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Biloxi Sunrise    by Jerri Ledford
Price: $0.99 USD. 72450 words. Published on October 23, 2011. .

Special Investigator Jack Roe and his partner, Kate Giveans both have secrets from their past that they're trying to keep hidden. When women's bodies begin turning up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jack and Kate must rush to find a killer. But their pasts just might get them killed.
The Diary of a Southern Lady: Georgina B. Devlin    by Katharine Jones
Price: $5.99 USD. 110020 words. Published on November 30, 2011. .

Georgina B. Devlin was an immigrant from England to Mississippi. In 1852 she began keeping her diary of her life, primarily in Yazoo City and for a few years in Winona. From then until 1912 she recorded events at home and in the world around her. Edited to include introductory materials and well footnoted.
Out of the Bag: A Search for Missing Pieces    by Greg McAllister
Price: $5.99 USD. 72880 words. Published on January 16, 2012. .

We begin in the secreted, all-boys world of a Catholic seminary in the 1950s and progress through Vietnam protests, race riots, and the sexual revolution. A young would-be priest crosses his fingers during the oath of celibacy, moves to the Haight Ashbury, gets his girlfriend pregnant, and finally wakes up naked and sore in a padded cell. It's the boomer tutorial, all about change and humor.
RIVER RAT (A Lucy DelRose Mystery Series)    by TERESA LYNN
Price: $4.99 USD. 69790 words. Published on January 19, 2012. .

River Rat is romance mystery told from the view point of a young single mother raising her seven year old son while running her business as a commercial fisherwoman on the Mississippi River. When she discovers her ex-husband dead beneath her marina dock, she is determined to shield her son from the horrors of her past life with him. She seeks the help of an attractive half-breed Indian.
The Elms Chronicles - A Deeper Well    by Ken Lehnig
Price: $4.95 USD. 118860 words. Published on February 23, 2012. .

Am I smaller than the challenge? Will there be arrows in midstream, or dire thoughts and tales to tell of the darkness in my dreams? When Kendra, a talented psychologist with unwanted psychic abilities, visits her parents at their Texas ranch, she is drawn into a murder investigation after experiencing terrifying visions of the crime - what's worst is she sees the murderer in her mind's eye.
Wild Turkey Tales    by Allison Crews
Price: $4.99 USD. 10390 words. Published on March 15, 2012. .

Proof positive that turkey hunters are not marching to the drums the rest of us hear. These lighthearted, funny stories about an otherwise normal family during springtime in Mississippi will have you laughing alongside them...without suffering through the many indignities imposed upon them by the eastern wild turkey.
Slaveboy, The Fiddling for Freedom Series, Book 1    by Michael Wenberg
Price: $0.99 USD. 40760 words. Published on March 24, 2012. .

"Slaveboy,"the first book in the Fiddling for Freedom series, was inspired by the life of African-American slave and pioneer, Louis Southworth, who traveled the Oregon Trail with his mother and master in the early 1850s and then went on to earn enough money to buy his freedom by playing fiddle in the gold camps in California and Nevada. This is a middle-grade chapter book.
The Unbridled Woods: Malbec    by Emelia Nosser
Price: $0.99 USD. 25310 words. Published on March 29, 2012. .

Just when the twins think they will never see Princess Lia again, Matthew and Samantha are thrust into the realm of Malbec in search for the princess. Little do they know how dangerous their adventure will become when they find themselves caught in an epic war between good and evil! They soon learn that their only hope for safety lies in the hands of the Britlinger family.
History of Rock    by Erika Celeste
Price: $5.99 USD. 24560 words. Published on March 29, 2012. .

Long before the days of the popular British rock band, a group of boys from Mississippi started the Original Rolling Stones. Each time they composed a tune, they were creating a new sound, which would become known as rockabilly the precursor to modern day rock. These were the godfathers of rock and roll and this is their behind the scenes story of what life on the road was really like.
Atmosphere of Violence    by Michael Henry
Price: $2.99 USD. 110100 words. Published on April 12, 2012. .

Yaloquena County District Attorney Willie Mitchell Banks' murder prosecution following a convenience store shootout leads to the violent confrontation of white supremacist bikers, Muslim commune militiamen, and the sharpshooting hill clan from Brewer Hill, all of whom converge on Willie Mitchell's courthouse in the racial cauldron that is Sunshine, Mississippi.