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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past -- and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding...
202) Sweet jiminy
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Gore comes a suspenseful novel set in the South that deftly explores race, family, and an unsolved murder mystery.
When Jiminy retreats to her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi, she is shocked to discover there was once another Jiminy---the daughter of her grandmother's longtime housekeeper, Lyn---who was murdered along with Lyn's husband four decades earlier in a civil rights era hate crime....
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the unthinkable: she takes out a want ad seeking a loving mother...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
Hale Dunbar, former owner of the Piggly Wiggly, runs for mayor in his hometown of Second Creek, Mississippi with the help of Laurie Lepanto and her new husband, Powell Hampton who teach the "Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly" dance sessions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Marshall McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, D.C. But as a chaotic presidential administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom, Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill, and he must return to his childhood home -- a place he vowed he would never go back to. Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers. His family's 150-year-old newspaper is failing, and Jet Talal, the love...
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