Mississippi Books

The most comprehensive book about the battle of Davis Bridge. Well written, great pictures. This book had me captivated and I couldn't put it down. The author is obviously an expert in his field, get this book now.

Once again Devin and his pal-for-life-even-if-she-is-a-girl Francine "Frankie" Lang find them ill-prepared for a literature test. They decide to once again use the library's mysterious zapper gates to get them into the story---which just happens to be The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Once again the two find themselves swept up into Twain's classic. Both soon find out that Tom is pretty much like them, a troublemaker. Soon they hook up with Tom's longtime pal Huck Finn and soon the four are swept up into their own adventures, such as whitewashing fences, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funerals, and most important, they witness a murder while visiting the graveyard at midnight. Can they bring the true person to justice? This was another great Cracked Classics. They are nice for young children and might encourage them later in life to read the actrull classic!

You cannot find a better cruising guide. Mr. Young has done great research.

The theoretical framework that Page provides is thorough, insightful, and compelling. He then offers brilliant readings of all six of Morrison's novels. Altogether, this is a wonderful critical approach, and one every teacher and student of Morrison should read.

I loved it. I love Dubois' fatherly spirit, his international wisdom, and the strength he has in showing this side of himself, inspite of threats that this kind of writing could end his writing career . I have read many of DuBois books, however, this is the very first time that I have even heard (1997) about a romance book. And told that it's the only one. Still, from Dubois-WOW!! And to hear him say that he really likes this kind of writing, that it's his favorite book, but others discouraged him, both Black and White. I feel very special and priviledged (though its public) to know this romantic side of Dubios, compared to his other more well-known writings. I'm glad this side of him didn't get lost.

His words of encouragement still speaks volumes to me today. Its been awhile since I read the book, and I know this posting is old. Anyway, I happen to have a book here with me that has a quote from Dubios that I believe is from Dark Princess. "I have known the women of many lands and nations, I have known, seen, and lived beside them, but none have I known more sweetly feminine, more unansweringly loyal, more desperately earnest, and more instinctively pure in body and soul than the daughters of my African-American mothers. This then-a little thing-to their memory and inspiration."

How insightful and sensitive to write such encouraging words for all the world to read. Still, I'd like to know more on what Dubois did to combat sexism in his time. I've read only small pieces of Dubios' feelings on how African American females were being slighted, I think. Did he ever speak directly to the sexism within the African-American community?

This book, quite simply, provides the most comprehensive coverage of Huey Long's death available anywhere. Updated with new evidence from the 1992 Starrs investigation. The book thoughtfully presents a chronology of events from both sides, Dr. Weiss and Huey Long. The reader is presented with all of the facts and encouraged to draw his own conclusion. The beginning of the book offers a brief overview of Huey Long's life.

I have discovered that author Ronald Syme has written many historical biographies in particular for children. I may even have read something of his when I was kid, since he seems to have published since the 1960s. His books are timeless, well written and easy to follow, presented in a story-type format, and including interesting details to personalize the history. I read his book about DeSoto as part of my own research about the Spanish explorers of North America. As an adult reader of this book, I was able to glean a good understanding of who deSoto was and what he did. The last I had ever heard anything about deSoto was in sixth grade, along with a brief mention of the names and discoveries of other early explorers, such as Ponce deLeon. DeSoto's story is really fascinating, and Syme's version is sure to interest today's children. It covers the difficulties met by deSoto's men in crossing difficult territory and confronting hostile natives. It does mention the injustices the Spaniards meted to the natives, but not in the horrific detail that will be found in biographies meant for older readers. I recommend this book as well as other works by Syme to interest young readers in the subject of history.

Four passionate men connected by Fate and too many terrible secrets:

1998 -- Memphis, Tennessee:

Doctor Bernard Phillips believes that he has just performed emergency heart surgery on a man he witnessed executed in the gas chamber over thirty years before.

1964 -- Juneapple, Mississippi:

Sheriff Decatur Fairchild, hoping for a peaceful summer as outside volunteers bent on registering Blacks to vote disrupt the segregated status quo, discovers that there is an evil at work in his county that makes the local Klan look like cub scouts.

1944 -- Auschwitz, Poland:

Concentration camp doctor Conrad Pell finds he has deeply fallen in love with a beautiful Jewish internee and unthinkingly risks his future by seeking help from the most dangerous person in his past.

1940 -- Paris, France:

Thirteen-year-old Robert Anthony, in a desperate race against time to identify the perpetrator of dozens of horrible murders before the Nazis invade France, is determined to discover the truth no matter where the evidence may point.

Two will die, and two will have their lives changed forever.

This book offers a wealth of information on the first five years of the New Yorker and charts its influence on both American culture and the magazine industry. While it has its share of funny stories and great cartoons, the book casts considerable doubt on the enduring image of the early New Yorker as the haphazard product of madcap editors and loony writers. Professor Lee shows how Harold Ross's savvy "tinkering" made the magazine appealing to the particular audience he was aiming for, an audience wealthy and sophisticated enough--or aspiring to be wealthy and sophisticated enough-to draw the upscale advertising he did indeed attract. Basing her history on the contents of complete issues of the magazine rather than merely on the writing of its most famous authors, she addresses the interplay of stories, reviews, essays, pictures, and advertising over time. Her meticulous research is conveyed in a clear and engaging style that recreates for the reader some of the experience an early subscriber might have enjoyed in reading the New Yorker.

This is a must own. The photographs are beautiful but what makes this book so powerful is that the people of the Delta are living in the '90's just as they did in the 'teens. For all of the positive changes that have happen since the civil rights movement it obvious that these people have been left behind. The photos will bring tears to your eyes. I would suggest to those people who churches may not be doing that 'Trip to the Holy Land with Pastor so and so' Think about organizing with Habitat for Humanity and doing some building in the Delta.