Sherye S. Green and Mildred Schindler Janzen discuss their new book, SURVIVING HITLER, EVADING STALIN, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore


The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family’s door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred “Mickchen” Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, they now face the terror of a new enemy...

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Jerry Mitchell and Reena Evers Everette discuss Jerry's newly released paperback, RACE AGAINST TIME, on Zoom in partnership with MCIR and The Mississippi Book Festival

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The MacArthur Genius investigative reporter tells the tick-tock story of three infamous, unsolved Civil Rights Era murders and how he reopened these cold cases, ultimately bringing Klansmen to justice, decades after they'd gotten away with murder....

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Charles M. Blow and Bakari Sellers discuss Charles's new book, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, on Crowdcast in partnership with Harper Collins

From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action for Black Americans to amass political power and fight white supremacy. Acclaimed columnist and author Charles Blow never wanted to write a “race book.” But as violence against Black people—both physical and psychological—seemed only to...

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Michelle Duster and Ebony Lumumba discuss Michelle's new book, IDA B. THE QUEEN, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an inspirational woman who was often overlooked and underestimated—a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers...

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Kristin Hannah and Paula McLain discuss Kristin's new book, THE FOUR WINDS, on Zoom.



From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the...

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James Carl Nelson and Jim Woodrick discuss James's new book, THE YORK PATROL, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore



In the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to their rightful place in history—from renowned World War I historian James Carl Nelson...

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W. Ralph Eubanks and Malcolm White discuss Ralph's new book, A PLACE LIKE MISSISSIPPI, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore

In A Place Like Mississippi, award-winning author and Mississippi native W. Ralph Eubanks treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature...

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