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Adventure of Archaeologyby Brian M. FaganISBN 0870446037 (0-87044-603-7)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Society
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- Adventure of Archaeology: ISBN 0870448145 (0-87044-814-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Adventure of Archaeology: ISBN 0870446045 (0-87044-604-5)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society - Adventure of Archaeology: ISBN 0870448153 (0-87044-815-3)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society - Adventure of Archaeology: ISBN 0870446037 (0-87044-603-7)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Society
- Adventure of Archaeology: ISBN 0870448145 (0-87044-814-5)
Beale Street: Crossroads of America's Musicby William S. Worley, B. B. King, Ernest WithersISBN 1886110204 (1-886110-20-4)
Softcover, Addax Pub Group Inc
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Black Roseby Nora RobertsISBN 1594130833 (1-59413-083-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Rose'Book summary:[via]Roz is a woman of independent means who thinks love is all in the past-but she's about to be taken by surprise.
Number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her In the Garden trilogy, as three women discover the secrets from the past contained within their historic home.More editions of Black Rose:
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Gameby Michael LewisISBN 039306123X (0-393-06123-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Blue Dahliaby Nora RobertsISBN 1594130612 (1-59413-061-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Dahlia'Book summary:Stella has a passion for planning that keeps her from taking too many risks. But when she opens her heart to a new love, she discovers that she will fight to the death to protect what's hers. [via]
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Cash: The Autobiographyby Johnny Cash, Patrick CarrISBN 0060727535 (0-06-072753-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cash: The Autobiography'Book summary:He is "The Man in Black." Country music legend. The "quintessential American troubadour." An icon of rugged individualism, who's been to hell and back, and tells the tale as never before. In this unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash talks straight about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who have shaped him.
In his own words, Cash sets the record straight--and dispels a few myths--as he looks unsparingly at his remarkable life: from his turbulent past to the joys of the present to his plans down the road. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Dr. Billy Graham. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who has truly "walked the line."
"Engaging.... Written with honesty and spiritual insight.... Cash's stories and strength shine."
--Chicago Sun-Times"Insightful, relaxed, and conversational.... The stories sing."
--New York Times Book Review"Gives a feel for what it might be like to spend some time with him.... Cash is a good storyteller.... Fascinating.... Rich anecdotes.... Interesting observations.... Any Cash fan with find a lot here to enjoy."
--Boston Globe"Cash has always been cool."
--Country Music magazineWith 16-pages of never-before-seen photos [via]
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- Cash: The Autobiography: ISBN 0061013579 (0-06-101357-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Cash: The Autobiography: ISBN 0062515004 (0-06-251500-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Cash: The Autobiography: ISBN 0783884249 (0-7838-8424-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Cash: The Autobiography: ISBN 0060727535 (0-06-072753-5)
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- Cash: The Autobiography: ISBN 0061013579 (0-06-101357-9)
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The Clientby John GrishamISBN 0385339089 (0-385-33908-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Client'Book summary:Mark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, how to smoke Virginia Slims heisted from Mom's purse. He's a pretty upright kid--he's determined to protect his brother from drugs, and he once defended his mom with a baseball bat.
The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a guy trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his Mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buried him in the concrete under his garage in New Orleans. Then Jerome puts a bullet in his own head. Little Ricky flips out, and so does Barry the Blade Muldanno, who doesn't want blustery U.S. attorney Reverend Roy Foltrigg to find the corpse and bust him. Caught in a ruthless game between the Mob and the amoral authorities, Mark's family has no defense in the world except Reggie Love, a 50ish divorcée who has just turned her life around by becoming a lawyer. Does she have what it takes to help Mark beat the system? The life-or-death chase is on!
