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2019 PAST EVENTS
Monday, December 23, 2019
Signing at 1:00
Chanelle Benz signs The Gone Dead Ecco (6/2019) An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death. Billie James’s inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day.... Read More...
Monday, December 23, 2019
Signing at 1:00
Mary Miller signs Biloxi Liveright (5/2019) Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last Days of California, and her biting collection, Always Happy Hour, Miller slyly transports readers to her unapologetic corner of the South—this time, Biloxi, Mississippi, home to.... Read More...
Monday, December 23, 2019
Signing at 11:00
James D. Bell signs Maximilian's Treasure Sartoris Literary Group (11/2019) Just days after their dramatic courtroom victory in the “Case of the Century,” Mississippi lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley find themselves embroiled in an even bigger case. The respected patriarch of a Choctaw family is murdered in a drive-by shooting during a family gathering on their farm. His grandson pursues the murderers. Three “rednecks” suspected in the drive-by shooting are found on the farm, dead. The grandson is charged... Read More...
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Signing at 12:00
Mark Barr signs Watershed Hub City Press (10/2019) Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background—a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people—Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens... Read More...
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Signing at 12:00
Trenton Lee Stewart signs The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Riddle of Ages Little Brown (9/2019) The Mysterious Benedict Society is a modern classic, drawing comparisons to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, named a Time magazine "Best Young Adult Book of All Time," and selling over three million copies. Some time has passed since the inimitable quartet of Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance have had a mission together. But with the arrival of a new Society member -- and a new threat -- they must reunite to face dilemmas more dangerous than ever before, including the ... Read More...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Signing 4:00, Reading 4:30
Event will be in our DotCom Annex Building 
Lottie Brent Boggan signs Return to Redemption Ridge Dragon Breath Press (12/2019) Brucie Claymore left Redemption Ridge when she was thirteen, but she carried dark secrets witk her. Now, after many years and life in Boston as the wife of Herschel Von Deiter and mother to Memory and Dale, unexpected hardship and tragedy force the family to return to Redemption Ridge, Mississippi, not for a visit, but permanently. Both Memory and Dale suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, but for different reason. Dale's affliction is referred to as... Read More...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Joint Author Event with Beth Kander and Frank LaRue Owen
Signing at 2:00 
Beth Kander signs Born in Syn Owl House Books (10/2019) How did we get here? That’s the question that drives each friend, each foe, and every strand of the stories woven together in Born in Syn. From an unusually intelligent infant, to individuals wrongly accused or imprisoned, to insiders who know things they wish they didn’t and outsiders determined to bulldoze their way into the action, dozens of small decisions and huge risks pile on top of one another, contributing to the creation of a future that... Read More... 
Frank LaRue Owen signs The Temple of Warm Harmony Homebound Press (8/2019) The Temple of Warm Harmony is a book of poems, but it is also something of a map. Some of the poems are about the author, some are about the reader, while other poems are about the times we’re all living through. A blend of mini-exorcisms, healing incantations, dreams, and invitations to numinous ways of observing and experiencing life, the book is divided into three parts: In the World of Red Dust, Heartbreak and Armoring, and Entering The Temple of Warm Harmony.... Read More...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Signing at 1:00
Shaun Hamill signs A Cosmology of Monsters Pantheon (9/2019) A tender and terrifying literary horror novel—the author’s debut—that tells the story of a family (creators of a haunted house attraction called the Wandering Dark) and the hereditary monsters—both metaphorical and all-too-real—that haunt them. Monsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: how in the late ’60s, his bookish mother Margaret marries Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. The couple has two daughters—Sydney, born for the spotlight, and the brilliant but awkward... Read More...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Signing at 12:00
Charlie Spillers signs Whirlwind Self Published (7/2018) A drone strike in in the Golan Heights kills an Iranian Quds Force general. In retaliation, terror cells are sent to the U.S. When a member of a terror cell dies in an auto accident, FBI agent Frank Marsh discovers that an attack may be imminent. Based on vague clues, he and Kathy Foster try to figure out where terrorists plan to attack. At first, sparks fly between Frank and Kathy because of an issue from their past. Their investigation is also hampered by bureaucratic obstacles... Read More...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Signing at 11:30
Lovejoy Boteler signs Crooked Snake University Press of Mississippi (2/2019) The true story of a kidnapper's calamitous criminal life as told by the man he abducted. In 1968, during Albert Lepard's fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family's farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper's nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred. Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard is the true story of Lepard, sentenced to life in Parchman for the murder of seventy-four-year-old Mary... Read More...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Signing at 11:00
Will Jacks signs Po'Monkey's The University Press of Mississippi (10/2019) A photographic tour of a quintessential staple of the Mississippi blues Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke joint in the state, now closed to the public. Before the death of the lounge’s owner, Willie Seaberry, in 2016, it was a mandatory stop on the constant blues pilgrimage that flows through the Delta.... Read More...
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Signing at 5:00
Harvey C. Green signs Nobody's Patriot Dragon Tree Press (10/2019) Nobody's Patriot is a story containing actual hair-raising events that occurred in May of 2010, that form the nucleus of this fictional story. It begins in the residential development of Lake Caroline in Madison County, Mississippi. After semi-retired construction manager Harry O'Keefe buys a house in the Lake Caroline development in Madison County from Army veteran and cybersecurity expert Calvin Singer. Before moving out, Cal holes himself up in the place and engages... Read More...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Signing at 5:00
Brooks Eason signs Fortunate Son WordCrafts Press (11/2019) On the eve of the birth of his first grandchild, Mississippi lawyer Brooks Eason learned the truth about a mystery he’d lived with for nearly fifty years: the story of his birth and his birth mother’s identity. Perhaps even more surprising was how the story was finally revealed: It turned out that Eason was a potential heir to an enormous fortune from his birth mother’s family. His original identity finally saw the light of day only as result of litigation in four courts in two... Read More...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Signing 3:00 to 5:00
Wyatt Waters signs The Seeing 2020 Calendar Wyatt Waters Gallery (9/2019) Wyatt’s 2020 Calendar features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings and sized to fit a standard 16” x 20” frame with a 3” mat. The calendars are printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper....... Read More...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Signing at 3:00
Malcolm White signs The Artful Evolution of Hal and Mals University of Mississippi Press (3/2018) 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. Featuring beautiful watercolor paintings, the book brings together thirty years of family history, live music performances, and cafe society through graphic designs of old photographs, original illustrations, Hal's legendary recipe cards, and the written word. Opening with a foreword by the renowned author and chef Robert St. John... Read More...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Signing 2:00 to 3:00
Steve Robertson signs Stark Villians Crane Publishing Group (10/2019) Stark Villains delivers an in-depth look at the longstanding rivalry between Mississippi State and Ole Miss. These pages are loaded with tales of misadventure, hilarious pranks, heroic game-winning efforts, history and much more. Stark Villains is unique because it is written from a Mississippi State perspective. Inside is a collection of tales from the rivalry as recalled by those Bulldogs who lived it, played it and... Read More...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Signing 1:00 to 2:00
William H. Morris signs This Magic Moment Fitting Words LLC (11/2019) The Moonglows were considered, by many in the know, to be the best of the doo wop-era singers. An unlikely incident allowed Bill Morris and Prentiss Barnes to meet, and through a series of rare and providential events that followed, the retired singer was rescued from the depths of despair. Prentiss was the original bass singer of The Moonglows and was disabled from a train car collision years before. He was now living in Jackson, Mississippi, Bill's hometown. Prentiss and Bill connected and became very close... Read More...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Signing at 12:00
Marilyn Tinnin signs MaeMae's Grandmother Book Life Story Publishing (7/2019) MaeMae is a Southern grandmother who shares a few well-learned life lessons straight from the heart. With real people stories and reflections from her own experience, she covers a broad range of subjects with humor, grace, and an ample dose of Truth. Parents, grandparents, and young adults can enjoy these 12 thought-provoking chapters together!... Read More...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Meet ESTEBAN from 10:00AM - NOON!
