The first cookbook to be published in the Best of the Best State Cookbook Series of 35 cookbooks. This completely new edition contains over 400 down-home favorite recipes collected from ninety of our state’s leading cookbooks.
Gwen McKee is Director of Quail Ridge Press, a company which she and her husband founded in 1978. Barbara Moseley is Associate Editor
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6 x 9 in., 288 pages, illustrations and photos, index

A guide to all the hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music.

Steve Cheseborough is an independent scholar and performer of the blues. His work has been published in such periodicals as Living Blues, Blues Access, Mississippi, and the Southern Register. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

5 x 9 in., 264 pages (approx.), 50 B&W photos, 11 maps, discography, index

Debunks the stereotype of muddy, stagnant sloughs harboring clouds of mosquitoes and swarms of snakes.

Ernest Herndon is a staff writer and outdoors editor of the Enterprise-Journal in McComb, Mississippi. He has written several books and has been published in such anthologies as The Magnolia Club: Fine Times with Nature's Finest and From Behind the Magnolia Curtain: Voices of Mississippi.

6 x 9 in., 264 pages (approx.), 26 B&W photos, 8 maps, appendix, bibliography, index

The first comprehensive coverage of the war in the state contains easy-to-follow maps and a wealth of historical material. This guide discusses the campaigns, the present-day battlefields, the battles, and the soldiers and generals who fought.

Michael Ballard is University Archivist and Coordinator of the Congressional Collection for Special Collections of the Mississippi State University Libraries. He has published A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy, and Pemberton: A Biography.

5 x 7 in., 112 pages (approx.), 23 B&W photos, 10 maps, bibliography, index

Focusing on the Jackson area, this book serves as an insight into the architectural history of our capitol city from 1821 to 1982, when the book was published. The preface states the goal best, in asking the public to "reinvest in our past..."

Compiled by the Junior League of Jackson, all proceeds from the sale go towards support and operation of the Manship House Museum.

5.5 x 8.5 in., 207 pages (approx.), numerous B&W photos, index

Now in its 5th edition, this guide to the state's most unusual attractions, events, restaurants, and accomodations is also packed with interesting trivia, traditions, myths, and legends.

Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick, the author of Wilder Mississippi, is a freelance writer living in Madison, Mississippi.

6 x 9 in., 236 pages, with illustrations and maps.

Watch for the 6th edition coming out Summer 2007.

A review of dozens of forgotten buildings, capturing their beauty in rare black-and-white photographs and telling the stories of their place in Mississippi history.

Mary Carol Miller is the author of Lost Mansions of Mississippi and Written in the Bricks. She lives in Tupelo, Miss.

7 x 10 in., 176 pages (approx.), 82 B&W photos, index

Cotton and Giambrone thoroughly detail the siege of Vicksburg and the military actions that occurred in 1861 and 1862, as well as the military occupation that began after the surrender, which has been overlooked and practically ignored by historians until now. Their historic volume examines this "most Southern of cities," whose legacy of heroism has not been forgotten.

Gordon Cotton has been the director/curator of the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg since 1976. Jeff Giambrone has worked at the Old Court House Museum since 1995 and has written numerous articles on various Civil War topics.

11 x 8-1/2 in., 160 pages, 122 B&W photos, bibliography.

A review of dozens of forgotten buildings, capturing their beauty in rare black-and-white photographs and telling the stories of their place in Mississippi history.

Mary Carol Miller is the author of Lost Mansions of Mississippi and Written in the Bricks. She lives in Tupelo, Miss.

7 x 10 in., 176 pages (approx.), 82 B&W photos, index

Explore Mississippi's unspoiled wilderness and encounter its elusive wildlife captured in this book with stunning photos accompanied by moving passages describing the irresistible lure of the Mississippi wilderness.

Stephen Kirkpatrick is an internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer, whose two most recent books with his wife, Marlo, are Romancing the Rain: A Photographic Journey into the Heart of the Amazon and Extreme Exposure:
The True Story of a Photo Expedition Lost in the Amazon.

Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick, the author of Mississippi Off the Beaten Path, is a freelance writer living in Madison, Mississippi.

10 x 11 in., 160 pages, 130 color photos