Mark has seen a lot of movies, and he sees life in cinematic terms. So does Grisham. Even if this novel had never been filmed, it would still be a really good, fast-paced movie. Its literary limitation is also its filmlike virtue: The Client is a rush. [via]
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- The Client: ISBN 0440213525 (0-440-21352-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Client: ISBN 0582417775 (0-582-41777-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The Client: ISBN 037543349X (0-375-43349-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - The Client: ISBN 038542471X (0-385-42471-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Client: ISBN 0385468652 (0-385-46865-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - The Client: ISBN 0385470150 (0-385-47015-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - The Client: ISBN 0385339089 (0-385-33908-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
- The Client: ISBN 0440213525 (0-440-21352-5)
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Dark End of the Streetby Ace AtkinsISBN 0060004614 (0-06-000461-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark End of the Street'Book summary:The plan is simple. A favour really. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly. His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when James's wife and close friend were murdered, his life was shattered. He turned to the streets, where, decades ago, he disappeared. Travers's search for the singer soon leads him to the casinos in Tunica, Mississippi, and converges with the agenda of the Dixie Mafia, a zealot gubernatorial candidate linked to a neo-Confederacy movement, and an obsessed killer who thinks he has a true spiritual link to the late Elvis Presley. Welcome to Ace Atkins's new South, where you won't find a single southern belle or dripping magnolia. With a precise eye for detail, Atkins takes Travers on a journey into the hidden pockets of New Orleans, the battered roadhouses and truck stops of Mississippi, and the streets of Memphis that only an insider could know. [via]
The Democratic Forestby William EgglestonISBN 0385266510 (0-385-26651-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Healthby Keith WailooISBN 0807848964 (0-8078-4896-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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El Cliente / The Clientby John Grisham, Enric TrempsISBN 840802535X (84-08-02535-X)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Elvisby Albert GoldmanISBN 0140059652 (0-14-005965-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Elvisby Albert Harry GoldmanISBN 0070236577 (0-07-023657-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Elvis : What Happened?by Steve DunleavyISBN 034530635X (0-345-30635-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elvis : What Happened?'Book summary:Book in condition. No ripped pages book shows wear [via]
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The Firmby John GrishamISBN 0385319053 (0-385-31905-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Firmby Robin Waterfield, PenguinISBN 0582418275 (0-582-41827-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firm'Book summary:D.W. Moffett uses his youthful voice to outstanding effect in this excellent abridgment of Grisham's bestselling thriller about a Harvard Law grad aggressively recruited by a curiously obscure firm. "We're small and very selective... we screened over two thousand third-year law students at the best schools. Only one letter was sent." They've decided he's their man and to get him they offer top dollar, dangle a BMW, and woo his wife with offers impossible to refuse. But as the wide-eyed youngsters soon discover, there's a catch. Moffett gives an excellent performance, bringing the story to life with vibrant and believable characterizations and a smooth, knowing narrative. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Goin Back to Memphis: A Century of Blues Rock N Roll, and Glorious Soulby James DickersonISBN 0815410492 (0-8154-1049-2)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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Graveyard Girlby Anna MyersISBN 0802776078 (0-8027-7607-8)
Softcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Graveyard Girl'Book summary:[via]It is 1878 and a yellow fever epidemic has turned the boisterous city of Memphis solemn and fearful. The fever has taken Eli's mother and sister and driven his grieving father away. All alone, he vows to harden his heart against further loss.
Yet Eli is soon drawn to Grace, an angelic, otherworldly girl. People call her the Graveyard Girl, for she tolls the bell for each new dead soul at the cemetery. Sometimes it seems to Eli that Grace is the one good thing left in a city drowning in despair, and her kindness and warmth slowly begin to thaw his resolve. When Eli is sought out by Addie, a little girl even more vulnerable than himself, the Graveyard Girl urges him to let go of his own grief and open his heart to her. But even the Graveyard Girl may not be able to help when the ghosts of loved ones begin to visit Eli and Addie.
Anna Myers's insight and warmth make Graveyard Girl a deeply moving portratit of three young people and their struggle to persevere in the face of tragedy. 
It Came from Memphisby Robert GordonISBN 0743410459 (0-7434-1045-9)
Softcover, Atria Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It Came from Memphis'Book summary:Perhaps no other city in America has provided more grist for the music sociology mill than Memphis, Tennessee. While Memphis has been the muse for some truly classic books (Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music, to name just one), the rhetoric surrounding "The Birthplace of Rock & Roll"--also "The Home of the Blues"--can be as daunting as a walk down the ravenously gentrified blues theme park that is Beale Street.
Enter Robert Gordon, a Memphis native and keen chronicler of the city's secret history. Gordon's It Came from Memphis all but ignores the Bluff City's oft-cited musical hierarchy--B.B. King, Elvis, Al Green et al.--in favor of its great unheralded eccentrics. You might not be familiar with the Insect Trust or Mudboy and the Neutrons, but Gordon argues--with empathy and wit--that you should be.