Esteban, the Green Crayon visits Lemuria! Have your photo taken with the one and only ESTEBAN! We'll have copies of the brand new book, THE CRAYONS' CHRISTMAS! ’Tis the season for all of us to write our holiday wishlists. But everyone—even the crayons—know the best presents are the ones that you give. In this unique book, readers get to see how Duncan, the crayons, and their families celebrate the holidays. With real, folded letters from the Crayons that you can pull from their envelopes and read, games, punch-out ornaments, a poster, and a pop-up tree, this book is the perfect gift for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home.... Read More...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Signing at 5:00
Allie Povall signs Rebels in Repose Arcadia Publishing (12/2019) The irascible Jubal A. Early, Robert E. Lee's "bad old man," went to Canada after the war and remained an unreconstructed Rebel until his death. Lee became president of Washington College and urged reconciliation with the North. Braxton Bragg never found solid economic footing and remained mournful of slavery's demise until his own, when a heart attack took him in Galveston. The South's high command traveled dramatically... Read More...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Signing 4:00-6:00
Governor Phil Bryant signs The Mississippi Governor's Mansion The University Press of Mississippi (11/2019) An artful, insider’s tour of the mightiest mansion in Mississippi Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor’s residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public building open for tours and the private residence of the governor and his family. In this unique book, readers are invited to explore the entirety of the building, from the attic to the garage and everything in between. The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion: Memories of the People’s Home is the first book of its kind... Read More...
Monday, December 9, 2019
Signing at 5:00
James D. Bell signs Maximilian's Treasure Sartoris Literary Group (11/2019) Just days after their dramatic courtroom victory in the “Case of the Century,” Mississippi lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley find themselves embroiled in an even bigger case. The respected patriarch of a Choctaw family is murdered in a drive-by shooting during a family gathering on their farm. His grandson pursues the murderers. Three “rednecks” suspected... Read More...
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Signing 3:00 to 4:00
Duvalier Malone signs Those Who Give a Damn Independent Publishing (04/2018) Those Who Give a Damn is a story of struggle, adversity and the will to succeed. Join Duvalier Malone as he details how he overcame tragedy in the best way possible: in the service of his fellow man and woman. Duvalier seeks to give a manual on how to serve humanity. As a small town boy who chased his dreams and found the path to manhood that was forged by the footsteps of those who paved the way, Duvalier was blessed with the tools to give back to his... Read More...
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Signing 2:00 to 3:00
Stan Buckley signs But God Lulu Publishing (12/2019) But God is the story of how God has miraculously brought hope and redemption to two of the poorest communities in Haiti and one of the most challenging places in the United States. In the face of extreme poverty, hunger, dilapidated housing, spiritual darkness, and lack of health care and clean water, God has brought a renewed sense of life and hope for the future. You will be inspired, encouraged, and challenged as you discover that God is still working wonders in some of the most difficult... Read More...
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Signing 1:00 to 2:00
Lawrence Wells signs William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection Yoknapatawpha Press (11/2019) In 1978 Yoknapatawpha Press published William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield, a photo-biography of William Faulkner featuring portraits by family photographers J. R. Cofield and his son Jack, and historical photos by other photographers. School yearbook pictures, family snapshots, and news photographs trace the author’s life and work. “These photographs,” observed Eudora Welty, “eloquently tell us what no voice now... Read More...
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Signing 11:00 to 1:00
Neil White signs Stories from 125 Years of Ole Miss Football Nautilus Publishing (8/2019) To commemorate 125 years of Ole Miss football history, the Nautilus Publishing Company has published Stories from 125 Years of Ole Miss Football, a collection of stories and photographs that don’t fit the typical “sports book” model. Editor and Publisher, NEIL WHITE, said, “We didn’t want to re-package the same stories that have been repeated through the years. Every interview began with a simple question: Tell us a story... Read More...
Thursday, December 5, 2019
A LARRY BROWN CELEBRATION EVENT
with Johnathan Miles, Matthew Guinn, and Michael Farris Smith 
Jonathan Miles signs Tiny Love Algonquin Books (11/2019) A career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown’s previous collections along with those never before gathered. The self-taught Brown has long had a cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and heartfelt appreciation by novelist Jonathan Miles. We see Brown's early forays into genre fiction and the horror story, then develop his fictional gaze closer to home, on the people and landscapes of Lafayette County, Mississippi. And what’s... Read More...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Phil Keith signs All Blood Runs Red Hanover Square Press (11/2019) For readers of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Hidden Figures, the incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot to fly in combat, and the only African American pilot in World War I, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance, and finally an American civil... Read More...
Monday, December 2, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Col. Carlyle Smitty Harris signs Tap Code Zondervan (11/2019) A true and previously untold story of an American hero-a POW in Vietnam who changed countless lives by secretly spreading a long-unused military "tap" code into the infamous Hoa Lo prison camp, sharing the love of God with every tap. When Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, he had no idea what horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison-nicknamed "Hanoi Hilton." For the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs-including John McCain... Read More...
