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Vishwesh Bhatt signs his new book, I AM FROM HERE.

I Am From Here organizes 130 recipes by ingredient, emphasizing staples, spices, and vegetables that are as beloved on the Indian subcontinent as they are in the American South. Summer means okra, tomatoes, corn, and peas. Winter brings sweet potatoes and greens: mustards, collards, kale, and spinach. Rice is a constant throughout. Bhatt vividly recounts the special meals cooked by his mother and grandmothers—vegetarian comfort food such as Khichadi, custardy rice pudding...

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Paul T. Brown signs his 2023 WILDLIFE Calendars.

Paul T. Brown's 2023 WILDLIFE calendar, features 13 beautiful images....

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Steve Robertson signs his book, DAWG PILE.

The 2021 college baseball season will live in the hearts and minds of Mississippi State fans forever. At long last, the Bulldogs became the national champions of college baseball. Tanner Allen, Will Bednar, and Rowdey Jordan became living legends in Omaha. They accomplished something no other team in Mississippi State history has ever done before....

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Kay Meadows signs her new book, LOUISIANA ANIMALS ABC.

Artful images grace the pages of this alphabet book; a visual feast of Louisiana's wildlife accompanied by informative facts and lyrical descriptions. Author and bard Rickey E. Pittman takes us on an adventure through the wilds of the state, embracing each animal's nature and providing short snippets of information perfect for the littlest of listeners and the youngest readers. Graceful images from artist Kay Meadows enhance Pittman's prose providing a gorgeous snapshot of these creatures from alligators, crawfish, and fox to opossums, pelican, vultures, and yellow jackets...

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Darden North signs and discusses his new book, PARTY FAVORS.

In Party Favors a financially struggling, young orthopedic surgeon on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is tempted to sell his patients’ leftover narcotics to save his drowning surgical practice, even hook new patients on opioids for financial gain. Local police work to connect his medical practice to a drug trafficking ring run by his secretary’s family. Written by a practicing physician, Party Favors was inspired by true stories...

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

Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable output and presents a thoughtful progression of his life and art. With complete access to the Anderson family archives and the vaults of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, this comprehensive...

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Wyatt Waters and Malcolm White
signing their books, WATERCOLOR ROAD and HAL AND MALS

Order WATERCOLOR ROAD:
Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination....

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Order HAL AND MALS:
The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's is a collaboration between artist Ginger Williams Cook and author Malcolm White about the people, the place, and the history of Hal & Mal's, an iconic institution in downtown Jackson, Mississippi....

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Charles Poole signs his new book, THE PATH TO DEPTH.

"The path to depth" is a simple name for the never-ending journey to a deeper life with God. "The path to depth" sounds a little like "the path to death." Which, in a way, it is...

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STORYTIME with Jacki Kellum and her new book, THE DONKEY'S SONG.

Children will experience the first Christmas through new eyes in this heart-tugging story of the Nativity, told by the gentle but determined donkey that carried Jesus's parents to Bethlehem. It's a perfect Christmas gift book for snuggling up and sharing. This luminous, soothing song of hope, friendship, conviction, and faith is one that families will return to each Christmas for years to come...

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Dr. John L. Cox signs his new book, THE ONE STORY.

The One Story is a warm walk through the core stories of the Bible with an ear for how they are all woven together. The truth is that all of God’s stories are one healing narrative: the tale of how God’s heart longs for and seeks us all. The One Story is told both with an ear for spiritual development as well as a psychologist’s insights into emotional and relational growth...

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Robert Hamblin signs his new book, CRITICAL ESSAYS ON WILLIAM FAULKNER.

Critical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to 2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer—particularly in his treatment of race—the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts. The volume includes discussions of Faulkner’s techniques and the psychological underpinnings...

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Jack Elliott signs his new book, TO THE RAMPARTS OF INIFINITY.

Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825–1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefly touched on the life of the Colonel due to his influence on the writer’s work and life, there have been no new biographies dedicated to Falkner until now...

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Paul Hardin Kapp signs his new book, HERITAGE AND HOOP SKIRTS.

