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Tim Burton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $17.15 Let's start by saying this. If you are a Tim Burton fan, this is a MUST READ. There are...	Mississippi Archaeology Q & A Best Price: $15.44 How old is this arrowhead? Is there really gold in that Indian mound? What tribe left all these...	Paul Marchand, F. M. C. Best Price: $18.60 I purchased the book for my daughter and she likes it. the book is in good condition.	Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories Best Price: $25.00 William Faulkner once called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry."...	Mayor Crump Donâ??t Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis Best Price: $23.99 To this day, Memphians still refer to E. H. Crump as "Mayor Crump." But in all...



Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Understanding Health and Sickness Series) Best Price: $2.00 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects around 5 per cent of school-age...	Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (American Made Music) Best Price: $24.95 Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years....	Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta Best Price: $21.00 I met The Judge when I was a young boy. Even then I was shaken by the strong will and...	Conversations with Ann Beattie (Literary Conversations Series) Best Price: $22.00 Ann Beattie (b. 1947) published both her first novel ( Chilly Scenes of Winter ) and her first...	Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s Best Price: $41.45 This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl...



Conversations with Anthony Burgess (Literary Conversations Series) Best Price: $22.95 Although he did not start publishing until middle age, Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) had over...	A Comics Studies Reader Best Price: $22.50 At last, comics studies got its own legitimate places in between the study of culture, pop-art,...	Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests (American Made Music Series) Best Price: $50.00 Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests explores the phenomenon of American fiddle contests,...	Viva la historieta: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization Best Price: $17.51 ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the...	Cultural Orphans in America Best Price: $25.00 Images of orphanhood have pervaded American fiction since the colonial period. Common in British...

Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine (American Made Music) Best Price: $25.00 How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia	David Lean: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers) Best Price: $46.71 Sometime around 1971-73, before video recorders and DVRs, my dad let me stay up late one Friday...	Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound (American Made Music) Best Price: $17.71 "Fans of Arnold's mellow music will appreciate the intensely detailed record of his...	Thomas Jefferson on Wine Best Price: $15.66 In Thomas Jefferson on Wine , John Hailman celebrates a founding father's lifelong interest...	Mississippi Black History Makers Best Price: $25.00 This new edition of biographical sketches of notable blacks from Mississippi expands the edition...

Dear Boys: World War II Letters from a Woman Back Home Best Price: $25.00 Throughout the war years of the 1940s there were enormous outpourings of correspondence from all...	Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture Best Price: $46.71 Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an...	Daniel Clowes: Conversations (Conversations with Comics Artists) Best Price: $50.00 This is a collection of fifteen interview transcripts spanning 1988 through to 2009. The oldest...	Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy Best Price: $25.00 For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean...	Conversations with Paule Marshall (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $36.64 Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean...

Conversations with Tom Robbins (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $14.43 Since the publication of Another Roadside Attraction in 1971, Tom Robbins (b. 1932) has become...	The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Second Edition Best Price: $16.22 From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the battle in 2009, The Egg Bowl ...	Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition Best Price: $25.00 As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures,...	Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities Best Price: $47.06 At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black...	Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell (Hollywood Legends) Best Price: $19.97 When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is...

Dear Boys: World War II Letters from a Woman Back Home Best Price: $25.00 Throughout the war years of the 1940s there were enormous outpourings of correspondence from all...	Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture Best Price: $46.71 Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an...	Daniel Clowes: Conversations (Conversations with Comics Artists) Best Price: $50.00 This is a collection of fifteen interview transcripts spanning 1988 through to 2009. The oldest...	Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy Best Price: $25.00 For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean...	Conversations with Paule Marshall (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $36.64 Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean...

Conversations with Tom Robbins (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $14.43 Since the publication of Another Roadside Attraction in 1971, Tom Robbins (b. 1932) has become...	The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Second Edition Best Price: $16.22 From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the battle in 2009, The Egg Bowl ...	Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition Best Price: $25.00 As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures,...	Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities Best Price: $47.06 At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black...	Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell (Hollywood Legends) Best Price: $19.97 When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is...

Hands in the Till: Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi Best Price: $39.95 In 2004 Corporate Crime Reporter asserted that Mississippi was the most crooked state in...	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $15.86 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez is a diverse collection of engagements with poet, teacher, and...	Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales Best Price: $65.00 For years many folklorists have denied the possibility of a truly American folk or fairy tale....	The Beatles: Image and the Media Best Price: $24.00 Dr. Michael R. Frontani's book: "The Beatles: Image and the Media" provides a...	Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher Best Price: $46.71 Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda...

Manners and Southern History (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series) Best Price: $42.50 Not not what I was looking for, which was a history of southern etiquette. This book is an...	Stan Lee: Conversations (Conversations With Comic Artists Series) Best Price: $13.98 Stan Lee (b. 1922), cocreator of the Amazing Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible...	Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations Series) Best Price: $50.00 Leon Forrest (1937-1997) was among the most innovative and ambitious African American fiction...	Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control Best Price: $14.95 Who changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into "Come to Jamaica and feel...	Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice Best Price: $25.00 Colonizers imposed Christianity and biblical codes upon their conquered subjects. In the waning...

Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum Best Price: $50.00 The first full-length celebration of an African American and Native American self-taught...	C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence Best Price: $50.00 C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century,...	Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture (The Curti Lectures, 1985) Best Price: $14.84 Liberty, one of the most consequential words in our language, is one of the most treasured...	The Pilgrim Jubilees (American Made Music Series) Best Price: $2.90 As a quartet enthusiast I am very familar with the Pilgrim Jubilees and this is just the case of...	Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine (American Made Music Series) Best Price: $50.00 The excellent description of the social contexts for fiddling is one of this book's major...

Lost Landmarks of Mississippi Best Price: $25.53 Mississippi's architectural heritage is one of columns and capitals, most readily envisioned...	Tracing Your Alabama Past Best Price: $22.00 This book is great for the true researcher. It gives the years in which each County conatins...	Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address Best Price: $28.00 On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gave his Second Inaugural Address, the final great speech of...	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $14.00 Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and...	Lars von Trier: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $50.00 With six entries at the Cannes Film Festival thus far, Lars von Trier has been a Cannes award...

Strings Attached Best Price: $17.69 This book compellingly captures the life of a young woman, Charlee, who grows up in the...	Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers (Studies in Popular Culture) Best Price: $50.00 What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes...	Understanding Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Best Price: $1.74 Written from a patient's perspective, this book provides timely information about how to...	Elia Kazan: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $16.84 Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly...	Perspectives on Richard Ford A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize author This is the...

Conversations with Willie Morris (Literary Conversations Series) Best Price: $50.00 As part of the legendary "Literary Conversations Series" this one falls a few notches...	Kangaroo Hollow Best Price: $2.14 The first American edition of the novel that has been praised as Phillips's most ambitious...	Conversations with Ellen Douglas (Literary Conversations Series) Best Price: $10.43 "So when I went down to ask my aunts if it would be all right to publish A Family's...	Charles M. Schulz: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists) Best Price: $10.74 All of the comics, and some parts of popular culture in general, continue on in the shadow of...	My Mississippi A father and son's eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi An...

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR (American Made Music Series) Best Price: $3.98 Prior to the long presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, black Americans largely voted Republican....	Somebody Always Singing You Best Price: $3.95 As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing...	Mystery Fiction and Modern Life (Studies in Popular Culture) Best Price: $43.29 The detective novel is both a product of the twentieth century and a response to the needs of...	Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain Best Price: $29.50 "Faulkner's County" was photographed by Martin Dain in 1961. He came by the...	Conversations with John Edgar Wideman (Literary Conversations Series) Best Price: $12.96 Orally or on the page, John Edgar Wideman never seems to stray far from firsthand experience....

Conversations with Denise Levertov (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $3.98 Denise Levertov, American poet and activist, died in December 1997 at the age of 74. This book...	Jane Campion: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $13.46 In outstanding films that are sharply focused on unusual women Jane Campion has gained worldwide...	Dream State Best Price: $13.95 I enjoy visiting New Orleans, and the tendency is to just read guides and history books. But...	Secrets of a New Orleans Chef: Recipes from Tom Cowman's Cookbook Best Price: $17.51 I recieved a copy of this cookbook for my birthday last month. Talk about a gift that keeps...	Cajun Foodways Best Price: $11.00 Cajun food has become a popular "ethnic" food throughout America during the last...

Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $46.00 Collections of interviews with notable modern writers	Conversations with John Updike Best Price: $30.00 This lively collection of short interviews, magazine and newspapers profiles gives us an even...	Santeria Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice (Folk Art and Artists) Best Price: $49.00 I think this is the only book dedicated to the materials used in the Thrones of the Orishas as...	We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts Best Price: $15.04 The small Ford's theater is packed that Good Friday April night of 1865 and quivers with...	The Crab Lovers Book: Recipes & More Best Price: $4.90

Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper Best Price: $0.59	Rubber Soul: Rubber Stamps and Correspondence Art (Folk Art and Artist Series) Best Price: $39.00 I enjoyed this book tremendously. From its Dada cover, to its scores of wonderful illustrations...	A Symphony of Animals Best Price: $35.46 This is one of my most treasured books, purchased when I visited the Walter Anderson Museum of...	Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzsanna Palko (World Folktale Library) Best Price: $17.75 This annotated collection of thirty-five folktales represents the repertoire of one of the...	The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies (Hollywood Legends) Best Price: $19.95 Ruth Prigozy has done an admirable job in bringing Dick Haymes life story to light. He is...

Some Notes on River Country Best Price: $100.00 The Mississippi river country from Vicksburg to Natchez was a source and a setting for several...	Robert Aldrich: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $16.14 This is the best book I have read in the U. of Mississippi series of interviews with...	Lauren's Line Best Price: $13.37 Once I started reading Lauren's Line I couldn't do anything until I put it down. So many...	Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Best Price: $18.00 On June 21, 1874, reporters at the New Orleans Times unexpectedly received an invitation to...	George Stevens: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $7.85 This book employs a concise interview approach, to one of America's greatest, and most...

Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South Best Price: $21.40 The only thing better than reading the essays and seeing the full-color plates was to have been...	Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets Best Price: $35.00 Poets include: Willis Barnstone Robert Conquest Wendy Cope Douglas Dunn Anthony Hecht John...	Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise...	Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Familyâ??s Quilt Legacy Best Price: $21.34 This is useful, not only as a research document, but more importantly as an example of a method...

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