Saturday, Nov 30, 2019
Meet PETE from 10:00AM - NOON!
Pete the Cat takes over Lemuria! Have your photo taken with the one and only PETE THE CAT! We'll have loads of Pete the Cat books, including the newest from author-illustrator team James and Kimberly Dean, PETE THE CAT AND THE PERFECT PIZZA PARTY! Pete has huge plans for a perfect pizza party with his friends. What’s more perfect than a PEPPERONI pizza? But his friends have other plans—they want to add their favorite toppings to the pizza. They suggest everything from PICKLES to PAPAYA. Will Pete still be able to have his perfect pizza party? In the thirteenth Pete the Cat picture book, Pete learns a thing or two about compromise in this fun, cumulative romp of a story. Perfect for the classroom, this book teaches children about alliteration, foods, and friendship all in one!... Read More...
Two Signing Events:
Friday, November 29, 2019 and Saturday, November 30, 2019
Friday Signing at 2:00 | Saturday Signing at 12:00
Bill Wilson signs The Mississippi Governor's Mansion The University Press of Mississippi (11/2019) An artful, insider’s tour of the mightiest mansion in Mississippi Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor’s residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public building open for tours and the private residence of the governor and his family. In this unique book, readers are invited to explore the entirety of the building, from the attic to the garage and everything in between. The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion: Memories of the People’s Home is the first book of its kind... Read More...
Friday, November 29, 2019
Signing 11:00 - 1:00 PM
William H. Morris signs This Magic Moment Fitting Words, LLC (11/2019) The Moonglows were considered, by many in the know, to be the best of the doo wop-era singers. An unlikely incident allowed Bill Morris and Prentiss Barnes to meet, and through a series of rare and providential events that followed, the retired singer was rescued from the depths of despair. Prentiss was the original bass singer of The Moonglows and was disabled from a train car collision years before. He was now living in Jackson, Mississippi, Bill's hometown. Prentiss and Bill connected and became... Read More...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Joint Author Event with Mesha Maren and Randal O'Wain
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Mesha Maren signs Sugar Run Algonquin (10/2019) In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she meets and falls... Read More... 
Randal O'Wain signs Meander Belt University of Nebraska Press (2019) In Meander Belt M. Randal O’Wain offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis, Tennessee, came to fall in love with language, reading, writing, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labor and what this does to his relationship with his family, whose livelihood and sensibility are decidedly blue collar. Straining the father-son bond further... Read More...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
EVENT WILL BE IN OUR DOTCOM BUILDING
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Jimmy Cajoleas signs Minor Prophets Amulet Books (9/2019) Lee has always seen visions: cats that his mother promises aren’t really there, a homeless man who he’s convinced is out to get him, and three men who give him ominous warnings in the woods. His mother and his sister Murphy try to keep him grounded in the real world. But when his mother dies in a car accident and her horrible husband tries to adopt them, Lee and Murphy flee to their grandmother’s ranch, which they’ve only heard about in stories. But is there a reason why their mother never... Read More...
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Signing at 2:00
Latoya Lawson signs Ma'Sitter Booksmango (7/2019) After the violent death of her role model, struggling single Mom Victoria is offered a job as a caregiver for an elderly rich couple. Inside the walls of the Lane’s sumptuous Mississippi home, her dreams hover tantalizingly close: a peaceful life, a full pantry, and a safe neighborhood. But it is merely a façade that she drifts through in a haze, concealing an unfolding drama; the manipulative and racist Mr. Lane has plans for his wife’s wealth that don’t involve her... Read More...
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Signing 11:00 to 1:00
Wyatt Waters signs The Seeing 2020 Calendar Wyatt Waters Gallery (9/2019) Wyatt’s 2020 Calendar features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings and sized to fit a standard 16” x 20” frame with a 3” mat. The calendars are printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper.... Read More...
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Lara Prescott signs The Secrets We Kept Random House (9/2019) A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help... Read More...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Frank LaRue Owen signs The Temple of Warm Harmony Homebound Press (8/2019) The Temple of Warm Harmony is a book of poems, but it is also something of a map. Some of the poems are about the author, some are about the reader, while other poems are about the times we’re all living through. A blend of mini-exorcisms, healing incantations, dreams, and invitations to numinous ways of observing and experiencing life, the book is divided into three parts: In the World of Red Dust, Heartbreak and Armoring, and Entering The Temple of Warm Harmony.... Read More...
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Signing 2:00 | Reading 2:30
Event will be in our DotCom Annex Building 
Janet Taylor-Perry signs Head Count Dragon Breath Press (9/2019) Who could know counting heads would be so dangerous? Laura Beth Copeland, the stay- home mother of two and half, decides to become a census-taker just for the experience. When she discovers a decapitated head at one of her canvassing addresses, she is catapulted into a fight for her life. Upon finding only the head of a witness against a drug lord, Laura Beth becomes the hitman’s next target. She first receives warnings to remain quiet. When she cooperates with police, the... Read More...
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Event at Cathead Distillery
Event begins at 5:00 
Sean Brock signs South Workman (10/2019) Southern food is one of the most beloved and delicious cuisines in America. And who better to give us the key elements of Southern cuisine than Sean Brock, the award-winning chef and Southern-food crusader. In South, Brock shares his recipes for key components of the cuisine, from grits and fried chicken to collard greens and corn bread. Recipes can be mixed and matched to make a meal or eaten on their own. Taken together, they make up the essential elements... Read More...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Steve Robertson signs Starkvillians Crane Publishing Group, LLC (10/2019) Stark Villains delivers an in-depth look at the longstanding rivalry between Mississippi State and Ole Miss. These pages are loaded with tales of misadventure, hilarious pranks, heroic game-winning efforts, history and much more. Stark Villains is unique because it is written from a Mississippi State perspective. Inside is a collection of tales from the rivalry as recalled by those Bulldogs who lived it, played it and coached it. Long before there were even two .... Read More...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Signing 4:30 | Reading 5:30
John L. Cox signs Setting Parents Free LifeStory Press (10/2019) Parents live pressured to parent perfectly, or else! The message we get is, "You’d better do everything right or you’re going to screw up your kids!” Parents need to be let off the hook. We need to make parenting fun again! In Setting Parents Free, Dr. John Cox will guide you in teaching your kids about love, strength, values, and struggle -- as well as how to get them to do what you say! And then we are going to look at what to do.... Read More...
