 McCormick Book Inn News
JULY 2008
McCORMICK BOOK INN, GREENVILLE MS
SERVING THE DELTA SINCE 1965 e BOOKS & SO MUCH MORE... ![]()
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DELTA BONES MYSTERY !Carolyn Haines signs | WISHBONES
Saturday, August 9 READING, SIGNING & BROWN BAG LUNCH
11:00 - 1:00 | SCARF UP FOR ARRF ! Donate $10.00 to Washington County's Animal Relief & Rescue Fund
and enjoy our iced tea, salad & chips with your sandwich. We'll even include homemade dessert and
a chance to win a $25.00 McCormick Book Inn gift certificate! An ARRF representative will
tell us about a wonderful new program for our county. |
Sarah Booth Delaney is on really her way in Wish Bones.  The eighth Delta Bones Mystery takes readers from Zinnia, Mississippi to a new venue when Sarah Booth leaves Sunflower County for a racy remake of the movie Body Heat in Hollywood. Of course there's a murder for Sarah Booth to solve while she's in Lalaland. And like each of the Bones series books, Wishbones is more than an excellent mystery romp. There’s also a continuing story filled with personal dilemmas, desires, and outstanding recurring characters. Fans enjoy reading these books in sequence, but author Carolyn Haines makes sure each can stand alone. Bones of Contention, Haines' ninth Delta mystery is already in the works.
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TWO NEW BOOKS BY
GREENVILLE NATIVE JULIA REED  THE HOUSE ON FIRST STREET: My New Orleans Story
jULY 2008 
Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns,
& OTHER SOUTHERN SPECIALTIES:
An Entertaining Life [with Recipes]
JULY 2008With the Delta's long-standing literary history of more authors per capita than any region of America, celebrating publication of a new book by one of our own isn't unusual.
Leave it to Greenville native Julia Reed to stir things up. Reed debuted not one, but two new books from separate publishers in the summer of 2008: . The House on First Street:
My New Orleans Story (Ecco Press)
Two forces of nature – Julia Reed and Hurricane Katrina – set their sights on New Orleans.
Katrina is gone but Reed is still there, living on First Street.
READ MORE AT OUR JULIA PAGE: THE HOUSEHam Biscuits, Hostess Gowns,
and Other Southern Specialities:
An Entertaining Life [with Recipes] (St. Martin's Press)
Julia Reed shows the world what Southerners worth their grits know about good eating in her favorite food essays from The NYT Magazine. READ MORE AT OUR JULIA PAGE: HAM BISCUITS
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Brooks Haxton's new book of poetry is breathtaking.
They Lift Their Wings to Cry (Random House)
Brooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection, titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket, gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of nature and to the folly and magnificence of human undertakings. Haxton is a poet who summons essences of thought and feeling in a few words, creating both narratives and miniatures that are rich in possibility beyond the page.
-Borzoi Reader
Brooks Haxton, born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1950, is the son of the novelist Ellen Douglas and the composer Kenneth Haxton. |
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 recent signing
Off the Deep End: The Probably Insane Idea That I Could Swim My Way through a Midlife Crisis—and Qualify for the Olympic Trials
 He may describe himself as having been "a weak kid with a strong imagination," but today, Greenville native W. Hodding Carter IV is a man who's made a remarkable career of pursuing those boyhood dreams. He's canoed Lewis and Clark's route on the Mississippi, crossed the Atlantic in a sponsor-built authentic Viking ship, explored the the Everglades, revealed the wonders of modern plumbing and published 6 nonfiction books about each uncommon endeavor. | We don't have
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to use your VISA or MASTERCARD. | | Now Hod is back -- this time in his Speedo, swim cap and goggles with the crazy idea of becoming, at the age of forty-one, the oldest man ever to swim in the Olympic Trials. He didn't make it, but Hodding's signature self-deprecating humor makes Off the Deep End (Algonquin Books) as disarmingly funny as it is downright awesome. If only more mid-life crises were this constructive... if only more mid-life partners were this tolerant of each other's quirkiness... if only W. Hodding IV can make it to the 2012 Olympics... mdm |
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|  Cooling the South
with Elli Morris
Work and wanderlust have taken Elli Morris across the country and around the world. Although she simply titles herself “Ice Chronicler at-Large!” Cooling the South is the result of Elli Morris’s three-year pre-occupation with the industry that revolutionized life in the American South, commercial ice-making. Landmarks include Mississippi icehouses and personnel. Informative stories entertain while photos move beyond documentation into fine art.
Elli Morris hails from Jackson MS with Heber family ties in Washington County.
Read more at our link: Cooling the South
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Elisabeth Payne Rosen
 Hallam’s War
recent signing
A big, sprawling Civil War epic is what Publishers Weekly calls Elisabeth Payne Rosen’s Hallam’s War (Unbridled Books, May 2008). The author's ancestral antebellum farm, Loughborough, north of Greenville where her father Francis Payne grew up, is the inspiration for Palmyra, the west Tennessee 1860's plantation in Hallam's War.
Rosen wears many hats, here. As an historian she mines Civil War facts and fallacies. An ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, the Rev. Betsy provokes contemplation about big issues, while the literary author creates an entertaining story. Hallam's War is filled with historical detail and battle action, but it's also a love story between Hugh and Serena Hallam -- a couple that readers will instantly care about. -mdm Check out our link for more on this book:
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