For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the “Old South,” but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of history first concocted during the Great Depression. In Heritage and Hoop Skirts: How Natchez Created the Old South, author Paul Hardin Kapp reveals how the women of the Natchez Garden Club saved their city, created one of the first cultural tourism economies in the United States, changed...

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Scott Jeffrey signs his new book, SHADOWS ON LIGHT.

“Shadows on Light: Rise of the Dark Shark” is a contemporary supernatural/spiritual thriller about the complexities of good and evil, clashing and colliding into each other in modern times, much like a lethal virus attacking a healthy cell. The novel tells the fictional account of two ex- specially trained military men, who together, competing in a challenge maneuver in Southern Jamaica in the early 1970s, are both struck and wounded by a lightning flash...

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Vince Venturini signs his new book, ONCE WE CROWNED ROYALTY.

West Jackson was once the city’s ethnic and cultural palette. Living there were Greeks, who immigrated from the cradle of western civilization; Lebanese, descendants of the seafaring Phoenicians; Italians, descendants of the empire that birthed Christianity even after it first tried to abort it; and African-Americans, whose ancestors came from the cradle of mankind. While Jackson’s Jewish population tended to live in other parts of the city, their businesses were...

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Scott Billington signs his new book, MAKING TRACKS.

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primarily in Louisiana for Boston-based Rounder Records, Billington produced such giants as Irma Thomas, Charlie Rich, Buckwheat Zydeco, Johnny Adams, Bobby Rush, Ruth Brown, Beau Jocque, and Solomon Burke. The loving and sometimes irreverent profiles in Making Tracks reveal...

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Julie Mabus signs her new book, CONFESSIONS OF A SOUTHERN BEAUTY QUEEN.

In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse and the press ate it up. But Patsy’s story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. As Patsy grows up, she buries the memories of her unspeakable childhood trauma...

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Susan Currie signs her new book, THE PREVENTORIUM.

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide...

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Johnette Downing reads from her book, DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI.

There's more to learn than just M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i! Acclaimed children's-book author Johnette Downing pays homage to the cultural legacy of Mississippi in this charming book that incorporates many of its native flora and fauna. Her delightful text, adapted from a traditional song, presents a lyrical and visual tribute to the many iconic images and symbols to be found in the state. From dolphins splashing in the surf along the coast...

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Wyatt Waters and Malcolm White
signing their books, WATERCOLOR ROAD and HAL AND MALS

Order WATERCOLOR ROAD:
Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination....

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Order HAL AND MALS:
The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's is a collaboration between artist Ginger Williams Cook and author Malcolm White about the people, the place, and the history of Hal & Mal's, an iconic institution in downtown Jackson, Mississippi....

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T.K. Lee signs his new book, SCAPEGOAT.

Scapegoat features the same unnamed narrator, introduced in Lee’s first collection, To Square a Circle, in more intimate moments of vulnerability: Having Love and Having Loved. Scapegoat ebbs and flows, catching and releasing the reader along with the narrator, as he struggles to learn that to fully live, one must finally leave...whether that be a job, a home, or a marriage...

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Margaret Sullivan signs and discusses her new book, NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL
at The Old Capitol Museum.

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Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times...

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Tyler Keith signs his new book, THE MARK OF CAIN.

In a world that has changed much during the six years he’s been in prison, Ronnie Harris struggles to piece together a new life from the wreckage of his old one. As a condition of his early parole, Ronnie must stay at a halfway-house for ex-cons called Camp Eden, where things are not exactly what they seem. As Ronnie realizes that he may still be imprisoned, a man from his past, Travis Campbell, shows up to bring Ronnie back into the world that led him to prison the first time...

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William Lester signs his new book, THE GOODNESS.

“The Goodness” is handbound with paper handmade from Nepal. The images in each book were printed by the author. “The Goodness” comes linen bound and numbered 1-400. The book also is available with a leather binding numbered A-Z. This story of a young Delta boy who tries to save his father is told through the boy’s memories...

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Jasmine Holmes signs her new book, CARVED IN EBONY.