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Mark Barr signs Watershed Hub City Press (10/2019) Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background—a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people—Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South.... Read More...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton signs The Revisioners Counterpoint (11/2019) In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine's family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine's descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just lost her job.... Read More...
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Signing at 2:00
Ken Slay signs Daily Ponderances Independently Published (10/2019) Daily Ponderances: Words of hope, humility, and sage advice in 140 characters or less. Never underestimate the power of words. Weaving their way into our subconscious, words can wrap themselves around our thoughts and manipulate our emotions. More than any other external stimuli, words affect our decision-making and frequently dictate our actions. When we consider the undeniable impact of mere words... Read More...
Friday, November 1, 2019
Event at the Eudora Welty House
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Cassandra King Conroy signs Tell Me a Story William Morrow (10/2019) In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent together, cut short by Pat’s passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to... Read More...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Chris Edmonds signs No Surrender Harper Collins (10/2019) Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives—then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was the highest-ranking American soldier at Stalag IXA, a prisoner of war camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Roddie was a simple... Read More...
Monday, October 28, 2019
Joint Author Event with Donald L. Miller and S.C. Gwynne
moderated by Jim Woodrick Signing 4:30 | Reading 5:30 
Donald L. Miller signs Vicksburg Simon and Schuster (10/2019) Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. General Grant moved his army south and joined forces with Admiral Porter, but even together they could not come up with a successful plan... Read More... 
S.C. Gwynne signs Hymns of the Republic Scribner (10/2019) The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points. Now, S.C. Gwynne’s Hymns of the Republic addresses the time Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. Gwynne breathes new life into the epic battle between Lee and Grant; the advent of 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army; William Tecumseh... Read More...
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Signing at 2:00
Ryan Starrett signs Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder and the Civil War Arcadia Publishing (10/2019) During the Civil War, all Four Horsemen circled the flock of William Henry Elder, the third bishop of Natchez. Elder was a hopeful unionist turned secessionist whose diocese encompassed the entirety of Mississippi. Consequently, he witnessed many of the pivotal moments of the Civil War--the capitulation of Natchez, the Siege of Vicksburg, the destruction of Jackson and the overall desolation of a state. And in the midst of the conflict, Bishop Elder went about... Read More...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Signing 4:00 to 6:00
William H. Morris signs This Magic Moment Fitting Words, LLC (10/2019) The Moonglows were considered, by many in the know, to be the best of the doo wop-era singers. An unlikely incident allowed Bill Morris and Prentiss Barnes to meet, and through a series of rare and providential events that followed, the retired singer was rescued from the depths of despair. Prentiss was the original bass singer of The Moonglows and was disabled from a train car collision years before. He was now living in Jackson, Mississippi, Bill's hometown. Prentiss and Bill connected and became very close friends. From that historic encounter, Bill facilitated ... Read More...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Saeed Jones signs How We Fight for Our Lives Simon and Schuster (10/2019) Haunted and haunting, Jones’s memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers, friends and strangers... Read More...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Will Jacks signs Po'Monkey's: Portrait of a Juke Joint University Press of Mississippi (10/2019) A photographic tour of a quintessential staple of the Mississippi blues Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke joint in the state, now closed to the public. Before the death of the lounge’s owner, Willie Seaberry, in 2016, it was a mandatory stop on the constant blues pilgrimage that flows through the Delta... Read More...
Monday, October 21, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
William Dunlap signs Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster University press of Mississippi (9/2019) The first publication dedicated to a remarkable Mississippi folk artist O. W. “Pappy” Kitchens (1901–1986) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and began painting at age sixty-seven. His self-taught, narrative, visual art springs directly from the oral tradition of parable and storytelling with which he grew up. A self-declared folk artist, Kitchens claimed, “I paint about folks, what folks see and what folks do.”... Read More...
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Signing 10am to 12pm
Kendall Smith signs The Devil Plays Church League Basketball Doodleville Media Group, LLC (10/2019) Kendall Smith shares with the reader memories growing up in a lower-middle class neighborhood, playing basketball on a travel squad with a midget as a point guard, getting fired from his first real job after college, helping his mother put a hex on flower thieves at the cemetery, meeting and marrying his wife, and finally, what he thinks it will be like the day he dies. Interspersed with thirty-plus chapters is a vivid ... Read More...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Karen Brown signs Go With Your Dog Sandpiper Reflections (10/2019) Trust is built slowly with a new dog, one day at a time. It’s a mutual process—just as the blind person learns to trust the dog, the dog learns to trust the handler. I now realize how smart and absolutely focused Anna was and remain grateful that she was my first dog. I know she taught me a lot more than I ever taught her. She built my confidence as an independent traveler and paved the way for successful work with the dogs who would follow her. Her work ethic was astonishing. I know there were many days when she had health problems and continued to work despite them. She literally... Read More...
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Signing at 2:00
Japonica Brown signs I Have Something to Say Independently Published (8/2019) Be transported with snapshots from a young woman's life as she journeys toward self-discovery and healing. Japonica Brown takes audiences through snaps shots of various stories describing her experiences through sexual trauma, dysfunctional relationships, and her battle towards mental health. Laugh, cry, and begin to find your voice through I Have Something to Say!... Read More...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Richard Gruber signs Dusti Bongé, Art and Life Biloxi, MS: Dusti Bongé Art Foundation (2019) The art of Dusti Bongé (born Eunice Lyle Swetman) was influenced by her experiences in three distinctive American cities: Biloxi, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York, New York. Born in Biloxi in 1903, she was raised as the daughter of a prominent local banker, and died there in 1993, living her last years on the family property where she was raised, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico... Read More...
Thursday, September 26, 2019
MIDDLE GRADE AUTHOR EVENT
Signing 4:00 | Reading 4:30
Trenton Lee Stewart signs The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages Little Brown (9/2019) The Mysterious Benedict Society is a modern classic, drawing comparisons to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, named a Time magazine "Best Young Adult Book of All Time," and selling over three million copies. Some time has passed since the inimitable quartet of Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance have had a mission together. But with the arrival of a new Society member -- and a new threat -- they must reunite to face dilemmas more dangerous than ever before, including the villainous... Read More...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Signing at 5:00
Susan T. Falck signs Remembering Dixie University Press of Mississippi (9/2019) A timely examination of the beginnings of heritage tourism and the tensions felt today in one Mississippi community. Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place “Where the Old South Still Lives.” Tourists flocked to view the town’s decaying antebellum mansions, hoopskirted hostesses, and a pageant saturated in sentimental Lost Cause imagery... Read More...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
In conversation with Ebony Lumumba
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Brittney Morris signs SLAY Simon and Schuster (9/2019) Ready Player One meets The Hate U Give in this dynamite debut novel that follows a black teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther-inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for black gamers. By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY... Read More...
