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Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, October 7th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Loki Mulholland + Joan Truampuer Mulholland
Tuesday, October 10th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Loki Mulholland and Joan Truampuer Mulholland sign, GET BACK TO THE COUNTER. Her Freedom Rider mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. By the time she was 23 years old, Joan participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations. From her cell on death row to the infamous Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, Joan helped change the world. Through highs and lows, victory and death, her story is captured in seven core principles we all can harness to get back to the counter no matter how many times life pulls us off... Read More...
Event with Ann Dickerson
Saturday, October 14th | 10:30
Signing + Storytime at 10:30AM
Ann Dickerson signs, HALLOWEEN MAGIC. Ann Dickerson has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Southern Miss and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Mississippi College. She taught English before her children were born. Halloween Magic began in the early 2000s as letters in installments mailed to out of state grandchildren. For the grandchildren living in the Jackson area, she visited their kindergarten class and presented the story with props. The story reflects Ann’s own fond childhood memories when Halloween was a simpler... Read More...
Event with Wesley L. Shoop
Saturday, October 14th | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Wesley L. Shoop signs, Mississippi's Natural Heritage. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Event with Sarah Francis Hardy
Saturday, October 21st | 10:30
Signing + Storytime at 10:30AM
Sarah Frances Hardy signs, ONE MISSISSIPPI. Based on “One Mississippi,” the newly-proclaimed official state song of Mississippi, by award-winning performer Steve Azar, and illustrated by award-winning children’s book author Sarah Frances Hardy.... Read More...
Event with Jesmyn Ward + Margaret McMullan
Saturday, November 4th | 2:00
This event will take place at Millsaps College
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex | Recital Hall Jesmyn Ward signs, LET US DESCEND. Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother... Read More...
Event with Tom Clavin
Tuesday, November 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Tom Clavin signs, THE LAST OUTLAWS. The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves, before graduating to robbing banks and trains... Read More...
Event with Kate Medley + Kiese Laymon
Tuesday, November 21st 2023 | 4:30pm
Signing begins at 4:30pm
Kate Medley + Kiese Laymon sign, THANK YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN. THANK YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN is the documentation of Kate Medley’s many road trips across the South photographing our service stations, convenience stores, and quick stops. Along the way, Kate pulls over for tamales, fried fish, and banh mi, but her images uncover the people and landmarks that supply far more than food and gas. In an ever more divided America, these iconic gathering spaces provide unexpected community, generosity, labor, and creativity... Read More... |