Through the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and others, Jasmine Holmes shares the significant role that Black women have played in the formation of our faith. As these historical figures take the stage, you will be inspired by what the stories of these women can teach us about education, birth, privilege, and so much more...

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Bob Drury signs and discusses his new book, THE LAST HILL.

They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit the Army had. In December 1944, they would be the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler’s homeland at last. Their colonel was given this objective: Take Hill 400. The second objective: Hold Hill 400. To the last man, if necessary. The battle-hardened battalion had no idea that the German Volks-Grenadiers, who greatly outnumbered the Rangers, had been given the exact same orders. The clash of the two determined forces was one of the bloodiest and costly ones of World War II...

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Andy Davidson signs his new book, THE HOLLOW KIND.

Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow. It turns out that the "estate" is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet....

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Wyatt Waters signs his new book, THE WATERCOLOR ROAD.

Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination...

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Neil White and Chase Parham
discuss their new books, CHAMPIONS and RESILIENT REBELS

Pre-Order OLE MISS CHAMPIONS book:
Ole Miss 2022 National Baseball Champions. A Commemorative Photographic Book...

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Ole Miss, under head coach Mike Bianco, has been one of the most consistent teams in college baseball for two decades, routinely making the NCAA Tournament and playing in front of one of the nation's top atmospheres at Swayze Field...

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Tom Piazza signs and discusses his new book, BLUES AND TROUBLE.

Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate, from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane. Tom Piazza’s debut short story collection, originally published in 1996, heralded the arrival of a startlingly original and vital presence in American fiction and letters...

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Brian Noyes signs his new cookbook, THE RED TRUCK BAKERY COOKBOOK at The Eudora Welty House and Gardens.

Brian Noyes, founder of the beloved Red Truck Bakery in Marshall, Virginia, and author of the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook, presents more than 95 all-new, comforting recipes celebrating ingredients and traditions from the bakery's home on the edge of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge mountains. With small-town charm, an emphasis on local, seasonal produce, and country comfort inspiration from the 170-year-old farmhouse where the bakery began, The Red Truck Bakery...

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E.M. Tran signs her new book, DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR.

In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen–turned-refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi, and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined to learn more about her familial and cultural past...

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Ramona Reeves signs her new book, IT FALLS GENTLY ALL AROUND.

Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to re-forge their lives, a task easier said than done in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history...

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Margaret Burnham signs her new book, BY HANDS NOW KNOWN.

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process...

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Johnnie Bernhard signs her new book, HANNAH AND ARIELA.

Two worlds collide when a seventy-three-year-old widow finds the semi- conscious body of a fourteen-year-old Mexican national in a ditch along a Central Texas remote byway. The question of justice for a victim of human trafficking and the elderly woman who kills the perpetrator lies in the hands of a biracial border patrol officer and an unconventional small-town sheriff...

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Tema Stauffer and Kathryn Savage
discuss their new books, SOUTHERN FICTION and GROUNDGLASS

SOUTHERN FICTION explores the history of the American South using its literary tradition as a road map by focusing on environments that have shaped the imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers. These large-format color photographs depict domestic settings, vernacular architecture, and rural landscapes that visually resonate with the history, culture, and atmosphere of the Deep South...

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GROUNDGLASS takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of U.S. Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors...

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John Patrick Green signs and reads from his new book, INVESTIGATORS: Heist and Seek.


New York Times bestsellers and sewer surfing super-sleuths Mango & Brash are back in the sixth volume of the smash hit InvestiGators series! When rare paintings go missing, the Investigators are called on the scene . . . the art scene! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of crime! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum’s fundraising gala before it's too late...

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Kendall Kirk Singleton signs her new book, A COLORFUL COLLECTION.

Art lovers, especially those who are drawn to color, are sure to enjoy Kendall’s unique artwork, style, and voice. This delightful coffee table book is filled with colorful oil paintings Kendall Kirk Singleton has done over the past 10+ years, giving a glimpse into how her art developed to where it is now. It is filled with flowers, beach scenes, sunsets, and other subjects she has been inspired by. Her artwork is truly joyful and inspiring....

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Katherine St. John signs her new book, THE VICIOUS CIRCLE.