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED
Frank LaRue Owen signs The Temple of Warm Harmony Homebound Pubishing (8/2019) The Temple of Warm Harmony is a book of poems, but it is also something of a map. Some of the poems are about the author, some are about the reader, while other poems are about the times we’re all living through. A blend of mini-exorcisms, healing incantations, dreams, and invitations to numinous ways of observing and experiencing life, the book is divided into three parts: In the World of Red Dust, Heartbreak and Armoring, and Entering ... Read More...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Joint Author Event with Lovejoy Boteler and Richard Grant
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Lovejoy Boteler signs Crooked Snake University of Mississippi Press (02/2019) The true story of a kidnapper's calamitous criminal life as told by the man he abducted. In 1968, during Albert Lepard's fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family's farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper's nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred. ... Read More... 
Richard Grant signs Dispatches from Pluto Simon and Schuster (2015) Adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight ... Read More...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Shaun Hamill signs A Cosmology of Monsters Pantheon (9/2019) "If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen King A tender and terrifying literary horror novel—the author’s debut—that tells the story of a family (creators of a haunted house attraction called the Wandering Dark) and the hereditary monsters—both metaphorical and all-too-real—that haunt them... Read More...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Neil White and Rick Cleveland sign Stories from 125 Years of Ole Miss Football Nautilus Publishing (8/2019) To commemorate 125 years of Ole Miss football history, the Nautilus Publishing Company has published Stories from 125 Years of Ole Miss Football, a collection of stories and photographs that don’t fit the typical “sports book” model. White and his team of contributors — including Rick Cleveland, Billy Watkins, Robert Khayat, Jeff Roberson — interviewed more than 100 former players and coaches, as well as children, grandchildren, and widows of former Rebels. Some of the stories... Read More...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
at the Eudora Welty House
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Téa Obreht signs Inland Random House (8/2019) In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, a newspaperman, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home, and her husband’s... Read More...
Saturday, September 7, 2019
at Lemuria.com Events Building across from Banner Hall
Signing & Reception 2:00 | Talk 2:30 
Alice Marie Johnson signs After Life Harper Collins (4/2019) The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West—an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude. How do you hold on to hope after more than twenty years of imprisonment? For Alice Marie Johnson the answer lies with God. For years, Alice lived a normal life without a criminal record—she was a manager at FedEx, a wife, and a mother. But after an emotionally... Read More...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Sarah M. Broom signs The Yellow House Grove Press (8/2019) A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father... Read More...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Susan Cushman signs Friends of the Library Koehler Books (8/2019) When Adele Covington becomes an author in her sixties, she goes on a book tour to speak to the Friends of the Library groups in ten small towns in her home state of Mississippi. Chasing her personal demons through the Christ-haunted South of her childhood, Adele befriends an eclectic group of wounded people and decides to tell their stories. From Eupora to Meridian, from a budding artist with an abusive husband to a seven-year-old with a rare form of cancer, each story contains elements of hope and ... Read More...
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Signing 2:00
Bob May signs Have Fun, Dammit! Book Baby Press (7/2019) More than 40 million baby boomers nationwide care for aging parents. Millions of families watch over Down syndrome and special needs kin. At some point, most families will know a loved one dealing with health issues like short and long-term memory loss, dementia or even Alzheimer's disease. Bob's family is no exception. This book contains a collection of the true and wondrous stories of his life in one small... Read More...
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Melody Golding signs Life Between The Levees University Press Mississippi (5/2019) Life Between the Levees is a chronicle of first-person reflections and folklore from pilots who have dedicated their lives to the river. The stories are as diverse as the storytellers themselves, and the volume is full of drama, suspense, and a way of life a “landlubber” could never imagine. Although waterways and ports in the Mississippi corridor move billions of dollars of products throughout the US and foreign markets, in today's world those who live and work on land have little knowledge of the river... Read More...
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Martin Clark signs The Substitution Order Knopf (7/2019) From Martin Clark—praised by Entertainment Weekly as “our best legal-thriller writer”—comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer’s refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists conspire against him. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash... Read More...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Karl Marlantes signs Deep River Atlantic Monthly (8/2019) From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century America. Karl Marlantes’s debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling—the family epic—to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. Read More...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Margerita Jurkovic signs Margerita's Gridiron Adventure Frascogna (8/2019) In mere months, Slovenian-born lawyer Margerita Jurkovic went from knowing literally nothing about American football to not only developing a love for the game, but a fascination with the overarching culture around the sport. She grew to adore her adopted law firm family and the city of Jackson, Mississippi, and along the way she developed a deep affinity for the way Southern men teach their sons about love, honor, and protecting the women they cherish... Read More...
Friday, August 9, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Ace Atkins signs The Shameless G.P. Putnam's Sons (7/2019) Twenty years ago, Brandon Taylor was thought to be just another teen boy who ended his life too soon. That's what almost everyone in Tibbehah County, Mississippi, said after his body and hunting rifle were found in the Big Woods. Now two New York-based reporters show up asking Sheriff Quinn Colson questions about the Taylor case. What happened to the evidence? Where are the missing files? Who really... Read More...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Event at the Eudora Welty House
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Lisa Howorth signs Summerlings Doubleday (8/2019) Written with humor and poignancy, Summerlings is a powerful testament to love and friendship amid uncertain times—a Cold War coming-of-age story in which three best friends confront their fears of the Bomb, Russian spies, bullies, and their role in the tragic event that ushers them into adulthood. It’s the summer of 1959. For the families who live on Connors Lane in Washington DC, life is still defined by what one did during WWII... Read More...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Brian Noyes signs Red Truck Bakery Cookbook Clarkson Potter (10/2018) Red Truck Bakery Cookbook is your one-way ticket to making delicious cakes, pies, and cookies from the popular Virginia bakery located 50 miles outside Washington, DC. From Double-Chocolate Moonshine Cake and Caramel Pumpkin Pie to the highly praised (and coveted) Red Truck Bakery Granola, you’ll be able to make these knockout desserts for friends, family, and (most important) yourself. ... Read More...
