Robert Khayat signs his
new book, 60: A YEAR OF SPORTS, RACE, AND POLITICS!



In 1960, 22-year-old Robert Khayat experienced a year in which his own life, the nation, and the state of Mississippi were forever changed. The same spring that four college students in North Carolina refused to move from a segregated lunch counter, Khayat’s SEC champion Ole Miss baseball team was denied the right to play in the NCAA tournament because they might encounter a Black opponent...

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Virtual Event with Brene Brown
and Priya Parker for Brown's new book, ATLAS OF THE HEART!

This event is in partnership with Random House
One book purchase equals one ticket
This event is only available to those with a US mailing address
The Zoom link will be sent out 48 hours before the the event and again on the day of the event
Please make sure to add the email you would like us to send the Zoom link to when you place your order
Ticket sales will close at 11pm CST on December 2nd


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Joshua Nguyen and Maggie Graber discuss
Joshua's new book of poetry COME CLEAN!

Joshua Nguyen's sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma—sexual and generational—through the quotidian. Poems aim to confront the speaker's past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up. Here, the Asian-American masculine interrogates the domestic space through the sensual and finds healing through family and in everyday rhythms: rinsing rice until the water runs clear...

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Stuart Kellogg signs his
new book, THE POST COVID CHURCH!

The pandemic has accelerated the already disheartening drop in church membership, attendance and influence. THE POST COVID CHURCH includes ideas from nationally known experts (Dr. George Barna, John Stonestreet, Greg Koukl, Dr. Elaine Friedrich) and successful church leaders who share practical ways to work smarter—and more creatively—to serve as the hands and feet of Christ to an increasingly needy world...

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Robert St. John and Anthony Thaxton
sign their new book, WALTER ANDERSON: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander!



Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of The Islander contains numerous rare photographs, artwork never before seen, and paintings lost through Hurricane Katrina. It’s the extraordinary story of a man called “America’s Van Gogh.” Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable...

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Dale Beasley signs his
new book, WE WILL NOT BE HOME BY CHRISTMAS!

The new book, a full-color coffee (or cocktail) table book, delivers cards, letters, and photographs from soldiers during wartime. “I am pleased to bring this book to you and hope in reading it, you may find a deeper appreciation of the holidays and for the sacrifices endured by so many,” Beasley said. “In recognition of those sacrifices and commemoration of their memory...

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Jerry Palmer signs his
new book, BUTTONS, BOLD CUTTERS & BARRICADES!

Buttons Bolt Cutters and Barricades Texas Anti-Nuke Actions is a first-hand account of the historical actions taken in trying to stop or at least slow the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States and the Comanche Peak plant in particular. The strategical use of nonviolent direct action including civil disobedience by the Comanche Peak Life Force activists should be an inspiration to others in the fight for clean air clean water and safe renewable energy...

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Robert St. John and Anthony Thaxton
sign their new book, WALTER ANDERSON: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander!



Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of The Islander contains numerous rare photographs, artwork never before seen, and paintings lost through Hurricane Katrina. It’s the extraordinary story of a man called “America’s Van Gogh.” Though featured in countless books and exhibitions (including a 2003 retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution on the centennial of his birth), Walter Anderson has not yet achieved his deserved place in American art history. This book shines light on all the facets of Anderson’s unbelievable...

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Lee Harper signs her book, TINY OXFORD!

TINY OXFORD is Mississippi artist Lee Harper’s homage to her adopted hometown in miniature diorama form.
This 40-page gift book features a collection of pieces honoring the long lost landmarks of Oxford town in her trademark microscopic sculptural style. ...

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Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks
sign COLONIAL MISSISSIPPI!

Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region...

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Jennifer Baughn signs her book, BUILDINGS OF MISSISSIPPI!

Although accounts of its architecture have long conjured visions of white-columned antebellum mansions, its towns, buildings, and landscapes are ultimately far more complex, engaging, and challenging. This guidebook surveys a range of such locations, from Native American mounds and villages to plantation outbuildings that bear witness to the lives of enslaved African Americans, from twentieth-century...

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Teresa Nicholas
signs her new book, THE MAMA CHRONICLES!


A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother. Growing up in the Delta town of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Teresa Nicholas believed that she and her country-born and -bred mother weren’t close. She knew little of her mother’s early life as a sharecropper during the Great Depression, but whenever she brought up the subject, her taciturn mother would snap, “You ask too many questions, young’un.”...

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Dogwood Press Event!
Join us for an event with three fantastic authors!

Candace Cox Wheeler will be signing her book,
CRADLE IN THE OAK.
Randy Pierce will be signing his book, MISSY.
John Floyd will be signing his book, LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE.

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Vince Venturini and Doug Shanks
sign their new book, ONE DIRECTION HOME!


For decades, south Jackson was thought of as the other part of the city. It was considered home to persons who were lower class compared to their counterparts in north and west Jackson. Some even dismissed it as the least desirable and progressive part of the city. For those of us who grew up in south Jackson, it was a special place, a safe place and a place where life-long friendships and impressions were made...

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