Vince Venturini and Doug Shanks
sign their new book, ONE DIRECTION HOME!


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 grew 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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Robert St. John and Anthony Thaxton
sign their new book, WALTER ANDERSON: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander!



Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of The Islander contains numerous rare photographs, artwork never before seen, and paintings lost through Hurricane Katrina. It’s the extraordinary story of a man called “America’s Van Gogh.” Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable...

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Lee Harper signs her book, TINY OXFORD!

TINY OXFORD is Mississippi artist Lee Harper’s homage to her adopted hometown in miniature diorama form.
This 40-page gift book features a collection of pieces honoring the long lost landmarks of Oxford town in her trademark microscopic sculptural style. ...

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Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks
sign COLONIAL MISSISSIPPI!

Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region...

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Jennifer Baughn signs her book, BUILDINGS OF MISSISSIPPI!

Although accounts of its architecture have long conjured visions of white-columned antebellum mansions, its towns, buildings, and landscapes are ultimately far more complex, engaging, and challenging. This guidebook surveys a range of such locations, from Native American mounds and villages to plantation outbuildings that bear witness to the lives of enslaved African Americans, from twentieth-century...

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Teresa Nicholas
signs her new book, THE MAMA CHRONICLES!


A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother. Growing up in the Delta town of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Teresa Nicholas believed that she and her country-born and -bred mother weren’t close. She knew little of her mother’s early life as a sharecropper during the Great Depression, but whenever she brought up the subject, her taciturn mother would snap, “You ask too many questions, young’un.”...

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Dogwood Press Event!
Join us for an event with three fantastic authors!

Candace Cox Wheeler will be signing her book,
CRADLE IN THE OAK.
Randy Pierce will be signing his book, MISSY.
John Floyd will be signing his book, LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE.

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Kal Penn signs his
new book, YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

You Can’t Be Serious is a series of funny, consequential, awkward, and ridiculous stories from Kal Penn’s idiosyncratic life. It’s about being the grandson of Gandhian freedom fighters, and the son of immigrant parents: people who came to this country with very little and went very far—and whose vision of the American dream probably never included their son sliding off an oiled-up...

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Jerry Palmer signs his
new book, BUTTONS, BOLT CUTTERS & BARRICADES!

Buttons Bolt Cutters and Barricades Texas Anti-Nuke Actions is a first-hand account of the historical actions taken in trying to stop or at least slow the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States and the Comanche Peak plant in particular. The strategical use of nonviolent direct action including civil disobedience by the Comanche Peak Life Force activists should be an inspiration to others in the fight for clean air clean water and safe renewable energy...

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Dale Beasley signs his
new book, WE WILL NOT BE HOME BY CHRISTMAS!

The new book, a full-color coffee (or cocktail) table book, delivers cards, letters, and photographs from soldiers during wartime. “I am pleased to bring this book to you and hope in reading it, you may find a deeper appreciation of the holidays and for the sacrifices endured by so many,” Beasley said. “In recognition of those sacrifices and commemoration of their memory...

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Robert St. John and Anthony Thaxton
sign their new book, WALTER ANDERSON: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander!



Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of The Islander contains numerous rare photographs, artwork never before seen, and paintings lost through Hurricane Katrina. It’s the extraordinary story of a man called “America’s Van Gogh.” Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable...

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Stuart Kellogg signs his
new book, THE POST COVID CHURCH!

The pandemic has accelerated the already disheartening drop in church membership, attendance and influence. THE POST COVID CHURCH includes ideas from nationally known experts (Dr. George Barna, John Stonestreet, Greg Koukl, Dr. Elaine Friedrich) and successful church leaders who share practical ways to work smarter—and more creatively—to serve as the hands and feet of Christ to an increasingly needy world...

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Joshua Nguyen and Maggie Graber discuss
Joshua's new book of poetry COME CLEAN!

Joshua Nguyen's sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma—sexual and generational—through the quotidian. Poems aim to confront the speaker's past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up. Here, the Asian-American masculine interrogates the domestic space through the sensual and finds healing through family and in everyday rhythms: rinsing rice until the water runs clear...

