When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.

"Accountant Grace Johnson can't escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot--until her husband announces he's done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in humiliation... or grant her mother's seventieth birthday wish with a road trip to Graceland. Buckle up, Elvis. We're on our way. Now outlandish mother and reluctant daughter are hightailing it from El Paso to Memphis, leaving a trail of sequins, false eyelashes, and painful memories...

This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.

Having watched her life turn into a nor'easter, 34-year-old LeeLee Satterfield is back home in the South, ready to pick back up where she left off. But that's a task easier said than done. LeeLee's a single mom, still dreaming of the Vermonter who stole her heart. Accompanied by her three best friends who pepper her with advice and peach daiquiris, LeeLee opens another restaurant and learns she has to prove herself yet again.

When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger woman, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.

The quiet, introverted daughter of a flamboyant soap-star agrees to take her Elvis-obsessed mother to Graceland one last time before she dies despite leaving Memphis with a secret and a signed agreement never to return.

During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.

"Professor Pi Suleman is a black man from Memphis and proud of it. Still, he has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's prestigious University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague's prejudice and microaggressions. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by a powerful UAN professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted...

On these Dirty South streets, revenge is sweet opportunity. Now the women who help rule the hood are out to take ultimate control. Merciless lieutenant Lucifer drops as many bodies as she can to avenge a devastating shooting and consolidate her new power. Loyal gang member Essence discovers friendship has lethal limits when she falls for her best friend's man. Ever-ambitious Yolanda is angling hard to go from a king hustler's baby mama to his one...

Female gang members in Southern Memphis fight for power, money, and love in this dramatic street lit series finale.

It's scorched-earth, all-or-nothing war for Memphis's most merciless ride-or-die women, and even their survival skills are no guarantee. And once alliances splinter and explosive revelations rip apart their empire, one diva's revenge will become the ultimate deadly reign . . .

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