But music is only part of the story here. Whether it's Memphis's wrestling legend Sputnik Monroe, or the city's esoteric patron saint, artist-professor John McIntire, Gordon's shrewd eye sees the mojo in them all. In a way, Gordon's book is even more vital than the classic volumes on Memphis music that predate it. Where Guralnick interprets a musical tradition that is already firmly embedded in the American psyche, Gordon gives voice to a clandestine tradition that otherwise might go forgotten. --Matt Hanks [via]
It's Good to Be the King... Sometimesby Jerry "The King" Lawler, Doug AshevilleISBN 0743457684 (0-7434-5768-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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John Philip Duckby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0399242627 (0-399-24262-7)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Philip Duck'Book summary:Edward loves his pet duck more than anything. He raised it from a baby, and now it follows him everywhere&150even to the big fancy hotel in Memphis where he works with his father. Everyone at the Peabody loves to watch that little duck do tricks; why, it can even waddle up and down in time to a John Philip Sousa march, which is why Edward decides to name it John Philip.[via]But one day the hotel owner finds John Philip in his lobby fountain and he is NOT amused. Until Edward has an idea. What if he can train a bevy of ducks to march along behind him, swim in the fountain all day, and then march out every evening? If Edward can do that, the owner tells him, he and John Philip will have a permanent place at the Peabody. But can it really be done?
Based on the real-life tradition of the Hotel Peabody Ducks, Patricia Polacco's latest picture book is one of her most charming to date.
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Kentucky Tennessee Travel-Smart Trip Plannerby Susan Williams KnowlesISBN 1562612972 (1-56261-297-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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La Tapadera / The Firmby John GrishamISBN 840801997X (84-08-01997-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Ladies Auxiliaryby Tova MirvisISBN 0345441265 (0-345-44126-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ladies Auxiliary'Book summary:When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, religious freedom and personal revelation, honoring the past and facing the future. An unforgettable story of uncommon atmosphere, profound insight, and winning humor, The Ladies Auxiliary is a triumphant work of fiction. [via]
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Last Train to Memphis Careless Loveby Peter GuralnickISBN 0316345237 (0-316-34523-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Train to Memphis Careless Love'Book summary:Peter Guralnick's definitive and award-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley This deluxe paperback boxed set includes Guralnick's two bestselling books about Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley and Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Peter Guralnick's biography is the first to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world.
The first volume, Last Train to Memphis, tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter.
Careless Love, the second volume, recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977. Guralnick chronicles the unraveling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context.
This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, this two-volume biography is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times. [via]More editions of Last Train to Memphis Careless Love:
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presleyby Peter GuralnickISBN 0316332259 (0-316-33225-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley'Book summary:There's no mention of sequins, drugs, or peanut butter in this understated biography of the teenaged Elvis, a serious and worthy attempt to answer the question, "Who was this guy before he was an icon, the voice of a generation, the King?" The essential clarity and honesty of Guralnick's prose clearly limns the eager, malleable boy whose immense talent changed the course of American music. [via]
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Memphis Afternoonsby James ConawayISBN 0380722984 (0-380-72298-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Memphis: An Architectural Guideby Eugene J. Johnson, Robert D. RussellISBN 0870496549 (0-87049-654-9)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Memphis City MapISBN 0528960903 (0-528-96090-3)
Softcover, Rand McNally
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The Memphis Cookbookby Junior League of MemphisISBN 096042220X (0-9604222-0-X)
Softcover, Junior League of Memphis
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Memphis Cuisine: A Sampling of Restaurants and Their Recipesby Christine Arpe GangISBN 187868602X (1-878686-02-X)
Softcover, Two Lane Pr
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Memphis: In Black and Whiteby Janann Sherman, Beverly G. BondISBN 0738524417 (0-7385-2441-7)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Story of a Black Deserterby Terry Whitmore, Richard P. WeberISBN 0878059849 (0-87805-984-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Story of a Black Deserter'Book summary:There are all-too-few Vietnam War memoirs written by African-Americans. This is perhaps the best of those few. It is the autobiographical account of a young black man, who, newly graduated from high school, joined the Marine Corps to escape inner-city Memphis. Military service was the avenue out of the ghetto, but within six months Terry Whitmore found himself, like many African-American enlistees, in Vietnam with the infantry.
