Jennifer Gordon signs STAY.

At thirteen, lying in the dark in Vicksburg, Mississippi, I floated out of my own body for the first time. It felt like relief. STAY is the memoir of a woman born with a sensitivity so acute it would take decades to understand - and the slow, unglamorous, irreversible work of learning to come back. For anyone who has ever felt outside their own life looking in. For those who have built outwardly functional lives - careers, marriages, parenthood, achievement - while feeling inwardly disconnected and quietly depleted. This is a book for readers wary of quick fixes and spiritual bypassing, who are seeking a grounded account of how healing actually unfolds across time, not through sudden insight....

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Jim Abbott signs PAPER MAN.

Jim Abbott was destined to reckon with racial awakenings the 1960s Mississippi Delta. He graduated from all-white Greenwood High School in 1962, naïve of and unprepared for what he would soon experience at Ole Miss his freshman year during the James Meredith riots. He resented the criticisms his state received for its racist policies. And he held racist feelings himself...

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Gerry Wilson signs STORM WARNING.

When the storms rage, you will feel the water pulling you in. A unique, harrowing, and strangely beautiful book. -Stephanie Cowell, author of The Boy in the Rain and The Man in the Stone Cottage: a novel of the Brontë sisters, American Book Award recipientIn prose that sparks with electricity, these stories set the gazebo on fire, and leave us astonished at what devastations humans, and islands, can live through. - Marjorie Hudson, author of Indigo Field, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, and Searching for Virginia Dare Ultimately, Wilson's collection accomplishes something quite extraordinary: it creates a rich...

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Yance Wyatt signs THE WATERSMITH.

When hard-drinking handyman Jack Calloway discovers an old moonshine still behind the Smoky Mountain cabin he plans to flip, his teenage son dares him to get it running. Jack accepts— until his wife, Jolene, tries to sabotage the first batch and is horribly burned in the process. Wracked with guilt, Jack sends their son away and moves Jolene into the cabin to recover while he tries to sober up. Doctors diagnose Jolene with a rare post-traumatic dementia that responds only to scent— smell being the strongest trigger of memory...

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Kevin Morris signs AN AMERICAN PROBLEM.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made good on the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment, which nearly a century before had granted Black Americans the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act was the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, which had battled for years against voting laws that made it all but impossible for Black Americans to cast a ballot. The act was a resounding success, bringing Americans of all races and ethnicities into the democratic process. And then, in 2013, the Supreme...

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Scott Gould signs BENEATH A FALLEN SKY.

May 1910. As Halley’ s Comet hurtles toward Earth, panic grips the mountains of northeast Alabama. Experts predict the end of all life, and in Fort Payne, four townsfolk face their final days....

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Matt Kessler signs THE WIREGRASS.

In 1999, in the rural Alabama town of Ozark, the bodies of two white teenage girls, J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, were found shot in the trunk of Beasley’s car. The girl were out past curfew and celebrating Beasley's birthday—but from there the story grew tangled, then went dark. As months, then years, passed without answers, an eccentric cast of townspeople took it upon themselves to chase down leads. In this hardscrabble, farming region at the southern tip of the Bible Belt...

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Jere Nash and Andy Taggart sign MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.

Called “a must-read for any serious student of Mississippi politics” by The Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state’s recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as the ways Mississippi both shaped and was shaped by national and regional trends. First published in 2006, this thoroughly revised third edition expands and updates the narrative from the 2008 presidential election through the mid-2020s. Authors Jere Nash and Andy Taggart add three new chapters and substantially revise every existing chapter, providing fresh analyses of statewide, legislative, and federal elections; leadership changes in both parties; and the shifting dynamics that continue to define Mississippi’s place in American politics...

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Ariel Lawhon signs THE PIRATE QUEEN.

A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia. Grace O’Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are not compatible with the expectations of her noble family. As the only daughter of a powerful chieftain, her role is to secure a strong alliance and bear children. But when she’s sent to foster...

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M.L. Rio signs HOT WAX.

The new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood and made her who she is. Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning—one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come...

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Katherine Conner signs THE HANGED MAN.

Against the surreal landscape of the deep south, three Lebanese-American sisters encounter their missing mother six years after she vanished from their lives. Georgia, now a ghost tour guide in the French Quarter, spots her mother’s face in the crowd of tour-goers. Virginia, a receptionist at a mental health facility in Mississippi, is sure her mother walks in one day and asks to be committed. Louise, a relay operator in Birmingham, hears her mother’s voice late one night on the line. Each of these encounters is fleeting, almost ghostly, ambiguous...

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Adam Makos signs TIDAL WAVE.

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Higher Call, Spearhead, and Devotion comes Tidal Wave, a sweeping new epic set in an untold arena of World War II. It’s summer 1943, and the world is on fire. Lieutenant Ernie Poulson, a 22-year-old outdoorsman from Utah, finds himself at the controls of America’s most advanced bomber, the B-24, brought to North Africa for a top-secret mission. On the far side of Europe, Lieutenant Constantin Cantacuzino, Romania’s most daring ace, duels Soviet fighters on the Eastern Front while searching for purpose in an unwinnable war. In Nazi-aligned Romania, Princess Catherine Caradja walks a razor’s edge between loyalty to her country and quiet defiance, as German forces dig-in around the oil refineries in her backyard...

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Rebecca Rebouche signs OCEAN OF STARS.

From author Azita Ardakani and acclaimed artist Rebecca Rebouche comes a timeless story about how everything comes to be—and how, in the making of the world, we find ourselves made of one another, and stardust itself. Before there was the world we know, there was only silence and shimmer—a great dark ocean of matter and possibility. Ocean of Stars follows the unfolding of creation: light forming from fire, water gathering from stars, and life arising from their meeting—until the living world begins to know itself through us. Told in lyrical prose and brought to life through Rebecca Rebouche’s breathtaking illustrations, this picture book invites readers into a cosmic meditation on connection...

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