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Virtual Event with Brene Brown
and Priya Parker for Brown's new book, ATLAS OF THE HEART!

This event is in partnership with Random House
One book purchase equals one ticket
This event is only available to those with a US mailing address
The Zoom link will be sent out 48 hours before the the event and again on the day of the event
Please make sure to add the email you would like us to send the Zoom link to when you place your order
Ticket sales will close at 11pm CST on December 2nd


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Robert Khayat signs his
new book, 60: A YEAR OF SPORTS, RACE, AND POLITICS!



In 1960, 22-year-old Robert Khayat experienced a year in which his own life, the nation, and the state of Mississippi were forever changed. The same spring that four college students in North Carolina refused to move from a segregated lunch counter, Khayat’s SEC champion Ole Miss baseball team was denied the right to play in the NCAA tournament because they might encounter a Black opponent...

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Julia Brewer Daily discusses her new book, NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN!

The widely anticipated debut novel by Julia Brewer Daily is a glimpse into the lives of women forced by society to gift their newborns to strangers. Although this novel is a fictional account, it mirrors many of the adoption stories of its era. When three young unwed women meet at a maternity home hospital in New Orleans in 1965, they are expected to relinquish their babies and return home as if nothing...

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Anne Byrn signs her new book,
A NEW TAKE ON CAKE!


The bestselling author of The Cake Mix Doctor updates her beloved approach to creating show-stopping desserts, with 125 brand-new recipes plus 50 updated classics featuring simple variations for different diets and using today’s most popular flavors. When Anne Byrn’s The Cake Mix Doctor first appeared two decades ago, it amassed...

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Donald C. Jackson discusses his new book,
A SPORTSMAN'S JOURNEY



A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America’s Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield. Journeying alongside the author, readers will savor the magic of sunrises and the mystery of twilight. Hearts will quicken...

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Suzanne Stabile and Dr. George Patton discuss Suzanne's new book, THE JOURNEY TOWARD WHOLENESS, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



In a world of constant change and complexity, how can we achieve lasting transformation in our lives? Using the wisdom of the Enneagram, expert teacher Suzanne Stabile opens the concept of three Centers of Intelligence: thinking, feeling, and doing. When we learn to manage these centers in relation to our Enneagram number, we open a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, and finding wholeness...

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Ben Wynne signs his new book, SOMETHING IN THE WATER!

The history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city's musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. For generations, talented musicians have been born in or passed through Macon's confines. Some lived and died in obscurity, while others achieved international stardom. From its pioneer origins...

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David Magee discusses his new book,
DEAR WILLIAM!



Award-winning columnist and author David Magee addresses his poignant story to all those who will benefit from better understanding substance misuse so that his hard-earned wisdom can save others from the fate of his late son, William. This is more than just another addiction story. It’s about a father making...

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Tom Clavin and John Evans discuss Tom's new book, LIGHTNING DOWN, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Lightning Down tells...

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Teresa Nicholas signs her
new book, THE MAMA CHRONICLES!



A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother. Growing up in the Delta town of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Teresa Nicholas believed that she and her country-born and -bred mother weren’t close. She knew little of her mother’s early life as a sharecropper during the Great Depression, but whenever she brought up the subject, her taciturn mother would snap, “You ask too many questions, young’un.”...

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Gabriella Saab discusses her new book, THE LAST CHECKMATE!

Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice...

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Mark Pilkington and John Evans discuss Mark's new book, RETAIL RECOVERY, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



A fascinating insight into how retailers can recover and thrive in retailing’s “new normal.” This book offers a comprehensive analysis of new forces which are changing the way we buy products and experience brands. It includes in-depth interviews with some of the most innovative players—from John Lewis in the UK, to Nike and Patagonia in the US—to draw out key learning points for the rest of...

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Marlin Barton discusses his new book, CHILDREN OF DUST!