Despite his growing awareness of racial injustice in the armed forces, he proved himself courageous. In a vicious firefight, he was badly wounded. In the hospital, encased in bandages, he was awarded medals for heroism by Lyndon Johnson himself.
The seriousness of his wounds required that he be sent to Japan for treatment. He was notified that he would be discharged. As he recovered, he became involved with a Japanese woman opposed to the war, and through her influence and that of black soldiers he met, he equated the motivations for war with American racism. Inexplicably he was ordered back to Vietnam. He made the decision to desert. Pursued by MPs, he was shuttled about by a protective underground community until members of the international peace community spirited him to asylum in Sweden via a modern underground railroad. In Sweden he found himself put on display by the all-white "movement" there. Eventually Whitmore managed to tell his own story in his own voice. His book is among the finest memoirs of Vietnam experience.
Terry Whitmore lives in Stockholm. Richard Weber is an attorney, teacher, and film writer who lives in Stockholm. Jeff Loeb is a teacher at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri. [via]
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Novels 1930-1935by William Faulkner, Joseph BlotnerISBN 0940450267 (0-940450-26-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels 1930-1935'Book summary:Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the twentieth century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror and compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary," a violent novel of sex and social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the flesh-pots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye and a debutante with an affinity for evil. "Light in August," a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon," a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman. All are presented in restored texts as part of The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulker's complete works. [via]
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The Outside Worldby Tova MirvisISBN 1400075289 (1-4000-7528-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Overton Parkby William BeardenISBN 0738516945 (0-7385-1694-5)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Overton Park'Book summary:Overton Park in Memphis, Tennessee, is a gem in the midst of a sprawling Southern city. In 1900, as Memphis emerged from bankruptcy and yellow fever epidemics, the Progressive movement encouraged Memphians to rely on the government for a better quality of life. The Memphis Park Commission, chartered that year, purchased 342 acres of land at the eastern edge of the city. Landowner Overton Lea of Nashville earned $110,000 from the sale. George Kessler was hired to build Overton Park, and the intervening years saw such amenities as the citys first zoo, the Brooks Museum of Art, the Overton Park Shell (the site of Elvis Presleys first public performance), Memphis College of Art, war memorials, and hiking trails through the worlds only old-growth forest in an urban setting. [via]
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Playing for a Piece of the Door: A History of Garage & Frat Bands in Memphis, 1960-1975by Ron HallISBN 0966857518 (0-9668575-1-8)
Hardcover, Shangri-La Projects
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The Rabbit Factoryby Larry BrownISBN 0743245245 (0-7432-4524-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Rainmakerby John GrishamISBN 0385339607 (0-385-33960-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rainmaker'Book summary:It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer...except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it.By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he's in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings. A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous million-dollar war of nerves, skill and outright violence--a fight that could cost one young lawyer his life, or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land.... [via]
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - The Rainmaker: ISBN 0385424736 (0-385-42473-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Rainmaker: ISBN 0440295424 (0-440-29542-4)
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Red Lilyby Nora RobertsISBN 0515139408 (0-515-13940-8)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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Sanctuaryby William FaulknerISBN 0679748148 (0-679-74814-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sanctuary'Book summary:First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social values and order. A sinister cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts perform abduction, murder, and mayhem in this harsh and brutal story of sensational and motiveless evil. Students of Faulkner have found an allegorical interpretation of "Sanctuary" as a comment on the degradation of old South's social order by progressive modernism and materialistic exploitation. Popeye and his co-horts represent this hurling change that is corrupting the historic traditions of the South, symbolized by Horace Stevens, which are no longer able to protect the victimized Negro and poor white trash due to middle-class apathy and inbred violence. [via]
