Mississippi

If you're a fan of Mark Twain's dry wit, oft-hidden humor, and tales of a bygone era on the Mississippi, then you'll love The Desert Rat Scrapbook....

Cain’t Do Nothing with Love was the winner of the CIPA EVVY Audio Book Award 2014. All stories treat the most difficult topics - death, religion, family - with sharp humor and urgent respect....

Although Twain spent the first 30 years of his life working odd jobs, his printing background, sharp wit, and humor helped establish him first as a journalist and later an author....

It was the Depression, and very few areas were as economically depressed as the rural South....

Based on the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and true historical events, The New Madrid Horror details the dastardly deeds which triggered a massive earthquake that devastated the state of Missouri along the Mississippi River....

Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army....

Even native-born Americans don’t know the Deep South well. It’s a beautiful, deeply forested region with diverse people and a long history. These stories set in Mississippi and Louisiana deal with two mysteries....

The Battle of Gettysburg stands as one of the most pivotal moments in American history. Fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, it was a clash between the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War....

A ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten....

The Greatest Civil War Battles comprehensively covers the events that led up to the siege, the fighting itself, and the aftermath of the campaign....

Mississippi. The 1950s and ’60s. Two friends, one white and the other black. Sue Ann spends her pre-adolescent years protecting her best friend, Liz Bess, from prejudice and mistreatment, but she can’t protect her from the untimely death of her mother and their resulting separation....

Charley Bates was an outsider. Always the third wheel to the Artful Dodger and Oliver Twists double-act in Fagins gang. Then he became the redeemed thief who managed to turn himself into the merriest young grazier in the whole of Northamptonshire.

Brian Longfield’s life has somehow gone in the wrong direction. His wife has died, and he wonders whether he will ever feel happy again. But life does go on, and in unexpected ways....

The Rev. Calvin Dill Wilson (1857-1946) was a Presbyterian minister and author. His book Black Masters, first published in 1904, explores the history of wealthy free African Americans who became slave-owners....

"I was born with the choice to pass as Black or White. Everyday I ask myself whose blood is it that rushes through my veins?"....

American Legends: The Life of Black Hawk chronicles the life of the Sauk leader who defiantly fought to save his people's homeland, but it also humanizes one of the most famous Native Americans in American history....

Belle Gunness and the Bender’s were a different breed of criminal, more deadly, and harder to detect. While bank and train robbers rarely harmed their victims, Belle Gunness and the Bender’s took a gruesome pleasure in killing their victims before they robbed them....

When the Confederacy concentrated their forces at Corinth, Mississippi preparatory to attacking General U. S. Grant’s army at Shiloh in April ...

Nobody is a bigger testament to that fact than Thurgood Marshall, the African-American lawyer who successfully argued the Brown v. Board case....

Mississippi Central Josephine Findley, almost 18, had the poison selected and handy in the event she couldn’t handle another day, or even another...