mississippi

Eighteen-year-old African-American Alena's sheltered life on her parent's Mississippi farm has not prepared her for the truth about racism, but a shocking discovery leads her to leave her home in 1919 and travel to Chicago in search of answers and justice.

Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.

Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.

A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict him.

Celebrating the centennial of Wright's birth, each deluxe classic is a special edition with French flaps, rough fronts, and covers printed on uncoated stock.

Elite military cop Jack Reacher, having arrived undercover in Carter Crossing, Mississippi, to investigate evidence linking a soldier to a murder of a young woman, reluctantly joins forces with local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux and tries to uncover details about a conspiracy which threatens to shatter his faith in the assignment.

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Heart describes how her self-absorbed, hypocritical uncle nearly destroys the Mennonite community over which he has become leader.