In 2000, as Seth Anderson researches his family history, he discovers an unexpected story and "contained within it lies a larger story that might speak not just to Southern history but beyond it." In the late 1800s in rural Alabama, Melinda Anderson struggles to give birth to her tenth child, tended by Annie Mae, a part-Choctaw midwife. When the infant dies, just hours after birth, suspicion falls upon two women...

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James Crockett discusses his new book,
RULERS OF THE SEC



How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC. During the years 1959–1966 Mississippi universities dominated the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the big three sports—basketball, baseball, and football. Of the twenty-four championships that could be earned in those sports, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) won six and Mississippi State University (MSU) won six...

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William Dunlap discusses his new book, LYING AND MAKING A LIVING!



Lying and Making a Living, the title from a Barry Hannah quote picks up where Short Mean Fiction leaves off. It contains more of the irreverent, hard-hitting, exhilarating, ironic, and emblematic prose we’ve come to expect from the writer and painter William Dunlap. His stories, some as short as a single page, leave the reader gasping for breath and wanting more...

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Jonathan Franzen and Jami Attenburg
discuss Jonathan's new book CROSSROADS!

Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's magnum opus, A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s. Jonathan Franzen has been universally recognized as the great novelist of his generation...

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Janne Swearengen discusses her new book, THE YORKIE WHO SINGS AT MIDNIGHT!

If you've ever given your heart to an animal, especially a rescued animal, this book will speak to you. This is the story of Angela Thumbelina, a tiny elder Yorkie rescued from a hoarding situation. Told through her eyes and heart and the eyes and heart of her adopted family, you will feel her pain and her joy. Adopted at the age of 12-ish, Angela has shown the resilience and strength of a rescue...

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Daniel de Vise discusses his new book, KING OF THE BLUES!



King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation...

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Gordy Sauer and LaTanya McQueen discuss their new books together on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



CHILD IN THE VALLEY -- Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is the orphaned foster son of a failed doctor on the run from his father’s debt. In 1849, he travels to Independence, Missouri and falls in with the mysterious, four-fingered Renard, and his companion, formerly-enslaved Free Ray. Joshua offers his medical expertise to their party, and together they embark on the fifteen-hundred mile overland journey to Gold Rush California...

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WHEN THE RECKONING COMES -- A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind. More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; from her old neighborhood; from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves; from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when...

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Karen Brown will be signing her new book,
A YEAR LONG HONEYMOON!


“Looking back, I am astonished at the extent of our travels. Don was working full-time as a surgical technician in the largest military hospital in Europe ... We lived ‘on the economy’ in a small apartment ... After rent, utilities, groceries, incidentals, and gasoline, there wasn’t much left at the end of the month. But we tried to put aside a little money for travel.”...

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Peter Heller and James McLaughlin discuss Heller's new book, THE GUIDE, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet...

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James Lee Burke and Ace Atkins discuss Burke's new book, ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter...

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Bobby Rush signs his new memoir,
I AIN'T STUDDIN' YA!



Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real guitar...

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Jennifer Lapidus and Robert Raymond discuss, SOUTHERN GROUND, via Zoom in partnership with Square Books.

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A highly curated collection of 80 recipes from twenty acclaimed craft bakeries in the South that showcases superior cold stone-milled flour and highlights the importance of baking with locally farmed ingredients. Like a chef-driven restaurant, the Carolina Ground Flour Mill in Asheville, North Carolina, is a baker-driven mill. Jennifer Lapidus’s intensely flavorful flour, made from grains grown and cold stone-milled in the heart of the South...

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Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman sign their new book, HIDDEN HISTORY OF NATCHEZ!



Since prehistory, the bluffs of Natchez have called to the bold, the cruel and the quietly determined. The diverse opportunists who heeded that call have left behind more than three hundred years of colorful and tragic stories. The Natchez Indians, who inhabited the bluffs at the time of European contact, made a calculated but ultimately catastrophic decision to massacre the French who had settled nearby...

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Grady Hendrix and Sarah Gailey discuss Grady's new book, THE FINAL GIRLS SUPPORT GROUP, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who’s left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?...

