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Mississippi Books and WritersOctober 1996Note: Prices listed below reflect the publisher's suggested list price. They are subject to change without notice.
A Novel by David Compton Simon & Schuster ($23.00, ISBN: 0684804301) Publication date: October 1996 Description: “There are stars in the making and David Compton is one,” promises The Wall Street Journal. With foreign rights widely sold and a major movie deal signed, the fanfare continues to build for this thriller about an innocent man trapped by his own zeal and ambition in a deadly CIA conspiracy. A Biography by David Herbert Donald Da Capo Press ($24.95, ISBN: 0306807203) Publication date: October 1996
The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 Text by Steven Kasher, Foreward by Myrlie Evers-Williams Abbeville Press ($35.00, ISBN: 0789201232) Publication date: October 1996 Description: This evocative book is among the first to tell the story of the civil rights movement through the inspiring photographs that recorded, promoted, and protected it. With a striking selection of images and a lively, cogent text, Steven Kasher captures the danger, drama, and bravery of the civil rights movement. 150 duotone illustrations. A Novella and Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Little, Brown & Co. ($23.95, ISBN: 0316314781) Publication date: October 1996 Brief Review: The short stories in the first half of this collection feature Nora Jane Whittington, one of Ellen Gilchrist's familiar characters, and through her and her family and friends Gilchrist explores the complex balancing of relationships. The stories in the second half have many varying points of viewincluding a non-human one, that of a bear cub. These thoughtful tales, alive with vivid description, revolve around the tensions between the mind and the body, and between what is desired and what is achievable. Distant Friends and Intimate Strangers Stories by Charles East University of Illinois Press ($14.95, ISBN: 0252065794) Publication date: October 1996 Brief Review: Charles East is unafraid to tackle locales that already have long and rich literary traditions; many of his stories are set in places like Memphis and New Orleans, which figure heavily in classic Southern fiction. Now its the 1990s, however, and the distinctiveness of many Southern places has rubbed off. East writes of people regretting their past and groping their way toward a suitable, if not actually happy, future. Usually, marriage and romance are the paths on which these characters grope, such as the cop musing over his ex-wifes infidelities while he flies over New Orleans in a helicopter. A Children's Book by Laurie Parker Quail Ridge Press ($15.95, ISBN: 0937552712) Publication date: October 1996 Stories by Barry Hannah Atlantic Monthly Press ($22.00, ISBN: 0871136686) Publication date: October 1996 Brief Review: Barry Hannah writes like a barroom raconteur talks:
unevenly, wildly, with a superabundance of vivid images, sometimes improbable
plotlines, and a wicked, comic appreciation for human failings. In this collection
he takes on middle-aged heroes whove lived through bad marriages and are
now suffering the ravages of alcohol and sexual cravingin other words,
men not unlike Hannah himself. Hannah's turns of phrase can shoot off the page
to stab the reader in the heart; even the weakest stories in this book contain
a great line or two. Fiction by Penelope J. Stokes Faith on the Home Front Series, Vol. 1 Tynedale House Publishers ($8.99, ISBN: 0842308512) Publication date: October 1996 Juvenile Nonfiction by Kathleen Thompson Portrait of America Series Raintree/Steck Vaughn ($5.95, ISBN: 0811474496) Publication date: October 1996 Nonfiction by Constance Curry; Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman Harcourt Brace ($13.00, ISBN: 0156004798) Publication date: October 1996 Description: Silver Rights is the true story of clear-eyed
determination, down-home grit, and sweet triumph. It is the tale of the Carter
familys brave decision to send their children to an all-white school in
Mississippi in 1965. Constance Curry was a field representative for the American
Friends Service Committee in Mississippi, helping to aid desegregation efforts.
A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta Nonfiction by Norman Mauskopf Twin Palms ($50.00, ISBN: 0944092438) Publication date: October 1996 Miami University Press (Hardcover, $19.95, ISBN: 1881163164; Paperback, $11.95, ISBN: 1881163172) Publication date: October 1996
Harlequin (Paperback, ISBN: 0373262175) Publication date: October 1996 Description: Learning that the new home she is to share with
her future husband was owned by a family that disappeared six years earlier,
Roe Teagarden becomes suspicious about a pair of tenants living in the garage
apartment.
By Joseph Bosco William Morrow (Hardcover, ISBN: 0688144136) Publication date: October 1996 Description: A freelance journalist who covered the infamous
trial shows how the evidence from the scene of the crime was used and misused
in court and tells why neither side mentioned the dramatic ride in the white
Bronco.
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