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Signing 2:00
Marilyn Tinnin signs MaeMae's Grandmother Book Life Story Publishing (7/2019) MaeMae is a Southern grandmother who shares a few well-learned life lessons straight from the heart. With real people stories and reflections from her own experience, she covers a broad range of subjects with humor, grace, and an ample dose of Truth. Parents, grandparents, and young adults can enjoy these 12 thought-provoking chapters together... Read More...
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Signing 2:00
Janet Ferguson signs The Art of Rivers Southern Sun Press (7/2019) Rivers Sullivan bears both visible and invisible scars—those on her shoulder from a bullet wound and those on her heart from the loss of her fiancé during the same brutal attack. Not even her background as an art therapist can help her regain her faith in humanity. Still, she scrapes together the courage to travel to St. Simons Island to see the beach cottage and art gallery she’s inherited from her fiancé. When she stumbles upon recovering addicts running her gallery, she’s forced to reckon with her own healing... Read More...
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Signing 2:00
Dendy McDavid and Mary Margaret Thiel sign Stork on the Stoop Global Stork Solutions, LLC (7/2019) Stork on the Stoop is a perfect companion for your growing family. Build excitement and help ease the transition of welcoming a new brother or sister with this adorable picture book and plush toy set. After reading Stork on the Stoop, the stork is sure to become your best friend, as the book instructs all to work together to prepare for the arrival of the new baby... Read More...
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Signing 2:00 | Reading 2:30
Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett sign The Hidden History of the Mississippi Sound Arcadia Publishing (6/2019) Sail into the Mississippi Sound with Bienville, the Frenchman covered in serpentine tattoos. Meet the heroes of the Sound: fearless Father LeDuc, who faced down Yankee pillagers; the wild woman of Horn Island, who could shoot as well as any man; Joseph T. Jones, the baron who willed Gulfport into existence; and Ray Nosaka, who fed his body to the dogs of war, all in service of his country. Glimpse a school of the Sound's own patron fish, the striped mullet, Biloxi's bacon... Read More...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Join us for a joint event with Mamta Chaudhry and Alix Ohlin 
Mamta Chaudhry signs Haunting Paris Nan A. Talese (6/2019) A timeless story of love and loss is transformed when a bereaved pianist discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her headlong into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris. In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Sylvie mourns the loss of her lover, Julien, and is unable to find solace in the music that has always been her refuge... Read More... 
Alix Ohlin signs Dual Citizens Knopf (6/2019) A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences... Read More...
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Signing 2:00
Tammy L. Turner signs Dick Waterman University of Mississippi Press (5/2019) A biography of the renowned manager of Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Buddy Guy, and Bonnie Raitt, who worked with a host of other iconic blues artists. Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century... Read More...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
S. J. Rozan signs Paper Son Pegasus (7/2019) The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. The Most Southern Place on Earth: that’s what they call the Mississippi Delta. It’s not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, NYC, ever thought she’d have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn’t know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi... Read More...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Wright Thompson signs The Cost of These Dreams Penguin Books (4/2019) From one of America’s most beloved sportswriters, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it’s not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers... Read More...
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Signing 11:00
Luke Lampton and Karen Evers sign Images in Mississippi Medicine Mississippi State Medical Association (2018) An old idiom asserts that a picture speaks a thousand words, and the hundreds of images which follow tell the story of medicine with texture, color, and depth words often can't convey. Mississippi has always possessed a distinctive medical sense of place, with its history strongly influenced by its sultry climate as well as native and imported diseases. The long struggle of physicians was arduous in their efforts to battle the state's significant health challenges, which included poverty, race, and an often-malignant climate... Read More...
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Signing 2:00
Johnny Lowe and contributors sign What Would Elvis Think? Clinton Ink Slingers (6/2019) Any discussion of southern writing will eventually lead to Mississippi—the state that has more published authors per capita than any other. . . . Why not, then, create an anthology of stories specifically about Mississippi? Such is the book you now hold in your hand—a collection of tales that are all set here in Elvis Country. . . . Some of these Mississippians might remind you of folks you know—and others are people you might never want to meet face to face... Read More...
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Steven Manheim signs Blues Musicians of the Mississippi Delta Arcadia (6/2019) The Mississippi Delta blues run as deep and mysterious as the beautiful land from where the music originates. Blues legends B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and countless other greats came from this region. The Delta blues, born as work songs in Mississippi cotton fields, was played on city street corners and in rural juke joints... Read More...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Deb Spera signs Call Your Daughter Home Park Row (6/2019) For readers of The Kitchen House and The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Call Your Daughter Home is an emotionally resonant and stunning tour de force that follows three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great Depression. It’s 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband... Read More...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Michael Ford signs North Mississippi Homeplace University of Georgia Press (5/2019) A beautiful photojournalism essay spanning decades of southern life. In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola, and Tate Counties, to a remote area north of Sardis Lake... Read More...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Julia Phillips signs Disappearing Earth Knopf (5/2019) Spellbinding, moving—evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world—this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls—sisters, eight and eleven—go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women... Read More...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Barry Gifford signs Southern Nights and Sailor & Lula Seven Stories Press (2019) Barry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels, Night People, Arise and Walk, and Baby Cat-Face, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity—the copious, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before... Read More...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Mary Miller signs Biloxi Liveright (5/2019) Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last Days of California, and her biting collection, Always Happy Hour, Miller slyly transports readers to her unapologetic corner of the South—this time, Biloxi, Mississippi, home to sixty-three-year-old Louis McDonald Jr... Read More...
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Signing 2:00
Julia Reed signs Julia Reeds New Orleans Rizzoli (4/2019) Consummate hostess and lifestyle expert Julia Reed shares her favorite New Orleans recipes and ways to create parties that exude this city’s famously warm hospitality. This follow-up to Julia’s bestseller Julia Reed’s South showcases her entertaining know-how and that of her noted chef friends—and her love of New Orleans. Held in a variety of venues, from courtyards to gracious interior spaces, the gatherings’ menus include such dishes as grillades, grits, and seafood gumbo, and cocktails ranging from the traditional Sazerac to a Satsuma Margarita... Read More...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Michael Knight signs At Briarwood School for Girls Atlantic Monthly (4/2019) From the award-winning writer of Eveningland and The Typist, Michael Knight, At Briarwood School for Girls is an incisive, witty, beautifully-written novel set at a boarding school in the Virginia countryside. It’s 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she’s pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control... Read More...
