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Four pardoned Mississippi inmates remain free, judge

Reuters - Jan 23, 2012
By Robbie Ward | JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A Mississippi judge on Monday allowed three murderers and an armed robber pardoned by former Governor Haley Barbour to remain out of prison, but delayed until at least next week the release of five ...

Steele's hot shooting gives No. 18 Mississippi State's offense more balance

SunHerald.com

Washington Post - Jan 24, 2012
Jalen Steele is often the forgotten man in Mississippi State's offense. And that's exactly when the sharp-shooting sophomore is most dangerous. The Bulldogs host LSU on Wednesday and if the Tigers don't know about Steele, they should ask Vanderbilt.

Mississippi Valley State edges TSU in OT

Houston Chronicle - Jan 24, 2012
By RONNIE TURNER Several fans rushed the court at Texas Southern's H&PE Arena to celebrate when TSU guard Madarious Gibbs made a layup as time expired in regulation against Mississippi Valley State to send the game into overtime tied at 63.

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Mississippi books

The Help

by: Kathryn Stockett
The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town.
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Life on the Mississippi

by: Mark Twain
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Mississippi Cotton

by: Paul H. Yarbrough
It is 1951. Jake Conner gets on a bus to visit his cousins in the Mississippi Delta. But when the body of an unknown man is found in the Mississippi River, Jake's summer vacation gets a little more adventurous as he and his cousins snoop around in a mystery that is better left to the grown ups.

"In Mississippi Cotton a 20th Century Huck Finn has a real adventure. No matter that his raft is a Trailways Bus along the river, the trip is no less toward maturity. If you like a good story, this is your book, a book told by someone who knows the terrain--its history, people, landscape and culture.
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel

by: Tom Franklin

Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.

Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi.
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