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PUBLISHED: Jul.02.2006

One Mississippi

Original jacket copy: An uproariously funny and deeply moving novel about growing up in the South by the acclaimed author of Crazy in Alabama. When Daniel Musgrove's family moves to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, he faces all the pain and thrills of adolescence, with extra helpings of hormones and humiliation. But then he meets Tim, a fellow...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.01.1998

Gone for Good

By the time Newsweek dubs thirty-four-year-old Ben (Superman) Willis "The New Super-Poet of Pop," he has millions of adoring fans, piles of money, a beautiful family--and a secret desire to chuck it all and disappear forever. He gets his wish after a violent storm, some wicked Mexican weed, and a faulty compass cause his precious plane to crash on a remote tropical island...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1996

Henry Bobbity Is Missing! And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault

In this fantasy tale Billy Bobbity banishes his brother from their messy room but soon regrets his action and begins the search for the missing Henry. With full-color illustrations by Ernie Eldredge

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1995

Joshua and the Big, Bad Blue Crabs

Joshua sets off to deliver a huckleberry pie to his grandmother and he and the pie are kidnapped by a mob of mean-tempered crabs.Card catalog description Four-color illustrations by Mary Barrett Brown. Kindergarten-Grade 2?In the process of rowing a boat containing a huckleberry pie across the swamp to his grandmother, Joshua gets waylaid by a contingent of crabs ("...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.21.1993

Crazy in Alabama

Meet Peter Joseph, aka Peejoe, a wide-eyed believer in the unbelievable, raised by his Meemaw in Pigeon Creek for a good part of his life. But it was his aunt Lucille who raised him for the better. And it all happened during that summer everyone was driven crazy in Alabama, with Lucille at the wheel. It's 1965, and no force on earth can come between Hollywood and Lucille Vinson,...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1992

Joshua and Bigtooth

Living with his family in a log cabin on the banks of the Magnolia River, Joshua makes a pet of a tiny alligator that he calls Bigtooth, but his problems begin when his tiny pet starts to grow--and grow. Four-color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.04.1990

Tender

East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest rock legend of his time. In Tender, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Leroy Kirby, makes his meteoric rise to stardom, from the...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.04.1988

V for Victor

Alabama, 1942. The war is everywhere, but Victor--a sixteen-year old boy sent by his father to care for his dying grandmother on a lonely island in Mobile Bay--can only dream of it. Then he wakes one amazing night to a thunderous roar from the Bay, and watches as a thug burns his boat. He also discovers a decomposing corpse, witnesses a near-seduction . . . and sees the ominous...

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A World Made of Fire

"The ambivalence of fire--as evocation of glowing love and furious destruction--permeates this stunning first novel by Mark Childress, a young Southern writer who gives fresh expression to his region's literary preoccupations. A World Made of Fire is set in rural Alabama in the decades before World War I . . . Childress has created a wholly believable world. The landscapes are...

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Jan.30.2008 - 8:18 pm

If you like Tom Brady, there's this video you should see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzj53HS_YC0&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/...

Jan.22.2008 - 5:45 pm

Mitt Romney is Dy-No-Mite!

If you love America and hate the terrorists, you have just gotta love the Youtube video of Mitt Romney greeting black folks in Florida. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H8Nq7BglIg...

Jan.21.2008 - 7:41 am

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

When I was a little boy, my grandmother used to occasionally take me for her Saturday shopping forays down Commerce Street in Greenville, Alabama. Now and then she would duck into...

Jan.18.2008 - 7:21 am

It Ain't Just For Chopping Off Heads Any More

I think we can have no doubt that the leader of the Free World was having a great time watching the sword dance with his main buds over there in Riyadh. There's nothing like...

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Feb.12.2008 - 5:40 pm

In response to: Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: Iowa Caucus Night

Welcome, Sen. Obama

I think you'll find Redroom a friendly place, although there are folks of all different political stripes here....

Jan.31.2008 - 8:53 am

In response to: Mitt Romney is Dy-No-Mite!

I don't think HE was thinking ahead.

I think his HAIR was thinking ahead for him! That pate has a mind of its own! -- Mark Childress

Jan.22.2008 - 11:31 am

In response to: It's Not the Same Old Song

Ben, I have to confess

that I have been fascinated by your name, too, although perhaps not to the stalkery extent of the songwriter's, ever...

Jan.22.2008 - 11:25 am

In response to: Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Hi Judith...

Thank you for the kind wishes and for actually reading the blog. I was wondering if anyone had! Also, I'm especially...

Jan.22.2008 - 11:22 am

In response to: Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Thanks for your very

Thanks for your very intelligent take on all this. Agreed vis a vis Britney and Lindsay. And I am with you when it...

About Mark

Mark Childress was born in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living...

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Causes Mark Childress Supports

Renew Our Music Fund, Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity, United Negro College Fund, American Civil Liberties Union

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Novelist and screenwriter.