Lay Your Armor Down
by Michael Farris Smith
Lay Your Armor Down is a dark Southern tale of desperate souls who’ve wound up on the road of poor choice, a messianic child with untold powers, and those out hunting her for their own reward, all drawn together by Oxford resident Michael Farris Smith’s trademark mournful, spirit-gnawing prose.
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Split the Baby
by Lauren Rhoades
In honest and captivating prose, Split the Baby chronicles the toll of divorce and family rupture from the perspective of a child who was nearly torn in two. Lauren Rhoades – a writer, editor, and grantmaker living in Jackson, MS – retells her experience of growing up caught between two conflicting homes run by equally strong women: a fervently Catholic stepmother and a deeply sensitive Jewish mother.
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Bodock: Stories
by Robert Busby
In 1994, the real Mid-South Ice Storm strikes the fictitious town of Bodock in Claygardner County, Mississippi. In the wake of the storm, what is left unbroken, and what broken things can be rebuilt? Hailed by Maurice Carlos Ruffin as “leaving no feeling untouched,” Robert Busby’s debut balances grit with heart, violence with depth, and tragedy with humor. In the spirit of Brad Watson’s Last Days of the Dog-Men, Bodock traverses time and dimensions to surface the struggles of the everyday.
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A Grain, a Green, a Bean
by Gena Hemshaw
In this collection of over 80 delicious, plant-based recipes, nutritionist, blogger, and author of The Vegan Week explores one simple meal-planning formula: a grain, a green, and a bean. This simple trinity of foods lends itself to endless possibilities. Gena Hamshaw expands on the nourishing and economical trio with meals that include not only dark, leafy greens, whole grains, and beans, but also pasta, bread, zucchini, edamame, and tofu.
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Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine
by Jessica B Harris
Dr Jessica B Harris intertwines the larger sweeping past with stories and recipes from friends she’s made over the years—people whose family dishes go back to the crucial era when Native peoples encountered Europeans and the enslaved Africans they brought with them. With recipes ranging from everyday meals to festive spreads, Braided Heritage offers a new, in-depth, delicious look at American culinary history.
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Mississippi’s Black Cotton
by Macarthur Cotton with John Obee, foreword by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The literature of the civil rights movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the movement, including, for example, Martin Luther King, but there is little focus on the MacArthur Cottons of the era: the young Black men and women who at great risk to their physical and mental health chose to become involved in the movement when so many others chose not to.
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Fulfillment
by Lee Cole
From the acclaimed author of Groundskeeping comes a searing family drama set in Kentucky where the homecoming of two half-brothers—successful Joel with his restless wife Alice, and struggling Emmett—ignites a clash of ambitions and desires, exposing raw truths about class, privilege, and happiness in the American South.
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
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