In the second half of the 20th century, eager investors, from city slickers to country folks, and others poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the southern United States to build catfish farms, processing plants, and infrastructure.

Likened to the California Gold Rush of a century earlier, raising catfish was seen as a panacea for a down economy–even easy money. More than 180,000 acres of catfish ponds were built and stocked across the South, as an obliging news media served up the feel-good story like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Catfish Days covers the catfish farming industry’s rough and tumble early years, before pushing into the rich Mississippi Delta and Alabama’s Black Belt region, and beyond.

More than 40 million baby boomers nationwide care for aging parents. Millions of families watch over Down syndrome and special needs kin. At some point, most families will know a loved one dealing with health issues like short and long-term memory loss, dementia or even Alzheimer's disease.

Bob's family is no exception. This book contains a collection of the true and wondrous stories of his life in one small southern town with his 90-year-old father, an adult son with Down syndrome, and a bossy little Yorkshire terrier.

This book is written for America's caregivers. May it help you to find joy even in the difficult moments and to savor this precious time with your loved ones.

Coming of age during the turbulent 1970's, Dale Beasley for one short time only thought that he hailed from Texas. His father, the late Brigadier General Glenn D. Beasley, Sr., United States Army, knew and determined that his son would also know, instead, that the youngster's roots ran deep from the soil of the Mississippi Delta. What I Learned At The 'Zoo reveals the younger Beasley's fictionalized account of his 14th summer in Yazoo City—a summer that features an eccentric family, a plot to smuggle Cold War secrets from Mississippi to spies in East Germany, and the forging of a lasting bond between the boy and his Great Uncle Dallas Crabtree.

This 2022 book, a full-color coffee (or cocktail) table book, delivers cards, letters, and photographs from soldiers during wartime. The author, LTC (R) Dale Beasley said, “I am pleased to bring this book to you and hope in reading it, you may find a deeper appreciation of the holidays and for the sacrifices endured by so many.

"In recognition of those sacrifices and commemoration of their memory, 100 percent of this book’s profits will be donated to national nonprofit Wreaths Across America for its mission to remember, honor, and teach. This mission is carried out, in part, by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in over 2,500 participating locations both home and abroad. In the words of President Lincoln, ‘It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.’” 

Raising the Star: Mississippi Milestones in EMS and A Few Related Stories is a creative non-fiction/memoir written by Wade N. Spruill, Jr., the first and longest-serving director of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Trauma Care for the public health agency of his home state. This book highlights some of the significant developmental milestones of these programs and reveals a few of his personal/never told stories about each.

Sadly, Wade Spruill, Jr., died in 2021; he was only 72 years of age.

Archie's Tale is an educational story about the birth and the life of a Quarter Horse colt. Told from the perspective of the main character, the story follows Archie from his earlier-than-expected birth through his development into a competitive mount for his owners.

Archie, a son of the rising star in the competitive world of reining, Epic Titan, was rejected at birth by his mother, a beautiful buckskin Quarter Horse mare. His owners were shocked by his early arrival and his plainness of color as they had hoped for markings similar to those remarkable to his father. Additionally, his physical condition and survival, due to his early birth and rejection, were of concern to his owners, their veterinarian, and friends . . .

Two twelve-year-old boys, one black and one white, aid an old hobo with a deadly secret. Betrayal, black magic, assassins, and the ghost of The Blue Lady bring cataclysmic changes to a small southern town.

A hot, humid tale of three brief days in 1959 that ignited a war in Asia gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement and atoned for a murder fifty years past.

A must-read for anyone with a passion for fair play and justice. Typical reader response? “I can’t put it down. The Blue Lady illustrates how little things have changed in America over the last six decades.”

A fisherman's murder in Mississippi unwinds the dark truth from Vietnam and exposes unfathomable guilt.

Rex Thompson has not spoken of the felony he committed in Vietnam for over two decades. When his ne'er-do-well sons scuttle a shrimp boat in the Biloxi Bay and drown an immigrant fisherman who had witnessed this crime, Rex is flooded with remorse but remains silent.

His secrets seem to wash away in the muddy tide until the fisherman's daughter, Anh Truong, stumbles upon a wartime journal and confronts Rex with a tale her murdered father never told. As a dragnet encircles his sons, Rex's life of poor choices unravels, and he must decide to continue his charade or seek mercy from those he harmed.

Bycatch is a story soaked with greed and forgiveness while Southern and Vietnamese cultures tangle on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

There is a plan for each of us. Or so we are told. Maybe the plan for Buck was unthinkable. Maybe his destiny was to murder. Maybe his fate was Inescapable.

In his gritty debut novel, which won Best First Chapter in the 2022 Awarded Writers' Collection published by the Alabama Writers Cooperative, Southern author WB Henley explores the ragged mind of a young White man accused of matricide, the dark machinations of a town intent on keeping its secrets buried, and the dogged determination of a Black lawman searching for the truth while battling his own demons.