Soulsville U.S.A: The Story of Stax Recordsby Rob BowmanISBN 0825672848 (0-8256-7284-8)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soulsville U.S.A: The Story of Stax Records'Book summary:Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and the MGs. Provides the first history of the groundbreaking label. [via]
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The Southern Devilby Diane WhitesideISBN 0758212100 (0-7582-1210-0)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Southern Devil'Book summary:Once an orphaned, starving, Confederate war veteran, Morgan Evans is now a wealthy man respected for both his business acumen and his chivalrous Southern manners. He would be the perfect catch for any woman, but only one holds his constant attention. Jessamyn Tyler Evans has been his obsession since the time she derailed one of his spy missions by holding him hostage in her bed for days. Her innocent explorations awakened a fierce hunger inside the young Morgan, and the passion and intimacy they shared frightened them both. Jessamyn spurned Morgan for his cousin, and Morgan vowed that someday he would drive her as wild with desire as she had driven him. Now Jessamyn has returned. The payback has begun...Jessamyn has an obsession of her own: hunting for a legendary family treasure in the hills of Colorado. To do so, the spirited widow needs a husband, and Morgan Evans is only too happy to join her masquerade...for a price: she must submit to being his, body and soul, surrendering herself to whatever he demands. It's a devil's bargain to be sure. Their union is as treacherous as it is passionate - and the only thing they can trust. Searching for a treasure that may not exist - a treasure others would kill for - two lovers are moving deeper into unmarked territory, where no threat is more perilous than everything they feel... [via]
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A Summons to Memphisby Peter Hillsman TaylorISBN 0701131993 (0-7011-3199-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Summons to Memphis'Book summary:Peter Taylor is well-known as a masterful writer of short stories set in the old South; not the well-explored South of explosive passions, but an urban world of faded gentility and empty custom. In his almost Jamesian evocations of the mannered upper classes in his native Tennessee, he neither romanticizes nor reviles, but meticulously observes, revealing the patterns of social behavior that leave the individual at the mercy of a relentless past. In this, only the second novel of his long career and the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Taylor weaves a rich social web in telling the story of one family's stark social decline, symbolized by a move from Nashville to Memphis, and of the consequences through the years and down the generations. [via]
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A Summons to Memphisby Peter TaylorISBN 0345346602 (0-345-34660-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Taftby Ann PatchettISBN 0060540761 (0-06-054076-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taft'Book summary:John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft, Fay and Carl's dead father, and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers. . . . [via]
We Are Billion Year-Old Carbon: A Tribal-Love-Rock-Novel Set in The Sixties on an Outpost Planet Called Memphisby Corey MeslerISBN 1931982627 (1-931982-62-7)
Softcover, Livingston Pr
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Wheelin' on Beale: How Wdia-Memphis Became the Nation's First All-Black Radio Station and Created the Sound That Changed Americaby Louis CantorISBN 0886876338 (0-88687-633-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Yesterday's Memphisby Charles W. CrawfordISBN 0912458690 (0-912458-69-0)
Hardcover, Banyan Books
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Legitima Defensa / the Runaway Juryby John GrishamISBN 840804124X (84-08-04124-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Santuario / Sanctuaryby William FaulknerISBN 8420470023 (84-204-7002-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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La Firme / the Firmby John GrishamISBN 2266056921 (2-266-05692-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Firme / the Firm'Book summary:Le jeune juriste Mitchell Y. McDeere est récompensé de ses brillantes études à Harvard : à Memphis, le très sélect cabinet d'avocats Bendini, Lambert & Locke lui offre un véritable pont d'or pour l'engager. Son épouse Abby est ravie, même si la firme semble bien indiscrète sur leur vie privée et si Mitch doit travailler comme un forcené pour mériter son salaire mirobolant. Les choses se gâtent quand des collaborateurs meurent mystérieusement et qu'un agent du FBI apprend au jeune homme la terrifiante vérité sur les véritables activités du cabinet d'avocats. Il semble que l'on ne sorte de chez Bendini, Lambert & Locke que les pieds devant. Mitch devra courir vite pour sauver sa vie...
Incarné au cinéma par Tom Cruise dans La Firme, le personnage de Mitch McDeere est celui qui a révélé John Grisham au grand public. Vendu à plus de trois millions d'exemplaires aux États-Unis, ce roman a permis à l'auteur d'arrêter sa carrière de juriste pour se consacrer à l'écriture de best-sellers, comme L'Affaire Pélican, L'Associé, L'Idéaliste, Le Testament, La Loi du plus faible. Un suspense mené de main de maître. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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