The Parchman Preacher

Author : Michael Thompson
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452577455
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parchman Preacher written by Michael Thompson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, Satan, and Jesus are key figures in this 1950s good-versus-evil suspense allegory of Christ's beginning ministry. Twists, turns, and suspense make a preacher's murder mystery chilling. A tantalizing murder mystery filled with chilling explorations of hypocrisy, true faith, and small-town secrets. It's about sin and redemption. It's about the search for truth, in both the physical and spiritual realms. And it's all wrapped up in a puzzle that keeps even skeptics on their toes. Underneath it all is an allegory of Christ's ministry. "I highly recommend The Parchman Preacher short in length, but deep in meaning, I could hardly put this book down." -Linda Lacour Hobar, author of The Mystery of History series. "Michael Thompson has brought to life the Mississippi of my youth, complete with small town scandals, murders, prison, and the powerful southern female. Sit back, put your feet up, and enjoy a glass of sweet tea and a romping good tale." -Carolyn Haines, author of the on-going Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series. "If you love southern gossips and party lines and communal mail, you'll feel right at home in Solo, Mississippi biblical in its proportions, with a revolving Episcopal pulpit, a moonshine-swilling postmaster and a murdering villain. Jesus, Martha, Mary, John the Baptist, Satan-what a place." -Rheta Grimsley Johnson, author of Enchanted Evening Barbie & the Second Coming, and other books. "In The Parchman Preacher, Michael Thompson has written a true southern story of tragedy, darkness, and destiny with unpredictable twists and turns and genuine characters that provide comic relief in the midst of malevolent schemes a page turner we loved it." -Janet and Reverend John Sartelle, author of What Christian Parents Should Know About Infant Baptism. "The Parchman Preacher penetrates the facades of southern cultural Christianity to take us to the true gospel There is no Savior but Jesus and no salvation from the judgment of God but faith in Christ alone." -Richard L. Pratt, Th.D. theologian, author of several books, including Designed For Dignity: What God Has Made It Possible For You To Be, and founder of Third Millennium Ministries, Orlando, FL. Clarion Review Twists, turns, and suspense make a preacher's murder mystery chilling. A tantalizing murder mystery filled with chilling explorations of hypocrisy, true faith, and small-town secrets. The Christian faith colors his work, which is an allegory inspired by the ministry of Christ. It's about sin and redemption. It's about the search for truth, in both the physical and spiritual realms. And it's all wrapped up in a puzzle that keeps even skeptics on their toes.(for the complete review, visit www.michaelthompsonauthor.com) Diane Gardner September 25, 2013 ForeWord Clarion Reviews

Author : G. Mark LaFrancis with Robert Morgan and Darrell White
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467140643
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parchman Ordeal, The: 1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice written by G. Mark LaFrancis with Robert Morgan and Darrell White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced the would-be marchers onto buses and charged them with "parading without a permit," a local ordinance later ruled unconstitutional. For approximately 150 of these young men and women, this was only the beginning. They were taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where prison authorities subjected them to days of abuse, humiliation and punishment under horrific conditions. Most were African Americans in their teens and early twenties. Authors G. Mark LaFrancis, Robert Morgan and Darrell White reveal the injustice of this overlooked dramatic episode in civil rights history.

Author : Anderson Ferrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582345562
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Have You Heard written by Anderson Ferrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three separate narrators tell differing versions of a story when the media's attention is thrown on Jerry Chiffon, a suspected assassin, and his small North Carolina hometown after the attempted murder of a senator. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Chris Salewicz
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623655250
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27: Robert Johnson written by Chris Salewicz and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Johnson was, according to Eric Clapton, "the most important blues singer that ever lived." An itinerant street musician, with a weakness for whisky and women, his is a life of pure legend-the man who sold his soul for the devil, and thereby invented modern music. Precious little is known about his 27 years, or the circumstances of his death, and even the site of his grave is contested. In this mini-biography, acclaimed music critic Chris Salewicz investigates the truth behind the myth, evoking an incisive profile of an enigmatic figure who, with just 29 songs, changed popular music for ever.

Author : William Banks Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down on Parchman Farm written by William Banks Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Parchman Farm, from its beginnings as a penal farm at the turn of the century to the 1972 court decision that sealed its fate. Memories and opinions of former convicts and employees form the heart of this narrative. This work is a greatly revised edition of the author's Brokered Justice: Race, Politics, and Mississippi Prisons, 1798-1992, which was published in 1993 by the Ohio State University Press. Taylor is professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : G. Lee Ramsey
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664232248
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves written by G. Lee Ramsey and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, G. Lee Ramsey Jr.mines the riches of southern fiction and discovers a colorful assortment of ministers who arise out of the religious South. At once mystical and mischievous, these ministers haunt the margins of southern life while preaching a gospel that startles and compels. But their oddness is also their appeal--and part of their gift. For through these colorful portraits of Christian ministry, today's readers are challenged to think about what matters in ministry and to re-imagine ministry in ways that bring new life to the church and community. Throughout, Ramsey shows how ministers such as Roger Hagan in Will Campbell's The Conventionand Hazel Motes in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Bloodcan help show us the stumbling blocks to faithful ministry and steer clergy and congregations forward in today's world.

Author : Chris Salewicz
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784295566
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Gods: The 27 Club written by Chris Salewicz and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Johnson. Brian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Amy Winehouse. They were inspirational, controversial, talismanic and innovative. They lead lives full of myth, scandal, sex, drugs and some of the most glorious music that has ever heard. Though each of their lives were cut tragically short at the age of 27, they would all leave the world having changed it irrevocably. Chris Salewicz tells, in intimate detail, the stories behind these compelling figures. From Robert Johnson and his legendary deal with the devil, to Jimi Hendrix appearing like a psychedelic comet on the London scene, through to Amy Winehouse's blazing talent and her savage appetite for self-destruction.

Author : Mississippi State Penitentiary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supplemental Information to "Biennial Report of Board of Trustees" Et Caetera written by Mississippi State Penitentiary and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pete Dykes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615152430
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinnie Wagner Story written by Pete Dykes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a beautiful spring afternoon of April 13, 1925, 5 officers converged on the Holston River bank in Kingsport, Tennessee, guns drawn and ready for action. They were there to arrest a youthful fugutive named Kinnie Wagner, a native of nearby Scott County Virginia, now wanted by the law in Mississippi for allegedly shooting and killing a deputy sheriff. Thus began what may be one of the most well known stories of a southern gunman, his trial, escapes from jail and prison, and his eventual surrender in another state to a woman sheriff. This story, told in the vernacular of an old time Kingsport resident named Pug Potter, contains all the facts and reports of the shootings, the trial, escape, and later career. No southern library is complete without it! Paper back.

Author : Shelby Foote
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307779289
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Follow Me Down written by Shelby Foote and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original.