On a river deep in the Mexican jungle stands the colossal villa Xanadu, a wellness center that’s home to The Mandala, an ardent spiritual group devoted to self-help guru Paul Bentzen and his enigmatic wife Kali. But when, mysteriously, Paul suddenly dies, his entire estate—including Xanadu—is left to his estranged niece Sveta, a former model living in New York City...

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Lisa McNair and Jerry Mitchell
discuss her new book, DEAR DENISE.

Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement...

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Wyatt Waters signs his new book, THE WATERCOLOR ROAD.

Experience the American South through the expressive paintings and musings of renowned master watercolorist, Wyatt Waters. His rambling and wandering through the southern trail deliver an impressive collection of 133 paintings, 21 essays, and an array of adages that depicts both the South and his relentless trek to be a better painter as a mindset rather than a destination...

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C.T. Salazar signs his new book, HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING.

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South’s historic and ongoing violence. His restless relationship with religion (“a child told me there was a god / and because he was smiling, I believed him”) eventually includes...

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Sophie Blackall signs and reads from her new book, FARMHOUSE.

This glorious new picture book from two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall is as lavish and moving a tribute to a storied, beloved place as Hello Lighthouse. Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns stands a farmhouse. Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish in the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse where Sophie salvaged facts and artifacts for the making of this spectacular work, page after page bursts with luminous...

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Sarah Campbell signs her new book, INFINITY.

What is infinity? Explore this fascinating and complex math concept and its purpose in our world in this picture book that both demystifies and explains. Perfect for kids who grew up on Baby University books like Quantum Physics for Babies. Defining infinity is difficult. But there is one thing people do every day that leads to infinity—counting. No matter what large number you name, there is always a larger...

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Woodrow Hartzog signs his new book, BREACHED!

A novel account of how the law contributes to the insecurity of our data and a bold way to rethink it. Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, it is alarming how difficult it is to create rules for securing our personal information. Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches are increasing at a record pace...

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Colson Whitehead and Adam Serwer discuss HARLEM SHUFFLE.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked." To his customers and neighbors on 125th Street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family...

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Candace Cox Wheeler signs her new book, SQUALL IN THE GULF.

As the Roaring Twenties come to a close, it’s a great time to live, work, and play on the Mississippi Coast. But beneath the calm surface of the warm Gulf waters, a storm is brewing at the height of Prohibition; a squall that will shatter the lives of many Coast residents if law enforcement ends the transportation of contraband liquor. The practice is known as rumrunning—and the demand for booze is staggering...

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Joe Lee signs his new book, RESTING PLACE.

Set in 1984 and a prequel to Joe Lee’s long-running Oakdale suspense series, Resting Place introduces young Billy Joe Stone, a hard-charging sheriff’s deputy who vows to clean up what he understood from now-missing incumbent sheriff Robert Glass is a vast web of corruption. But does Billy Joe know too much for his own good? Are the people close to him already in danger?...

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Vince Venturini signs his new book, ONCE WE CROWNED ROYALTY.

West Jackson was once the city’s ethnic and cultural palette. Living there were Greeks, who immigrated from the cradle of western civilization; Lebanese, descendants of the seafaring Phoenicians; Italians, descendants of the empire that birthed Christianity even after it first tried to abort it; and African-Americans, whose ancestors came from the cradle of mankind. While Jackson’s Jewish population tended to live in other parts of the city...

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Dr. Jay Wellons signs his new book, ALL THAT MOVES US.

In riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, a pediatric neurosurgeon recounts pivotal moments from his life and career—and what his brave young patients have taught him about the meaning of life and our struggle to live it. Tumors, injuries, ruptured blood vessel malformations—there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon...

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Charles Marsh signs his new book, EVANGELICAL ANXIETY.

In this riveting spiritual memoir, the writer, scholar, and commentator tells the story of his struggles with mental illness, explores the void between the Christian faith and scientific treatment, and forges a path toward reconciling these divergent worlds. For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will....

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Michael Hewes signs his new book, THE MILK WAGON.

