Life on the Mississippi, Paperback

Reducere. He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and mu...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a lawyer who got his real-life client off death row comes a thriller about an attorney who did not. "Riveting . . . a stirring stor...

Reducere. We first meet Susan Cushman's characters, John and Mary Margaret, in her short story collection, Friends of the Library. In her second novel and se...

Reducere. Else Elisabeth Hysing, an upper-class Norwegian woman, married Ulrik Vilhelm Koren on August 18, 1853 and, almost immediately afterward, the couple...

Reducere. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his li...

Reducere. With a new introduction from Anne Tyler. From one our most treasured American writers, Delta Wedding is a vivid and charming portrait of a large so...

Often called a ""writer-rock star"" and a ""cult icon"", Dorothy Allison is a true performer of the written word. In the absence of a biography of ...

Reducere. William Faulkner once said, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."In 1883 Mark Twain turned John Andrews Mu...

Reducere. Sheriff Buford Pusser- legendary sheriff who took on criminal on the state line of Tennessee and Mississippi. Several assassination attempts were m...

DescriptionAdored for its tremendous beauty, the Hiawatha Valley also harbors a rich and varied history. Native Americans settled on the sandy shor...

Reducere. The Psalms can be very helpful, but they can also be hard. Following on from The Way of the Righteous in the Muck of Life and Slogging Along the Pa...

Reducere. On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huc...

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground st...

Reducere. H. B. Cushman, the son of missionaries working at Mayhew, a Choctaw Indian station in Mississippi, observed the Indians' heartbreaking removal from...

Reducere. Sound evokes memories and has the power to transport us to a different time and place. Reflecting on his childhood and adolescence in the 1950's in...

Reducere. Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pr...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of my continuing education, in different classrooms, with three new teachers: JoJo McCain, John Cahill, and especially...

Reducere. The life and music of the Malian music legend are examined through the eyes of those who knew him best. Compiled from both interviews and first han...

Reducere. Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to...

Reducere. ``The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill a Mockingbird.`` -- Lee Smit...

Reducere. When CNN citizen journalist Neal Moore slid his canoe into the headwaters of the Mississippi River to begin a 2, 300-mile odyssey across the midsec...

Reducere. Born in the late 1940's and early 50's and raised in a segregated town in southern Mississippi, a group of Black girls and boys came of age togethe...

Reducere. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became...

Reducere. Struggling people. People in every walk of life struggle in some way. We can't dictate what our struggles will be. We just know that when they come...

Reducere. Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author of A Land Remembered, Forever Island, and other classic novels about Mississippi and Florida, wrote The Begi...

Reducere. "I am not a civil rights hero. I am a warrior, and I am on a mission from God." --James Meredith James Meredith engineered two of the most epic eve...

Reducere. DescriptionFor fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a "raw and deeply honest" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) true story...

Reducere. Award winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith s first novel, The River Is Home revolves around a Mississippi family s struggle to cope with changes ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eudora WeltyWelty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLa...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninet...

DescriptionThe classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century. Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sa...

In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of...

Reducere. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Mr. Wright's imagined history of the rise and fall of the sugary drink empire is so robust and recognizable that you ...

Reducere. DeEtta lives much of her life carrying two huge secrets, and praying they will never be revealed. DeEtta was born in a small Mississippi Delta town...

Reducere. Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on a single group of women disaster sur...

Reducere. This historical novel is the sequel to Steamboat Seasons and Backwater Battles, following our Captain and his steamboat during the year after the A...

Reducere. DescriptionSooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold M...

Raised in poverty in Missouri, Mac is determined to find a better life for himself and the girl who is still a vague vision in his mind. Work on th...

Reducere. Anthony DeLuca spent much of his childhood on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Unfortunately, he was forced to move because of circumstances beyond his...

Reducere. Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept an...

Reducere. The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his r...

Reducere. Remarkable debut.... [a] nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance and redemption.--Publishers Weekly, STARRED reviewSet in 1920s Mississippi, thi...

Reducere. Travel to the Old West with Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. Willa Cather's novels brought the life of American settlers on the Great Plains to ...

Reducere. A fearless lawman on a crusade against the mobsters and murderers ruling the state line between Mississippi and Tennessee in the 1960s, Sheriff Buf...

One man's life adventures, trials, and successes. An Arabian horse breeder, multiengine pilot, steel worker, business owner of a roofing company, m...

Reducere. Who on the planet doesn't know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn't know that he was the King of ...

From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reform...

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and th...

Reducere. DescriptionHarlan Hubbard was Kentucky's Thoreau, and his journals are intimate records of a life lived in harmony with nature. For more than fifty...

Reducere. Walking on a Moonbeam is Bill McDonald's first book. It is a collection of poems written during his career as an engineer/scientist working in the ...

Reducere. On a rainy, moonless night in rural Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Missy Needham witnesses a brutal murder. Leaving her pa's heirloom pocket knife ...

Reducere. What Alex, illegitimate daughter of an alcoholic novelist and an artist, has always wanted is family. At 15, she falls in love with a 27-year-old p...

Reducere. Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a s...

Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's "Gilded Age, " comes alive in Justin Kaplan's extraor...

Reducere. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South,...

Reducere. "Affecting....as warm and comforting as a home-cooked meal" (People), a no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage-...

Reducere. The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The ...

Reducere. The first photograph Amelia Thorn ever took was of her father on the beach in the 1930s as he stared wistfully out to sea. The last, some seven dec...

Reducere. This is the 10th-Anniversary Edition of Finn, with a new introduction by Jared Leto. In this masterful debut, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into...

Reducere. What would compel an African-American man to spend ten years of his life tracing his family tree from the Pacific Northwest back to slavery times i...

Henry Hughes has been fishing his entire life. But unlike those who stick to their local stream, Hughes has traveled the world in search of new and...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new econom...

Reducere. It's late in the summer of 1989 and the body of twenty-two-year-old Joy Elliot Larson is about to be discovered on the bank of the Kawanee River.Bu...

Reducere. ``Over two decades, Brett Favre was as compelling a figure as any in the National Football League. He alone was 'Must-See TV.' In Gunslinger, Jeff ...

Reducere. From the beloved author of Horses Speak of God comes a warm and inspiring guide to the life lessons we can learn from horses Laurie Brock, Episcopa...

Reducere. When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that...

Reducere. From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens t...

Reducere. DescriptionBritish comics writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same ...

Reducere. Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene...

Reducere. Award NameLambda Literary AwardsAward categoryLesbian FictionWhen Odessa Blackburn is first left in Mississippi to negotiate a new life with her os...