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25 Contributing Authors |
More Stories from the South GCWA's 2009 Anthology Contributors include: Marlyn Allgood ▪ Shannon Rule Bardwell ▪ Betty Wilson Beamguard ▪ Lottie Boggan ▪ Susan Budavari ▪ Linda Chubbuck ▪ Ed Davis ▪ Lucy J. Dixon ▪ Fred Farris ▪ John M. Floyd ▪ Brenda Gable ▪ Nancy Gotter Gates ▪ Edward Hartman ▪ Deborah Ledford ▪ Philip L. Levin ▪ Denton Loving ▪ Sylvia Lynch ▪ Merle L. McCann ▪ Annie McKee ▪ Terry I. Miles ▪ Jan Rider Newman ▪ Richelle Putnam ▪ Bob Strothers ▪ Ovid Vickers ▪ Glanda Widger Read more... |
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25 Contributing Authors |
New Stories from Mississippi GCWA's 2008 Anthology Contributors include: Ruth White ▪ Darlin’ Neal ▪ M. L. McCann ▪ Richelle Putnam ▪ Diane Miller ▪ Gary Hoffman ▪ Gwendolyn-Joyce Mintz ▪ Wayne Scheer ▪ Rebecca Chaney ▪ Dixon Hearne ▪ Cheré Coen ▪ Betty Beamguard ▪ Carl Wayne Hardeman ▪ Philip L. Levin ▪ Elva Avara ▪ Bob Strother ▪ David J. Holcombe ▪ Brennan Harvey ▪ Dahris H. Clair ▪ Lottie Boggan ▪ Belle Rollins ▪ Shannon Rule Bardwell ▪ Anne McKee ▪ Victoria Hobbs Olsen ▪ Ross Gresham Read more... |
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15 Contributing Authors |
25th Anniversary Anthology of the Mississippi Poetry Society, South Branch Edited by Elva Avara ▪ Contributors include: Jim Atchley ▪ Elva Avara ▪ Nelda Broom ▪ Patty Butkovich ▪ Judy Davies ▪ Marian Eisensmith ▪ Brenda B. Finnegan ▪ Charles R. Gates ▪ Joseph E. Gould ▪ Helen J. Jarvis ▪Mary C. Osterman ▪ Rev. John Ralph ▪ Dorothy Rogers ▪ Voncile Ros ▪ Carol Tucker Read more... |
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A collection of poems, essays, short stories and lyrics By Elva Avara Elva Ware Avara is Mississippi’s Poetry Society’s Poet of the Year. A musician as well as a poet, Avara has composed hymns and anthems used in her church, Dantzler Memorial United Methodist, including a commemorative piece marking Dantzler’s 150th anniversary. Read more... |
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The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost Including a story by Shannon Rulé Bardwell "Original Sin- The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost" is a collection of short stories for each of the seven deadly sins. Each sin is depicted by an original work of art chosen for the book. The story "Henry and the Naked Ladies" was contributed by Shannon Rule', GCWA member. Read more... |
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A Novel-in-Stories By Nancy Beeler A Little Girl – A Small Tennessee Town -- A Host of Colorful Characters Weave the Words of Carolyn Connelly’s Life Story. Read more... |
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The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton By Jerusha Bosarge Arthur C. “Ott” Guyton was a home town hero and a great man of science. Known as the Father of Modern Cardiovascular Physiology, Dr. Guyton influenced countless medical students directly through his teaching at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and as sole author of the best-selling medical textbook of all time. Many of Dr. Guyton’s peers remember him saying, “If you need it, and it doesn’t exist, invent it.” Read more... |
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By Melissa Carrigee If you’re a woman facing the prospect of building a home, you’re probably dealing with lots of questions and choices. It’s easy to be overwhelmed, but not necessary! Drawing on her experiences in home construction, author Melissa Carrigee helps you easily navigate through the process with Adventures in Home Building: Written From a Woman’s Point of View. Read more... |
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By Ben Clabaugh
David Fuller is a bored twelve-year old tangled in feelings of isolation
and guilt over the death of his little sister. That summer, Shelton - a
pudgy weirdo kid who spends hours staring at anthills, and greets dogs
by sniffing their butts moves in next door.
