Tag: Six Bridges Book Festival

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What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel is a graphic nonfiction book that explores the stories surrounding the Crescent Hotel’s strange and tragic two years as the Baker Hospital, a Depression-era cancer hospital. The 240-page, fully painted graphic narrative blends oral histories, newspaper articles,

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My book is nonfiction and chronicles the 59-year journey of America’s foremost Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson. It takes the reader from her childhood home of New Orleans’s “N***** Town” to Chicago, Illinois—the city that became home to hundreds of thousands of African Americans who joined the Great Migration from the South in search of a better life.

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Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? My book seeks to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. It traces Rockefeller’s life from childhood to adolescence,

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Holly Street tells the story of life growing up in the Arkansas Delta in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly in Helena. As a youngster, I learned how to work early by helping my father on his bread route.

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It features a high school football player with an explosively troubled home life, an idealistic coach who thinks he can save him, and a murder that threatens to tear their Arkansas town apart on the eve of the playoffs.

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A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers is the final book of my trilogy on the history of the Ozarks region of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and a tiny sliver of Kansas. This volume carries the story from the late 19th century to modern times,

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Snake Eyes: Murder in a Southern Town is a Hot Springs true crime that’s remained a mystery since 1966.

What motivated you to write it?

My junior high school friend,

Cracking open a copy of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be feels like flipping through Nichole Perkins’s personal diary. Each chapter is an essay, giving the reader brief looks into her life at different pivotal stages, starting at age 5, when Perkins has already become aware of the power and responsibility brought to her as a female.