Chase Parham and Jeff Roberson sign STORIES FROM OLE MISS BASEBALL.

Joined by former players: Burney Hutchinson and Chris Snopek

Chase Parham has more than two decades of media experience and has covered the Ole Miss baseball program for 20 seasons and counting. He's an editor and writer for 247Sports/CBS Sports and co-owner of MPW Digital, the most downloaded podcast network in Mississippi. His first book, Resilient Rebels: Ole Miss Baseball's Remarkable Path to a National Title, was one of Mississippi's top books in 2022.

Jeff Roberson has covered more than 1,000 Ole Miss baseball games in his sports writing career. He is co-author of Midnight Train, the life story of former Ole Miss quarterback and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Jim Weatherly. He has served as an archivist and historian for Ole Miss athletics....

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Tom Piazza signs LIVING IN THE PRESENT WITH JOHN PRINE.

In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a 1977 Coupe de Ville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine to write an article for the Oxford American. Their Florida road trip ignited a deep friendship, full of tall tales over epic meals, long nights playing guitar and trading songs, and visits back and forth between their homes in Nashville and New Orleans. Along the way, Prine invited Piazza to work with him on a memoir, with John telling sprawling...

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Chelsi Ohueri signs ENCOUNTERING RACE IN ALBANIA.

Encountering Race in Albania is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. Chelsi West Ohueri examines how race is made, remade, produced, and reproduced through constructions of whiteness, blackness, and otherness. She argues that while race is often limited to Western processes of modernity that exclude Eastern Europe, racialization processes are global, and the ethnography of everyday Albanian socialities...

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Patricia Lockwood signs WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU.

Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn’t know who they are...

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Lou Turner signs TWIN LEAD LINES.

Twin Lead Lines, the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner, is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of listening deeply to others and oneself. Turner's distant cousin and Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens plays a role in the poems as part-muse, part-foil, and full lode star -- not flawless, but bright -- for the poems to orient around as Turner maps her own voice and calling...

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J. Stephen Beam signs THE BONDAGE OF INNOCENTS.

When Lindy Montgomery’s mother dies, she’s left without friends or companionship until she meets a mysterious young woman in a sandwich shop who teaches her how to make herself more alluring to the opposite sex. Lindy’s so-called boyfriend takes her on a weekend trip under the guise of celebrating his birthday. The real reason for the trip turns out to be much more sinister...

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Sparky Reardon signs THE DEAN.

Over his thirty-six-year tenure at the University of Mississippi, Sparky Reardon penned letters, essays, and reflections chronicling his experiences working with students. In The Dean: Memoirs and Missives, Reardon offers a collection of his memories, thoughts, and insights from his time at Ole Miss. The book provides a window into the entertaining, challenging, humorous, and occasionally poignant moments of his career, touching on topics like Oxford, the University, sports, student life, Neil Armstrong and champagne, and his passion for writing and reminiscing....

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Paula Saunders signs STARTING FROM HERE.

A Midwestern girl balances her dreams of becoming a dancer with the complications of growing up on her own, far from her working-class family, in this unforgettable, deeply affecting portrait of a young woman striving for greatness, from the author of The Distance Home...

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John T. Edge signs HOUSE OF SMOKE.

The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at table is just one small step toward reckoning...

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Melody Golding signs HOMETOWN MISSISSIPPI.

Hometown Mississippi offers an intimate glimpse into thirty Mississippi towns through the lens of author, photographer, and artist Melody Golding. In this stunning collection, Golding captures the essence of her state in the summer of 2024, blending photography and personal exploration to create a colorful and contemporary portrait of Mississippi. From the hills in the north to the sandy shores of the south, from the Piney Woods to the Mississippi River towns and the storied Mississippi Delta...

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Jere Nash signs RECONSTRUCTION IN MISSISSIPPI, 1862-1877.

Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional and presidential initiatives as they worked to recover from the devastation of war and pursue new expressions of freedom. Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862–1877 is a compelling account of how Black Mississippians embraced this freedom and how white Mississippians could not...

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Samyak Shertok signs NO RODODENDRON.

Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, No Rhododendron is a lament to the poet-speaker’s father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue. The collection is haunted by an existential question about Shertok’s oral mother tongue, Tamang: How do you write about a language that has no script? Exploring the erasure, ambiguity, multiplicity, violence, and unknowability signified by “X,” the poems dwell on the lip of a new ghost language...

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Byron D'Andra Orey signs MISSISSIPPI CONFLICT AND CHANGE.

Originally published in 1974, Mississippi, Conflict and Change was a textbook that explored Mississippi’s history from its earliest days to modern times, emphasizing social dynamics and key contemporary events, especially the civil rights movement and the pursuit of equality. The book was innovative for its era, offering a nuanced and truthful depiction of Mississippi’s past, particularly regarding slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the civil rights era...

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Joshua Clark and Judy Long sign THE MOST POWERFUL WORD.

Original, never-before published interviews with Donna Tartt, Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Barry Hannah, Jill Conner Browne, Larry Brown, Ellen Douglas, Julia Reed, Elizabeth Spencer, Marion Barnwell, Jarvis DeBerry, Jim Dees, Jere Hoar, Bev Marshall, JoAnne Prichard Morris, Dean Faulkner Wells, Steve Yarbrough, and more. These Mississippi authors seem to converse with one another, progressing from one theme to the next — from history to geography to storytelling to...

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Julie Hollingsworth signs PEARLS OF WISDOM.

Drawing from her own life-full of sweet tea moments, church potlucks, and the unshakable wisdom of a faith-filled grandmother-Julie shows how each experience becomes a pearl, polished by trials, triumphs, and God's guiding hand. These pearls aren't perfect, darlin'-they're costly, formed through life's grit and grace-but strung together, they create a beautiful testimony to the Father's love and presence in the everyday...

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Todd Goddard signs DEVOURING TIME.

Devouring Time is the definitive biography of Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—and a penetrating deep dive into the life of the talent behind Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and True North. Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was widely considered one of the finest voices of his generation. His twenty-one books of fiction and fourteen books of poetry influenced a generation of writers. Harrison helped to shape the course of contemporary American literature, revitalizing in particular the novella form, of which he was a recognized master....

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Jamie Harrison signs A RIVER DREAM.

In 1987, the painter and author and fly fisherman Russell Chatham, renowned for his stunning landscape paintings and his appetite for life, decided to take control of his own career by creating a publishing house in Livingston, Montana. As one does, at least if they are Russell Chatham. “Control” was probably the wrong concept—for the next five years, Clark City Press was the chaotic home of beautifully produced works by an eclectic, talented collection of writers and artists, many of them given a painting in lieu of a publishing advance....

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Lily King signs HEART THE LOVER.

In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion...

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Sim Butler signs AND THE DRAGONS DO COME.

A gripping account of one family’s battle to protect their daughter against transphobia and hate in contemporary America. Our country stands at a critical cultural crossroads, with a wave of anti-trans legislation emerging at unprecedented levels targeting trans children, in particular, who face increasing stigmatization and erasure. Sim Butler’s And the Dragons Do Come is a poignant account of one family’s experience of parenting and supporting a trans child against this nightmarish backdrop....

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Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. signs SOUTHERN SHEPHERDS, SAVAGE WOLVES.

In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries' attempts to live up to their understood calling from their God to serve as shepherds for their congregations. These missionaries, Pickett finds, faltered in this duty when faced with the racial hierarchy of an enslaved society. He focuses on individual missionaries, most prominently John Lafayette Girardeau and T. C. Stuart, who attempted to integrate enslaved...

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Kelly Lundquist signs BEARD.

Kelly Foster Lundquist was nineteen when she met Devin at church camp in the late ’90s. Immediately inseparable, the two bonded over bootleg Tori Amos recordings and a sense of disconnection from the spiritual fervor of their fellow camp counselors. Devin was classically handsome and Kelly on the plain side of pretty, but they matched. Their twinned search for God, acceptance, and love would profoundly shape the rest of their lives...

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Ace Atkins signs EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD.

It’s 1985, what will soon become known as “The Year of the Spy,” and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom’s new boyfriend is a Russian agent. “Gary” isn’t in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He’s just a kid into BMX and MTV....

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