Monday, May 13, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Casey Cep signs Furious Hours Knopf (5/2019) The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted... Read More...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Margaret McMullan signs Where the Angels Lived Calypso Editions (5/2019) The moment she discovers the existence of Richard, a long-lost relative, at Israel’s Holocaust Museum, Margaret McMullan begins an unexpected journey of revelation and connectivity as she tirelessly researches the history of her ancestors, the Engel de Jánosis. Propelled by a Fulbright cultural exchange that sends her to teach at a Hungarian University, Margaret, her husband and teenage son all eagerly travel to Pécs, the land of her mother’s Jewish lineage... Read More...
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Signing 2:00 | Reading 2:30
Shelby Harriel signs Behind the Rifle University Press of Mississippi (2/2019) The first study with a regional focus of the role women soldiers played in the Civil War. During the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources. The names of these engagements--Vicksburg, Jackson, Port Gibson, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, and Brice's Crossroads--along with the narratives of the men who fought there resonate in Civil War literature... Read More...
Friday, May 3, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Diane McPhail signs The Abolitionist's Daughter Kensington (4/2019) In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free... Read More...
Saturday, April 27, 2019
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY
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Thursday, April 25, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Ali Benjamin signs The Next Great Paulie Fink Little, Brown (4/2019) In this highly anticipated second novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn't easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a classroom prankster like Paulie Fink. When Caitlyn Breen enters the tiny Mitchell School in rural Mitchell, Vermont, she is a complete outsider: the seventh grade has just ten other kids, and they've known each other since kindergarten... Read More...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Helen Ellis signs Southern Lady Code Doubleday (4/2019) Helen Ellis has a mantra: “If you don’t have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way.” Say “weathered” instead of “she looks like a cake left out in the rain.” Say “early-developed” instead of “brace face and B cups.” And for the love of Coke Salad, always say “Sorry you saw something that offended you” instead of “Get that stick out of your butt, Miss Prissy Pants”... Read More...
Monday, April 22, 2019
Story Times & Book Character Photo-Op | 3:30-5:30
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
William Alsup signs Won Over NewSouth Books (3/2019) What was it like growing up white in Mississippi as the civil rights movement exploded in the 1950s and ‘60s? How did some white children reconcile the decency and fairness taught by their parents with the indecency and unfairness of the Mississippi “Way of Life,” the euphemism applied to Jim Crow segregation? Won Over: Reflections of a Federal Judge on His Journey from Jim Crow Mississippi by William Alsup traces the influences that drew the author from accepted Southern attitudes toward a color-blind ideal... Read More...
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Signing 2:00 | Reading 2:30
Event with Cara Meredith, James Meredith, and Jemar Tisby 
Cara Meredith signs The Color of Life Zondervan (2/2019) A writer and speaker with a mixed-race family, Cara Meredith's captivating memoir paints the way from colorblind ignorance to racial healing through the power of God's love and reconciliation... Read More... 
James Meredith signs Three Years in Mississippi University Press of Mississippi (1/2019) The first-person account of a daring, extraordinary blow against segregation. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi... Read More... 
Jemar Tisby signs The Color of Compromise Zondervan (1/2019) A survey of the ways Christians of the past have reinforced theories of racial superiority and inferiority, providing motivation for a series of bold actions believers must take to forge a future of equality and justice... Read More...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Nell Freudenberger signs Lost and Wanted Knopf (4/2019) An emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel from the best-selling author, told in the voice of a renowned physicist: an exploration of female friendship, romantic love, and parenthood—bonds that show their power in surprising ways. Helen Clapp’s breakthrough work on black holes in five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen is skeptical, even contemptuous, of anything remotely pseudo-scientific... Read More...
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Jimmy Cajoleas signs The Rambling HarperCollins (3/2019) From the author of Goldeline, an ALA Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth pick, comes a middle-grade fantasy about a boy searching for his father in a world where a magical card game determines the fate of all who play. Buddy Pennington is headed to river country. He’s determined to find his daddy, a wandering soul and a legend for his skills at Parsnit, a mysterious card game of magic, chance, and storytelling. Buddy hopes his pop might teach him the game, or at least that he can catch some of his pop’s famous good luck... Read More...
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Signing 2:00 | Reading 2:30
T. K. Lee signs To Square a Circle Unsolicited Press (10/2018) To Square a Circle is firmly rooted in the rich, at times, mythically rural language of the Deep South, as it peels back the edges of an arrested coming-of-age story, told in honest language and evocative imagery through the eyes of an unnamed narrator wrestling with his own independent voice against the persistent truths inherited from within the wound and ache of a dying, patchwork family... Read More...
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Janet Brown signs Deadly Visits Dogwood Press (4/2019) Emily Durham appears to have it all: an accomplished, hard-working husband named Alex, three beautiful young children, and a lovely old home in the wilds of South Dakota after a move six weeks ago from her native Mississippi. What is missing, though, is warmth. The mind-numbing winter cold and the bleak, desolate surroundings underscore the growing disconnect between Emily and Alex, a rising executive with a cutting-edge IT firm. A young mom, she’s now a thousand miles from home and isolated in a strange, barren land where she knows no one... Read More...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
River Jordan signs Confessions of a Christian Mystic FaithWords (4/2019) From the author of Praying for Strangers and four Southern gothic novels comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is personal, raw, wise, revelatory - and very funny. With a unique mix of passionate revelation and quirky humor, River Jordan takes us on a journey through her Southern childhood to her present-day life as a novelist. Her stories run the gamut from dancing disco nights and midnight desert rides to surprise visitations with the Divine... Read More...
Monday, April 1, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Philip Shirley signs The Graceland Conspiracy Mindbridge (4/2019) The Graceland Conspiracy delivers a coming-of-age story wrapped in a crime thriller. A rebellious young man becomes caught in a 1990s conspiracy in which the government will stop at nothing to prevent the release of sensitive information about a 1970s crime that could still bring down many powerful government figures and rewrite American pop-culture history... Read More...
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Lovejoy Boteler signs Crooked Snake University Press of Mississippi (2/2019) The true story of a kidnapper's calamitous criminal life as told by the man he abducted. In 1968, during Albert Lepard's fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family's farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper's nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred... Read More...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Tom Clavin signs Wild Bill St. Martin's (2/2019) The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West... Read More...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Poetry reading 5:00
A community reading of Dead Man's Float in honor of Jim Harrison Copper Canyon (9/2018) Lemuria toasts author, poet, and friend Jim Harrison, celebrating his life and work with a community reading of Harrison's last book of poetry, Dead Man's Float. All are invited -- you don't have to participate or purchase anything to attend. For those who wish to participate, poems will be read in sequential order and poem selections are first come, first served. If you would like to read, give us a call or come by the bookstore to select your poem. Please join us for a reverent evening. Beverages will be served in remembrance of our dear pal Jim.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Story time 5:30
Greg Pizzoli signs The Book Hog Disney-Hyperion (3/2019) Geisel Medalist Greg Pizzoli presents a new character who is sure to steal your heart in this picture book full of humorous charm and vivid illustrations. The Book Hog loves books—the way they look, the way they feel, the way they smell—and he'll grab whatever he can find. There's only one problem: he can't read! But when a kind librarian invites him to join for storytime, this literature-loving pig discovers the treasure that books really are... Read More...
