Evan Peacock signs RETURN TO ELKINS CREEK.

Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time “when the poorest among us in the Deep South still took our water from holes in the ground and high school was considered an optional step along the career path,” the stories continue chronologically, with descriptions of learning to fish...

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Donald C. Jackson signs RESTLESS WINDS.

As a fisheries professor at Mississippi State University, naturalist, conservationist, and former pastor for a small rural church in Kentucky, Jackson injects deeply personal and spiritual experiences into his writings. From the desert of Central Australia, into remote jungles of Malaysia and Vietnam, through the Nepalese mountains, to long walks during misty nights in Uganda, Jackson shows readers how to recapture their humanity in a rush-away world...

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Shelley Powers signs HOW TO FRY CHICKEN AND DITCH THE NIGHTLIGHT.

Set in 1980 Mississippi, How to Fry Chicken & Ditch the Nightlight follows ten-year-old April Ellis as she spends a week of summer in Collins with relatives she hardly knows. Between eccentric characters, fried chicken lessons, and run-ins with neighborhood troublemakers, April has plenty to navigate. But the hardest challenge of all? Facing the dark—and the fears that come with growing up...

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Jason Prendergast signs DREAM DRIVEN.

At some point, we look up and wonder if we’re climbing the right mountain. Jason Prendergast is a small-town boy from northeastern Vermont who held his blue-collar world in the palm of his never-clean hands at twenty-six. He had survived everything life threw at him until one morning, he woke to find it all gone. His identity, once woven into something larger than himself, had disappeared overnight....

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Sharon Durham signs PHILLIP TAKES FLIGHT.

In this adorable rhyming book for ages 4-7, Phillip has tried over, and over again to fly like other birds, but he was born with tiny wings that just won’t work. He has tried jumping from tall trees and leaping off big rocks, but it always ends in the same way….a total flop! His cute personality and his whimsical way of always getting situations a little confused, add to the fun. Phillip thinks he is off for a day at the Park where he will sharpen his flying skills...

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Jennifer Polson Peterson signs DEGENERATE ERA OF AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE.

Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe is a book about apocalypses large and small. The 2 poems in this meditative debut collection explore economic and climatological trends toward dissolution, and how these forces seep into the domestic sphere....

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Chuck and Kathy Martin signLOVE NEVER FAILS.

A Novel of Faith, Family, and the Battle Between Darkness and Hope Love Never Fails is a gripping Christian novel that pulls readers into the unseen spiritual battle surrounding a family in crisis. Matthew Abrams—a husband and father—lies in a Memphis hospital bed, trapped in a coma yet more aware than ever of the forces threatening everything he loves. As he perceives the war “beyond what can be seen or touched,” he witnesses the enemy’s subtle tactics, the lies that distort truth...

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John Floyd signs RIVER ROAD AND OTHER MYSTERY STORIES.

River Road and Other Mystery Stories is a collection of seventeen crime tales, some from the pages of Strand Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, and Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and others written new for this book. Each story contains at least one mystery, though many contain several, and the characters you’ll find here range from private eyes to bank robbers to government agents to kidnappers to moonshiners to house burglars...

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Otis Sanford signs NEWSMAN.

Newsman is an autobiography of Otis Sanford's experiences growing up in a large African American family in Mississippi during the turbulent civil rights era and the factors that influenced his 50-year career in journalism...

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Stephanie Soileau signs SHOULD THE WATERS TAKE US.

In the shifting bayous of coastal Louisiana, on a rapidly disappearing spit of land, generations of Acadians have kept their heads above water. When an offshore rig explodes and unleashes a catastrophic spill, the people of Pelerin Parish face a reckoning that tests the bonds of family and the survival of their way of life. As the toxic plume of oil advances across the Gulf, Boy Broussard, already living hand to mouth off land that isn’t his, finds himself raising a daughter he barely knows....

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Sandra McDougall signs THE SECRET OF DINOSAUR RANCH.

Bruno the bear and his bright flamingo friend Ronnie embark on an adventurous journey to Texas in search of dinosaur tracks. Along the way, they meet a friendly cowboy lizard named Charlie Brooks who leads them to a secret ranch where real dinosaur footprints—and even a T-Rex family—await. Together, they play games, share stories, and discover that friendship and courage can lead to magical surprises. Their adventure ends with a joyful picnic and the realization that the greatest treasures are new friends and unforgettable memories....

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Joe Lee signs NEVER LET GO.

Fifteen years after surviving an attempt on his life by former Smart County constable Ford Forrester, Mark Myrick III is shocked to learn of Forrester’s sudden release from prison following a parole hearing Mark and wife Lacey knew nothing about. In addition to the anxiety Mark feels about his enemy returning to the small community of Oakdale, he can only imagine how Forrester will react when he realizes he’s a father—and that his son, now a teenager, is being raised by the couple....

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Scott Lenoir signs THE RECKONING.

Two years ago, conman Philip Mason, who posed as the superior and abbot of the Christian Center for Peace and Life, scammed the late Sandra Weaver out of thousands of dollars before she took her life. Sandra’s grieving widow, banker Blake Weaver, ambushed Mason, thwarting his attempt to transport his ill-gotten funds out of the country, though the conman managed to escape a law enforcement dragnet and flee the country...

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