University Press of Mississippi
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The Poacher’s Nightmare: Stories of an Undercover Game Warden
$22.00 Add to cartRacoons are not the only bandits wearing masks in the wilderness. Growing up, author Kennie Prince spent most of his time in the woods and creeks near his home in Rankin County, Mississippi. A highly … [more below]
- Author: Prince, Kennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496850319
- Language: English
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The Old Pro Turkey Hunter
$25.00 Add to cartDuring his life, Gene Nunnery was recognized as a master turkey hunter and an artisan who crafted unique, almost irresistible turkey calls. In The Old Pro Turkey Hunter, the vaunted sportsman shares o
- Author: Nunnery, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1496819993
- Language: English
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Part of the Magic: A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness
$25.00 Add to cartPart of the Magic: A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness is a book of remarkable and wildly entertaining anecdotal stories told through the lens of an entertainment industry insider. … [more below]
- Author: Moé, Bambi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844238
- Language: English
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Teche: A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou
$25.00 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernard’s Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1496809416
- Language: English
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Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination
$28.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on The Twilight Zone‘s Rod Serling
- Author: Parisi, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 149684646X
- Language: English
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All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s
$58.33 Add to cartIn All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s, author Steve Bergsman focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the ear… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Bergsman, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1496848799
- Language: English
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What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music
$58.33 Add to cartIn What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Bergsman, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1496848950
- Language: English
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Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South
$40.00 Add to cartFew things evoke thoughts and memories of the past more than a house from a bygone era, and few places are identified and symbolized more by historic dwellings than the American South. Plantation hous… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1496811003
- Language: English
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Sofia Coppola: Interviews
$41.67 Add to cartSofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Je… [more below]
- Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)
- Author: Monaghan, Amy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496843274
- Language: English
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Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
$30.00 Add to cartEach year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Mari… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 11 2004
- ISBN10: 1578066298
- Language: English
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Love Letter from Pig: My Brother’s Story of Freedom Summer
$28.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after thi… [more below]
- Author: Kabat, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1496847237
- Language: English
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Conversations with Jimmy Carter
$41.67 Add to cartWhen Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) lost the presidency in 1980, it would have been reasonable to think his public life was coming to an end. The moderate, evangelical, blue-jeans-wearing peanut farmer made a… [more below]
- Series: Literary Conversations
- Author: Head, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: July 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846230
- Language: English
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Southern Gardening All Year Long
$25.00 Add to cartSouthern Gardening All Year Long approaches southern landscapes from a different perspective. Instead of encyclopedic lists and articles focused on botanical gardens or someone else’s landscape, autho… [more below]
- Author: Bachman, Gary R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1496838904
- Language: English
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The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi’s First Winery
$25.00 Add to cartAfter graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back on their family farm near Merigold, Mississippi, with 350 acres and no real clue what… [more below]
- Author: Rushing, Di
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1496849299
- Language: English
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Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist
$25.00 Add to cartFormer New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Herbers, John N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: March 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1496828194
- Language: English
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
$35.00 Add to cartEmmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett T
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496814770
- Language: English
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The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning
$25.00 Add to cartEllen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She’s also a seasoned southern woman, specifically a white Mississippi one. “Women do a lot for fr… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Fentress, Ellen Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 149684775X
- Language: English
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Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews
$45.00 Add to cartDeep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Cooper, Margo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1496847415
- Language: English
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C’Mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock
$35.00 Read moreIn their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic mus
- Author: Fantle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496838394
- Language: English