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By D. H. Clair As through the lens of a camera, she saw him at the edge of the driveway, his basket laden with newspapers. He’d stopped to resettle them. Then, satisfied, he’d stepped on the pedal of his bike and pushed off into the road. A red sports car rounded the corner, careering down the empty street. Lottie tried to scream a warning... Read more... |
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Time to Learn: Time Will Reveal, Part 1 By Black Coffee Time to Learn: Time Will Reveal, Part 1 uses the relationship between Ebony and Anthony in the underworld of Cleveland, Ohio, to shine light and focus on the strength and survival of families drawn together through their migration north to escape racism and bigotry during the Civil Rights Movement. Read more... |
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Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal By Douglas Crotty
Written with personal insight, Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret,
Ruination and Renewal, is a collection of poems in three parts,
thematically different in their thrust and emphasis, suggesting a
progression from pain to positivity on the bridge between near death of
self, and the resurrection of the soul. |
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By The Druthers Sisters Linda Ross Aldy, Annetta Jean Allred, Ann Homer Cook, Beverly Keaton Smith, and Catherine Hamilton Stroud When given your "druthers," the choices you make can illuminate, enlighten, amuse, and definitely entertain! A unique way to deepen your relationship with yourself, friends, and family! Read more... |
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Restaurants POST Katrina By Lee and Linda Eschler This book is about many of our restaurants, along the coast, that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Each of theses restaurants share the history of how they came to be as well as their personal Hurricane Katrina story. Read more... |
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| F | A Collection of Poetry By Brenda Brown Finnegan Published by the Mississippi Poetry Society, Inc., Jackson MS Sorry, Out of Print |
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A Collection of Poetry By John Freeman This is an outstanding work, beautifully crafted, unified, and powerful. In the first part, beginning with the plainest of Mississippi settings, the poet tests his memory to explore his roots and the relationships between past and present - not in the outworn confessional mode, focused on a solipsistic self, but as a means of discovery of what goes beyond, and was before, and will be after, the self, in order to move, gradually, toward a recognizable and whole inner being. |
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A Time of Innocence, A Time of Confidences By Gary D. Harrington The 60’s: “This is the story of a time in American history when we as a people divided not only among ourselves but within ourselves. It is the story of a young man’s experience in that time and of the battles he fought on the streets of America and on the battlefields of Vietnam.” G. D. Harrington Read more... |
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Thanksgiving to Christmas: A Patchwork of stories Edited by Dixon Hearne The stories and memoirs in this wonderful new collection sing with joy and celebration, reminiscence and longing, humor and hope. Read more... |
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Survived to Love
A collection of first person
accounts in short stories and poems The haunting question of why Ed survived cannot be answered, but what he was supposed to do while surviving became very clear. Read more... |
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By April Parker Knight On August 29, 2005, a major hurricane made landfall along the Mississippi and Louisiana gulf coast, destroying millions of dollars worth of property and taking the lives of thousands. Everyone who survived has their own Hurricane Katrina story. Read more.. |
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By L. L. Lee Jude returns after a four-year absence to caution his wife, Chris, against remarrying. Chris is not too happy with Jude’s sudden reappearance and pushy interference with her engagement to the new man in her life. Read more... |
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By Philip Levin Tricia Tracy anticipates receiving a multimillion dollar Inheritance on her twenty-fifth birthday in four months. She may not live that long. In her Corpus Christi newspaper column, Tracy’s Tidbits, she accuses Lupe Garcia of murdering his wife. He stalks her and attacks her, her life saved by Bill, a mysterious sailor. Tricia falls madly in love with Bill, and breaks up with her boyfriend, Mel, a police detective. Read more... |
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From Deep Within: Blind & Bruised "In my heart I believed that I wasn’t good enough for anyone else and that I couldn’t get anyone else who would put up with me. So, I accepted the relationship and all of the consequences that it brought. Read more...