For Matt Frazier, Jason "Hop" Hopkins, and Mark Ragone, 1986 was the year that changed everything, and it was the year that everything changed. It was the year Matt fell in love. It was the year Mark started a band. It was the year Hop actually almost, kind of, but not really got a girlfriend. And it was the year Nate Mayes disappeared. Matt, Hop and Mark have been friends since elementary school...

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June Gervais signs her new book, JOBS FOR GIRLS WITH ARTISTIC FLAIR.

An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own terms. Introvert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long Island town. But this is 1985, when tattooing is still a gritty, male-dominated fringe culture, and Gina’s funky flash is not exactly mainstream tattoo fare. The good news is that her older brother Dominic owns a tattoo shop, and he reluctantly agrees to train her....

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Grace Valentine signs her new book, WHAT WILL THEY THINK?

In this inspiring guide for young women, Grace Valentine shines a spotlight on nine courageous women in the Bible who lived their faith boldly. In a world that pressures you to seek validation from others, learn to focus on what truly matters. "What will they think?" It's a question that consumes many women and may even stop them from living the lives God has called them to live. Whether it's don't be too loud, don't be too aggressive, or your role is to be a sidekick for men, women struggle to live a life that is about pleasing others. . .

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Brooks Eason signs his new book, REDEMPTION: THE TWO LIVES OF HARRY BROOKS.

In the first half of Harry's life, he embezzled money from the Uniontown, PA, school district where he was the elected superintendent, left his wife for another woman, and sought to escape by booking passage on a Cunard liner to Liverpool. But his plan was foiled, Scotland Yard arrested him when the ship docked, and he was extradited, tried, convicted, and served three years in Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. In the second half of Harry's life...

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Alexander Blevens signs his new book, BYCATCH.

A fisherman’s murder in Mississippi unwinds the dark truth from Vietnam and exposes unfathomable guilt. Rex Thompson has not spoken of the felony he committed in Vietnam for over two decades. When his ne’er-do-well sons scuttle a shrimp boat in the Biloxi Bay and drown an immigrant fisherman who had witnessed this crime, Rex is flooded with remorse but remains silent....

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Matt Bondurant signs his new book, OLEANDER CITY.

In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage-except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision...

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James Dickson signs his new book of poetry, SOME SWEET VANDAL.

Some Sweet Vandal is a poetry collection that gives Dickson’s observations of and thoughts on fatherhood, the fragility of life, youth, and living in the South....

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Susan Cushman signs her new book,
PILGRIM INTERRUPTED.

The title essay in this collection, “Pilgrim Interrupted,” is set on the island of Patmos, Greece, during one of Susan’s pilgrimages with her husband, Father Basil Cushman, an Orthodox priest. Pilgrimages. Orthodoxy. Icons. Monasteries. It’s all in here. But so are stories about mental health, caregiving, death, family, and writing, including a section on “place,” a key element in Southern literature. And how is Susan’s pilgrimage “interrupted”? By life itself...

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Diane C. McPhail signs her new book,
THE SEAMSTRESS OF NEW ORLEANS.

Against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Diane McPhail’s mesmerizing historical novel tells of two strangers separated by background but bound by an unexpected secret—and of the strength and courage women draw from and inspire in each other. The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise...

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Donald W. Davis and Carl A. Brasseaux
sign their new book, ASIAN-CAJUN FUSION.

A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana's shrimping industry. Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou provides insightful analysis of this paradox and a detailed, thorough history of the industry in Louisiana...

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David Rae Morris signs his new book,
LOVE, DADDY.

A poignant collection of letters from Willie Morris accompanied by photographs by his son, David Rae Morris. Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. Willie Morris wrote scores of letters to his only son, David Rae Morris, from the mid-1970s until Willie’s death in 1999. From David Rae’s perspective, his father was often emotionally disconnected and lived a peculiar lifestyle, often staying out carousing well...

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Mary Evelyn Brown and Judy Gilliam sign their new book,
THE MAGICAL HEART OF T DOG.

This story is based on a real-life Boston Terrier who assists children in counseling sessions. In this story, T Dog helps a child deal with bullying by providing steps to address this issue through practical actions and comforting support. . .

