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    Willie: The Life of Willie Morris

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    In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (1934-1999) Mississippi’s favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews and combing through over eighty boxes of papers in the archives…

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    Conversations with Willie Morris

    During the three decades since the Sunday Times trumpeted North Toward Home as the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain , Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote seventeen other…

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    Terrains of the Heart: And Other Essays On Home

    Willie Morris

    A collection of auto-biographical essays about Morris returning to his native Mississippi after living and working in New York City and Long Island. The final essay, Coming On Back, is…

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    Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town

    Willie Morris

    In 1970 Brown v. Board of Education was sixteen years old, and fifteen years had passed since the Brown II mandate that schools integrate with all deliberate speed. Still, after…

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    The Courting of Marcus Dupree

    Willie Morris

    At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern…

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    My Cat Spit McGee

    Willie Morris

    The author of My Dog Skip shares how he conquered his fear of cats by marrying a woman who adores cats, whose cat Spit McGee wins him over. When the…

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    The Last of the Southern Girls: A Novel

    Willie Morris

    Carol Hollywell, a Scarlett O'Hara of the 1950s, sets Washington, D.C., on its ear. Willie Morris’s cleverly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) paints a devastatingly accurate portrait…

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    The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South

    Willie Morris

    This portrait of Jews in the South takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. This edition includes a gallery…

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    My Dog Skip

    Willie Morris

    The author offers an account of growing up in the rural South of the 1940s, sharing anecdotes about his extraordinary dog, Skip, and reflecting on the relationship between a young…

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    North Toward Home

    Willie Morris

    Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. North Toward Home is the perceptive story of the education of an observant…

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    New York Days

    Willie Morris

    In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper’s…

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    Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

    Willie Morris

    GOOD OLD BOY: A DELTA BOYHOOD is a novel for young readers about a boy’s adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper’s Magazine in…

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    Always Stand in Against the Curve: And Other Sports Stories

    Willie Morris

    The novella, The Fumble, a sports classic about high school football in the Deep South in 1951 describes an epic game between a small town football team and the omnipotent…

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    Taps

    Willie Morris

    The final work by one of America’s most beloved authors, Taps returns to the stretch of southern delta that Willie Morris made famous with his award-winning classic North Toward Home…

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    Willie Morris: An Exhaustive Annotated Bibliography and a Biography

    Jack Bales

    William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his southern roots. This volume is a comprehensive reference to Willie Morris’ life and works. It also provides an…

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    Homecomings

    Willie Morris

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    My Mississippi

    Willie Morris,David Rae Morris

    Few writers have ever approached their native terrains with such an inclusive and compassionate understanding as Willie Morris. This book, his last, circles back home where he started. To love…

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    My Two Oxfords

    Willie Morris

    One of America’s most beloved authors and a master of the personal essay, Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote nineteen books and hundreds of articles and reflections. To honor his memory on…

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    My Mississippi

    Willie Morris,David Rae Morris

    Few writers have ever approached their native terrains with such an inclusive and compassionate understanding as Willie Morris. This book, his last, circles back home where he started. To love…

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    Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays

    Willie Morris

    In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained national prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book reveals, he was…

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    Stories from Home

    Jerry Clower

    Brimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower’s book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It shows as well the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is…

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    Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays

    Willie Morris

    In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book reveals, he was also…

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    Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father

    David Rae Morris,Willie Morris,Kaylie Jones

    Examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. Willie Morris wrote scores of letters to his only son, David Rae Morris, from the mid-1970s until Willie’s death in…

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    Bowldie the Unicorn

    John L Haley, Jr

    Bowldie the unicorn is bold, brilliant, and different. The difference between him and the other unicorns is that his horn has not grown in. It seems that he is developing…

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    For Us, the Living

    Myrlie Evers

    Introduced in a reflective essay written by the acclaimed author Willie Morris, this account of Medgar Evers’s professional and family life will cause readers to ponder how his tragic martyrdom…

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    Willy Wombat and Friends

    Lester Morris

    Willy Wombat often complained to his friend Katie Kangaroo that rabbits were always digging unplanned or badly designed tunnels everywhere, all too often breaking through the walls or ceiling of…

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    The Women in the Mirror: The Writing of a Family Memoir

    Marguerite Morris Willis

    Life takes our author down unexpected roads. Events, thoughts and remembrances are filed away waiting for Marguerite to pull them together in this three tiered narrative. Marguerite Morris Willis is…

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    The Women in the Mirror: The Writing of a Family Memoir

    Marguerite Morris Willis

    Life takes our author down unexpected roads. Events, thoughts and remembrances are filed away waiting for Marguerite to pull them together in this three tiered narrative. Marguerite Morris Willis is…

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    The Ghosts of Rowan Oak: School Edition

    Dean Faulkner Wells

    In the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain (Sunday Times, London), Morris goes beyond a simple retelling of what has happened to him … to explain in…

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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    The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America; Consisting of Literary Gems and Curiosities … Seventh Edition.

    George Pope Morris,Nathaniel Parker Willis

    Title: The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America; consisting of literary gems and curiosities … Seventh edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of…

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    Nathaniel Parker Willis, George Pope Morris

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and Curisoities, and Containing the Choice and Beautiful Productions of Many of the Most Popular Writers of the Past and Present Age … Comp. by G. P. Morris and N. P. Willis.

    George Pope Morris

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    The Books of William Morris: Described with Some Account of His Doings in Literature and in the Allied Crafts

    Willis Vickery,H Buxton 1842-1917 Forman,William Crampton

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017

    Benjamin Cort,Suzanne J Willis

    A baker’s dozen of the best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2017 that happen to be vegan-friendly. Great SFF from Benjamin Cort, Russell Hemmell, Paul A. Hamilton, Graham Robert…

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    First Among Equals

    Gabrielle S Morris, Willie L Ive Brown, John DeLuca

    This book presents a series of candid interviews with Willie L. Brown, a prominent African American politician in California. Through his personal anecdotes and insights, Brown sheds light on the…

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    The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

    Willi Paul Adams

    This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the republicanism over liberalism thesis against political ideas and…

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    The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

    Willi Paul Adams

    This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the republicanism over liberalism thesis against political ideas and…

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    American Cinema of the 2000s: Themes and Variations

    In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative…

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    American Cinema of the 2000s: Themes and Variations

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