaniel has written such a beautifully captivating novel. Her lush prose carry the reader from page to page in such a graceful way, it's truly mesmerizing...

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Jill McCorkle discusses her book, Hieroglyphics with Steve Yarbrough,
author of The Realm of Last Chances, on Facebook Live
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Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary...

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Eric Jay Dolin discusses
his book, A Furious Sky
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Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV spectacles, unaware of how far-ranging their impact can be. As best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin contends, we must look to our nation’s past if we hope to comprehend the consequences of the hurricanes...

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Odie Lindsey discusses his book, Some Go Home, with Chanelle Benz, author of The Gone Dead on Zoom

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A searing debut novel that follows three generations—fractured by murder, seeking redemption—in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi. An Iraq War veteran turned small-town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her—until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface. She hides her mounting anxiety from her husband, Derby, who is in turn preoccupied with the retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a decades-old...

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Ron Rash discusses his book, In The Valley, with Ellen Daniels of the MS Book Festival
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From bestselling and award-winning writer Ron Rash (“One of the great American authors at work today.”—The New York Times) comes a collection of ten searing stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim, in a long-awaited novella....

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Natasha Trethewey discusses her memoir, Memorial Drive, with Kiese Laymon

This is a virtual event which requires purchase of Memorial Drive. When you pre-order on the website, you will receive a link on Friday, July 31 for the virtual event.

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became...

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Matthew Van Meter discusses his book, Deep Delta Justice with author Jerry Mitchell on Facebook Live
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The unforgettable story of one lawyer and his defendant who together changed American law during the height of the Civil Rights era.
In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight between a group of four white kids and two of Gary's own cousins. After putting...

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Gilbert Ford discusses, The Mysterious Messenger with Ellen Daniels of the MS Book Festival on Facebook Live
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Eleven-year-old Maria de la Cruz is trapped under the thumb of Madame Destine, her fake-psychic mother who cons widows out of their inheritances. But Maria, unlike her mom, has a big secret—she really can communicate with the dead, most frequently with a ghost named Edward who has been her only friend...

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Virtual Event with
THE SOB SISTERS
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SUSANNAH CAHALAN is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain and The Great Pretender.

KAREN ABBOTT is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, American Rose, and, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, and most recently, The Ghosts of Eden Park.

ADA CALHOUN is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give and Why We Can't Sleep. She has collaborated on several New York Times bestsellers, and written for the New York Times, New York, and The New Republic.

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Dr. James Hollis discusses his book, Living Between Worlds with John Evans on Facebook Live
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What makes the challenges of our time so unique and daunting in human history? Technology? Resource depletion? In Living Between Worlds, Dr. James Hollis challenges us to look within for the real cause. “Few of our ancestors, if any, became enemies of themselves as we do; few split themselves off from their internal forms...

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Susan Berfield in conversation with John Evans about The Hour of Fate

Join us here at 12pm CST: Susan Berfield Virtual Event

It seemed like no force in the world could slow J.P. Morgan’s drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, a scheme that would give him mastery of railroads throughout the vast American West—and their vast profits...

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Elliot Ackerman reads from Red Dress in Black and White on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey—to leave without her husband. Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son...

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Kelly Jordan reads from The Little Blue Cottage on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


A timeless and universal tale that celebrates the bond created between a little girl and the special place she returns to year after year—and how their relationship changes as she grows up. The little blue cottage waits each year for summer to arrive—and with it, the girl. Through sunny days and stormy weather, the cottage and the girl keep each other company and wile away the long days and nights together. Until one year, and then another, the cottage is left waiting and empty season after season. In this heartfelt story about change, Kelly Jordan’s lilting text and Jessica Courtney-Tickle's lush art captures the essence of cherishing a favorite place...

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Victoria Benton Frank reads from Teddy Spaghetti on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


Teddy Spaghetti is bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank’s debut picture book, cowritten by her daughter, Victoria Benton Frank, about a young boy who is teased for loving spaghetti. Teddy loves spaghetti. If he had his way, he would eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (oh, and snack, too)! On the first day at his new school, Teddy is nervous, and the one thing he can look forward to is the spaghetti that his mother packed him for lunch. When Teddy goes in for the first slurp, he hears a loud...