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Steve Yarbrough signs his new book,
STAY GONE DAYS.

After a childhood in Mississippi marred by a horrific family scandal, teenage sisters Ella and Caroline Cole escape their hometown, losing all connection to each other. While Ella finds stable domesticity in Boston, Caroline travels the world, from California to Poland, fleeing regrets and a man intent on violence. Despite the decades apart, each sister is never far from the other’s thoughts. Then, one day, Ella walks...

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Debby Thompson signs her new book,
PULLING BACK THE IRON CURTAIN.

While the world was reading one story, God was writing another. In 1977, amidst the bitterly cold days of the frigid Cold War, a young couple responded to God’s dramatic call on their lives to go and live covertly behind The Iron Curtain. Filled with faith and buffeted by fear, they left the familiar of family and the security of NATO to locate behind enemy lines inside Communist Poland in order to establish a Kingdom beachhead of evangelism and discipleship...

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Julie Mabus signs her new book,
CONFESSIONS OF A SOUTHERN BEAUTY QUEEN.

A coming-of-age story of a young woman navigating a turbulent and changing South. In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse...

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Sherye S. Green signs her book, ABANDON NOT MY SOUL.

Abbie Richardson and Keith Haliday have suffered devastating losses. Both share a common link—Abbie’s dead husband, Joe. Four years after his death, Abbie still struggles to put the pieces of her life back together and wonders if God has abandoned her. Many areas of her life—especially her current teaching job—do not make sense anymore. A mysterious letter and a serendipitous meeting during a week volunteering...

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David J. Dennis, Jr. and David J. Dennis, Sr. in conversation with
Dr. Ebony Lumumba to discuss
their new book, THE MOVEMENT MADE US.

A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr., a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr., a journalist working on the front lines of change today...

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Karen Hinton signs her new book,
PENIS POLITICS with Former MS
Congressman and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy.

This is a compelling coming-of-age story, set both in small-town Mississippi and big-city New York, with a long layover in the nation’s capital. Karen Hinton chronicles her life from tiny Soso, Mississippi (pop. 408), to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), where she played on the Lady Rebels basketball team, had embarrassing encounters with literary luminaries such as William Styron and Willie Morris, and received a degree in journalism . . .

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Tom Sancton signs his new book,
THE LAST BARON.

A riveting on-the-edge-of-your-seat story about the famous 1970s Patty Hearst-style kidnapping of Baron Edouard “Wado” Empain, juxtaposed with the story of his famous grandfather, the first Baron, who built the Paris Metro, all with the fascinating alternating backgrounds of both Belle Epoque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one alive? And what does...

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Emily St. John Mandel in conversation with Katy Simpson Smith on Facebook LIVE to discuss her new book, SEA OF TRANQUILITY.

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound...

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Taylor Brown signs his new book, WINGWALKERS.

Wingwalkers is one-part epic adventure, one-part love story, and, as is the signature for critically-acclaimed author Taylor Brown, one large part American history. The novel braids the adventures of Della and Zeno Marigold, a vagabond couple that funds their journey to the west coast in the middle of the Great Depression by performing death-defying aerial stunts from town to town, together with the life of the author (and thwarted fighter pilot) William Faulkner...

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R.J. Lee signs his new books, THE KING FALLS and COLD READING MURDER.

In R.J. Lee’s fourth Mississippi-set Bridge to Death Mystery, it’s up to newly-married reporter and bridge player Wendy Winchester Rierson to finesse a homicide investigation where the killer holds a master hand...

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Erika Berry signs her new book, MOTHERLAND, FATHERLAND, WHATEVERLAND.

Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout’s father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942. While young Smalhout adapted to life in rural Australia, his sister and father back home were placed in Japanese prison camps, an experience that proved fateful for his father and changed his sister’s life forever...

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Robert Mayer in conversation with Jerry Mitchell to discuss his new book, IN THE NAME OF EMMETT TILL.

The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These children, however, would rise up against the culture that made Till’s death possible. From the violent Woolworth’s lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people of Mississippi picketed...

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Kevin Maurer signs his new book,
DAMN LUCKY.

