mississippi

Gloriana faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her, but while she struggles to understand the shift in her relationships with her sister--who is about to enter high school--and her best friend, Frankie, Gloriana witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.

A picture book biography of John Roy Lynch, one of the first African-Americans elected into the United States Congress.

Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who's ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.

After discovering his father is terminally ill, Marshall returns to Bienville, Minnesota, the place he never wanted to go back to. With two deaths occurring, Marshall teams up with his former lover to uncover the cities secrets and history.

A decorated war hero commits murder and his defense attorney tries desperately to help him.

Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the horrors of a KKK cross-burning rampage before she fully understands the importance her family places on having land of their own.

An introduction to Mississippi, providing information about the land and climate, natural resources, plants and animals, tourism, industry, goods and services, history, population, politics and government, cultural groups, sports, and arts and entertainment of the state.

After witnessing a murder by one of Chicago's toughest gangs, LeRoy flees his native city to hide at the home of his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi and must decide if he will risk his life to testify.

An introduction to the circumstances surrounding the murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who visited family in Mississippi in 1955.