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Genevieve Hudson reads from Boys of Alabama on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


A coming-of-age novel told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through sixteen-year-old Max’s first year in America. In this bewitching first novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. While his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives in the thick heat. Taken in by rowdy football players, he learns how to catch a spiraling ball, point a gun, and hide his innermost secrets...

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Samantha Downing reads from My Lovely Wife on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


Dexter meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting…
Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We’re your neighbors, the parents of your kid’s friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive....

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John Grisham talks books with John Evans on Facebook LIVE! Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore


Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime… Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm...

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Helen Ellis reads from Southern Lady Code on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


The bestselling author of American Housewife (“Dark, deadpan and truly inventive.” --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady....

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Jeffrey Cranor reads from The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a book that is part The Haunting of Hill House, part The Count of Monte Cristo, and 100% about a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home.The latest installment in the Welcome to Night Vale universe is the story of the familiar and terrifying Faceless Old Woman. Her story is told in eerie flashbacks that reveal...

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Amity Gaige reads from Sea Wife on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives. Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where...

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Zoom event with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

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With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later...

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Lily King reads from Writers and Lovers on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching...

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Ariel Lawhon reads from Code Name Helene on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


Based on the thrilling real-life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, comes the newest feat of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia, featuring the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII. Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and...

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Robert Kolker reads from Hidden Valley Road on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don’s work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for...

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Jerry Mitchell reads from Race Against Time on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks


In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the Civil Rights Movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of...

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Grady Hendrix reads from The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires
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Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this ’90s-set horror novel about a women’s book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of Stephen King....

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Sidney Thompson signs Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
Bison Books (03/2020)

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave.After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master’s tutelage...

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Diane Williams signs The Life and Legacy of B.B. King
Arcadia Publishing (11/2019)

Blues legend B.B. King spent his life sharing the music of his soul, which shone relentlessly through hardship and triumph alike. He never wavered from his vocation, even as he gathered up other musicians in his wake and melded them into the harmony of his animating passion. In this intimate portrait of King, author Diane Williams offers a brief account of the monumental blues man's life before settling in for a series of interviews with his...

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Michael Farris Smith signs Blackwood
Little Brown (3/2020)

In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods. The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can...

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Andy Davidson signs The Boatman's Daughter
Macmillan (2/2020)

A "lush nightmare" of a supernatural thriller about a young woman facing down ancient forces in the depths of the bayou.

Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. ...

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Lee Durkee signs The Last Taxi Driver
Tin House Books (3/2020)

The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged hackie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou—a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away—drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Lou’s way of life...

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Colum McCann signs Apeirogon
Random House (2/2020)

The National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin tells an epic story rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss in this daring, symphonic novel. Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon—named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides—is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints both physical...

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Alice Robb signs Why We Dream
Mariner Books (11/2019)

While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming—the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they’re dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the science of dreams at an extremely opportune moment: just as researchers began to understand why dreams exist. They aren’t just random events; they have...

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Patrick Murphy signs Reserved Mr. Memory
Published by Patrick Murphy (8/2019)

“The voice of photography rings brave and true in these images, many of which were taken in Chickasaw County in Northeast Mississippi. Many of these photos date from the sixties and are beautiful, sometimes disturbing documents about a place where Pat spent his early years. As a Mississippian and fellow Southerner, I am grateful to Pat for sharing these images with us.” - William R. Ferris, Author of The South in Color: A Visual Journal.

Reserved Mr. Memory contains 61 color photos (59 film and 2 digital) taken in the South (half of them in Mississippi) from 1967-2017, plus text. Afterword by William Ferris. 144 pp., hardbound, 10.4 x 10.8 inches, printed on fine art paper...

