Midnight On The Mississippi

Author : Mary Ellis
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780736961691

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Midnight on the Mississippi by Mary Ellis Pdf

Midnight on the Mississippi begins the new Secrets of the South Mysteries from bestselling author Mary Ellis. These complex crime dramas follow an investigator's quest to make the world a better place...solving one case at a time. New Orleans—Hunter Galen, a stock and securities broker, suspects his business partner, James Nowak, may be involved in embezzling their clients' money, but he's reluctant to jeopardize their friendship based on suspicion alone. After James turns up dead, Hunter realizes his unwillingness to confront a problem may have cost James his life. Nicki Price, a newly minted PI, intends to solve the stockbroker's murder, recover the missing millions from the client accounts, and establish herself in the career she adores. As she ferrets out fraud and deception at Galen Investments, Hunter's fiancée, Ashley Menard, rubs Nicki the wrong way. Nicki doesn't trust the ostentatious woman with an agenda longer than the Mississippi River. Ashley seems to be hiding something, but is Nicki's growing attraction to Hunter—a suspected murderer—her true reason for disliking Ashley? As they encounter sophisticated shell games, blackmail, and murder, Nicki and Hunter's only option is to turn to God as they search for answers, elude lethal danger, and perhaps discover love along the way.

Author : Marnie Woodrow
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307366245

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Spelling Mississippi by Marnie Woodrow Pdf

From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two strangers whose paths first cross on the remarkable banks of the Mississippi. Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone in the French Quarter late one night, dreamily watching the river’s lazy progress. Suddenly, a woman clad in full evening dress, from rhinestone tiara to high heels, takes a running leap off the wharf into the Mississippi. Cleo watches, astonished, then turns and runs, mistakenly assuming the jumper is dead — a suicide. But Madeline, it turns out, is not bent on suicide. She is irresistibly drawn to water, as is Cleo, who was conceived during the great flood in Florence in 1966. Perhaps it is this shared obsession with the murky depths that fuels Cleo’s determination to find Madeline. She pounds the quaint streets of New Orleans, city of cheap bourbon, rich turtle soup, the scent of magnolias and A Streetcar Named Desire. Spelling Mississippi is filled with all the bristling energy of Fall on Your Knees. Told with great humour and affection, it is a seductive, liberating story about ties that bind and those that simply restrain, and a lesson not in spelling but forgiveness.

Author : John Hailman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617038006

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From Midnight to Guntown by John Hailman Pdf

A former prosecutor's hilarious tales of the ne'er-do-wells and knuckleheads he helped bring to justice

Author : Linda Williams Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544868205

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Midnight without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson Pdf

Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection! New York Public Library Best Books for Kids! "Jackson pulls no punches in the characters’ heated discussions and keeps dialogue raw and real..." —Bulletin "Jackson’s debut does an excellent job dramatizing the injustice that was epidemic in the pre–civil rights South and capturing the sounds and sensibilities of that time and place. Her sympathetic characters and their stories will make this thoughtful book especially good for classroom use." —Booklist "A powerful story." —Kirkus "This nuanced coming-of-age story by a debut author is deftly delivered, with engaging characters set against a richly contextualized backdrop of life for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. It’s also an authentic work of historical fiction...about a pivotal incident in the civil rights movement." —Horn Book "An unflinching and sensitively-told coming-of-age story from the perspective of a smart and thoughtful young girl in 1950s Mississippi." —SLJ “Midnight Without a Moon offers readers an unflinching bird's eye view of 1955 Mississippi. Young Rose Lee has one foot steeped in the segregated South and the other in the new world where Negroes and girls are expecting more, doing more, and willing to risk all to live lives of their own choosing. Bravo to Jackson, for a magnificent piece of writing!” —Sharon G. Flake, Coretta Scott King Award winning author of Unstoppable Octobia May and The Skin I'm In “Rose shines bright in the darkness -- brave, beautiful, and full of hard-won hope. She'll be an inspiration to every reader who meets her, as she has been to me.” –Caroline Starr Rose, author of May B and Blue Birds —

Author : Lois Walfrid Johnson
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802486530

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Midnight Rescue by Lois Walfrid Johnson Pdf

She failed her friend and risked his safety. Will Libby’s mistake destroy their mission? The Christina steams south while Caleb and Jordan finalize their plans. But someone overhears Libby talking about the scheme—will they tell the authorities that Jordan is a runaway slave? Sick at heart, Libby knows she has let down her friends. She risked Jordan's freedom, and she endangered the mission to rescue his family. Will Caleb and Jordan trust her to help in the Underground Railroad? Everything seems to be going against the rescue. Will they find a way to salvage the life-and-death mission? From the golden age of steamboats, the rush of immigrants to new lands, and the dangers of the Underground Railroad come true-to-life stories of courage, integrity, and suspense in the Freedom Seekers series.