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Daniel Silva and Dana Bash discuss Daniel's new book, THE CELLIST, in partnership with Marcus JCC of Atlanta & The National JCC Library for an In Your Living Room Live Event!

The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend’s death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order...

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Gracey Zhang and Sam Wedelich read from their new books, LALA'S WORDS and CHICKEN LITTLE AND THE BIG BAD WOLF, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

From debut author-illustrator Gracey Zhang comes a timeless and timely picture book that celebrates the unassuming power of kind words...

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If you like Mo Willems’ Pigeon, you’ll love Sam Wedelich’s Chicken Little! Chicken Little is NOT afraid of anything, not even a wolf.....

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Susan Cushman and Ralph Eubanks discuss Susan's new book, JOHN AND MARY MARGARET, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

We first meet Susan Cushman's characters, John and Mary Margaret, in her short story collection, Friends of the Library. In her second novel and seventh book, Cushman fleshes out their stories, covering over fifty years of their lives in Mississippi and Memphis against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and continuing through current-day events...

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Michael Farris Smith signs NICK in-store!

Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot...

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Wright Thompson signs PAPPYLAND in-store!

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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Dale Beasley signs
WHAT I LEARNED AT THE 'ZOO

Sent from his military family's assignment in Germany back to learn his roots, 14-year-old Dale Beasley discovers in just one summer that his story encompasses a bizarre assortment of individuals, incidents, and experiences. Addiction, conspiracies, music, and religion -- all wrapped up in a humorous blend of summertime heat. Family. Relationships. Memories. Some tears but mostly deep belly laughs...

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Stephen Monroe and W. Ralph Eubanks discuss Stephen's new book, HERITAGE AND HATE, on Facebook Live
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How southern universities presently contend with an inherited panoply of words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions. In Heritage and Hate: Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities, Stephen M. Monroe presents the US South as a pulsating rhetorical landscape, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground and contaminate the soil. This provocative text focuses on predominantly white southern universities where Old South rhetoric still reverberates...

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Kiese Laymon and Ebony Lumumba discuss the new edition of Kiese's book, LONG DIVISION, on Facebook Live |
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From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity...

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Maggie Shipstead and Katy Simpson Smith discuss Maggie's new book, GREAT CIRCLE, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost. After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There—after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes...

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Sherye S. Green and Mildred Schindler Janzen sign SURVIVING HITLER,
EVADING STALIN

Mildred recounts, in meticulous detail, her treacherous journey and the roller coaster of raw emotions she experiences —fear, regret, loneliness, humility, perseverance, and defiance. Mildred’s odyssey of making her way home and finding her family in a war-torn countryside takes many riveting twists and turns. The discovery of a secret, hidden document offers hope for a brighter future...

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David Weill and Maryanne O'Hara discuss their new books, EXHALE and LITTLE MATCHES, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives—until it was time to step back and reassess his own life...

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In the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking and Beautiful Boy, an emotionally raw and inspiring memoir that illuminates a mother’s grief over the loss of her adult child and considers the hope of soulful connections that transcend the boundary of life and death....

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Jeff Guinn and Jim Woodrick discuss Jeff's new book, WAR ON THE BORDER, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



A dramatic account of the “Punitive Expedition” of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day. Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of Pancho Villa’s bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. The “Punitive Expedition” was launched in retaliation under Pershing’s command...

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Sean Flynn and Aimee Nezhukumatathil discuss Sean's new book, WHY PEACOCKS?, on Zoom

When Sean Flynn’s neighbor in North Carolina texted “Any chance you guys want a peacock? No kidding!” he stared bewilderedly at his phone. He had never considered whether he wanted a peacock. But as an award-winning magazine writer, this kind of mystery intrigued him...

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William Jeanes will sign his new book
THE ROAD TO PICKLETOWN

The Road to Pickletown is a collection of newspaper columns by William Jeanes, a former editor-in-chief and publisher of Car and Driver magazine who lives in Mississippi. The pieces include an eclectic selection of recent columns from William's weekly newspaper, the Northside SunThe columns range in tone from warmly humorous to serious outrage and cover subjects that veer from progressive politics to prohibition and from cowbells to Cuba. Most but by no means all have a connection to Mississippi and the south...