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Trent Brown signs Murder in McComb
LSU Press (2/2020)

Trent Brown’s Murder in McComb is the first comprehensive examination of this case, the lengthy investigation into it, and the two extended trials that followed. Brown also explores the public shaming of the state’s main witness, a fifteen-year-old unwed mother, and the subsequent desecration of Andrews’s grave. Set against the uneasy backdrop of the civil rights movement, Brown’s study deftly reconstructs various accounts of the murder, explains why the juries reached the verdicts...

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Tommy Goodman signs Delta Artist
Published by Tommy Goodman (12/2019)

Tommy Goodman is a Carrolton, MS artist and retired achitect. He attended the University of Mississippi and Delta State University from 1964 to 1968 receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts, the University of Alabama in fine arts in 1969 for post graduate study and Auburn University receiving a Bachelor of Architecture in 1974. Since then, he has been in the design principle and an award winning architect at architectural design firms in Jackson, MS and Birmingham, AL..

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Ken and Duke Tate sign The Alchemy of Architecture
Pearl Press (1/2020)

Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus, Mississippi where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken’s upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his architectural collegiate career. There Ken struggled to keep up with the hard-edged modernism being taught in school and longed to design beautiful houses with soul...

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Kenneth and Sarah Jane Wright sign Lola Dutch I Love You So Much
Bloomsbury Publishing (12/2019)

Lola Dutch loves her friends SO much! So when Gator, Crane, and Pig are each having a bad day, Lola comes up with a plan to show them just how much she loves them. She makes Gator a pair of cozy pajamas, she builds Crane a special reading nook, and she takes Pig to his favorite park. But Lola realizes she has forgotten someone—Bear! Can Lola come up with the perfect way to express how much she loves her dearest friend? Inspired by their own four gorgeously feisty children, Sarah Jane and Kenneth Wright are thrilled to continue this fun, commercial...

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Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman sign Hidden History of New Orleans
Arcadia (2/2020)

The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts--heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, sinners and saints. In this New Orleans, a serial-killing axeman threatens to murder anyone not playing jazz. A fearless band of missionary nuns pushes to civilize the frontier. During World War II, Nazi U-boats lurk off the coast, while Denton Crocker's battle with local mosquitoes contributes to victory in the Pacific. From the streetcar strikers who lined the thoroughfares with IEDs to the...

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Jerry Mitchell signs Race Against Time
Simon & Schuster (2/2020)

"For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed." - John Grisham

On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the Civil Rights Movement. And even though the killers...

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R. J. Lee signs Playing the Devil
Kensington (1/2020)

Now an investigative reporter for the Rosalie Citizen in the Mississippi River port of Rosalie, Wendy still likes to unwind over a game of cards. Following the demise of the Rosalie Bridge Club, she’s started her own group at the Rosalie Country Club. During the first meeting of the Country Club Bridge Players, the dummy has barely been laid down when another dummy gets in a scuffle at the bar across the room. Bridge player Carly Ogle’s husband Brent is at it again...

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Michael Zapata signs The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
Hanover Square Press (2/2020)

In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. It is a strange and beautiful novel, set in a near future where a sixteen-year-old Dominican girl, not all that unlike Adana herself, searches for a golden eternal city believed to exist somewhere on a parallel Earth. Lost City earns a modest but enthusiastic readership, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she and her...

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Nic Stone signs Clean Getaway
Crown (1/2020)

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a middle-grade road-trip story through American race relations past and present, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Jason Reynolds.Set against the backdrop of the segregation history of the American South, take a trip with New York Times bestselling Nic Stone and an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn’t always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren’t always what they seem—his G’ma included...

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Peggy Wallace Kennedy signs The Broken Road
Bloomsbury (12/2019)

For readers of White Rage, a memoir about Peggy Wallace Kennedy’s struggle with her father George Wallace’s legacy of governing by fear and hate. Peggy Wallace Kennedy, seen as the “symbol of racial reconciliation” (Washington Post), is the daughter of one of America’s most virulent segregationists, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace. Wallace was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts, such as standing in front of the entrance to the University of Alabama to prevent black students from entering. But he was also a larger-than-life father to young Peggy, who....

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