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By Teresa Lynn Eugenie Escousse is a thirty-nine year old married career woman and her biological clock is ticking. For the past year she has undergone monthly donor inseminations, fertility medications, lab tests, and surgery -- all with negative pregnancy results. Read more... |
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The Secrets of Blaney's Mountain By Thomas Lynn and Carrie Chesney When Professor Carl Blaney leads his archeology students from the University of Tennessee up the slope of a Tennessee mountain, he believes it’s a dig excursion like any other. With enthusiasm for the project ahead, the group sets up its camp. Read more... |
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What Corporate America is Really All About By Celine Rose Mariotti Author and Poet, Celine Rose Mariotti of Shelton, CT, has written a book about Corporate America in which she surveyed 71 people across the USA on all different questions concerning labor, health and environmental issues Read more... |
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The Longjohners' Mystery Series by M. L. McCann |
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Corporate Greed, Tax Laws and the Exportation of America's Future
By Barr McClellan
Best selling author Barr
McClellan presents an extensively researched analysis of the
negative impact the exportation of manufacturing jobs overseas has had
on the U.S. economy, and how this has fueled the current economic
crisis.…
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Historic Photos
of Mississippi Imagine a ride with the Mississippi mockingbird as it soars through the Mississippi skies. Beginning in the land of Elvis at Tupelo, one moves down to the Piney Woods of East Central Mississippi where the ground is covered with fragrant pine straw and where Choctaw moccasins once walked the trails. Read more ... |
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By Terry I. Miles Percy (Teaspoon) Dinwiddle was found guilty of the Holmes' murders and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The first case went unsolved, Sheriff Travis died of a heart attack and after the first of the year, his son, Jim Travis was elected Sheriff on January 6, 1988. Read more... |
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By Alexander Molnar, Jr. Noting certain irregularities, a US Congressional Committee investigates the oil industry for abusive business methods and price manipulation. But just hours before an oil company CEO could testify and reveal a seventy-year-old secret, he is brutally murdered along with his entire family. With this, “The Circle” thought their big secret -- the one they’ve been fiercely protecting all these years -- is safe. Or so they thought. Read more... |
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A Marco Polo journey By Sue Monkress Join Will, his Father and crazy Uncle on their exciting journey, recreating the travels of Marco Polo six centuries earlier! Dangerous sea crossings and desert adventures keep Will and an awesome new friend constantly wondering: "What’s around the next corner?? …!!!!" Read more... |
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Her Life, Her Art, Her Legacy By Tim Moseley, Mike Krawcheck and Dale St. Amant This beautiful book was designed to celebrate Alice Moseley, a creative, talented lady, whose paintings were not painted to glorify old days and ways, but to preserve the memory of the people who lived in hard times, persevered, and triumphed over their difficulties. Read more... |
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- Boxing to Beignets - By Victoria Hobbs Olsen and Dale Bellard Sr. The life story of an undefeated boxer, Dale Bellard, told in anecdotal short stories beginning in the cotton fields of Louisiana. Many simple tried-and-true Cajun recipes are sprinkled among the boxer's international tales of boxing. Read more... |
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Carnival Stories
As we grow older, we often find
that experiences of our youth--experiences perhaps brushed aside as
inconsequential, or as singular events holding no bearing on our seemingly
limitless future--actually prove to be turning points in our
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The Twelve Outrageous Dancing Princesses or The Mystery of the Worn-Out Slippers By Lee Green Pope The Twelve Outrageous Dancing Princesses started out as a play and was produced at the Biloxi Little Theatre, Gulfport Little Theatre and the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. Over 200 young people performed in the separate casts. The audiences for all these performances amounted to several thousand young people, parents, relatives, and friends. Read more... |
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Heart Stopping Thriller By Connie Rainey When a young mother, Elaine, was found dead in her own home from an apparent fall, the incident goes without question. She tripped, fell down the stairs and suffered a fatal head injury was the official report. Read more... |
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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled: By Ruth Sanders This is a must read book for government employees, former government employees, active duty personnel, retired military, and every tax-paying citizens. Read more... |
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By Sylvia Smith Skrmetta From the dungeons of a castle in Naples to the Italian Alps and the American occupation of Florence, "Giovanna: Angels in Hell" tells the remarkable true story of a Jewish-Italian girl who grows into a young woman during the tumultuous years of World War II. Read more... |
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By Edward Lawrence Fassel Edited & with a forward by Elaine Stevens Ed reveals many colors of his chameleon-like nature in chapters introduced by his own poetry. It is a beautiful autobiography, overflowing with anecdotes and revelations. Read more... |
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Up From the Ruins:
Based On a True Story
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A Journey of Life Events told in Short Stories and Poetry By Kristina Taylor
Kristina Taylor is a born storyteller and reading her
“Keep the Change" stories and poetry is reminiscent of those
porch-sitting days when the tales of relatives evoked both giggles and
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A Poignant Journey Through the World of a Down and Out Alcoholic By Tommie Thompson Somewhere, children are crying out for the want of their father; a wife hugs a pillow as she prays for sleep to temporarily take away her torment. Somewhere, a parent’s heart is aching at the thought of having lost a child to the temptations of addiction. Somewhere, an addict is crying out, “Please, help me!” Read more... |
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Searching for a Spiritual Path in a Material World By Chariss K Walker It is no coincidence that you have found this book. You may have read the bible from cover to cover many times, but there are always new verses to notice each time you read it. There are always new tidbits tucked here and there that speak to an open and receptive heart. Life, love, and living are about being open and receptive. Read more... |
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