Mississippi Reads: Oct. 29, 2017

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Mississippi Reads

 

1.            “What Can I Bring?” Elizabeth Heiskell, Oxmoor

2.           “Manhattan Beach,” Jennifer Egan, Scribner

3.            “The Long Haul,” Finn Murphy, W. W. Norton

4.            “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” Jesmyn Ward, Scribner

5.            “My Soul Looks Back,” Jessica B. Harris, Scribner

6.            “Oxford Mississippi: Cofield Collection,” John Cofield, Cofield

7.           “Dinner at the Center of the Earth,” Nathan Englander, Knopf

8.            “Uncommon Type,” Tom Hanks, Knopf 

9.            “The Road to Camelot,” Thomas Oliphant and  Curtis Wilkie, Simon & Schuster

10.         “Long Road to Hard Truth,” Robert Leon Wilkins, Proud Legacy

"What Can I Bring"

 

Children and Young Adults

1.            “Turtles All the Way Down,” John Green, Dutton

2.            “After the Fall,” Dan Santat, Roaring Brook

3.            "The Book of Dust,” Philip Pullman, Knopf

4.           “Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete,” James Dean, HarperFestival           

5.            “Windows,” Julia Denos and E.B. Goodale, Candlewick

—Compiled by University Press of Mississippi

Reported by Bay Window Books (Brandon); Book Mart and Café (Starkville); Lemuria Books (Jackson); Lorelei Books (Vicksburg); Main Street Books (Hattiesburg); Square Books (Oxford); Turnrow Books (Greenwood); Turning Pages (Natchez)

Signings

Philip Stead signs “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine,” by Mark Twain 5 p.m. Monday, Lemuria, 202 Banner Hall, Jackson, 601-366-7619

Jim Carmody signs “Jim Carmody: Big Nasty,” 5 p.m. Monday, Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, 662-236-2262

Morgan Gates offers a virtual haunted tour and signs “A Walk on the Dark Side: The Dark History, Legends, and Folklore behind the Haunted Vicksburg Tours,” 5:30 p.m. Monday, Lorelei Books, 1103 Washington St., Vicksburg, 601-634-8624

J. M. Dupont & Mezzo sign “Love in Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911-1938,” 5:30 p.m. Monday, Turnrow Book Co, 304 Howard Street, Greenwood, 662-453-5995

Panny Flautt Mayfield signs “Live from the Mississippi Delta,” 12 p.m. Wednesday, History Is Lunch series, William Winter Building, 200 North Street, Jackson, 601-576-6998; 5 p.m. Wednesday, Lemuria, Jackson

Hubert McAlexander signs “From the Chickasaw Cession to Yoknapatawpha,” 5 p.m. Wednesday, Off Square Books, Oxford

Ben Blum signs “Ranger Games,” 5 p.m. Thursday, Lemuria, Jackson

Joe Hagan signs “Sticky Fingers,” 6 p.m. Thursday, on Thacker Mountain Radio Show, Off Square Books, Oxford; 5 p.m. Friday, Lemuria, Jackson

Jane Stanley signs “Jane: A Memoir,” 5 p.m. Friday, Off Square Books, Oxford

Folded Book Art Class, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Pre-registration required, $25 class fee, Bay Window Books, 151 W. Government St, Brandon, 601-706-4545

Michael Connelly signs “Two Kinds of Truth,” 1 p.m. Saturday, Lemuria, Jackson; 6 p.m. Saturday, Off Square Books, Oxford

Karen L. Cox signs “Goat Castle,” 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Turnrow Book Co, Greenwood

 

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