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Professional mountaineer Lily is building a new life for herself- in ways she never would have expected. Shes traded the mountain wilderness of Wyoming for the lush river country of the deep South, where she is busy restoring a fine old Natchez, Mississippi house. And shes rediscovered happiness with Matt Starr, the man she has always loved.

But Lilys dreams for the future are suddenly threat...

Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home in Mississippi forever with her preacher granddaddy and her best friend Ginger. After losing her nana to a heart attack, she desperately wishes she could tell her granddaddy why she cant possibly move in with Daddy about the things he does that make her feel so ashamed. With a vivid narrative voice, Gigi Amateau tells an unflinching tale...

The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called the batture. On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region-ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from Immigration, alimony, and other aspects of modern life.

Author Oliver A...

An examination of Poe’s use of the conventions of the sublime and the picturesque, with a brief history of both traditions as they were developed in eighteenth-century America.
 
“...an informative and provocative study.â€�-Glen A. Omans, Poe Studies Association Newsletter. 
“This is a book filled with new insights into individual tales and poems by Poe. ...It ...

Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams shell become the prime suspect in a murder case. . .

Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity anything but serene. It seems an unscrupulous antiques dealer has swindled Vivian out of the familys heirlooms. But when he is fou...

A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is A moving elegy, says The Bulletin.

In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley...

Set in southern Louisiana in the weeks preceding the great flood of 1927, this novel depicts a place and way of life about to be forever changed. On the verge of manhood and a stones throw of the rising Mississippi River, Louis Proby is pulled between his love of the natural world and the glittering temptations of New Orleans, between the beautiful Nanette Lanon and a father who no longer seems...

A tender look into the madness of love, the madness of hate, and the dark secrets that lie along the banks of the muddy Mississippi.

Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkners most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him. On an...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

In CliffsNotes on Huckleberry Finn, you follow the Mississippi River adventures of Mark Twains mis...

John Lee Hooker was a giant in the world of blues and boogie music. From learning to play music in Mississippi to touring the world with famous musicians, his popularity has spanned several decades. This book tells the story of one of musics most influential figures.

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore ...

Mark Twains classic tale of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn delighted generations of readers. Here, Twain gives the reader more. Tom, unsatisfied with his life after his adventures on the Mississippi River, seeks out new adventures. Written from Hucks viewpoint, follow Tom, Huck and Jim as they take a hot air balloon ride across the ocean. Tom Sawyer, Detective is a retelling of a tr...

The dog days of summer have come to Serenity, that quaint little Midwestern town tucked cozily into a bend of the mighty Mississippi River. As temperatures rise and days get longer, somebodys temper erupts. . .into cold-blooded murder!

Brandy Borne is pretty sure her charmingly eccentric mother, Vivian, didnt kill that viperous mousy-haired busybody Connie Grimes. Sure, the two women had a li...

It is the spring of 1861, and the serenity of Smith County, Mississippi, has been shattered by Abraham Lincolns declaration of war on the South. Young and old are taking up arms and marching off to war. But not ten-year-old Frank Russell. Although he is eager to enlist in the Confederate army, he is not allowed. He is too young, too skinny, too weak. After all, hes just Shanks, the baby of the ...

The Image Of Murder

The Mississippi Ripper likes to work in pairs of victims. For every dead body laid to waste, a second one faces it, a grotesque mirror image of terror and torment. Special Agent Ulysses Grove thinks he knows the method to the killer s madness. But grasping the twisted logic behind the brutal slayings propels him onto a path of danger to him and to everything he ...

Nearing fifty, Joe Ransom wont slow down, not in his pickup, not with a gun-and certainly not with women. But all the fast living in Mississippi wont fill the hunger Joe cant name. At fifteen, Gary Jones is already slipping through the cracks. Part of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, hes desperate for a way out. He finds it in Joe. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption-or ruin...

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AMAZING U.S. Geography



Follow a chinook over the Rocky Mountains. Trace the course of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Discover where gold is mined and fish are farmed in the United States. Explore our fascinating nation from Alabama to Wyoming, and find answers to all your questions about U.S. geography...