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Forrest Ashworth signs The Rejected Lifestory (2/2019) A nondescript man named Yehuda has his life turned sideways. The result is highs and lows, hopes and dreams, and ultimately suffering he could never have fathomed. Can he escape his own decisions? Agonizing memories and regret flood his mind as he recalls days walking among purported friends and one very unconventional man who perplexed Yehuda to no end. Mocked by other-worldly beings, Yehuda battles his dark side, and it’s hard to say who will win... Read More...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Barbara Brown Taylor signs Holy Envy HarperOne (3/2019) The renowned and beloved Christian preacher and New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in Baptist-saturated rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations... Read More...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Ken Wells signs Gumbo Life W. W. Norton (3/2019) Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: “Momma.” The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans—all had a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight and nourish so many? And what explains its spread around the world?... Read More...
Friday, March 8, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Peter Heller signs The River Knopf (3/2019) From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip—a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing... Read More...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Signing 3:30 | Reading 5:30
Greg Iles signs Cemetery Road William Morrow (3/2019) The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town. When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C... Read More...
Friday, March 1, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Adam Makos signs Spearhead Ballantine (2/2019) From the bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the untold story of a World War II tank company fighting from Normandy to the heart of the Third Reich, where a humble gunner would meet destiny in an iconic duel. Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way across Europe, into Germany, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency... Read More...
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Event at Belhaven's Center for the Arts
4:00 in conversation with Ebony Lumumba | signing to follow 
Angie Thomas signs On the Come Up Balzer & Bray (2/2019) This event is ticketed. To purchase a ticket, visit Lemuria or call 601-366-7619. Tickets are $18.99 plus tax and come with a signed copy of On the Come Up, admittance for one person to the event, and admittance to the inscription line to meet Angie. General admission seating. Belhaven University Center for the Arts | 835 Riverside Drive, Jackson, MS, 39202
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
James T. Campbell and Elaine Owens sign Mississippi Witness University Press of Mississippi (2/2019) In June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-orchestrated murder of three young voting-rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. Captured on the road between the towns of Philadelphia and Meridian, the three were driven to a remote country crossroads, shot, and buried in an earthen dam, from which their bodies were recovered after a forty-four-day search... Read More...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Signing 5:00
Milan Sergent signs Candlewicke 13 Cryptic Quill Publishing (2/2019) Valor McRaven tries to hide his odd symptoms from the “normal” witches. His shadow moves on its own, and he sometimes makes objects move without the required wand. Valor refuses to believe the rumors about his family, even after Mystic Ministry locks the McRavens in the sanatorium and schedules him to be the hunted fox in a ghastly tournament with blindfolded ogres, boiling cauldrons, and cats with moon madness... Read More...
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Signing 2:00 | Reading 2:30
Maurice Carlos Ruffin signs We Cast a Shadow In conversation event with Kiese Laymon One World (1/2019) A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white. “You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s Clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their noses narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it... Read More...
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Event at the Eudora Welty House
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
Valeria Luiselli signs Lost Children Archive Knopf (2/2019) From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family’s road trip across America—an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home... Read More...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Signing & Story Time 10:00
Alice Rhea Mitchell and Sheryl K. Perry sign Scooter Mouse and Rabbit Magnolia Gazette Publishing Corporation (2019) When Rabbit falls from Alexander’s backpack after Story Hour with Miss Mattie, Rabbit hides under the library circulation desk until Scooter Mouse rescues him and engineers a hide-and-seek reunion. Twenty-one watercolors by illustrator Sheryl K. Perry depict the text by author Alice Rhea Mitchell in Scooter Mouse and Rabbit, the second in the series dedicated to children’s librarian Mattie Rials... Read More...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Snowden Wright signs American Pop William Morrow (2/2019) Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, an epic saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty—the Forsters, founders of the world’s first major soft-drink company—against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history. The child of immigrants, Houghton Forster has always hungered for more—from his time as a young boy in Mississippi, working twelve-hour days at his father’s drugstore... Read More...
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Signing 12:00
Johnnie Bernhard signs How We Came to Be Texas Review Press (8/2018) Paperback. Signed. Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII Hungarian refugee, who inspires Karen to change her views on motherhood, drinking, and men... Read More...
Friday, February 1, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
R. J. Lee signs Grand Slam Murders Kensington (1/2019) Paperback. Signed. When the four wealthy widows who make up the venerable Rosalie Bridge Club never get up from their card table, this quiet Mississippi town has its first quadruple homicide. Who put cyanide in their sugar bowl? An aspiring member and kibitzer with the exclusive club, Wendy takes a personal interest in finding justice for the ladies... Read More...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Chris Cander signs The Weight of a Piano In conversation event with Gary Fisketjon Knopf (1/2019) First edition. Signed on the title page. As new in dust jacket. A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse. In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America... Read More...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Preston Lauterbach signs Bluff City W. W. Norton (1/2019) First edition. Signed on the title page. As new in dust jacket. Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till’s uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at one of his nephew’s killers; scores of African-American protestors, carrying a forest of signs reading "I am a man." But while he enjoyed unparalleled access to the inner workings of the civil rights movement, Withers was working as an informant for the FBI... Read More...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Mesha Maren signs Sugar Run Algonquin (1/2019) First edition. Signed on the title page. As new in dust jacket. In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She’s released eighteen years later and finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she goes searching for someone she left behind, but on the way, she meets and falls in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother. Together, they try to make a fresh start, but is that even possible in a town that refuses to change? ... Read More...
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Signing 4:00 | Reading 4:30
Michelle A. Purdy signs Transforming the Elite University of North Carolina Press (9/2018) Paperback. Signed. When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, numerous white students exited the public system altogether, with parents choosing homeschooling or private segregationist academies. But some historically white elite private schools opted to desegregate. The black students that attended these schools courageously navigated institutional and interpersonal racism but ultimately emerged as upwardly mobile leaders... Read More... |
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