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Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395273999 |
Download Minn of the Mississippi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Author | : Barry Hannah |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555846424 |
Download Airships Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick
Author | : Norma Watkins |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1604739789 |
Download The Last Resort Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
Author | : Ruth Vander Zee |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780802852113 |
Download Mississippi Morning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Set in 1933 Mississippi, this thought-provoking story about a young boy who lives in an environment of racial hatred will challenge young readers to question their own assumptions and confront personal decisions. Full color.
Author | : Anthony Walton |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Mississippi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Summoning the full expanse of its rich and tragic history--from the subjugation of the Natchez empire to the Civil War, from the Ku Klux Klan to Civil Rights--and a huge roster of martyrs, bigots, writers, bluesmen, planters, and sharecroppers, black and white alike, Walton reveals both the Mississippi that was and the complex racial realities of the present day.
Author | : Rinker Buck |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1451659164 |
Download The Oregon Trail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new American journey.
Author | : Christian Pinnen |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2021-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496832906 |
Download Colonial Mississippi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. The eighteenth century receives much-deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. Early encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale.
Author | : Mark Childress |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-09-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316015350 |
Download One Mississippi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events. "There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter -- big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted." -New Orleans Times-Picayune
Author | : John Edmond Gonzales |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
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Author | : Carole Marsh |
Publisher | : Gallopade International |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0635114496 |
Download I'm Reading About Mississippi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I'm Reading About Mississippi is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes Mississippi unique. I'm Reading about Mississippi helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about Mississippi. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I'm Reading About Mississippi topics include: Native Americans Explorers Settlement Statehood Flag Capital Seal Nickname Borders Counties People Bird Flower Tree Insect Beaches Forests Rivers Landmark Agriculture Sports Claim to Fame Glossary And More!