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Anjali Enjeti and Kiese Laymon discuss Anjali's new book, THE PARTED EARTH, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of India on the lives of three generations of women. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing politics of her home...

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Elizabeth Heiskell, Malcolm White, and Carol Puckett discuss Elizabeth's new book, COME ON OVER!, on Facebook Live |
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Everyday recipes with Southern flair and big flavors, from author and TODAY show contributor Elizabeth Heiskell. Elizabeth Heiskell brings her signature Southern flair to her latest book, Come On Over! With warmth and charm, Heiskell shares her go-to recipes for any occasion. Her chapters include Weekdays, Party Days, School Days, Summer Days, Beach Days, Game Days, Diet Days, Cheat Days, and Delta Days. In Weekdays, she shares her recipe for The Good Chicken...

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Stephen Hunter and Matthew Guinn discuss Stephen's new book, BASIL'S WAR, on Facebook Live |
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A swashbuckling British agent goes behind enemy lines to search for a religious text that might hold the key to ending the second World War. Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn’t officially exist, one that genius professor Alan Turing believes may hold the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions and possibly even end the war...

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Jennifer Baughn and Lee Harper will sign their new books, BUILDINGS OF MISSISSIPPI and TINY OXFORD

As Eudora Welty observed, "One place understood helps us know all places better." Nowhere is this more apropos than in her home state of Mississippi. Although accounts of its architecture have long conjured visions...

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TINY OXFORD is Mississippi artist Lee Harper’s homage to her adopted hometown in miniature diorama form...

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Carolyn Brown, Ellen Ruffin, and Eric Tribunella will sign their new book,
A DE GRUMMOND PRIMER

During the 1960s, a dedicated library science professor named Lena de Grummond initiated a letter-writing campaign to children's authors and illustrators requesting original manuscripts and artwork to share with her students. Now named after de Grummond, this archive of material grew into one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary youth literature in North America with original contributions from more than 1,400 authors and illustrators, as well as over 185,000 volumes...

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Julian Sancton and Scott Anderson discuss Julian's new book, MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter—in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica...

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Eric Nguyen and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai discuss Eric's new book, THINGS WE LOST
TO THE WATER, on Facebook Live |
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In partnership with the Coronavirus Book Club!

A stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father...

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Brian Castner and Phil Klay discuss Brian's new book, STAMPEDE, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities...

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Sanjena Sathian and Mamta Chaudhry discuss Sanjena's new book, GOLD DIGGERS, on Facebook Live |
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A brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talent. Spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy...

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Carolyn Brown, Ellen Ruffin, and Eric Tribunella discuss their new book, A de Grummond Primer, on Facebook Live |
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During the 1960s, a dedicated library science professor named Lena de Grummond initiated a letter-writing campaign to children's authors and illustrators requesting original manuscripts and artwork to share with her students. Now named after de Grummond, this archive of material grew into one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary youth literature in North America with original contributions from more than 1,400 authors and illustrators, as well as over 185,000 volumes....

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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin discuss their new book, BLOOD AND TREASURE, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power. It is the mid-18th Century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles...

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John Grisham and John Evans discuss John's new book, SOOLEY, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel. Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dreams…and even bigger challenges off the court. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane...

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Andrew Feiler and Stuart Rockoff discuss Andrew's new book, A BETTER LIFE FOR THEIR CHILDREN, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world’s largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with black communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children...

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Vanessa O'Brien and Forbes adventure reporter Jim Clash discuss Vanessa's new book, TO THE GREATEST HEIGHTS, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

This riveting and uplifting memoir by Vanessa O’Brien, record-breaking American-British explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world’s highest mountains. Long before she became the first American woman to summit K2 and the first British woman to return from its summit alive, Vanessa O’Brien was a feisty suburban Detroit teenager forced to reinvent her world in the wake of a devastating loss that destroyed her family...

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