Author : John Hailman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781628468762

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From Midnight to Guntown by John Hailman Pdf

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank robbers--generally the dumbest criminals--Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the twentieth century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases.

Author : James Segrest,Mark Hoffman
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307831019

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Moanin' at Midnight by James Segrest,Mark Hoffman Pdf

Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires. Born Chester Burnett in 1910, the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hardscrabble youth as a sharecropper in Mississippi. He began his career playing and singing with the first Delta blues stars for two decades in perilous juke joints. He was present at the birth of rock ’n’ roll in Memphis, where Sam Phillips–who also discovered Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis–called Wolf his “greatest discovery.” He helped develop the sound of electric blues and vied with rival Muddy Waters for the title of king of Chicago blues. He ended his career performing and recording with the world’s most famous rock stars. His passion for music kept him performing–despite devastating physical problems–right up to his death in 1976. There’s never been a comprehensive biography of the Wolf until now. Moanin’ at Midnight is full of startling information about his mysterious early years, surprising and entertaining stories about his decades at the top, and never-before-seen photographs. It strips away all the myths to reveal–at long last–the real-life triumphs and tragedies of this blues titan.

Author : Jane Nickerson
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385752893

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The Mirk and Midnight Hour by Jane Nickerson Pdf

A Gothic thriller and captivating love story set in Civil War Mississippi Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war—a war that has already claimed her twin brother. When she comes across a severely injured Union soldier lying in an abandoned lodge deep in the woods, things begin to change. Thomas is the enemy—one of the men who might have killed her own brother—and yet she’s drawn to him. But Violet isn’t Thomas’s only visitor. Someone has been tending to his wounds—keeping him alive—and it becomes chillingly clear that this care hasn’t been out of compassion. Against the dangers of war and threatening powers of voodoo, Violet fights to protect her home, her family, and the man she’s begun to love. “An exciting story—juicy, romantic and at times quite chilling.” —BookPage “An atmospheric story in which darkness houses mysteries, [with] rich imagery and imaginative subplots.” —Kirkus Reviews “Compelling. . . . There’s a languid ease to the prose that invites readers to become fully immersed.” —The Bulletin

Author : Jennifer S. Ellerbee
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1493506005

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Midnight in Mississippi by Jennifer S. Ellerbee Pdf

This is for all the women and men who have lost hope in love. I truly believe that there is a happy ending for everyone, but we have to stop being afraid of finding it. This book is based a very real experience that I had. Like Marianne I was timid and hadn't yet found my voice, but through all the pain sadness and anger I found that I was stronger than I thought I was. From that day on I looked at myself differently. I was more confident, more vocal with my feelings. I was no longer afraid to be me. That is what I want for people who read this story to take from it. It doesn't matter how people see us, they only thing that matters is how we see ourselves, how we treat ourselves and how we allow others to treat us. It doesn't matter how we find our strength. Maybe we have to go through the pain, our keep our work hustle going, or just get mad as hell. Either way, as long as we own it, no one can still our greatness.

Author : Timothy Whittaker
Publisher : Timothy Whittaker
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780977044016

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Directory of Sacred Places by Timothy Whittaker Pdf

This book contains a comprehensive list of Sacred Places from around the world.

Author : Alice James
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469664361

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Mississippi Verse by Alice James Pdf

This volume contains poems by: Almond, Austin, Gaine, Baringer, Blundell, Brackin, Braswell, Brown, Burnett, Cameron, Champenois, Clark, Cooper, Creekmore, Faulkner, Gibson, Gladden, Graham, Hammett, Harned, Holme, Hudson, Jackson, Lee, Legg, McFarlane, McGill, Mellen, Newson, O'Donnell, Percy, Ragsdale, Reid, Soper, Starke, West, Whitehead, Wrinn, Young, and Zeller. Originally published in 1934. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Janet Halfmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1620141639

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Midnight Teacher by Janet Halfmann Pdf

This historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547888

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eddy Harris
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805059032

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Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris Pdf

The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

Author : United States. Army. Signal Corps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127310527

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Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of War by United States. Army. Signal Corps Pdf