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402) Wrath
Series
Elizabeth Monroe volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first time evil walked across the old bridge in Mississippi was 1918.When forensic psychologist Elizabeth Monroe crosses the midpoint of the bridge in search of her daughter's killer, there is no turning back. After the murder case grows cold, Elizabeth begins the deadly hunt for her daughter's killer. With her innate ability to read people, Elizabeth uses her natural talents and professional training to track evil into some of the darkest places...
404) Chance of a lifetime
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Away from home during the battle of Vicksburg, fourteen-year-old Jacquetta returns to find her parents gone and the plantation in Yankee hands, but with help from a slave girl, she devises a plan to rescue the family's Morgan horses.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling Sweet Potato Queens franchise presents the very first Sweet Potato Queens novel as the Sweet Potato Queen herself narrates her coming-of-"queen" story in hilarious fashion. As high-school students in Jackson, Mississippi, Jill and her friends couldn't be less popular. Mary Bennett, a beautiful and wealthy young woman, has a bad reputation, and is poorly parented by her father. Gerald, who is Jewish and gay, is saddled...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Quiet Game: Penn Cage, Houston prosecutor, decides to return to his hometown, Natchez, Mississippi, with his young daughter. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his own family trapped in a web of intrigue and danger. Determined to save his father from a ruthless blackmailer, Penn stumbles over a link to a thirty-year-old unsolved murder of a black Korean War veteran. When Penn reopens the case, he finds obstacles everywhere.
Turning...
410) Tiempo de matar
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Criminal lawyer Jake Brigance faces the fight of his life when he is asked to defend Carl Hailey, who, in a rage of anger, shot and killed the men on trial for the rape of his daughter.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of Civil War battles fought in the stretch of land from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, discussing how the North leveraged the manpower of free blacks and advanced technologies to come out the victor.
414) Show boat
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Author
Series
Cat in the stacks mystery volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Charlie's daughter is falsely accused of the murder of an angsty actor, he and Diesel must put their best paws forward to crack the case in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series. The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright with local connections. Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots, and his daughter, Laura, will be taking on the lead female...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
Where the red fern grows : A boy growing up in the Ozarks of Oklahoma scrimps and saves to make his dream of...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination...
419) The fighter: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
His mind failing from the effects of decades of bare-knuckle fighting, his foster mother's family legacy in the hands of strangers, and overwhelmed with gambling debts, Jack's only chance at redemption is to step into the fighting pit one last time.