The incredible true story of John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who survived 25 missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in WWII. When Second Lieutenant John “Lucky” Luckadoo—a wide-eyed 21-year-old assigned to the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group—arrived in England, “Axis Sally,” an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during World War II, welcomed his squadron by name...

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W. H. Flint (Gerry Helferich) signs his new book, HOT TIME.

For fans of The Knick, The Alienist, and The Last Days of Night, an entertaining, atmospheric crime thriller set in the Gilded Age. New York, August 1896. A “hot wave” has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. In this presidential election year, the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring, while anti-immigrant sentiment has turned virulent....

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David Greenspan signs his new book of poetry, ONE PERSON HOLDS SO MUCH SILENCE.

One Person Holds So Much Silence explores the intersection of physical and emotional traumas through surprising and jaw-dropping language. Simultaneously lush and bizarre, the poems in One Person Holds So Much Silence culminate in a striking deepdive into the pain and experiences of existing within a body. From self-harm to suicidal ideation, Greenspan tackles...

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Berkley Hudson signs his new book, O.N. PRUITT'S POSSUM TOWN.

Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents...

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Tara Stringfellow signs and discusses her new book, MEMPHIS.



A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s violence, seeking refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis...

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Olivia Clare Friedman signs her new book, HERE LIES.



The debut novel from the “Munro-esque” (Houston Post) author of Disasters in the First World, Here Lies is Olivia Clare Friedman’s visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravaged by climate change. Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects of climate change, states have closed graveyards and banned burials, making cremation mandatory and the ashes of loved ones state-owned unless otherwise claimed. In the small town of St. Genevieve...

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Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman sign their new book, Death Along the Natchez Trace.

The Natchez Trace is the “Path of Nations,” a 450-mile-long game trail stamped into the earth by primeval bison. Once the domain of the Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee tribes, the Trace nurtured these groups, but it was also watered with the blood of tribesmen long before any white man trod on it. European settlers eventually used the path to navigate between the backwoods Cumberland settlements...

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Alex Kershaw signs and discusses his new book, AGAINST ALL ODDS.



The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of the four most decorated soldiers of World War II—Medal of Honor recipients all—from North Africa to Hitler’s own mountaintop fortress. During World War II, as the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, reporters learned of four American soldiers, all in the same regiment, who had earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism....

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Jack E. Davis signs and discusses his new book, THE BALD EAGLE.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts...

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Eli Cranor signs and discusses his new book, DON'T KNOW TOUGH.

Friday Night Lights gone dark with Southern Gothic; Eli Cranor delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott. In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother’s abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger...

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Chris McLaughlin in conversation with Pat Hall about, MISSISSIPPI BARKING.

On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and around the world, Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost 2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished...

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Imani Perry in conversation with Ebony Lumumba at Jackson State University to discuss her new book, SOUTH TO AMERICA.

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America. We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow...

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

Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable output and presents a thoughtful progression of his life and art. With complete access to the Anderson family archives and the vaults of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, this comprehensive...

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Steve Robertson signs his new book,
DAWG PILE.

The 2021 college baseball season will live in the hearts and minds of Mississippi State fans forever. At long last, the Bulldogs became the national champions of college baseball. Tanner Allen, Will Bednar, and Rowdey Jordan became living legends in Omaha. They accomplished something no other team in Mississippi State history has ever done before...

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Alice Rhea Mitchell signs her new book,
SCOOTER MOUSE AND THE POTHOLE.

After observing the action and considering the facts, Scooter Mouse encourages a community solution to the pothole problem in Scooter Mouse and the Pothole, written by Alice Rhea Mitchell and illustrated by Sheryl K. Perry...

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Chantal James in conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Facebook LIVE to discuss her new book, NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS.

Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction. In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escapes New Orleans ...

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Ben Raines in conversation with Jerry Mitchell to discuss his new book, THE LAST SLAVE SHIP.

The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution...

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Antoine Wilson signs and discusses his new book, MOUTH TO MOUTH.

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “sleek, swift, and graceful” novel “with unexpectedly sharp teeth” (Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author). In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life—a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man...

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